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No. 32. My Vanished Splendours. 
Огушалааа A. Ittimaneejuk В. 
А song which Qiwinazaaq had heard from Kaacuarnaq in Sermilik, 
who had himself heard it as a child, and had sung it to his own and other 
people's children. 
aliåk: ale: ие 1 Му blood-dumplings, ah! 
nulculialesale “WS D Му supplies of 'dried meat! 
aliak-a ео 3 My blood-dumplings, 
nuk-uliak-a 2.2220 М supplies of dried meat 
macualåaka TER PE eS Von My prepared" black риа ао 
mac: aka: Е 6 Му blubber sausages 
ilin:in Nor ae 7 [Which I bought (?)] of you 
amaluän’e: SR er 8 For thy little blubber supply. 
Parnazluanses Le ER 9 For thy small crow-berries, 
RACINE CREER 10 For thy little humming-top 
еее ES — 2, s¢ 11 In thy leather-bag. 
NOTES. — 1—3. aliå- is probably shortened from a'?liä- ‘something made 
from dried blood; blood dumpling’ (Johan Petersen, Sufia), cf. ak ‘blood.’ 
Kuannia referred it to the stem in aliaga: ‘sorrows for that which one has 
lost and longs for. The termination -le: appears to be the emphatically 
elongated -le ‘how much! in how high a degree!’ — 2. nuk'o = WGr. ni°k'o. — 
5. Qiwinaiaaq compared it with a“’kaq ‘dried seal-blood. The word re- 
sembles the WGr. та1с`аа ‘the firm skin of a whale between the scarf-skin 
(mat-ak) and the layer of blubber’; but it is more probably connected with 
ma®”s’ak ‘the animal’s spleen. According to S. the spleen of the animal was 
used as a bag or skin of a sausage into which was put blubber that could 
long remain fresh therein; such spleen-sausages were called ma®”sa't. Refer- 
ence is here made to mac'ualiät the contents of which were boiled, scraped off 
fat from sealskins, skinfat made into a gruel. Now they are called mam'iliät. — 
7. ilin‘ik В. The meaning is: ИЖ ta-erserpak-a ‘I exchanged them for your 
things’ B.— 8. Obsolete word for blubber. a‘maluän'ik B.— 9. ра’п`ашап-й В. 
— 11. pukutän am В. Sufia took the ending to be -ldn-e ‘in thy one bag.’ 
puk-ut-aqg ‘bag for crow-berries’ cf. WGr. po:räl aq. 
No. 33. Swimming over to The Island. 
Ittimaneejuk A. Natseq BX. 
An episode (perhaps from a tale?) the peculiars of which are not evident 
from the poem. A only remarked that “the sister-in-law” has left her coun- 
tryman in anger, and swims across to the island, while they shout to 
each other. 
The rhythm of the poem has resulted in the termination of each line 
being prolonged. 
