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tikd-coq ilamm^un qajiamiyun umidUk iymptd" 



he reached | to his relatives | along his own tracks | chief | your son | his 



toqotiya qi'md' neyiyiyat umidlyum ■pani.hmi.n^Lk 



murderer | the dogs I have eaten him | the chief | one of his own daughters | 



nuliaqcjd'ka actn" cakirayan nakoayiya 



she married him | well | his brother-in-law | had enduring gratitude to him | 



ikidipaluyaq umidliyotiyat ikpaqcyayo tapkwa in^ud qairut 



the orphan | they miade him chief | a few days later | those | people | came 1 



acin" dtautcimi m^uniaqtut iXigpaluyam anarja 



well I in one place | they continued to dwell | the orphan | his grandmother | 



lyXuniLn^Ln aulayd'coq 



from her own house | did not go out. 



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iH^wkyoq ukwak atautcimik mLkkiqtoqaqtuak in^umqcuk 



Two people, it is said [ these I only one | child possessing | had their dwel- 



tayium cen^ani iU'^'ukmik nalumqcut 



ling-place | the sea I on its edge | mankind | they were in a state of ignorance | 



cumiumn inumqcut kicimiy tavrdni acm" 



about I where being | they had their dwelling-place I they alone | there I well | 



taina in^uvlutiy pdnidk u^iXiyacuyoqniqcjq 



under these circumstances | they living | their daughter I grew to the state of 



Hani di\iym'"ami dna-kmi cin^ikti.'K'uyik 



womanhood | once ] when she rose again as usual | her parents | while they still 



dniroq cumunUqa qinHydluajami tautuktoq 



slept I she went outside | everywhere I when she gazed for a while | she saw | 



mayaqtuamik kilumtyni qmHydluayamiuij 



^something that was black | over inland from her | when she had gazed at it for 



ulakciya tikin^amiuy tautuk-a tu-tu 



a wliile I she went over to it I when she reached it | she saw it 1 a caribou i 



toqotqamiqcaq aivKuni oqalautiyaqtoyik ayayuqakni 



one recently killed | returning | she went over to tell them | her parents | that 



qiK-iuHvKuni tu-tumik aan" apayan piya 



she had discovered a carcase | a caribou | then | her father | said to her 1 



pdniy qCK-imayutm tdtpam-a makm-amik iXoqaqvui} 



daughter | you have found a carcase 1 up there I when they two rose 1 all of them | 



ulak-at acm" piXayaqdrut neqmaqirut 



went over to it | then 1 they proceeded to cut it up | they had it for food | 



tavrumani uvXumi dndqaqyiydluaqamir/ 



on that I day | when they had passed away the evening for a while | they 



dqoUyd'Cut CLU^Lknialaqmiy pdnidk diaqdroq 



went to bed again as usual | they sleeping | their daughter I she began to wake 



umata kaukciqpakXuni qmaqtiqami 



up I her heart | beating fast | when she turned her head repeatedly to look | 



tautuk-a cumkiaq pamiuya dmaqum pamiuyatun d-uaq 



she saw it 1 something or other 1 its tail I a wolf | like its tail | that it was \ 



ciqotqiliyd-coq taututqiyd^ka tavrumani unodmi uvXupakXu 



£he went to sleep again | she did not see it again | on that 1 night | and by day | 



