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to make arrows. He finished so many that he could fill two 

 sealskins with them. The others went to bed, but Arnalik was 

 still up. — The next morning when they wakened, Arnalik was 

 gone. He wanders off over the plain. At the entrance he sees 

 some smoke : [ what ! that is Quk'OTiiak who is breathing. | He 

 stopped and dug a hole in the earth, where he laid the arrows 

 he had made. From there he went over toward it with his bow 

 and only two arrows, and when he was so near that he thought 

 he could be heard, he bawled out loudly. When QuX-OTiiaq heard 

 his voice, it suspected that it was the man Arnalik and moved 

 toward him. Arnalik fled away and it followed after him. When 

 it approached rapidly, he stretched his bow and laid one of his 

 arrows on, turned around toward it and shot it in its егз'гщ 

 (the place between the neck and the shoulder close behind the 

 collar-bone). He laid another arrow on and hit it again effect- 

 ually in the same place. At full speed he reached the hole 

 that he had made, and cast himself into it. QuX'Uïiiac[ passed 

 without noticing him and moved on. With the arrows that he 

 had left there he shoots it again and again, each time opening 

 the hole and closing it again. Once when he had shot at it 

 acting thus, oh how dark it became [qaTiale ta-rpaX'dk) down 

 there ! he could not get any opening to the daylight and now 

 he understood that he had killed it. Arnalik could not come 

 out and began to smother. He set to digging (with his hands) 

 and steadily shoveled the earth loose, a-rinve^ (there you see)! 

 finally a hole to breathe through! when he had recovered a 

 little, he dug again, and when the hole was big enough, he 

 went out. After he had moved along the side of the animal, 

 he caught sight of its face, which was like a large human face 

 — you may be sure he was frightened (ersinaraluaqa.'q) ! — 

 When he had come home, he said nothing to his countrymen. 

 But when it became night, he said: over east there I have 



' an interjection indicating that it liappened as expected. 



