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so strong, he could throw about big boulders like so many pebbles. 

 Then the moon man went back up into the sky. The boy prac- 

 tised lifting and throwing big rocks all night; then he went home. 

 When the people with whom he lived saw how big and strong 

 he had grown, and remembered how they had abused him, they 

 were very much afraid. But the minute he saw them, he went 

 mad with anger. He seized them by the legs and dashed their 

 brains out on the rocks. The boy killed everyone but the little 

 girl who had been kind to him. He took her for his wife. He 

 took all the possessions of his former housemates, and became 

 the head man of the village. 



THE STORY OF THE LAME HUNTER. 



There was once a hunter who was lame, and, although 

 he was a good hunter, he found it very hard to keep up with 

 the other men, when they went hunting for seals and bears. 

 One day he went up on a hill to spy for seal on the ice. He 

 saw a bear far ofif on the ice. Now he could not get near the 

 bear, because he could not walk fast enough, and the bear was 

 making for the drift ice. 



So he wished his torngak would come to his aid, and he 

 moaned and groaned as if in great pain. He closed his eyes 

 and said, "If I could get to that bear, nobody would be able to 

 say that I was a poor hunter any more. I would be the best 

 hunter, for none of the others are killing anything, and the people 

 are going hungry." 



When he opened his eyes, he saw that the bear was walking 

 about and stumbling as if it could not see. Then he knew that 

 his torngak had indeed helped him and made the bear blind. 

 He limped out on to the rough ice, and got near enough to kill 

 the bear with his bow and arrows. He gained the good favour 

 of all the other hunters by his deed, and of all the Eskimo living 

 in snow-houses at the hunting ground. 



THE THINKING IMAGE (Jx'asd'ktaq). 



About half a mile from the old Hudson's Bay Company 

 post at Nachvak (now abandoned) is a curiously formed stone. 



