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manage it. Kasagsik being unable to pull it up either, Uiartek took 

 hold of the walrus paw, and Kasagsik seized him from behind. 

 Uiartek now managed to pull up the paw, and lashed about with 

 it behind his back, trying to hit Kasagsik; but the latter jumped 

 aside, so that it missed him. "So you are going to kill me!" "Yes, 

 I am, because you seized me from behind". 



When Uiartek was about to depart, Kasagsik brought forth 

 his dogs. They were as large as bears, and began to snap at 

 Uiartek's dogs. Kasagsik called out "/Cf, ki, ki . . ." in order to 

 set his dogs on to fight with Uiartek's. Uiartek now retorted by 

 letting loose his dogs, so Kasagsik's dogs at once bounded after 

 them, and they began to light. When one of Kasagsik's big dogs had 

 its tail towards one of Uiartek's dogs, the latter bit off its rectum, 

 so that it died. It was now Kasagik's turn to run, and Uiartek's dogs 

 went in pursuit. He was near being bitten, when he managed to 

 jump onto an umiak. As the dogs could not reach him there, they 

 began to gnaw at the gunwale of the umiak. Kasagsik laid about 

 him with his wdiip to such good purpose that the dogs parted with 

 now an ear and now a tail. Uiartek now called off liis dogs, or 

 they would have bitten Kasagsik to death. 



When Kasagsik's son grew up, and Kasagsik was now an old 

 man, his son killed all the strangers that came on visits. He slew 

 them with a club that was covered with walrus skin and in which 

 bear's teeth w^ere set. Kasagsik's son was a strong man and an 

 excellent hunter withal. He had two wives. He and his father each 

 had their own passage-way. 



Visitors who came to the house were never known to leave it 

 alive. A man called Ulivatsiak came one day on a visit to Kasagsik. 

 When it began to grow dark, Kasagsik, who had become a good 

 man in his old days, said: "You had better go away, for my son 

 will be home soon". For Kasagsik was afraid that liis son would kill 

 him. While Ulivatsiak was still there, the son approached, towing 

 two w^alruses. The son's wife now went down to the shore together 

 with Ulivatsiak. When Kasagsik's son saw that his wife was ac- 

 companied by a stranger, he got angry and rowed up so quickly 

 that the walruses were drawn below the surface of the water. He landed, 

 leapt out of the kaiak, drew up the walruses, and w^ent up to the 

 house to put on another anorak. When he had gone up to the 

 house, Ulivatsiak took the walruses to a place where the ground 

 was rough, and, as he drew them ashore, the skin on the head of 

 one of them was torn to shreds. This was perceived by Kasag- 

 sik's son. 



When they came into the house, Kasagsik began to relate old 



