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NOTES. — 1. If this is rightly translated the long { sound in ateriga is 
abnormal, the word as a rule having only a short { Rhythmical conformity 
with the next line is, I suppose, the reason for this pronunciation. Compare 
1. 8 — 3. Lit. ‘following the trace of it. — 6. Var. ak-eraluagqilatit (ава). 
The word is otherwise unknown. Kunnia explained it as rendered above 
(‘throw up the game, change one’s mind’). Grammatically, also, the form (an 
optative 2d person in -latit) is quite unusual, though analogous with the 
optative forms of the 1$ and 3rd persons. — 7—8. i. e. ‘take back your accu- 
sation! uf-eriuk instead of uteriuk (influenced by the long t-sound in pat ino), 
compare 1.1. The i in -iuk indicates a pleonastic ‘also. — 8. patio, WGr. 
pat'uno. — 13. Probably from the same word as WGr. perusup'oq. Or < pin- 
o‘rpa: ‘abuses him, falls upon him’? — 14. i. e. ‘when I was young.’ éor-< inor-. 
— 15. EGr. me-ci- answering to WGr. misi- ‘examines, tries.’ — 16. e‘oju, WGr. 
inorujuk. — 17. It is uncertain whether {amarmik shall be understood as the 
object ‘all’ of the following verb (if so, one would expect -yil in place of -yo) 
or as an attributive adverb (in all parts, or everywhere’). 
No. 186. Akerniliks’ Borrowed Drum Song. 
AakWkaaq. 
A song used by Akernilik, but not composed by him. The song with its 
sustained irony is a typical drum contest song. 
Lines 1, 3, 4, and 5 correspond with 1. 1 to 4 in no. 167, and are bor- 
rowed either from the one song for the other, or, rather, for both from an 
Fig. 84. Three hunters sledging over land. When resting the dogs 
spread around the sledge to sleep in the snow, while the sledges are turned 
bottom up and the whip handles stuck in the snow near them. 
(W. T. phot. March 1906.) 
