376 W. THALBITZER. 
so‘rtome pinaliwaq 4 As if something good was to be fetched, 
kanic'alin pinajuaq 5 As if we were on the trail of seal’s blood |?], 
co'rtome рпашад 6 As if something good was to be fetched, 
7 As if in prospect of good meat. 
8 In the meantime I began to think of this 
neric'alin ilit:ino 
isiman”arme'pa 
isimanilarcic'un'ik 9 Of your many great thoughts, 
ta-'nersuarcin'ik 10 Of your great charge-poems, 
iwe'rsin’ik 11 Of your drum contest expeditions, 
un:ercinik 12 With your songs of complaint and accusa- 
tion. 
kala'rtim un ta:lo‘7 13 Against Kalaartit let him turn his com- 
plaint! 
ta ‘mi sananuacap'itsima 14 That kind I cannot make at all, 
nundäsian’ un та’пе 15 In my new country here —, 
nunasiama ewin 16 (Because) my new country’s people 
pa mip:o…n 17 Cause me trouble and unrest. 
NOTES. — 1. Or: ‘I roam(ed) about (in the world or in my kaiak) without 
aim or object”. — My interpreters disagreed here. Kuannia thought that it 
was on account of the wind that “I was carried (during the sail) in different 
directions”; Sufia that the movements of the dance are meant, “I sway or 
writhe in various coils while dancing.” Tupaaja: “I drift about in my kaiak 
(sagqinua:J'ame).’— 2. Cf. WGr. oqumiga'rpog ‘sails before the wind, with the 
wind right astern.’ — 3. Cf. WGr. £is'iala'rpoq ‘sails’ and tis'iarna:q ‘fair wind.’ 
The termination me" either ‘however’ < -m‘iwog or ‘indeed’ (-те). — 5. 
-kanic'a < kaniwa = a'wa ‘blood of a seal’ (Tupaaja). — pinajuaqg reminds 
one of WGr. pigajup'oq ‘gets often something. Kuannia thought that it 
should rather be substituted by ilit-ino, as in line 7. — 6. pipaluaq, according 
to Kuannia about homonymous with piumanaliwartino or na‘jamdat:ono. — 
9. -cicun'ik < WGr. -tu(wog) ‘has many or great—’. (-cicun- < -tusut?). — 
13. Kalaartit was a locality near Ammassalik, which Kuannia had heard of, 
but Sufia took it as the name of a person. — -ta’lo'n (WGr. tailiuk) was explained 
so'rto ta:‘ne:rtog, < WGr. ta‘wa: ‘mentions him in an accusation poem, accuses 
him Gn drum contest). — 14-17. The informant presumed the meaning to be 
that “he (she) can not make his poems when he wakes in the morning be- 
cause the people in the house are so restless and disturb him (her).” 
No. 213. Meeting on the Sea. 
Anittanne AB (on two occasions). Aleqaajik C. 
The singer tells of his meeting with another man out on the sea, whose 
fate he laments because he is departing on account of the inconsiderateness 
of a certain Akernilik. With characteristic self-irony the singer calls to mind 
that such inconsiderateness is universally human, and that, in any case, he 
himself suffers from it. 
Since this song was given to me as a kaiak song I take it for granted 
that at one time or another it has been so used by the singer or others. It 
more resembles a genuine drum contest song. 
