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tikd'coq ilaniLn^un qayiamiyun umidlik iymptd' 



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



toqotifja qi'mit' neyiyiyat umialyum pdnLkmin^ik 



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



nuliaqcYd'^ka acin" cakirayan nakoayiya 



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



ikidpaluyaq umidliyotiyat ikpaqcyayo tapkwa m^ud qairut 



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



acin" atautcimi iu^uniaqtut iXidpaluyam andya 



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



LyXumin^Ln aulayd'coq 



from her own house | did not go out. 



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in^u-kyoq ukwak atautcimik rmkXiqtoqaqtuak m^umqcuk 



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



tayium cen^ani m'^ukmik ndlumqcut 



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



cumiumn mumqcut kic-inuy tdvrdni acm" 



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



taina iW^uvlutiy pdnidk WiXiyacuyoqniqcoq 



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



Hani diXiyLn''ami ana-kmi cin^iktiK'Uyik 



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



aniroq cumunhqa qmHydluayami tautuktoq 



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



mayaqtuamik kilumiyni qmHydluayamiuy 



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



ulakciya tikin^amiuy tautuk-a iwiu 



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



toqotqamiqcaq aivKuni oqalautiyaqtoyik ayayuqakni 



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



qCk-mHvkuni tu-tumik acin" apayan piya 



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



pdmy qiX-imayutin idtpam-a makin-amik iXoqaqnuy 



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



ulak-at acin^ piXayaqcirut neqmaqirut 



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



tavrumani uvXumi dnaqaqyiydluaqamiy 



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



ciqoUyd-cut CLn^Lknialaqnuy pdnidk diaqdroq 



went to bed again as usual | they sleeping | their daughter 1 she began to wake 



umata kaukciqpakXuni qiviaqtiqami 



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



tautuk-a cumkiaq pamiuya dmaqum pamiuyatun d-uaq 



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



dqotqiliyd-coq taututqiyd'ka tavrumani unodmi uvXupakXu 



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



