Legends and Talcs from Angmagsalik. 23^ 



reindeer boots, laced them tightly, and braced up his breeches well. 

 The grandmother gave him the meat-jack and the seal plug a& 

 a weapon^). As they drew near, the water turned quite red with 

 the many kaiakers. 



The grandmother fetched water in the water-bucket and set it 

 down on the shore at the spot where they expected the men would 

 land. She sang a chant over the pail and uttered the wish: "May 

 they hold their paddle on their backs when they go ashore, and 

 may they grow horns on their foreheads like reindeer and drink 

 from the bucket!" Kaluluk ran down to the shore. When the first 

 man landed, he put his paddle round behind his back, holding it 

 there with both his hands, and, going up to the pail which the 

 grandmother had set down by the shore, he began to drink. As h& 

 drank, Kaluluk went up to him and stabbed him with the meat- 

 jack in the side under his anorak, but the man went on drinking. 

 Drawing out the meat-jack, Kaluluk thrust in the seal-plug. He 

 then drew out the seal-plug, and as he did so the blood gushed 

 out of the man and he dropped down dead. Thus he did with 

 them all, save two. These he bade go home lest they should fare 

 as the others^) had done. When these two came home, they re- 

 lated how all the others had been slain. Kaluluk cut the dead 

 men in pieces and cast them into water. Then he departed to the 

 head of the Sermilik fjord where he lived on white-whales and nar- 

 whals and never again entered the haunts of men^). 



4. KUNUK 



told by Sanimuinak^). 



There lay two houses close to one another. Nuerniakajik slew 

 the inmates of the neighbouring house, so that only two boys sur- 

 vived. The two boys, who were brothers, set out in the dead of 



^) According to Adlagdlak's version, Kaluluk was told by his grandmother to 

 stab in the direction of the men first with the meat-jack and then with the 

 seal-plug, and, making as if he was drawing it out, he was to say: "Now I 

 have drawn it out". He did so, and the blood flowed from the men, wha 

 died of loss of blood. 



^) According to Angitinguak's version all were slain; according to Adlagdlak's. 

 only one was given quarter. 



■^) According to Adlagdlak's version it was the man whose life was spared who 

 was never heard of again. 



*) The chief incident in this story has been added by Utuak to the following 

 story about Uiartek. I have omitted this incident there, as I assume it to be 

 an arbitrary accretion, and have supplemented the present story with that of 

 Utuak. 



