A TEEASUEY OF ESKIMO TALES 



Again he saw a dark mass looming up, and 

 rowed toward it hoping to find land, but again he 

 was deceived, for it was another whirlpool which 

 made the sea rise in gigantic waves. At last the 

 wind subsided, and the sea became less rough, 

 though the whitecaps still frothed around him. 

 The fog lifted, and at a great distance he saw 

 land, real land this time. 



He went toward it, and after rowing along the 

 coast for some distance he spied a stone house 

 with a light in it. You may be sure he was de- 

 lighted to come near a human habitation again. 

 He landed and entered the house. There was no 

 one in it but one old woman. She received him 

 kindly and helped him to pull off his boots, and 

 she hung his wet stockings on the frame above the 

 lamp. Then she said: 



" I will make a fire in the next room and cook a 

 good supper." 



Kiviung thought she was a very good woman, 

 and he was so hungry that he could scarcely wait 

 for the supper. It seemed to him that she was a 

 long time preparing it. When his stockings 

 were dry he tried to take them from the frame in 

 order to put them on. But as soon as he touched 

 the frame it rose up out of his reach. He tried 

 in vain several times, and each time the frame rose 



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