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not that Qaiuljaqdjuq? The bears will soou make way with him." 

 But lie seized the first by its hiuii legs and smashed its head on an 

 iceberg, near which it hapijened to stand. The other one fared no 

 better; the third, however, he carried up to the village and slew some 

 of his persecutors with. it. Others he pressed to death with his 

 hands or tore off their heads (Fig. 541), crying: '" That is for abus- 

 ing me; that is for your maltreating me." Those whom he did not 

 kill ran away, never to return. Only a few who had been kind to 

 him while he had been poor little Qaudjaqdjuq were spared, among 

 them the girl who had given him the knife. Qaudjuqdjuaq lived to 

 be a great hunter and traveled all over the country, accomplishing 

 many exploits. 



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Ioiniar;u undjuqdjuaq was a very huge and bad man, who ha<l com- 

 mitti'l iii,in\ murders and eaten the victims after he had cut them 

 up with lii.s knife. Once upon a time his sister-in-law came to visit 

 his wife, but scarcely had she entered the hut before Igimarasug- 

 djuqdjuaq killed her and commanded his wife to cook her. 



His wife was very mucli frightened, fearing that she herself would 

 be the next victim, and resolved to make her escape. When Igi- 

 marasugdjuqdjuaq had left to go hunting she gathered heather, 

 stuffed her jacket with it, and placed the figure in a sitting position 

 upon the bed. Then she ran away as fast as she could and sue- 



