300 Gr- Holm and Johan Petersen. 



He had a very great, black snout, and, swimming ashore, he 

 rested his chin upon the land; and, when he then laid one of his 

 paws upon the beach, the land gave way under his weight. He 

 went up in land and circled round me, bit me in the loins, and 

 then ate me. At first it hurt, but afterwards feeling passed from 

 me; but as long as my heart had not been eaten, I retained con- 

 sciousness. But, when it bit me in the heart, I lost consciousness, 

 and was dead. 



When I came to myself again, the bear was away, and I lay 

 wearied out and stark naked at the same place by the lake. I 

 w^ent down to the sea, and, having walked a little, I heard someone 

 coming running after me. It was my breeches and boots that came 

 running, and, when they had got past me, they fell down on the 

 ground, and I drew them on. Again 1 heard something running. 

 It was my frock, and when it had got past me, it fell down, and 

 that too I put on. Peering down the river, I saw two little folks, 

 as big as a hand. One of them had an amaut on in which there 

 was a little child. Both the bear and the three little folks became 

 my spirits. 



Once when I was standing by the shore at Umivik, I saw three 

 kaiakers coming in, dragging a narwhal. When they came in to 

 shore, the kaiaks flew up in the air like three black guillemots, 

 and the narwhal sank like an ovak (cod). 



At Pikiutdlek I got me two spirits, one of which was called 

 Kuitek and shrieked: "Ungal Unga'\ like a new-born babe. The 

 other was called Amortortok and shrieked: "-Amol Amol". They 

 were both Tarajuatiaks {tarajuadat = shades). Amortortok is from the 

 south, and speaks the same tongue as the Kavdlunaks. At Tasiusak 

 too I met a spirit with a pointed head and without hair^). 



Once I have seen Tornarsiik. He was sitting bent over with 

 his back towards me, holding his privy parts with both hands. I 

 leapt up on his back, and then lost consciousness. When I came 

 to myself again, I was lying on a large stone. 



47. ASIAK. 



Asiak lives in the sky. When there лvas a drought, the Angmag- 

 saliks in former days used to journey to the place where he dwelt,^ 



') In Hanseraks journal il is mentioned thai Sanimuinuk's chief spirit is 

 Arriissalc, an ((laussak(l) living in the sea, which is as hig as a man. His 

 second spirit is Amok, wiio dwells in a crumhling stone, and his third spirit 

 Ungortortok. who barks like a fox, dwells in a dried-out lake, and is as big 

 as a band (a frog'?). 



