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(about a mountain that is bent inwards), "the one that weeps" 

 (a wet mountain-side), "the one that carries a child on its back", 

 "the one that has no jacket on", "the one that has taken off 

 his fur-coat", anore-nwlaoia "the lord of the winds" (a very 

 high mountain). 



Of a different kind again are such curious, highly con- 

 scious appellations as arqittoq "the one that has no name" 

 and nu'ssu'ta- "that which Nwssuaq has its name from", that 

 is to say, the big point of land {'■'■no'S'ua^') , where no doubt 

 formerly that settlement of the same name was situated which 

 now lies some distance away and has taken with it, as it were, 

 the name "big point of land". 



A large number of the place-names have been suggested 

 by details of human life, indeed they may even serve to give 

 us information about characteristic features of Eskimo life, for 

 instance: "the houses", "the inmates of the house", "the ones 

 with the big sledges", "the bad way", "the spring- or summer- 

 place" (i. e. the place where people camp in tents), "the place 

 of ascent", "the place of descent", "the place where one got 

 down at last", "the place where one carries one's boat over 

 land", "the place where the big skin-boat or the kajak is drawn 

 up on land", "the place where there is an outlook", "the place 

 with good drinking-water", "the place with the tent-skins", 

 "the place with the bridge", "the fox-trap", "the cooking-place", 

 "the place where one does one's business", "the ball-game- 

 place", "the place where one expects something" (namely game), 

 "the place where one easily comes across reindeer", "the place 

 where one is for the sake of shooting", "the place where the 

 nets are put out", "the place where one hunts whales" etc. — 

 Such occasions as the erection of a cairn, a pole, kindling of 

 fire, drying of fish, gathering of lamp-moss, potstone, arrow- 

 heads etc. may give rise to the name. Indeed there are place- 

 names which are quite epic in character, like: "the place where 

 there no longer stands an erect pole", "the place where iron 



