FROM THULE TO HUMBOLDT'S GLACIER 



His countrymen dared not rebel against him because he was 

 so strong, and thus it came to pass that through many years he 

 lived by murder and robbery. But one day they decided that 

 he was going too far, so they agreed to defeat him with cunning. 

 ''Listen, Angutdligamaq," someone said, "you do not know 

 what fun it is to go hunting with others ; you ought to try it, 

 I am sure you would then join us every day." When Angut- 

 dligamaq heard this he joined the hunters of the camp on the 

 next day. But as he was quite unused to the life outside the 

 houses he was very clumsy, and his comrades had to help him in 

 everything he did. In the evening they all lay down to sleep 

 in a snow-hut, but he did not know how to set about this either. 



" How does one rest in a snow-hut?" 



" One sleeps best if one pulls one leg out of the trousers," 

 the others replied. 



This he did and soon he was fast asleep. 



But as soon as his comrades saw his bare behind, they rushed 

 up and buried a spear in it. And Angutdligamaq, bellowing 

 with pain, jumped up in the air, and thereby forced the point of 

 the spear still further in and died. His comrades then returned 

 home. 



" What has become of Angutdligamaq?" the mother asked, 

 she who was called Anoritoq, ""The Windswept One." 



"He was killed," the others answered. 



" When next you catch a pregnant bear, then give to me the 

 embryo that it may be my child," the woman begged of them. 



Then one day, when the hunters had caught a pregnant bear, 

 they brought the embryo home to the woman, and she reared 

 it with blubber from her lamp, and soon it was so big it could 

 catch seals for her. 



The bear was called Anoritoq's son. 



In the winter, when the great darkness came, the bear could 

 no longer see to catch the seals, and then it started stealing 

 from other men's meat stores. 



' You must not steal," the foster-mother anxiously warned 

 it ; " your cousins will stop you and the people will kill you." 



The dogs were called the bear's cousins. 



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