270 G. Holm and Johan Petebsen. 



forward, and they saw that it was blue not only in the face, but 

 over its whole body. As it came towards them, she took off her 

 bear-skin boot and hurled it at the creature, and it died. They 

 again went up inland, and when they had gone a long way, they 

 again caught sight of a house. They went in; there was a louder 

 rattling than the previous times. She took up her knife, cut down 

 the rattle, flung it outside and hid her knife again. They went in 

 and drank some water, and then the brother went out. She asked: 

 "Whose rattle was it I cut down?" '^'Ehl ehl", she heard some- 

 thing shriek louder than the times before and heard something 

 running quickly towards her. It was a man that was much bluer 

 than the others. As he approached she drew off her bear-skin boot 

 and hurled it at him, so that he fell down and died. — "That must 

 be w^hy bear-skin boots are so dear"^). When she came out of the 

 house, they went further up inland, and they went and went, and 

 at last they sat down. 



Now this story is finished, and the winter has got shorter. 



20. THE ORIGIN OF KAVDLUNAKS,' TIMERSEKS, AND ERKILIKS 



told by Kutuluk. 



In olden days there lived up here a married couple who had a 

 daughter. She had had many husbands; but as she could never 

 keep any husband long, her father said to her: "As you cannot 

 keep any husband, you had better take a dog as your husband". 



When they woke one day, they saw that the dog had got 

 loose and lay by the passage-way. They tied it fast again; but the 

 next morning the dog was again loose and had got inside the pas- 

 sage. They made it fast, evening came, and then the dawn again, 

 and they saw the dog sitting inside the house by the passage-way. 

 They fastened it up again in the evening; and when they awoke next 

 morning, they saw the dog sitting by the platform. It was again 

 tied up, and when they awoke next morning, the dog was lying 

 with the girl who could not keep any husband. The dog was tied 

 up again; but when evening came on, and the lamps had been put 

 out, they heard something rattling, and someone shrieking, and 

 they lit the lamps. They saw then that the dog was dragging the 

 shrieking girl out of the house. 



The daughter became pregnant and bore a great number of 

 children at once. As the parents thought that the children eat too 



Ч The narrator had also sold me a pair of bear-skin boots that very day. 



