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caught hold of one bird, he caught all the others that were round 

 him, and afterwards the same thing happened every time. 



The boys now began to go out in kaiaks. The inland-dweller's 

 son often capsized, but Natatek's son did not. When Natatek one 

 day was out in the kaiak with his son and had gone away and 

 left him for a while, a large shoal of seals came up, so that the 

 boy had to lay the paddle across the kaiak to keep the balance. 

 The seals did not go away till his father returned. When they 

 came home, his father made a harpoon-head, a harpoon-line, and a 

 float for him. Next time they were out kaiaking, and his father 

 had left him, a shoal of seals came up again. The boy cast his 

 harpoon at one of them; but he caught not only this one seal, but 

 the whole shoal at once, so that the whole harpoon-line was full 

 of seals. 



When Natatek was out kaiaking together with his son , they 

 would break the paddles in two and bind them together again with 

 a rawhide cord for practice, in case the paddle should break in 

 stormy weather. 



The inland-dweller's son could not learn how to rise in the 

 kaiak when he capsized. So they moved towards the inland and 

 caught seals from the land, while Natatek went back again out here 

 to the mouth of the fjord. 



8. THE BLIND MAN WHO RECEIVED HIS SIGHT AGAIN 



told by Nakitilik. 



Once when Inik came home with a young bearded-seal, his 

 grand-mother wanted the skin to use for her platform, whereas he 

 himself wished to make rawhide cords out of it. He now proceeded 

 to cut a harpoon-line out of the skin; but while he was preparing 

 it, it burst to pieces and hit him at the eye, so that he became 

 blind. 



One day when he was sitting on the platform, he said : "There 

 is a bear outside the window; bring me my bow". The grand- 

 mother brought him the bow and aimed at the bear, while Inik 

 bent it and shot it off, so that the bear fell down dead. "I think 

 I hit it", said Inik. "No, you missed", answered the grand-mother. 

 And now every time she cooked the flesh of the bear, she did 

 not give him any of it. 



One day Inik said to his little sister: "Will you guide me into 

 the inland parts?" When they came to a great plain, he lay down 



