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doing SO by several people at Angmagsalik. But when they saw 

 they could not move us from our purpose, they asked us to rid 

 the world of these two bad men by shooting them. 



The angakok Augpalugtok, who has been mentioned above, 

 four or five years ago killed his sister's husband, because he was 

 too severe with his wife. Her onlv child was dead, and so, in 

 accordance with the prevalent superstition, he had strictly forbidden 

 her to go to the shore. And so Augpalugtok and his brother killed 

 him in a similar Avay to that just related. 



Fig. 52. Augpalugtok (Knutsen phot. 18<S5). 



Ardluarsuk, who is also an angakok, had killed his father-in-law 

 some years ago. The latter had once, when he was a child, shut 

 him in a stone provision-cave, which he had run into, and from 

 that day he brooded on vengeance. When Ardluarsuk was divorced 

 from his wife, he got wrestling with his father-in-law in the passage- 

 way. At the coming of spring he harpooned him. Whether he, 

 like the others, had an accomplice in the murder, we did not hear. 



All these three murderers are young men, and it does not seem 

 as if anybody bore them a grudge on account of the murders. 



People said that in former days murders had been quite frecjuent, 

 but these stories are perhaps mere legends which have crowded 



