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4. i^ukappiara-luk. 

 (Sactut, Oommannaq Fjord.) 



A man had two wives, it is told. The second, when she 

 got him, did not know but that he was married only to her. 

 When the man went out in his kajali, as he often did, she 

 stood and kept her eye on him. When he liad stuck the har- 

 poon into a sufficient number of seals, and he had enough to 

 tow, he used to steer for land over toward the other side of 

 the point. Here he was hidden, and it often lasted a long 

 time before he again appeared. She became suspicious, and 

 the next time he had gone out, she went over to the place 

 where he used to be hidden. Here she caught sight of a house, 

 and as soon as she had seen it, she went down toward it and 

 looked in through the window. She saw a little boy running 

 about on the stumpbed half naked. Being sorry for him be- 

 cause he had no mother, she went in to him and sat down 

 on the stumpbed. When she looked about her, she discovered 

 that there lay some meat under the stumpbed. and on the 

 wall hung a harpoon-line. What! that was her husbands 

 harpoon-line! He had a wife beside her and this boy here 

 Avas this wife's son! She became angry, and when on looking 

 out through the window she saw a woman approaching — the 

 little boy's mother, who had been out gathering berries — she 

 took the harpoon-line and made a noose of it, which she put 

 up over the threshold in order to strangle her. Listen! now she 

 called her son with a loud voice : Nukappiaru'luk ! When the 

 boy heard his mother's voice, he became glad and drew near; 

 but since he was shy before the stranger in there, he did not 

 go up to the window, but only listened. Now his mother 

 appeared from the house-passage, whereupon the harpoon-line 

 tightened about her. She immediately let go of the berries 

 which she had in her hand and died. 



Thereupon the strange woman dressed the boy and let 

 him go with her over to the house that she came from. 



