260 G- Holm and Johan Petersen. 



One day when the eagle was out, she tied the twisted cord fast 

 to a stone and let herself down. The cord stretched while she 

 was letting herself down, so that she got frightened; but she 

 managed all the same to reach the ground after having torn the 

 skin of her legs on the sharp stones. She now went home to her 

 mother. When the son-in-law, the eagle, came home from the hunt, 

 he dropped a narwhal as usual down to her parents and then flew 

 up to his aerie; but not finding his wife there, he dropped the nar- 

 whal and flew back to tlie girl's home. His father-in-law said to 

 him: "Stretch out thy wings, that we may see that thou art 

 indeed our son-in-law!" It stretched out its wings, and the father- 

 in-law shot at it. The arrow struck it in the breast, but rebounded 

 again. The angry eagle tlew down and broke the windows to 

 pieces; but луЬеп it came up to the house, the man put an end to 

 it, by shooting it with his grandmother's 'meat-jack'. When the 

 eagle was dead, it was cut in pieces and eaten, and a seat for the 

 dogs was made out of one of its hip-bones. 



When they had thus got the elder sister home, the people said : 

 "How are we to get hold of the younger one? Her husband will 

 not let her go out". The father made an umiak, and when it was 

 ready, they launched it to try w^iether it could be rowed so fast as 

 an eider-duck can fly; but after some time the umiak was out- 

 distanced. As they could not keep up with the eider-duck, they 

 turned round, and when they came home, the man took off the 

 covering of the umiak, disjointed it and made another umiak 

 out of it. When it had been re-covered , they launched it to try 

 whether it could now race a guillemot. They beat up a guillemot 

 and rowed alongside of it. When they had kept up with it for some 

 time, the umiak got the lead, whereat they rejoiced greatly and 

 became eager to fetch the daughter. 



The following day they resolved to go and fetch the daughter 

 and then move to another place. When they came up to the place 

 where the whale lived, the wife looked out of the window and 

 caught sight of the umiak. She said to her husband: "I am going 

 to go out and make water!" "That you can do in my mouth!", he 

 answered. "I am going to go out and ease myself!", she then said. 

 "That you can do in my hand!" answered the whale. "If I only 

 might go out, you could tie a sealskin thong fast to me and pull 

 me in again, when I remain away too long". She at last obtained 

 leave to go out; but just as she had got out, the whale pulled at 

 the sealskin thong from within. "I have just begun!", she said, 

 and then she began to tie the thong fast to a stone. While 

 she was doing so, he lugged at the thong again; hut she cried: 



