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and, as they own no boats, to “use the mist as a kaiak,” or to travel on 
the mist. — Kuannia declared that he knew this song very well from the 
east coast, where he himself had sung it in his youth. | 
Refrain. samoa jaja 
anersa‘rtawartage 
ko:tuaq akianin 
1 Let me sing of it always and long! 
2 The great stream, to its other bank 
at-urtuaqua: ko 3 When I straddled a moment across it, 
a‘itateqan:in-ama 4 Because I had no boat, 
qvinamin anik"imin 5 № kaiak, no skin-boat — 
anersa:rtawatak:a 6 My always and long besung captures, 
pilalianiwak-a 7 My dear little slain sea animals 
pila:nuartarpak-a 8 I am used to flense them as well as I can — 
ut-utsiara:rter 9 When one (I) caught a dear little bearded seal 
martitstiara:rten 10 (Or) procured a dear little double 
ртастиа то 11 And а dear little third to boot — 
gasiniwarliwarme 12 A large harbour seal — 
artilikia’’qiak:o 13 I scarcely was able to drag it away, worse 
luck, 
шраза{аграК* Ша 14 I (the same) who used to frighten them. 
artilikéaqiako 15 I scarcely was able to drag them away, 
3 worse luck, 
putsimime qa:jagin 16 Even, though, on the mist itself, on its surface. 
Notes. — 1. Cf. по. 107, 1.1: anersatane. — 3. Cf. WGr. awr‘orpog ‘straddles © 
across something.’ — 4. a‘ilatsiaq or at:aitsiaq is the same as gajaq in the 
language of the spirits, but, for the rest, the Timerseet people are said to 
have a special word for gajag, viz., ап АТ employed in 1.5. — 5. Possibly this 
is only a line interpolated later in order to explain the unusual word used 
in 1.4. — 7-8. I have put pila = WGr. pissaq ‘the captured animal’, and pila: 
= WGr. pila'q ‘the dismembered animal.’ — 10. Cf. no. 46, 1.2. — 13. (cf. 15.) 
-kia- presumably = -kaje- ‘wretchedly, badly’, just as -qia- is the same as 
WGr. -rgajar- ‘scarcely. — 14. The Timerseet people make only exceptional. 
trips out to the sea, and therefore are unaccustomed to the great animals of 
the ocean. The Inuit think of them as giants who roam over the mountain 
tops, and from there tread out on the lower lying mists. 
No. 106. A Timerseeq’s Song (II). 
Mitsuarnianna AB. 
This song was recited to me by Mitsuarniayya in two variants (A and В), 
from which the following is redacted. 
The reciter described the song as a ‘caller’s song’, which the angakok 
sings during his spiritual performance in order to call one of his assistant 
Spirits. AkWko (for example) sometimes used it to call one of his spirits, but 
it is an old song, and “originally composed by a Timerseeq, who taught it 
to the Inuit.” The meaning of the song is this: The Timerseeq (inland dweller) 
Sees from the mountain the unknown Innuit boats out on the sea and is 
seized with terror, because the Timerseet do not understand the use of boats. 
