262 W. THALBITZER. 
ea ea ikerman'a дазпиате` ша 3 This bay’s only spotted seal, 
na”’t-orpak:ta 4 I come across it. 
ea ea ikirman'a таза е`ша - 5 This bay’s only bearded seal, 
nd’ torpak:ia 6 I come across it. 
Notes. — 2 (4 and 6). The word resembles WGr. nà®L'erpa: (Kleinschmidt 
navdlerpa), < пай ‘he gets on a level with it’, but perhaps the meaning is 
closer to nä®r'’orpa‘ (Kleinschmidt navdlorpa), < napiwa', litterally ‘breaks 
it in pieces’, put possibly used metaphorically, that is just as if he crosses 
the way of the animal or as if the surface of the bay breaks up when he 
crosses it(?). 
No. 70. First Time on the Ice after Mourning. 
Keersagaq. 
Formula for mourners who go out on the ice for the first time after 
their mourning is over. 
ea ea pujorpoa 1 I steam with corpse vapour. 
pak"”artiwik kisime pujon'ität 2 The great up there alone are without 
corpse vapour. 
ea ea pujurpoa 3 I steam with corpse vapour. 
sak"”oartiwik kisime pujoy’it-ät 4 The great down there (in the sea) are 
without corpse vapour. 
ea ea ilerpoa 5 I am hidden (?) 
tinin’e' tu uline:lu 6 At both ebb and flood of the tide, 
7 
ea ea kil'iyane ilerpoa At its boundary I am hidden. 
NOTES. — 1. Cf. nos. 74 and 76. — 2. “The great up there.” According to 
Keersagaq the talk, here, is about the dwellers in the heavens, the souls of the 
deceased who live in the land of the moon, and who follow the behaviour 
of the mourners, and are wrath with them if they do not behave in the 
correct way. — 4. “Those down there.’ Here, there is reference to the deceased 
who have gone to the underworld (at-erne) in the sea (“from where they some- 
times creep up like dogs”). — 5. Thus, according to Keersagak (‘hidden in the 
ground, invisible’). — 7. ‘boundary’ i. e. the moment of transition from ebb to 
flood and from flood to ebb. 
No. 71. On the Ice after Mourning. 
Kättuarajee. 
Formula for use after mourning, and when one is to go out on the 
ice for the first time. Kättuarajee got it from Keersagaq’s mother, who had 
herself used it when, after her little daughter’s death, she first went down 
to the ice. He gave her his wife’s head-kerchief in payment. After she had re- 
cited the formula down on the ice of the beach, the mourning woman took 
snow from the surface of the ice and carried it up into the house (it is used 
for drinking water to melt in the water-barrel). 
