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,.4 number of men" living together, especially meaning five 

 brothers, represent envy, haughtiness and brutality, the middlemost 

 being the worst of them. They are uncharitable against helpless 

 individuals, and, if they have a sister, prone to be inimical against 

 her suitors or their brother in law (1, 24, 62, 63, 81, 85, 95). 



A miserable old woman taking care of a poor orphan boy 

 whom nobody would help any more (1, 47). 



The foster parents did not love the children; they were scolded 

 and left to seek their food on the beach at low water (29). 



A little boy with his stepmother among a number of men . . . 

 they suspected and killed her as a witch (62). 



A woman with her fosterdaughter was deserted and left help- 

 less by the people of the place (81). 



The poor orphan boy Kagsagsuk in order to acquire strength 

 kicked and struck the stones and the very rocks on his way, rolling 

 himself on the ground, to make the stones fly about him. He flung 

 a large piece of timber on his shoulders and secretly carried it up 

 behind the house where he buried it deep in the ground (1). 



The fosterfather encouraged the two orphan boys never to 

 forget the enemies of their parents .... exercising themselves in 

 order to strengthen their limbs . . . dexterity and perseverance . . . 

 killing foxes and ptarmigans by throwing large stones at them . . . 

 fixing a javelin deep in the ground and pulling it out again with 

 two fingers . . . (the bladders of their javelins they made out of entire 

 blown up sealskins (10). 



The widows having lost their supporters suffered much from 

 want . . . their neighbours, though prosperous people, did not think 

 of assisting them; they therefore admonished their sons to be wise 

 and kind to other children lest they should be deprived the scanty 

 help, they still might hope to obtain . . . but at the same time trying 

 to acquire dexterity and strength (59). 



A father said that, since they had many enemies, his son ought 

 not to grow up a good for nothing, but attain strength and vigour, 

 lifting and flinging stones, pulling up bushes by the root . . . When 

 full grown he could catch a ,, beaked whale" with his ordinary 

 kayak-tools. A girdle of whalebone he burst open by pressing 

 back his breath (60, 67, 68). 



His fosterfather, the strong man, brought him up and trained 

 him according to the rules of strength; early in the morning he 

 lifted him off his couch by the hairs only (62). 



The boy grew up under the constant admonitions of his grand- 

 father, to revenge his father, and never was he seen smiling (64). 



Ungilagtake was a very giant who lived in the south; nobody 

 was ever known to escape him, but even the most valiant put 

 to death by him (10). 



Igimarasugsuk , a cannibal, who killed and ate his wives after 



