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in another opposite them. They match the men and 

 women in pairs, and these pairs run, pursued by the 

 qailertetang [masked figures], to the hut of the woman, 

 where they are for the following day and night man 

 and wife. Having performed this duty the qailertetang 

 stride down to the shore and invoke the good north 

 wind, which brings fair weather, while they warn off 

 the unfavourable south wind. As soon as the in- 

 cantation is over, all the men attack the qailertetang 

 with great noise." They pretend to kill them. 

 Presently however they are restored to life and are 

 consulted as oracles by the men about the future. 1 



Jealousy is said to be more developed among the 

 Eskimo of Hudson Bay. " Monogamy is generally 

 the rule, but as there are so many counteracting 

 influences it is seldom that a man keeps a wife for a 

 number of years. Jealousy, resulting from laxity of 

 morals, produces so much disagreement that one or the 

 other of the parties usually leaves with little ceremony. 

 In rare instances, where there is a compatibility of 

 temper and a disposition to continence, the pair remain 

 together for life. Many of the girls bear children 

 before they are taken for wives, but as such incidents 

 do not destroy the respectability of the mother, the 

 girl does not experience any difficulty in procuring a 

 husband. Illegitimate children are usually taken care 

 of by some aged woman, who devotes to [them] all 

 her energies and affections." Elsewhere the same 

 writer describes the intrigues to which the angakok 

 lends himself for the purpose of gratifying the desires 



1 Boas, Rep. Bur. Ethn. vi. 579, 581, 605 (cf. 606, 608); Bull. 

 Am. Mtis. N. H. xv. 141. The custom of exchanging wives appears 

 in the traditional tales, e.g., Ibid. 225. 



