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was still voyaging through the air, and when she had got far out, 

 she saw two houses next to one another, in which there lived a 

 bear and a walrus. She entered one of the houses and saw that it 

 was the bear's house. While she was in the house, the neighbour 

 — that is, the walrus — came in; he had come to bargain and 

 buy a seal-skin thong; but, as the bear would not sell the thong, 

 the walrus took it and tore it to pieces. Now the wife entered the 

 walrus' house, and the bear and the walrus came after her and 

 tried to seize hold of her; but she flew around inside the house 

 and shrieked. At last a hole opened for her in the corner of the 

 house, and she flew out through it. 



When she had got outside the house, she saw and heard magic 

 charms in the air; but every time they approached, they vanished 

 again. It was her family over yonder who were making the charms 

 to fetch her back. The charms were not far off; but when she ap- 

 proached them , they receded. She followed after them and they 

 brought her homewards. Her husband was just about so drag her 

 out of the house, because he believed that she was dead; but just 

 at that instant she came home, and then she awoke. 



It was the magic charms that had fetched her home again. 



25. THE TWO KAIAKERS WHO WERE HELPED BY CHARiMS 



told by Kiduluk. 



When they had been out to hunt angmagsat, they moved 

 their tents and went to live at Sigsuarak near Norsit. One day 

 they went out in their kaiaks to hunt on the ice. After some of 

 them had already caught half a score of crested seals, a fog came 

 on and they all rowed home except two, who wanted to wait till 

 the weather was fine again. 



When they had slept a little, the fog cleared off; but they 

 could no longer see the land. They now tried to find their way 

 home. One of them cut the paw of a crested seal, and the other 

 a thigh; these pieces they took with them, but they cast all the 

 seals they had caught out into the water. They could not see any 

 land, but only the place where the sun rose and went down again. 

 They rowed in this direction, and one of them used the charm 

 which is used when one is out kaiaking and wants to find the 

 way home again. 



They came to a big iceberg, from which water streamed 

 northwards, and which had existed since the creation of the world. 

 They could not gel past it, and they could not get round il, for 



