272 G. Holm and Johan Petersen. 



21. THE DOG THAT CARRIED OFF GIRLS 



told by Kutuluk. 



A girl disappeared. When another girl went out to make 

 water, she perceived a huge dog with a top-knot on its head, who 

 chased her inland and into a house. When she entered the house, 

 she caught sight of the girl who had disappeared some days before; 

 she was sitting on the platform and was looking very thin. "What 

 are you doing here?", asked the thin girl? "The dog chased me in 

 here", answered the other. "Well, that is also how I came to be 

 here, and I have become so thin, because the dog had lain with 

 me so much". 



The dog came in and laid himself across the entrance to prevent 

 the girls going out. It was waiting for night to come, that it might lie 

 with the other girl. When the dog had entered the house, the first 

 girl said: "Have you any charm to send the dog to sleep?" "Yes, 

 I have", answered the other, and so she recited a charm over the 

 dog, so that it fell asleep. 



When the dog began to snore, the first girl told the other to 

 strike it with the whip. She struck it over its muzzle; the dog 

 said: 'He, he, heV, and then slept on. The first girl told her to 

 strike it harder, and when she did so, the dog said again: 'He, 

 he, heV and slept on. The first girl now made her way out by 

 straddling across the dog; but when the other girl straddled across 

 it, she chanced to tread on its ear, but it merely said: 'He, he, he 

 and slept on. 



When they had got outside, they ran hand in hand; for the 

 thin girl was so weak that she could scarcely stand. When they 

 had run some distance, they turned round and caught sight of the 

 dog, which had got out. So they ran on. When they came within 

 sight of their house, they shouted that there was a dog with a top- 

 knot after them, so that they must go away as fast as they could. 

 As soon as they had come down to the shore, they leapt into an 

 umiak, which pushed out from land. The dog came after them 

 down to the shore, put on women's breeches and a ribbon on its 

 top-knot; then it took it off again, and went back again inland. 



22. NAVAGIJAK 



told 1)3' Kutuluk. 



One day, when Navagijak was out hunting, he hurled his har- 

 poon at a tupilek, although he was well aware that it was one; for 

 it had a hood on its head, and its hinder parts were like those of 



