194 W. THALBITZER. 
16 sulüpariuitse: 6 Large skins of harbour seals. 
7 Large skins which never hold together, (or hang fast). 
17 qgernerte:"sa't 8 Large skins which never get smoothed out, 
9 From the east (a wind) which pushes everything 
18 falé talé talé down (or which kills the lice in the skin) 
10 Unfortunately it only happened to be southerly winds! 
11 Let us bore! 
12 Let us bore! let us give it a little incision()! 
13 Stroke it (the baby) over the groin(?)! 
14 One who fetches (a future) real spouse 
15 With an enormous membrum (?) 
16 With an enormous feather (?) 
17 — — 
18 Stroke, stroke, stroke over! 
VARIANTS. — 1. = В. talipsun С. — 2. alic-uac:ianjiag В. — 3. puc-e pony © 
— А. uc'e'pun, @с`е‘рип В. — 4. = BC: — 5. unertiwin is not here in C, but 
in 1.9. qat'ertiwin В, missing in С. — 6. = С, missing in В. — 7. = С. azd'iwi- 
cértuaq В. — 8. = С. nalérsaiwic'ertuag В. — 9. kanay'a [Ка’сапега`ра or 
ka'sinerta'ja А. kananarkarcernarta'ia kacernata'ia а`Ча‘йоа` un'ertiwit qasin- 
iartiwit C. — 10. missing in BC. — 11. a'marta: В. — 12. am-artd sik:artå 
qasiniartiwin ©. — 13. (missing in BC). ata'iuisertuwin C. — 14. missing in С. 
wiwim'e wiwiluarme (or we'we:tuarme) В. — 15. missing in BC. — 17. qernerte:- 
suaq В. qilerte-sar A (in note). — 18. missing in BC. 
NOTES. — 1. {alip'on A (and В) means either (1) ‘leans against something 
(with the shoulder) or (2) ‘lies with his boat close in to a rock at the beach’ 
(Johan Petersen preferred the last meaning here). C (and B in the first 
dictation) had talip'un (plur.), perhaps referring to the crew or company of 
an umiak. — 2. While C understood this word as a proper noun, A and B 
explained it as ‘a fetus born prematurely or born in concealment. (Sufia: ‘a 
baby’). — 3. В disagreed with uc’e'pun, but gave almost the same translation 
as A and С (the latter has pucse:poqg in singular): ‘they (or it) are concealed’ 
(viz. by mist). Sufia explained it as ‘one who covers his eyes.’ The long e: of the 
word has a puzzling effect, because it thereby seems to suggest the opposite 
meaning of the word, which in its simple form has the e short (answering to 
‘War. 0), while e must be compounded with i privativum, and in such case 
the word signifies ‘the mist has withdrawn from him or them, has unveiled him 
or them’, i. e. ‘he became visible in the mist’, and thus Kuannia apprehended 
its meaning. — tåc:epon (A), täc'e‘pun (В, missing i С) was explained thus: 
‘the space was (too) narrow’ Where? B thought: inside a tent which is full 
of people (possibly she took her uc'e-p'un in the same sense as WGr. us’ap'ut 
‘people crowd together’). — 4. a‘l-atwa A bis., BC semel. In modern language 
(WGr.) this would mean ‘he shot him’ = WGr. a’wr'a’iwa‘, which meaning has 
been introduced with European fire-arms (literally: ‘he despatched the bullet 
from himself”). Here I imagine a more original meaning: ‘(he) pushes him 
(or the boat) out (from land, on the water)’, analogous with a’n:a‘twa’ ‘loses 
sight of him (as he removes himself)’, and an'a'iwa: ‘loses the pursued (an- 
imal).’ В. presumed the meaning ‘(he) fetches it (him, them). (Sufia did not 
understand the word, but suggested that aitai was the same as ata ‘lo! 
listen”). — 5. uncertiwin, found only in A, and В has gat'ertiwin instead of 
A's qartértewin (C lacks this). The last word is interpreted by A as ‘trousers’ 
(of hairless skin, cf. next note), whereas B could give no explanation. The 
skin of the harbour seal is used especially for breeches. — 7-8. Here again, 
my interpreters at Ammassalik and Kuannia were puzzled. The word (7) caused 
