BOAS.] THE GREAT FLOOD. Q^'J 



(Betelgeuse); the pursuers, Udleqdjun (Orion's belt); and the sledge, 

 Kamutiqdjung (Orion's sword). The men continue the pursuit up 

 to this day; the boy, however, returned to the village and told how 

 the men were lost. 



ORIGIN OF THE ADLET AND OF THE QADLUNAIT. 



Savirqong, an old man, lived alone with his daughter. Her name 

 was Niviarsiang (i. e., the girl), but as she would not take a hus- 

 band she was also called Uinigumissuitung (she who would not take 

 a husband). She refused all her suitors, but at last a dog, spotted 

 white and red, whose name was Ijirqang, won her affection and she 

 took him for a husband. They had ten children, five of whom were 

 Adlet and five dogs. The lower part of the body of the Adlet was 

 that of a dog and hairy all over, the soles excepted, while the upper 

 part was that of a man. When the children grew up they became 

 very voracious, and as the dog Ijirqang did not go out hunting at all, 

 but let his father in law provide for the whole family, it was difficult 

 for Savirqong to feed them. Moreover, the children were awfully 

 clamorous and noisy; so at last the grandfather got tired of it, put 

 the whole family into his boat, and carried them to a small island. 

 He told the dog Ijirqang to come every day and fetch meat. 



Niviarsiang hung a pair of boots round his neck and he swam 

 across the narrow channel. But Savirqong. instead of giving him 

 meat, filled the boots with heavy stones, which drowned Ijirqang 

 when he attempted to return to the island. 



The daughter thought of revenging the death of her husband. 

 She sent the young dogs to her father's hut and let them gnaw off 

 his feet and hands. In return Savirqong, when Niviarsiang hap- 

 pened to be in his boat, threw her overboard and cut off her fingers 

 when she held to the gunwale. As they fell into the sea they were 

 transformed into seals and whales. At last he allowed her to climb 

 into the boat. 



As she feared that her father might think of killing or maiming 

 her children, she ordered the Adlet to go inland, where they became 

 the ancestors of a numerous people. She made a boat for the young 

 dogs, setting up two sticks for masts in the soles of her boots, and 

 sent the piippies across the ocean. She sang: "Angnaijaja. When 

 you arrive there across the ocean you will make many things giving 

 you joy. Angnaija." They arrived in tlie land beyond the sea and 

 became the ancestors of the Europeans. 



THE GREAT FLOOD. 



A long time ago the ocean suddenly began to rise, until it covered 

 the whole land. The water even rose to the top of the moiintains 

 and the ice drifted over them. When the flood had subsided the ice 



