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which Navagijak was, drew it up, and dragged it home; but Nava- 

 gijak did not lose consciousness. 



When the man came home, he dragged the ringed seal into 

 the house, and carried it up to his wife, who was to cut it in 

 pieces. Navagijak at once recognized his wife and thought to him- 

 self: "I wish she would straddle over me when she is about to 

 cut the neck". This she did, and in the same instant he jumped 

 into her. He saw that there was a great deal of ice inside which 

 needed cleaning out properly, and this he did, so that the blood 

 flowed out. She, who had never had a child before, now became 

 pregnant. When it got light in the morning, Navagijak had a desire 

 to come out, but he could never manage to get out. 



The Avife had birth-throes, but she could not bring forth the 

 child, and so her husband took a bee, which was his amulet, blew 

 on it so that it became alive, and flew into his wife's mouth. He 

 then told her that she was not to swallow her spittle. The hus- 

 band saw a face with the border of a hood around it by the back 

 wall of the platform. He was frightened and ran out, and when he 

 came in again, his wife had brought forth a child. 



When they were to give the child a name, it thought to itself: 

 "I wish they would call me Navagijak''. They gave the child water 

 in a water-scoop with a white border around it — that is to say 

 with the finger — but did not name it Navagijak. The child kept 

 on crying and once, while it was crying, it said: "I am NavagijakV 

 "What does the child say?" asked the wife. The husband answered: 

 "It says that its name is Navagijak". They now gave the child the 

 name 'Navagijak', and whereas before it had always been crying 

 and was very thin, after this it thrived excellently and cried no 

 more. 



23. THE GIRL WHO WENT ACROSS THE INLAND ICE TO THE 



WEST COAST 



told Ьз' Kutiiliik. 



At Pikiutdlek there lived a man who was married to the elder 

 of two sisters. As he wanted to have also the other one to wife, 

 but she would not, she took her knife, a needle, and a pair of soles, 

 and went crying over the inland ice. 



It was lovely weather, and soon she even lost Nunatak from 

 sight. She now caught sight of another nunatak; but when she 

 drew nearer, she saw two Timerseks, and so she crept into a crack 

 in the inland ice. When she came out again, the Timerseks had 



