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body of which was converted into various animals ; the hurt- 

 fulness of lavishing the game; seven boys who were transformed 

 into birds and left their parents ; a youth who went fishing and 

 found some boys who had laid off their wings and were swim- 

 ming, they gave him wings too that enabled him to follow them, 

 but afterwards they took his wings and left him helpless. But 

 the most curious coincidence is this: in a lonely place, where 

 some hunters had disappeared, a monster was said to sit on a 

 rock watching people who passed by, while then he would call 

 out: Kung-ku, kung-kuin, i. e. : I see thee, I see thee. 

 Now the Greenlanders tell that a girl fled to the (fabulous) 

 inlanders, got one of them for her companion and when on 

 her wandering with him they got sight of a settlement, he 

 shouted: Kung, kung, kujo (words unintelligible to the present 

 Greenlanders! , wherupon people living there directely would 

 know who was approaching. 



Sociology. 



In his "Introduction to the study of Indian languages** 

 Powell remarks that among the very small tribes the gentile 

 organisation seems to be of minor importance. In fact the 

 social organisation and government of these tribes is but poorly 

 understood'). The latter assertion is undoubtedly applicable to 

 the Eskimo, and that prejudice and pride of race may have 

 induced civilised travellers and explorers to overlook the laws 

 and social order existing even in the lower stages of culture, 

 is especially evident with regard to them. In fact it is not the 

 exception but the rule that white men who have stayed for 10 

 or 20 years among the Eskimo, return without any real addition 

 to their knowledge of the traditional ideas upon which their 

 social state is based. The white man, whether a missionary or 

 a trader is firm in his dogmatic opinion , that the most vulgar 

 European is better than the most distinguished native, that the 



