Legends and Tales from Angmagsalik. 237 



'Who has said so?" asked Imerasugsuk, denying it. "Your wife, 

 who lies covered up on the platform." Misana now cried 

 from behind the platform : "Not only do you want to kill me, 

 but you have also slain my brother and eaten him !" Imerasugsuk 

 answered: "You eat one of his hands!" "No", answered Misana, "I 

 did not eat it, I let it fall down behind the collar of my anorakl" 

 Imerasugsuk would now have gone his way, but the others would 

 have him stay. 



Someone now said that Imerasugsuk's dogs were fighting with 

 the other dogs. He would have put on his anorak to go out and 

 separate the dogs, but Misana's brother said: "You must go out 

 without your anorak". The brother tied a large knot at the end 

 of his whip, and when Imerasugsuk went out to the dogs, he 

 whipped him together with the dogs, so that the skin of Imera- 

 sugsuk's back was flayed all over. When he had whipped him, the 

 others thrust him down, and told him that Misana would come and 

 take vengeance on him. She took a knife and tried to stab him, 

 but the knife would not pierce him. The brothers would now 

 have stabbed him to death, but he was dead ere the others began 

 to stab him^). 



3. KALULUK 



told by Pitiga-). 



Once upon a time there was a tiny little orphan boy whose 

 name was Kaluluk. He lived with his old grandmother. When 

 the kaiakers from the neighbourhood went out hunting, it often 

 came to pass that they did not come home again. When Kaluluk 

 began to go out kaiaking, he rowed out one day to an island') 

 called Ingmikertok, and there he went ashore. He took his bird- 

 dart, throwing-stick, and little knife, and went up on the island, 

 where he began to work at his bird-dart. As he sat there, he 

 caught sight of a kaiaker who for a while went in lee of the 

 shore, but presently landed on the island^), came up, and seized 

 hold of Kaluluk. They now began to wrestle, but when Kaluluk 

 perceived that he could not cope with the man, who was much 

 bigger than he, he thought to himself: "Let me think, what have I 



^) In Sanimuinaks version Imerasugsuk is whipped to death. 



2) There are two other versions of this tale, viz., those of Angitinguak and 



Adlagdlak. which I have used to supplement Pitiga's. Angitinguak calls the 



hero Ukugsulik instead of Kaluluk. 

 ^) Angitinguak: a headland. 

 *) Angitinguak: he heard a growl proceeding from the interior of the island, and 



then caught sight of a big man. 



