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having fattened them, but was stabbed with a lance by the last of 

 them (3). 



Sometimes the best friends on apparently trifling occasions 

 grow enemies (6, 59). 



Two cousins were very fond of one another, they assisted 

 each other early and late and amused themselves in exercising and 

 exhibiting their mutual strength (4). 



Two friends loved each other very dearly. One of them used 

 to say: When I have not seen my friend for a whole day, I am 

 ready to die with longing (6). 



A famous angakok married a girl who had a number of 

 brothers ; after this he grew neglectful, living on what they captured 

 . . . but in the midst of winter , when the provisions were brought 

 to an end, the brothers in law had given up hunting and all were 

 on the point of starvation, then at length he went hunting seals, 

 saved the lives of all the inmates of the house, and was now highly 

 thought of by them (16). 



Of the two friends who loved each other so dearly the one 

 occasionally did not visit the other at the usual time, for which 

 reason the other made him go mad by aid of witchcraft (6). 



A woman making people enemies by calumniating them to 

 each other (18). 



The women had only put by a piece of the back (meat) in- 

 stead of briskets for his mothers brother . . . offended by this want 

 of consideration he resolved ... (13). 



As his fosterfather continually had excited him on account of 

 his parents having been killed by their enemies ... he put big 

 stones in his sling and destroyed three boat's crews and all (25). 



Having killed the murderers of his son, they retired to their 

 hiding place under their boat which they had covered with grass 

 and shrubs (34). 



All of a sudden he saw his companion whom he believed his 

 dearest friend, with raised arm aiming his harpoon at him (59). 



The sons took vengeance on the disturbers of their mother's 

 grave (61). 



As he had a quarrel with his wife, her brothers all went up 

 and seized him, and at last struck him with a knife (85). 



He sheltered himself behind his protector, the arrows flying 

 about him right and left (4, 14). 



The visitors had to try wrestling with the giant, who killed 

 the first of them and called out for a rope to hoist the dead man 

 up to the roof of the house ... a sound of knives was then heard 

 (cannibals?) (16). 



A strong man used to invite strangers to a wrestling ami 

 fighting match on a plain above the houses covered with many 

 projecting stones, which he had chosen on purpose, in order to 

 finish off his adversaries by dashing them against the stones (lo. 86), 



