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sarisamciTi'in'amik \ suna'"<p'a \ qatariuti^ct arnarko ащХо ! сщиЫр 

 qatciTi'un-e arnaq ЬщиХ'и^о \ pcr^'niartara' \ arnap qatari'un'e 

 üisarüeramiuk \ иа'Ые anileriarXune aç-ane pæt^erÅuqit | ащЫр 

 tipmi-ane \ krttati^ut pwrsuarmik at'orpa-\ ani^une qd"'m'ariarpat\ 

 Uisarisa^amiuk \ suna"^^'(p'a qataiiuta'ta pa-"niartara- | iX'uminnt 

 arnaq iserame \ qatariutine кспатщЫ pa-Hisom-dt kamdX'une | 

 ipara'q maneq a'^marqilerpa' \ a'ni'a qataTiuta'ta a-^'maqerXu^o \ 

 anip'ut I iX'o ka'wiX'u^o malilerput \ arnaq qariat-arpoq \ a'm-a 

 ana' I qariaParpiik \ täs'a^o-q serqinerÅo qarwmaX'o ta•'^^'kop07l^o•q 

 aniqi't I täs'a na'tvoq j 



In the big meeting house ^, it is related, | a house without 

 any window | the place of the innuits | , where they used to 

 lie with each other (?)^ | whenever the innuits came into it | 

 because it was quite dark | they did not know each other. | 

 What does that mean ! ^ | a brother and sister, woman and 

 man, I the brother taking his sister | is accustomed to have 

 her to lie by. 1 When she began to know her brother, | she 

 once blacked her hands with soot before she went out; | when 

 the man took her, | she touched him over the face with much 

 soot, j As soon as he had gone out and it became light, | 

 she recognized him. What! her brother used to lie by her! | 

 When she came home and in the house, | her brother became 

 angry because he had got much soot in his face, | and he 

 began to light the lamp-moss (wick in the lamp). | Also his 

 sister lights something (or makes some lamp-moss glowing). | 

 They go out I and begin to run around the house after each 

 other. I The sister soars up from the earth, | her (elder) brother 

 also. I These two soar. | This is said to be the sun and the 

 moon. I These two, it is told, are those who ran out together. | 

 This is the end. I 



' Kleinschmidt: qdffs.se, Barnum (g 809). казЬца, meeting house, club 

 house of the Esiiimo village. 



'■' Cf. p. 297 (Drumsongs no. 22, note 3). 

 ' lit. what that over there! expresses surprise and contempt. 



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