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they could not put to, and where the current was strong. When 

 evening came on, the}^ had therefore to land by a steep rock, in 

 which Uiartek drove a seal-plug to moor the boat. 



They then came to a place which they called Kigdlivigsivit^), be- 

 cause it lay between two peaks which were like the 'horns' of an 

 umiak. Passing on, they came to a great fjord, which never froze 

 and where there were no seals, but always great numbers of nar- 

 whals and white whales; when the latter were about to cast their 

 skin, they crawled up the great sand-downs which lay there, and rolled 

 over and over to get rid of their scales. Here Uiartek's wife col- 

 lected as many narwhal-horn tips as she could carry in her arras; 

 she used them for stretching out skins. 



Then they came to Kâsagsik^ who dwelt not very far north 

 from here (x\ngmagsalik) and caught bears in traps, and finally 

 they reached home again. Here there was a man who boasted of 

 the land he had travelled to and seen. Uiartek therefore challenged 

 him to a drum-match, and composed the following chant ^). 



6. UIARTEK AND KASAGSIK 



told by Utuak-'). 



When Uiartek had made the round of the country, he and 

 Kasagsik resolved to have a drum -match together. When they 

 were out kaiaking together, and one of them was chasing a walrus, 

 the other stuck his harpoon in the walrus, drew it out again, set it 

 in order once more, and aimed at the other with the harpoon. 

 Afterwards they went home again together. When Kasagsik one 

 day was taking aim at Uiartek, the latter exclaimed: "Let us not 

 slay each other, but let us rather have a drum-match together". 

 When winter set in, they commenced the drum-match with each 

 other. 



Kasagsik had put a walrus paw in the earth, allowed it to 

 freeze fast, and bound a rawhide thong to the paw. He meant 

 Uiartek to pull it up. When Kasagsik's wife had gone out to pull 

 up the paw, but was a long time about it, Kasagsik told Uiartek 

 that he had better go out with him and help her, as she could not 



') Kigdliic: the thwart between the horns in a umiak. 



-) As I have taken down only tlie Danish and not the Greenlandic text of Utnak's 

 version, wiiereas I have written down the text of Nakitilik's version in both 

 languages, and as, moreover, Nakitiliks version is fuller than that of Uluak, I 

 shall omit the hitter iiere, referring the reader to the othei- version given in 

 No. 52. 



•■') Told as a continuation of Uiartek. 



