252 G. Holm and Johan Petersen. 



a house for herself and used the whale-bones as rafters. She split 

 the whale's guts and used them as windows. Only one gut was 

 required for each window. The w^man now gave birth to a 

 daughter, and gave her many dolls to play with. These were made 

 of seal's paws. 



When winter set in, and the foxes came down to eat the whale, 

 she caught them in snares, which she had made of the whale's 

 sinews. Once when she awoke from sleep, she saw the foxes eating 

 the whale's flesh. She then caught them with snares, used their 

 skins for her platform, and soon had enough to cover the walls 

 with. She caught still more foxes, so that she had enough skins 

 to cover the roof with. 



One day when she was sewing the window-skin, her daughter 

 knocked down one of her dolls, and cried: "One of my dolls is be- 

 ginning to run!" Her mother said to her "Play with your dolls!" 

 The child repeated: "One of my dolls is running!" 



Three days after the child made her dolls perform tornak 

 incantations; her father was a great angakok. The child exclaimed: 

 "Mother, the dolls can speak! The doll says that my father is 

 coming to-morrow". Her mother answered: "Why, you have no 

 father!" The child replied: "The doll has performed tornak incan- 

 tations, and said: 'When it has got dark, and gets light again, 

 thy father will come'!" 



They lay down to sleep, and when it grew light they heard a 

 rattling sound outside. The mother looked out of the window and 

 saw her husband, who came driving up in a sledge. He entered 

 the house, and she recognized her husband. "How did you manage 

 to catch all the foxes whose skins cover the walls?", the husband 

 asked. "I caught them with snares", she answered. She then told 

 him how she had found a whale. That night they lay together, 

 and next day the man wished to take his wife home with him on 

 the sledge; but she would not go. The husband returned, and his 

 wife and daughter lived on the whale the whole winter. 



When spring came, they went out to the place where the hus- 

 band lived, and when summer arrived the man took her again to 

 wife and was separated from the new wife he had got. After her 

 husband's death she remained there alone with her daughter, and 

 was able to catch seals and other animals herself. She could do 

 anything she set her mind on! 



