262 G. Holm and Johan Petersen. 



Every time the father went out kaiaking, he told his sons 

 to go out into the water, and then when he came home, they 

 were sitting before the lamp shivering all over. One day when the 

 father was out hunting, he met a kaiaker, to whom he said: "I 

 was watching my sons, w^ho can keep under water". The other 

 pretended not to understand and rowed on. The father again met 

 a kaiaker. To him he said: "When my sons were swimming under 

 water yesterday, I was watching them". He rowed on and told all 

 the kaiakers out there that his sons could keep under water. 



Next morning, when the sons awoke, there were so many 

 kaiakers outside the widower's house that the water was quite 

 crimson with them. They had come to kill the sons, and said to 

 the father: "Is it your sons that can go down to the bottom of the 

 sea?" The boys went off to the steep rock from which they could 

 not see the bottom of the sea, and all the strangers stood round 

 them. The boys sprang out into the water; but while they were 

 under water, all the strangers picked up stones to kill them when 

 they came up. They waited and waited, but the boys did not ap- 

 pear, and so the men went home to the house and there saw the 

 boys standing shivering before the lamp. 



While they were within the house, someone came in and said 

 that there was a large walrus there. All leapt into their kaiaks; 

 but the walrus went out to sea, dived down, and came up again. 

 One of the strangers threw his harpoon at it, and when it now 

 dived down again, the two boys, each with a knife in his hand, 

 sprang out into the water. They held on to the float-line under the 

 water, and killed the walrus with their knives, while the hunter 

 waited for it on the surface of the water. They took out the har- 

 poon-head and let it go on to the surface of the water together with 

 * the float-line and the float. Then they cut up the walrus down in 

 the water, took a piece of it with them, and covered the rest with 

 a stone. Thej' put the piece down by the beach, and went out to 

 fetch more. 



In this way the boys captured the walrus and eat it. When 

 those who had harpooned it heard that the boys had taken it, they 

 went to kill them. The boys leapt out from their usual place and 

 dived down into the water. The strangers, however, picked up 

 stones; but the boys came up so far out that they could not reach 

 them with the stones. The strangers stepped quickly into their 

 kaiaks, went out after the boys, and prepared to kill them. They 

 dived down and swam out to sea, but when they had got far out 

 they began to shiver, and popped up their heads out of the water 

 behind some of the kaiaks; but then there were other kaiakers ready 



