302 G. Holm and Johan Petersen. 



"Doest thou remember the time when thou couldst not live 

 with others and we received thee into our house? and now thou will 

 challenge me to a drum dance! pul ja\ ja\ ja\ etc. 



"Why were we so foolish to take thee in and give thee a place 

 in our house, sa\ va\ ja\ ja\ etc. 



"Thou didst bring us no good , thou didst take up room , eat 

 from us, and steal from us." 



49. IGSIAVIK'S DRUM SONG. 



Isigsiavik we put at 22 years of age. His first wife was a woman from Norajik, 

 who was a few years older than he, a sister of Ikasakitek of Umivik. She died after 

 he had heen divorced from her. Then he married an elderly woman from Sermilik. 

 He Avas divorced from her too, hecause Ingmalukutuk would not part with her. 

 Igsiavik cried over the divorce. She Avas afterwards married to Pekelak at Sermilik. 

 Last winter Igsiavik married Avgo's daughter; hut after a marriage of not more than 

 half a year, she ran away from him, as they were out hunting angmagsat. She 

 then married Ipatikajik from Ingmikertok. When the}^ were out hunting angmagsat, 

 Igsiavik rohbed Misuarnianga of his wife Jatuak, who thus was his fourth wife. 

 She is not more than eighteen years old and is a daughter of our neighbovir Kutiiluk. 

 Misuarnianga from Ingmikertok, about twenty years of age, married the above men- 

 tioned Jatuak as his wife no. 2. She got tired of him and ллоиЫ not allow him to 

 touch her; but all the same he лл-оиМ have liked to have kept her, when Igsiavik 

 took her. He therefore challenged Igsiavik to a drum dance. They have now already 

 sung at each other many times. Misuarnianga then married Aguluk (about seventeen)^ 

 whom he stabbed лvith a knife in the thigh, upon Avhich she was carried awa^' 

 from him by Igsiavik's brother. She too shrunk from Misuarnianga, when he tried 

 to touch her. When his 'house father' Perkitigsak, who was his uncle, had rebuked 

 him, he went and stayed Avith his uncle Kianak at Norsit. After having remained 

 single for half a year, he married Utukulok i age twenty-two) ; for she Avas now with- 

 out a husband after seven former marriages. This last marriage, however, was of 

 but short duration; for her husband no. 6, Nakordok from Kangaisik, whom she pre- 

 ferred above all the others, took her back again. 



After having been married four times , Misuarnianga could no longer get any 

 wife, for lack of women in the district ^). 



Ipatikajik (age twenty-five) from Ingmikertok had been married to Misuarnianga' & 

 mother; but when she died, he espoused, as we have mentioned, Avgo's daughter, 

 Igsiavik's third wife. We have related how Igsiavik challenged Ipatikajik to a drum 

 match ; on that account Misuarnianga came here as a substitute for his step-father, 

 who, so he sa^'s, cannot sing; but the real reason for his not appearing seems to have 

 been that he had no material left for new drum songs against Igsiavik, having used 

 up all his store. In the song he accused Igsiavik of having tried to kill Akenatsiak 

 from Sermilik. Igsiavik replied to the charge in the folloAving song, wliich indeed 

 lasted an hour, as it was, but has been shortened here by the omission of all tiie 

 ^^ah — ia — ia" : — 



') Misuarnianga afterwards married again his wife no. 3, whom hangalik {Igsi- 

 avik's brother] had gone away i roni , because she ate up loo much of his 

 provisions. 



