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were the same that hung up him and his sister. He killed all 

 these Erkiliks with the exception of the two just mentioned, in the 

 same way as he had killed the others. 



When Iimriidsiak was ready to return homewards, he harnessed 

 the dogs to the sledge, with the two Erkiliks behind them. They 

 tried to resist, but he said to them: "Do you remember, how, when 

 I was but a small boy, you hung me up like a dog?" He had 

 stripped them of their clothes, before using them as dogs. 



He now drove on, whipping the Erkiliks solhat he ripped up 

 their skin and the whip was covered with blood. The Erkiliks 

 turned about every time they received a lash, |and then ra« on. 

 Inurudsiak threw away the dog-whip when it got too heavy with 

 blood at the end, and took a fresh whip. Now and then he also 

 whipped the dogs. When he came down from the ice, he lost one 

 of the Erkiliks, who had been whipped to death. The other 

 Erkilik's trace had stretched, so that he came out among the dogs. 

 When Inurudsiak whipped him he turned aside and then ran on, 

 and when he whipped the dogs, they fought a little and then ran 

 on; and when he could not carry the whip any longer because 

 there was too much blood at the end of it, he threw it away and 

 took a fresh one. The other Erkilik died when they had come out 

 of the fjord. 



He then drove home and related what a good revenge he had 

 taken by killing his foster-brothers. 



19. THE FOSTER-CHILDREN 



told by Ukutiak. 



She now became pregnant. They lived in a house which was 

 larger than this and had two foster-children, a boy and a girl, who 

 were brother and sister; and with them in the same house there 

 lived an old woman. When she bore a child, she said: "The others 

 eat so much, so I shall accustom this child to eat very little". 

 When the child cried, she handed it to her foster-daughter, who 

 gave it water to drink. The mother did not give it the breast and 

 had no amaiit; but before they were aware of it, the child was 

 growing apace. The old woman heard in the night a smacking 

 sound, and looking up, she saw that the child had eaten his mother 

 up, and the child said: "Now I have eaten my mother: I wish I 

 could eat my foster-brother and sister, too!". The foster-sister went 

 out of the passage-way backwards; but when she found tiiat liie 

 child was pursuing her, she said: "Can you remember how, when 



