Legends and Tales from Angmagsalik. > 233 



the blows of a hammer. He drew nigh to it, and saw that it was 

 a kaiaker who was fishing for big sea scorpions, many of which 

 lay on the kaiak. When he came up to the big kaiaker, he 

 looked up and cried in wonder and amazement: "Ah! ah!". The 

 big man's attention was thus called to him; he looked down, took 

 him up, kaiak and all in his hand, and set him on his kaiak stand ^). 

 The big man asked him: "What are you doing here?", whereto he 

 replied that his parents had driven him away because he was so 

 small. The big man then told him that he would take him away 

 to his country where tall men dwelt and make a big man of him. 



When the big man came to his home in Akilinek, he placed 

 Kamikinarajik with his kaiak on a shelf on the wall. He then went 

 out to fetch some food, and came in again with a whale, which he 

 cut in pieces and divided amongst his housemates, for them to eat. 

 At night the big man took Kamikinarajik out of his kaiak and put 

 him under the platform in order that he might grow. W^hen 

 the giant had fallen asleep, Kamikinarajik, who was unable to sleep, 

 saw a red bear close by him. The bear climbed up the big man's 

 hair and onto his head. When the big man moved, Kamikinarajik 

 feared lest the bear should fall down on him, and cried : "Ah, now 

 it is going to fall down on me!" Kamikinarajik then climbed up 

 the big man's hair, and sat down on the platform. "How did 

 you get up here?" asked the big man. "Well, I was afraid that 

 the bear might fall down on me", Kamikinarajik replied. "Why, 

 it is only a pisigsartarajik (Podura)^)", said the big man. Pre- 

 sently he fetched another whale, which he cut in pieces and eat. 

 Kamikinarajik was then set to watch lor bears who were wont to 

 come between two great rocks on a little island outside. From the 

 platform was laid a plank which reached to the window, so 

 that Kamikinarajik could crawl along it to the window and look 

 out for bears. Presently he espied a big bear, such as live over 

 here, which filled up the opening between the two rocks. "Ah, 

 ah!" cried Kamikinarajik "there's a big bear!" 



"Where's the bear?" cried the foster-father who came up at the 

 shout, "over here we call it only a fox". He kicked the fox to 

 death and gave it to Kamikinarajik, because he had been the first 

 to see it. The fox was cut in pieces, and all in the house received 

 a share of it. Kamikinarajik was again set to watch for bears, and 

 next day he caught sight of a huge bear, such as are found in 



') The receptacle for the harpoon line. 



-) Formerljr translated as 'grasshopper', but С Kruuse in "Meddelelser om Grøn- 

 land" vol. XLIX pag. 66 now draws our attention to the fact what is realh^ 

 meant is Podura; there are no grasshoppers in Greenland. 



