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as an amulet? Why, of course I have an alugsugak^) (an untimely 

 birth) for an amulet". He now called to the alugsugak to come and 

 help him before it was too late. The amulet came at Xa/u/u/c's 

 call; he seized the man from behind^), and throwing him to the 

 ground, dragged him to a great black lake hard by, into which he 

 pitched him^). The man climbed up out op the lake, but Kaluluk 

 stabbed him to death with his bird-dart. As he stuck his dart in 

 the w^ater, he felt something soft underneath. He hooked it, drew 

 it in, and perceived that it was a dead man. He drew up one 

 corpse after the other, and recognized in them his lost housemates 

 ^nd neighbours. He then pitched the man into the lake again, and 

 all the corpses on top of him. 



When Kaluluk came home to his aged grandmother, he told 

 her that he had slain the big man, and that it was no marvel 

 that the neighbours never came home again, when they went out 

 in their kaiaks, as the big man had killed them and cast them into 

 the lake*). — Three days after there came many kaiakers from 

 the other side^). 



They said that the man had not come home, and that it could 

 only have been Kaluluk that had killed him. Kaluluk answered: 

 "How should I, weak as I am, have been able to kill a much 

 bigger man than myself?" Kaluluk's avia (half-cousin) told him 

 that the men 'from the other side' would come and wreak venge- 

 ance on him. Kaluluk went up into his house, and related all this 

 to his old grandmother, who however said: "Don't be afraid, your 

 amulet will be sure to come to your aid". She now began to sing 

 magic chants; she chanted first over a water scoop; then she took 

 a seal plug out of her bag, and chanted over it, and then over her 

 meat-jack, which was made of a rib, and which Kaluluk himself had 

 used as a child. 



They now caught sight of the kaiakers coming from the 

 other side to kill Kaluluk. Kaluluk put on his grandmother's 



') Pitigas version speaks of an (ingiak (a supernatural being issued from an 

 abortion). 



2) Adlagdlak: Twisted the hood of his anorak until he was suffocated to death. 



^) This scene is told by Angitinguak as follows: The big man took Kaluluk up 

 under his arms and carried him to the interior of the island to slaj' him. He 

 struggled and screamed, but it availed him nothing. He invoked the amulet, 

 and when they came to the big lake, the man no longer had Kaluluk under 

 his arm, but Kaluluk took the man, who struggled fiercely, und pitched him 

 out into the lake. 



^) Angitinguak: There was one who had heard this and who told to the big 

 man's famil}'. 



•^) Adlugdluk: from the south. 



