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put it on one side, and put seal's flesh in it. When the meat was 

 boiled, the man laid the child and the seal's llesh by the side of one 

 another, and, when the housemates came to eat, he said: "I wonder 

 now which tastes best'?", and then he took the child himself and 

 ate it instead of the fine seal's flesh. 



When the man went out hunting again, there came an old man, 

 the sole survivor of those that lived next door, for all the others 

 had starved to death. He came up to the house, and saw that they 

 had thrown the thick seal soup outside. He fell to, and did not 

 enter the house until he had eaten it all up. When he came in, 

 they gave him a piece of meat, and the man who had eaten the 

 child said: "I wonder if you won't be eaten, too?" When he had 

 eaten, he lay down to sleep. 



Next day the old man wanted to stay; but the man who had 

 eaten the child told him he must go. When the old man had stepped 

 into his kaiak, he could not row, because he had eaten too much. 

 So the master of the house tied his kaiak to his, and helped him to 

 get over to his dwelling-place; then the master of the house rowed 

 back again. Later on they heard that the old man was dead, for he 

 had eaten too much after having starved so long. 



44. THE FOLKS WHO BY MISTAKE ATE THEIR OWN BROTHER 



told by Kutuhik. 



A man who was a good hunter lived alone in a house together 

 with his wife. When he had been out hunting, he generally came 

 home with several seals, out of which he was wont to take one up 

 with him to lay it under the window platform to putrefy. Here 

 there lay both saddlebacks and ringed seals. 



One day he caught three bears. When he had caught them, he 

 went out in his kaiak, and met one of the brothers who lived further 

 out at the mouth of the fjord. When he had harpooned him he 

 dragged him home with him, took the dead man up to the house, 

 and laid him among the seals which lay there to putrefy. 



When the man who had been harpooned did not come home 

 and the brothers missed him, they went out to search for him. 

 When they came to the house, they found his wife cooking bear's 

 flesh. The husband said: "I wonder what my game tastes like?" 

 He stooped down, cut the man in pieces, stuck his fingers into the 

 blood and tasted it. He now handed the brothers the liver, and laid 

 ringed seal blubber on top of it, while his wife was cooking the 



