(July, 
gives a version slightly different but agreeing in the main with 
596 A few Legendary Fragments from 
is. 
Evidently related to this is the Greenland tradition referred to 
by Crantz (Vol. 1, p. 233) that the thunder is caused by “two 
women stretching and flapping a dried sealskin.” Egede (p. 207) 
gives the story in greater detail. The thunder and lightning are 
made by two old women who live in a house in the air. They 
now and then quarrel about a dried sealskin, and while they are 
fighting down comes the house and breaks the lamp, so that the 
fire flies about. 
5. The story of the Kokpausina. Long ago there were five 
very strong brothers, Kokpausina, Kokkaun, Inaluoktuo, Nimna 
and Pakanigarua. (The narrators were particular to impress It 
upon us that these men were not especially tall, but very stout and 
strong. The strength of Kokpausina especially seems to have 
become proverbial, for an Eskimo once compared the great, pow- 
erful hand of an old whaleman, one of our party, to that of Kok- 
pausina.) Kokpausina lived at Pernye [7. e., “the elbow,” the 
summer campground in the bend of Elson bay, between Point 
Barrow and the station], Kokkaun east of Point Barrow on the 
seashore, Inaluoktuo inland in the south, Nimna at Dease inlet, 
and Pakanigarua at Cape Smyth. Kokpausina found two little 
a orphans asleep and thrust excrement up their noses [apparently 
be from sheer malevolence, though we never succeeded in making 
the natives understand that we wanted to know the reason of 
this action.] So they went home and made a little bow and 
= arrows, short enough to hide under the jacket, but strong enough 
to shoot through a walrus-hide dried before the fire [and there- 
_ fore nearly as hard as iron]. Then they went to Pernye and saw 
= Kokpausina, with his back towards them, stooping OV¢r 
they shot him in the buttocks and the arrow came out at his 
- Tar bone, and he died. 
His great shoulder-blade and some of his other bones are still 
at Pernye. [Natives who came down from the Point Barrow i 
Tage to the station once or twice told the writer that they hae 
seen Kokpausina’s bones at Pernye on their way down 
went so far as to bring us down a rather large human jaw mae 
from the old cemetery near Pernye, saying that it was Ko! 
_pausina’s.] 
col- 
: This story, which we heard from several narrators without any 
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