g34 THE CENTRAL ESKIMO. 



ceeded in reaching a village. When her husband came home and 

 saw the jacket he believed that it was a stranger who had come to 

 visit him and stabbed him through the body. When he discovered, 

 however, that his wife had deceived and left him. he fell into a pas- 

 sion and pursued her. 



He came to the village and said: " Have you seen my wife? She 

 has run away." The Inuit did not tell him that she was staying 

 with them, but concealed her from his wrath. At last Igimarasug- 

 djuqdjuaq gave her up for lost and returned home. 



The Inuit. however, resolved to revenge the many outrages which 

 he had wrought upon them. They went to visit him and met him 

 on the ice just below the hut. When he told them he was going bear 

 hunting they said: " Let us see your spear." This spear had a stout 

 and sharp walrus tusk for a point. "Ah," said they; "that is good 

 for bear hunting; how sharp it is. You must hit him just this way. " 

 And so saying they struck his brow, the jjoint of the spear entering 

 his brain, and then cut the body up with tlieir knives. 



THE TORNIT.' 



In olden times the Inuit were not the only inhabitants of the 

 country in which they live at the present time. Another tribe 

 similar to them shared their hunting ground. But they were on good 

 terms, both tribes living in harmony in the villages. The Tornit 

 were much taller than the Inuit and had very long legs and arms. 

 Almost all of them were blear eyed. They were extremely strong 

 and could lift large bowlders, which were by far too heavy for the 

 Inuit. But even the Inuit of that tinn' were iiiiii.-li stiMiiyci- than 

 those of to-day, and some large stones ,ii-c shown en tlic |il;iiii of Mi- 

 liaqdjuin, in Cumberland Sound, witkwliicli tlie ancient Inuit used 

 to play, throwing them great distances. Even the strongest men of 

 the present generations are scarcely able to lift them, much less to 

 swing them or throw them any distance. 



Fig. 542. Turuiujang or lamp of the Tornit, (Museuiu fur Viilkerkunde, Berlin IV, A 6848 



The Tornit lived on walrus, seals, and deer, just as the Eskimo do 

 nowadays, but their methods of hunting were different. The princi- 

 pal part of their winter dress was a long and wide coat of deerskins, 



' See foot-note on d. 616. 



