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put-a'ge liise-ta'liiornagin 28 Without preventing a swelling up like 
a sealing bladder |?] 
ilimuto ne‘tsortorpat-a:rqa”t 29 Inwards, you bored too long! 
qujana ‘liwaqa:q 30 It was only a very great fortune 
nulian:e up: it 31 That your nice little wife 
nuka:tay'eup'it 32 That your nice little “young sister” 
pila ЕЁ kuvikorilarim'age 33 Sank your knife in the sea — 
pila “td kiwiluät 34 Your knife, now sunk fortunately [?] 
NOTES. — 1-2 and 4. These lines are found in the drum-song given by 
Rosing (1. с. р. 64), also as introduction. — 2-3. The infixes (-alituar = 
-alito:r 
< alituar) express the inner tension at the action the singer is about to carry 
out. — 4. The termination of the word 
-linvitino contains the ‘also’-suffix. Ro- 
sing writes the word thus -nakimatigigiv- 
1190. — 8. ilagin. I venture a translation 
which postulates an otherwise unknown 
use of ila (singular) in a collective sense 
and the prosecutive case.— 10. Sawaranaq, 
name for a formerly inhabited but now 
deserted place far to the north near to 
Kialineq.— 12-13. Thus according to Sufia’s 
interpretation. — 14. Here the singer at 
last addresses his opponent.— 15. napiawon 
I collate with naponawog ‘curves upwards, 
is broken upwards’ like the end of a kaiak ; 
also about a pug-nose. — 16. so‘rto: ila‘na 
must more or less signify ‘for example.’ — 
17. sujoraq, ‘the ridge of the nose.’ — 18. 
pila‘taq ‘short-bladed knife or dagger’ for 
work (cf. First Part, figs. 182-184). pildt-e:- 
leqartog ‘having a saw, or serrated knife’ 
(1. с. fig. 188) was known to Sufia as a 
common jocular expression of long-nosed 
men. — 19. The verb is in the imperative 
< pild'ip'a. — 20. kikila:‘laq ‘dagger-like 
Fig. 79. Eepe who killed his wife. 
(June 1906. W. T.). 
knife with a notch (kikicag) in the handle.’ — 24. nuka:taq, pet name for an 
old man’s young wife (childwife), derived from пика’ ‘the youngest of 
brothers or sisters.’ — 28. Sufia translated thus: ‘you pricked a hole in her 
swelling.’ -ta’lüor cf. WGr. -(баШогра`. — 34. -lüät perhaps ‘deservedly’? Cf. 
iluarpog ‘is right.’ 
No. 168. Ujaarnik’s Song of Retort. 
Qiwinasaaq. 
Ujaarnik, from Ittoluartiwin in the south, had journeyed up to Ammas- 
Salik to sing against Sookajik, who, as it seems, had wounded him by using 
his deceased relative’s name in his drum-song. 
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