598 Legendary Fragments from the Point Barrow Eskimos. {Juiy, 
was no iron, five families had their houses at Isitkwa (the site of 
the signal station, where several mounds indicate the position of 
the former village). They were called Isitkwamiun (“they who 
live at Isatkwa”), and they talked like dogs. “They said “imek- 
lunga, wa! wa!” (“I want a drink, bow-wow ba 
The following fragment, however, for which Lieut. Ray is my 
authority, and which was also related to Dr. Simpson thirty years — 
before, which both these gentlemen think indicates that these 
Eskimos are really acquainted with an unexplored land in the 
north, is in my opinion more probably referable to the same cate- 
gory as the numerous tales of the eastern Eskimo about the 
mythical land of Akilinek. 
8. Iglu Nuna (“ House country”). In the north isa country 
where the Iglumiun live. When all men wore one labret [the 
characteristic lip-stud of the western Eskimos, of which a pair is 
now universally worn in the under lip, one at each corner of the 
mouth, The expression means a very long time ago, as the sin- 
gle labret has long been out of fashion, and a few only are pre 
served as heirlooms or amulets], a man with his sledge and dogs 
lost his way on the ice and traveled many days till he came toa 
country he had never seen -before, where there were people who 
spoke his language. 
We also heard of various fabulous animals, though in many 
cases the names which in Greenland are applied to animals known 
only by tradition, and which therefore have grown into fabulous 
monsters, are still used for the animals to which they properly 
belong, as in Labrador and elsewhere, for instance, 4747? me 
~ the wolf, and avwinga the lemming, while in Greenland the ama- 
~ rokand avingak are semi-supernatural creatures that figure # 
many of the old stories. i 
_ The Greenlandic word filivfak or hiliopak, which there means 
an animal with six or even ten legs, appears.at Point Barrow 3 
_ atthe Mackenzie river in the form 4i/igwa as the name Hass 
mammoth or fossil elephant (see also Rink, “ The ese 
lects,” Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain, 
_ November, 1885). We heard none of the fanciful myths coca 
this animal which have been reported by various travelers 
the shores of Bering sea, but the word was in common US® espe 
cially as the name of the fossil ivory, which is very plenty 
much used by the western natives for various purposes. 
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