288 G. Holm and Johan Petersen. 



The two angakut were left alone in the house. They took a 

 saddleback skin and spread it on the angakok seat. The eldest 

 brother tied the anus and legs of the younger, and then the younger 

 tied the elder's. The elder one tried to leap across the passage on 

 to the saddleback skin, and did it so lightly that not a hair of it 

 was ruffled. The younger one did likewise. The others stood out- 

 side and lay in wait for them to kill them when they went out. 

 The angakut went out quite slowly, the elder one first, crouched 

 doAvn, and lept out without being seen. Then they flew down to 

 their kaiaks, untied their hands and feet, and stepped into their 

 kaiaks. The people up at the house did not detect them till now, 

 and they shouted : ''Why, they are down there !". The angakut now 

 came home, and related that all those who had disappeared were 

 out there. / 



33. A VISIT TO THE DWELLERS IN AKILINEK 



told by Angitinguak. 



There once lived five brothers in this district. When they went 

 out kaiaking, it happened from time to time that one of the 

 brothers did not come home. W^hen one of the brothers had thus 

 disappeared and another went out to search for him, the other dis- 

 appeared also. At last there were only two left, and after that these 

 two would not go out in a kaiak any more. The elder brother one 

 day went to a place about here, where there were no people, and 

 lay down to sleep on a naze. When he was fallen asleep, he noticed 

 that someone was pricking him in the back. — He could not move 

 one of his fingers, because a sinew had been cut. — He then turned 

 round, and saw one of his dead brothers standing behind him. He 

 went with him out to sea , and at last he could no longer see the 

 land here. 



When they had lost the land from sight, they saw a land far 

 out to sea. They rowed on and on, and came in the evening to a 

 naze where they lay down to sleep. Here there was a sledge drawn 

 by dogs. It was his brother's sledge. When the dogs were thrown 

 up into the air, they did not come down again. They threw three 

 of the dogs up in the air in this way. They then took their seats 

 on a sledge which stood on a steep rock by the sea and drove away. 

 They drove on and on, until they could no longer see the land from 

 which they had started. When they went past ice-bergs, they heard 

 inside Ihem a kind of rattling sound, which ceased when they had 

 passed them. He caught sight of a large cloud ; but when he came 



