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voice, and therefore not loud enough for them to hear it. When 

 the boat had almost passed him, one of them said: "Hark! it sounds 

 as if someone were crying there!" The kaiakers paddled in to shore. 

 The strongest came in front of the others. He landed, climbed up, 

 rescued Imiriidsiak, took him down into the umiak, and adopted 

 him as his foster-son. 



As Inuriidsiak grew up he practised feats of strength, and, when 

 he got older, he became very strong and had five dogs who were 

 very fond of catching bears. He often journeyed up the fjord, 

 where he caught seals on the ice. 



In spring, when the snow was melting but there was frost 

 during the nights, Iimrudsiak drove up the fjord. It was just at 

 the time when the Erkiliks were wont to come down to the house. 

 He now caught sight of two Erkiliks who were hunting with itu- 

 artit. He that lay by the hole, cried: "A'ae! kaeV "What is it like? 

 is it black? watch it carefully!" said the other. The}' were so eager 

 that they did not see the sledge, before it was right up to them. 

 When they saw Inurudsiak, one of them said : "Since when is he 

 grown-up?" They now spoke together and told Inurudsiak that 

 he was to stay there while they went after their game. 



As they remained away a long while, Inurudsiak harnessed his 

 dogs to the sledge and drove in the track of the Erkiliks. The 

 whole space between the uprights of the sledge was full of dog- 

 whips. 



He now came to the place where the Erkiliks' game lay. There 

 were both black and light-coloured seals; but the Erkiliks were not 

 there; he caught sight of them on the inland-ice. Presently they 

 began to run; but when they were tired, they stood still; then they 

 ran on again and sprang like dogs. Inurudsiak followed in their 

 tracks, till they came to some perfectly smooth ice. Here he threw 

 the dogs up on the ice; but they slipped down again. He then 

 sprang up himself, and, looking through a hole, perceived that the 

 Erkiliks dwelt down there. He jumped down through the hole and 

 made as if he would louse one of the Erkiliks; but he bored a hole 

 in his ear with a drill he had brought with him , so that he died. 

 In this way he killed all those that where down there. But as the 

 two whom he had followed were not there, he went up to search 

 for them, and caught sight of a large stone with a crack in the 

 middle, from which the sound of voices issued. 



He sang magic charms over the crack, in order to make it 

 widen, and, as he sang, the crack widened, and it could be seen 

 that the stone was hollowed out, and that there were several Erki- 

 liks inside, amongst them the two whom he had pursued and who 



