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sisters, who, when they heard of it, were sure to come and take 

 vengeance on him. 



The mother therefore built a house out in the water, so that it 

 was steep on all sides. When winter set in, they moved into this 

 house, and the people now came from other parts to kill the son 

 of the Moon. The mother moistened the gut-skin coat which the 

 Moon had given her son, and he put it on; but its sleeves only 

 reached his elbows, and on his body it only reached to his belly. 



One of the strangers came and stood outside the passage-way, 

 and one of them planted himself by the window with a pana (long 

 knife) in his hand. A number of kaiakers lay below the house 

 ready to throw their harpoons at him; but the boy made him- 

 self light, sprang right through the midst of the kaiakers out 

 into the water, dived down before anyone had time to throw 

 his harpoon at him, and did not come up before he was far out 

 at sea. 



When the people caught sight of him from land, they cried: 

 "There he is, out there!" The kaiakers paddled towards him, and 

 seized their harpoons to throw at him; but he ducked down into 

 the water. The kaiakers still followed in pursuit out to sea. Now 

 and then he emerged behind a kaiak, now by the side of one; but 

 as soon as they rowed towards him, he ducked under. They had 

 gradually got so far from land, that it looked as if it were steep, 

 and the headlands could not be distinguished from the rest of the 

 country. 



The boy began to shiver, and so he dived down and shouted 

 in at the rootend of some siwdluitek (a kind of seaweed), whereupon 

 the wind was heard soughing lightly over the surface of the water. 

 Then he swam up to some sarpiusak (another kind of seaweed), 

 shouted in at its rootend, whereupon it began to bluster loudly 

 along the surface of the water. It was the nerrajak wind coming 

 on. When the kaiakers looked round, they perceived that a gale 

 was blowing at the top of Kalerajuek (on Kulusuk). The kaiakers 

 paddled towards the shore and they bobbed up and down in the 

 heavy sea, so that some of them upset; and from those that did not 

 thus capsize the boy drew away their paddles, so as to make 

 Ihem upset. Thus all the kaiakers were drowned, and the boy 

 came home alone. 



