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killed QuÀ'UTfiaq. When von have had your sleep out, then 

 fetch it. — They broufrlit it home, and thereafter, it is told, 

 reindeer again came back in numbers to the district. 



[In the remainder of this long tale it is related how Arnalik 

 fights first with an amaroq (wulf) and its young, then with a 

 si^-iit"Dq (a very rare kind of seal), and then with a large bear 

 which has its haunt out on an ice-mountain. Every time the 

 reindeer decrease and Arnalik has a talk about it witli his 

 mother, who tells liim the reason. Every time he returns home 

 he does not say anything about it before in the evening and 

 he requests the others to fetch the slain animal. But to each 

 hunt are attached a number of different details. The tale ends 

 by mentioning the renoun which Arnalik wins: "he slays the 

 largest animals on sea and land, as besides him only Qœsuk 

 used to do".] 



6. Four birds in human shape, 

 (Thomas Magnussen, Jakobshavn.) 

 Once upon a time a man went out hunting. When he 

 caught sight of a house, he went in and saw a black man on 

 one side in there and a white man on the other side. They 

 had a servant. The black man said : Qcoqe, fetch some meat ! 

 when the servant had gone out, the housemate (the white man) 

 said: it is an aperient that he will give you to eat. — Is it an 

 aperient? — It is a loin, the loin of the last she-seal that I 

 caught. — The white man said: Qt'oqe, fetch some meat! When 

 the servant came in, the black man said: it is small trout * that 

 he will give you to eat. The guest said : we are in the habit 

 of eating that kind of fish. Then the black man became angry. 

 The housemate said: Fetch the funny one Uivsiiiaq). The 



' equhiaq in North Greenland also used of a smaller fish iGadus aegle- 

 finus). 



