232 G. Holm and Johan Petersen. 



1. KAMIKINAK 



told by Angitinguak^). 



Once upon a time there was a big man whose name was 

 Kamikinak, but who in tales is called Kamikinarajik. He dwelt at 

 Akilinek, and was so big that when he sat in his kaiak he could 

 lay his hand on Mount Orsuluviak^. His parents dwelt in these 

 parts''). One day when he Avas on a visit to them, he lighted on a 

 shoal of Greenland seals outside the fjord. He took them up in his 

 hand, and poured them out onto the kaiak; then he killed them 

 and stuck them under the thongs of the kaiak. These thongs were 

 so broad that they could completely cover the seals that were placed 

 under them. Then he killed two whalebone whales (tikagudlik) 

 with his 'bladder dart'. When he had stuck his dart into one of 

 the whales, it moved a little and then died. He laid one of them 

 in the front end and the other at the back end of the kaiak. He 

 then rowed over to his parents with his booty. When he came to 

 their tent, he cut off one of the paws of one of the whales, and 

 cast it on shore. It reached from the house down to the shore, 

 and ten men were not able to lift it. Before he went on his way 

 again, he took his father's tent by the top and moved it onto a 

 high mountain; for he feared thai when he rowed off the waves 

 would wash it away. He told the others, who had their tents close 

 by, to move their tents likewise, in order that they might not be 

 washed away by the waves which would arise when he began to 

 row; but they would not heed him and left their tents standing. 

 He then rowed off and all the tents except his father's were washed 

 away and the dwellers in them drowned. 



When Kamikinarajik was a child, he did not grow. One day 

 when he was eating, his mother said to him: "Why do you eat? 

 You don't grow all the same. There's no good in your staying here. 

 You are only a puny good-for-nothing". At this Kamikinarajik's 

 anger was kindled, and he went out in his kaiak. When he had 

 got some way out to sea, he espied a big island whence he heard 



') I have had a slightly different version of the same talc from Utuak. As Ang- 

 itinguak's account is the fullest, I have used it, hut supplemented it with 

 Utuak's. The latter begins with Kttmikinalc's childhood. 



-) Headland between the Angmagsalik and the Sermilil; fjord. 



•') Angmagsalik. 



