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tulo:p takiwa’ quse'qg mamaqa’, qa'r- up, it laid it on the ground (and) 
tulup за’р’а’ quse'q. devoured it. The raven saw that 
the gull enjoyed it. The raven 
shouted to the gull: 
Raven 
ite?ta: eawat 14 You also hold fast to your own. 
NOTES. — 1. qawara: (AX) is suffixed with the vocative a (compare да- 
Jara‘, по. 24. 1.2); “Thus the raven is called by the gull” explained my in- 
formant. Otherwise, in East Greenland the raven is called gernertikajik ‘the 
black beast or ga'rtuluk (NGr. tuluwaq). — 2. kisimina X old-fashioned instru- 
mentalis of kise ‘what’ (WGr. suna), used irregularly in place of the absolutive 
form (as the object of a transitive verb). — 3. e'p gortora’ CB ‘human thigh.’ 
4. awin У is presumably an abbreviation of awin-aqg ‘mere blood’ or, adjec- 
tively, ‘completely bloody’ (ак ‘blood’), whereon the variant forms suggest: 
arlwna mikian C, a’n’ayn mikiag В. — 9. ilaine YX is an allative or instru- 
mentalis form, compare A and ila‘niy miakulaitsiäy’a В (on the other hand 
ilana С in the absolutive as if signifying ‘only a part’). The verb answers 
to WGr. minarpog ‘keeps some of the food till one gets home; takes some 
of the food home with one’, and mina’p-:a: ‘takes something home with one 
for another’, plus the suffix (rare) -kulak ‘clumsy, ungraceful’, but the com- 
position and the resulting signification are unknown from West Greenland. — 
Here, in the version recorded by me in West Greenland come the following 
words from the raven: e‘yak'o ‘I swallowed (devoured) it (the thigh)’, {aqaz:- 
Wkak'o iwnap atane ‘I (hid it? or let it splash down?) at the foot of the 
mountain wall. 11. ilåta'rita (A) is difficult to explain. A himself explained 
it thus: а’ Udwtwa-k mamarga'ra, uwana tlata ilata rita mamaqara; thus 
also В: tlata uaya mamaqa:ra, but С, in the same way as XY: uamät'arila: 
or uwätarila, cf. WGr. uwayätaoq ‘I also. 
No. 19. Song of the Wheat-ear. 
Teemiartissaq, who gave me this song, explained that the small birds 
are in the habit of singing when they get sons. She imitated the wheat-ear’s 
notes by flicking the tip of her tongue. A song which I formerly recorded 
in West Greenland (Aulätsiwik, Egedesminde district!) somewhat calls this 
to mind. In it there is mention of the dwarf-people (inoaruL'ikät) being about 
to depart for hunting while leaving a skin stretched out on the ground to 
dry: “Whose skin?” — “The wheat-ear’s skin.” 
gorsuk e-"nursumaler 1 The wheat-ear sang 
ED ip Fun 2 (the bird’s voice) 
ernertiwokajip: ut 3 Our son, the thumping fellow, 
pinidlit ar mât 4 When he, in earnest, began to catch seals 
AD: 80-1] 5 (the bird’s voice) 
eqinilikaje-n 6 The wry-mouthed (trolls), 
1 Cf. my Phon. Study (1904) p. 311 (no. 102). 
