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ea, ea — |: tum-arpoa:| 1 I tread 
ea, ea — uluca: qa'iane 2 On the surface of the thin ice. 
| fum:arpoa 3 I tread, 
ea, ea — |: petsonut-oa :| 4 I am become poor. 
Je nunararman a :/ 5 The new ground, this here, 
ea, ea — |: petsam-an'a:/ 6 The poor one here. 
ea, ea 
Notes. — 4. “Poor” — namely after the long time of mourning and fast- 
ing. — 5. -rar<rqar? Kättuarajee explained that they said so because the 
weather had become fair, and the ground had appeared after the melting 
of the snow. — 5-6. Probably said about the whole district roundabout, which 
seemed to him poor in game. 
No. 72. Kaiaking after Mourning. 
Keersagaq A. Akernilik B. 
According to Keersagaq, this is a magic formula used on the hunter’s 
first trip in his kaiak after his mourning (after a death) is finished. Before 
he sets off to cross a bay, or to round a point, he must recite it. By aid of 
the attributes of the water-beetle he makes himself invisible to the marine 
animals and unassailable by the spirit of the place. 
In the variant received from Akernilik, the words are almost identical, 
but the two authorities differed in explaining one of the decisive words (cf. 
the notes). 
A 
ea ea | 
co’ a®tarnık at°qarpoa 1 Whose curtain have I for my cur- 
ea ea tain? 
tirqenalep a”t-anik аЁедагроа 2 The water-beetle’s curtain have I for 
ea ea my curtain. 
ika-rasik-ina 3 I long to set off across the bay. 
ea ea 
co a”ta'nik аёедагроа 4 Whose curtain have I for my cur- 
ea ea tain? 
lege'palep a"tani ategarpoa 5 The water-beetle’s curtain have I for 
ea ea my curtain. 
kanen oiaäsik'iwa 6 I long to round the promontory. 
Notes. — 1. ага (a®t'a'nik, same stem is meant in аёЁедагроа, i. e., a’t- 
адагроа) signifies, according to Keersagaq, ‘a dried skin which is suspended 
in front of the inner opening of the house passage when the angakok per- 
forms his rites there.’ It answers to WGr. a®s'a‘it ‘their curtain’ (also used 
about a theatre curtain). In Kleinschmidt’s dictionary (pp. 64-65) this word 
is explained as ‘something which prevents another from coming to oneself’, 
and is there connected with the verb a”’s:aerpa’ ‘he gets out of his way.’ 
According to Akernilik, on the other hand, we here have to do with the word 
