fil8 THE CENTRAL ESKIMO. 



that it became a backbone again. He quickly .sliut his eyes, the boat 

 went steadily on, and a short time after he was landed on the island. 



There he saw the hiit and his son playing on the beach near it. 

 The boy on looking up saw Ititaujang and ran to his mother crying, 

 "Mother, father is here and is coming to our hut." The mother 

 answered," Go, play on; your father is far away and cannot find us." 

 The child obeyed; but as he saw Ititaujang approaching he re- 

 entered the hut and said, "Mother, father is here and is coming to 

 our hut. " Again the mother sent him away, but he returned very 

 soon, saying that Ititaujang was quite near. 



Scarcely had the boy said so when Ititaujang opened the door. 

 When the new husband saw him he told his wife to open a box which 

 was in a corner of the hut. She did so, and many feathers flew out 

 of it and stuck to them. The woman, her new husband, and the 

 child were thus again transformed into geese. The hut disapjaeared ; 

 but when Ititaujang saw them about to fly away he got furious and 

 cut open the belly of his wife before she could escape. Then many 

 eggs fell down. 



THE EMIGRATION OF THE SAGDLIRMIUT. 



In the beginning all the Inuit lived near Ussualung, in Tiniq- 

 djuarbing (Cumberland Sound). The Igdlumiut, the Nugumiut, and 

 the Talirpingmiut in the soiith, the Aggomiut in the far north, and 

 the Inuit, who tattoo rings round their eyes, in the far west, all once 

 lived together. There is a tradition concerning the emigration of the 

 Sagdlirmiut (see p. -151) who live east of Iglulik. The Akudnirmiut 

 say that the folluwini;- miMits did not happen in Tiniqdjviarbing, but in 

 Aggo, acountry wln'if imliody lives nowadays. Ikeraping, an Akud- 

 nirmio, heard tliu story related by a Tununirmio, who had seen the 

 place himself, but all the Oqomiut assert that Ussualung is the place 

 where the events in the story happened. 



An old woman, the sister of Mitiq, the angakoq, told the story as 

 follows: 



Near Ussualung there are two places, Qerniqdjuaq and E^aluq- 

 djuaq. In each of these was a large house, in which many families 

 lived together. They used to keep company during the summer when 

 they went deer hunting, but returned to their separate houses in the 

 fall. 



Once upon a time it happened that the men of Qerniqdjuaq had 

 been very successful, while those of Ejaluqdjuaq had caught scarcely 

 any deer. Therefore the latter got very angry and resolved to kill 

 the other party, but they prefeiTrd to wait until tln' winter. Later in 

 the season many deer were caii-ht ami put up in drpnts. They were 

 to be carried down to the winter settleiucuts by means of sledges. 



One day both parties agreed upon a journey to these depots and 

 the men of E^alnqdjuaq resolved to kill their enemies on this occa- 



