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Fig. 35. The ice-current viewed from the same place one minute later, when 
new ice has drifted in from the east (right). August 1905. 
(WGr. qiutwoq ‘freeze to death’). — 11. orsiwicivåtiagq (according to Kuannia) 
signifies the present of blubber which one hunter’s wife gives to another to 
help her in an emergency, not as her usual share but voluntarily, from 
friendship. Cf. also no. 27 (end). 
No. 25. The Towing Kaiak Man. 
Anittanne А; Napa В; Tupaaja С. 
Dialogue between a kaiak man who is rowing beneath the rocks and a 
man who is on shore. 
A 
ajana 1 See him yonder ! 
suna kana kalip'e: 2 What is it you down there are towing? 
at-iwitce atüvitce kalip'ara 3 A crested seal, tow I! 
kea kån:a tat-uldtca: 4 Who, you down there, shall have the 
seal-skin as her jacket? 
nuliama tdt-uldtca: 5 It shall be my wife’s fur jacket — 
neniartivagami tätutalik 6 She (only) wears the skin of young 
crested seals, 
ndtsiat naq:twina it 7 She despises the young common seals. 
VARIANTS. — 1 ajan:a С. — 2 kåtima qaja kalip'e, kise Капа kalip'e: В. 
(this version, in two lines, is better than that of A). kisi Капа kalipe С. — 
3 atiwiceg. В. ac'iwice: С. — 4 tät'utäc'a: В. tät'uläca ©. — 5 tatutäca: В. — 
6 kisiäne piumaleq ne'niartivargame С ‘the only one she wishes (is) one 
made of the skin of a crested seal.’ tätuwalik A. — 7 nåciå naqe tino С. 
Missing in В who has a refrain here: ja qaq'a ja qaqa. 
NOTES. — 3. at‘iwic'e, according to B and С, signifies a crested seal (poet- 
ical and religious signification); according to A, an edible sea-weed. Johan 
