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much, the father put the girl with all her children on an island, 

 where he brought them food. When he did so, he had the whole 

 kaiak full both in front and at the back, and all the children 

 came down to shore and took up everything out of the kaiak. 

 When their grandfather did not came out to them, the dog came 

 swimming with a pair of breeches full of blubber, meat, and other 

 kinds of food. 



One day when the dog had thus come over to them, stones had 

 been laid in the breeches amongst the food. 



It was therefore all it could do to swim over; but it managed 

 to do so with the aid of a charm. It said to the children: "When 

 your grandfather comes here next time, you must eat him up, be- 

 cause he has mixed stones in the food". 



When the grandfather next time came over to them with food, 

 the children came down to the kaiak to receive the food, and he 

 said to them: "I suppose you poor things are hungry?" Their 

 mother had told them that they were to eat their grandfather. 

 When the children had eaten up the food, they licked the kaiak 

 and ate it. Then they seized their grandfather and ate him, and 

 then their mother wanted to send them out into the world to sup- 

 port themselves. She took the sole of a boot, put some of the 

 children in it, pushed it out to sea, and said : "Your father cannot 

 make anything for you, and so you must learn yourselves to make 

 things". 



These children became Kavdlunaks. The other children she 

 placed on willow-leaves which were floating on the surface of the 

 water; these she shoved towards land. These children came to the 

 interior of the country where there is no water, and became Timer- 

 seks and Erkiliks. 



The Kavdlunaks came to a land where they taught themselves 

 to make iron, ships, and houses. They could do everything! The 

 Timerseks come in the autumn down to the sea to catch seals, and 

 people can then hear them whistle and thunder, and then they say 

 to them: "You^must not do your cousins any harm!" When the 

 Kavdlunaks wanted to come to these parts, they could not enter for 

 the ice; and that is why iron comes up here from the South. They 

 make iron in large pots which are full of train-oil, into which they 

 shove people. First they become white, then red, then black, and 

 then they become iron and make a singing sound when they are 

 Jiooked up. Iron did not come up here until the land had broken 

 to pieces and thus came to be like it is now. 



