A TREASURY OF ESKIMO TALES 



property because the thieves were so much 

 stronger. 



This rankled in the hearts of the Inuit and they 

 would talk among themselves and threaten to 

 take vengeance on the robbers. They de- 

 bated what they should do either to get rid of the 

 Tornit or to make them cease their depredations. 

 This state of affairs had gone on till the Inuit 

 were at fever heat, when one day a young Tornit 

 took the boat of a young Inuit without asking, 

 and in sealing with it, he ran it into some blocks 

 of floating ice which stove in the bottom. The 

 owner nursed his wrath until night, and then 

 when the thief was asleep he slipped into the tent 

 and thrust his knife into the Tornit's neck. 



The Tornit tribe had been aware of the grow- 

 ing dislike, and when at last one of the Inuit took 

 revenge, they feared that others might do the 

 same and in similar secret fashion; so they de- 

 cided to leave the country. In order to deceive 

 their neighbors, they cut off the tails of their long 

 coats and tied their hair in bunches that stuck 

 out behind to look like a strange people as they 

 fled. 



Then they stole away, and the Inuit were so 

 glad they were gone that they made no effort to 

 pursue them. 



