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legends. The murderous instrument was hanging over the door by 

 which Uliuatsiak was sitting. Kasagsik's son kept going out and 

 rushing in again close by Ulivatsiak, in order to frighten him. For 

 he had a great desire to kill Ulivatsiak. Kasagsik's son came in, 

 seized the murderous instrument, sprang forward with intent to kill 

 Ulivatsiak, but the latter parried the blow with his arm. Ulivat- 

 siak, who was very strong, took the club from him, squeezed his 

 arms and legs together, and jammed the club into his eye-sockets. 

 Kasagsik was sitting all the while away on the platform, quietly 

 looking on. His son fell to the ground and lay there in a very bad 

 plight, but not dying. Ulivatsiak went round to the neighbours, 

 and told an orphan boy there to go and look to Kasagsik's son. 

 When the boy came up to Kasagsik's son, he found his face much 

 swollen. When he began to recover, Ulivatsiak departed. 



Ulivatsiak could do all that he wanted (ajugakangiisok). Once 

 he was set upon by four 'inland-dwellers', but they could not over- 

 power him. He was of Uiartek's family. Uiariek returned hither 

 and died here in his old age. Kasagsik used to catch bears, just 

 as people here catch foxes, that is in stone traps. 



7. NATATEK 

 told by Шпак. 



There was once upon a time an old man who lived at Norsit^). 

 He and his wife lived in a house all by themselves, all their child- 

 ren being dead. They had many neighbours, who often asked the 

 man to come and stay with them, but when he came to them, 

 they would always have him tell tales. When he had no more 

 tales to tell, they said he was to tell about his dead children. 

 This he refused to do, but they compelled him, whereat he was 

 wont to be angered. When the people went to eat afterwards, he 

 generally got a seal's paw on which there was no flesh. One day 

 when he had been compelled as usual to tell about his dead children, 

 and had consequently fallen into a rage, they brought in a seal, 

 which was cut up, and Natatek as usual got a paw without any 

 tlesh on it. When the head of the house went out, Natatek threw 

 the bone out into the passage-way, saying that it should turn into 

 a human skeleton, that it might frighten the people to death. He 

 then heard something running outside, and, when he came out, he 

 saw the skeleton running over the man, who was thereat terrified to 



') Inhabited place on llie large island at the mouth of the Angmagsalik fjord. 



