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those parts, between the two rocks. He shouted: "Ah! Ah! there's 

 an enormous bear!" The foster-father looked to see, and said: "It's 

 a nice httle bear". He then laced up his boots and put Kamiki- 

 ^narajik into one of them ^). Then he went out and stabbed the bear, 

 who soon after died, whereupon he drew Kamikinarajik out of his 

 boot and cut the bear in pieces, Kamikinarajik was made a present 

 of this bear, too; his foster-father gave him a pellet of blubber to 

 carry home, but he could not manage it, and so his foster-father 

 cut it in two and Kamikinarajik carried one of the halves to the 

 house, while his foster-father carried all the rest of the bear. 



Next day they went out to fish for sea-scorpions. Kamikinarajik 

 was told by his foster-father to look down through a hole in the 

 ice and to watch and see when the other sea- scorpions ran away, 

 for then a large sea-scorpion would come. When it appeared, the 

 foster-father killed it with a thrust of his spear. They then went 

 home with their spoil. 



When day dawned they went out to fish for salmon, and pre- 

 sently they saw a man who was still bigger than the foster-father, 

 lying flat on the ice and peering down through a hole which he 

 had cut for fishing salmon. The ice all around him was asparkle 

 with the salmon he had caught. He was the man from Akilinek. 

 He had only one eye in the centre of his forehead and two huge 

 teeth, of which he was ashamed. 



Kamikinak was told by his big foster-father to shout "nerrisilik 

 mardlinikV ("Him with the two teeth"). So he shouted: ^'nerrisilik 

 mardlinikl nerrisilik mardlinikV, but the man with the two teeth 

 did not hear him. The foster-father told him to shout still louder, 

 but he answered: "I am afraid of the big man". The foster-father 

 said: "I am not afraid of him; if he comes I shall know how to 

 deal with him". So Kamikinarajik shouted again : ''nerrisilik mard- 

 linikl nerrisilik mardlinikV The man with the two teeth rose up 

 quickly and, catching sight of little Kamikinarajik, he ran towards 

 him. But the foster-father now stepped forward, and the two giants 

 began to wrestle. At length the foster-father overthrew the man with 

 the huge teeth and slew him. They bore him to land, and, gathering 

 a great quantity of tinder moss, they covered him with it. Thereupon 

 they went homewards, and, when they had got home, the foster- 

 father told Kamikinarajik that he would now make a big man of him. 



And so Kamikinarajik became a big man, and often came to 

 the aid of the people over here. 



') Among the Eskimo of Labrador and the Central Eskimo tlie women liad the 

 custom of carrying their children in the capacious uppers of the legs of tlieir 

 boots (Kink; "Tiie Eskimo Tribes" pag. 13). 



