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gan to have children, many at a time. Because there were so many" 
her father left her. She lay in a tent by herself.® Then these ee 
came from Qittipik to Nootuaq (Great Ness).® There was no meat. 
(so) the children, who had no meat, suffered greatly from hunger. 
The father [the dog] set off from Qittipik, he swam across.) 
When he reached the other side he filled a pair of trousers with 
meat and blubber*, then journeyed thither carrying the burden on 
his back (in a strap bound about the head) and reached the place. 
When he reached it he gave the small children food. (Time passed 
and) they ate it up. Again he journeyed forth, again he swam across, 
(this time) after his arrival, he filled the trousers partly with meat, 
partly with stones. From up there he went off, on the way he began 
to sink. Then he chanted a spell: 
ia—ia—, the bubble, the bubble! 
ia—ia—, I (it) shall not die! 
ia—ia—, the amulet in my collar 
1а—1а—, now saves me at once from destruction [? | 
Then he again floated on the surface of the water and the wife 
hauled the meat and the stones ashore.!Y After that his visits ceased. 
However the children missed meat and (other) food.” The grand- 
father now came out with gifts, the children went down to the beach 
to receive their grandfather and began licking his kaiak cover(®, some 
set their teeth in him, others bit him again and again all over his 
body.” They ate him up. Inflamed with rage the mother began to 
send her children out.” She placed them on the ocean on the sole 
of a shoe. 
As the first went away the mother said: “Your father was in- - 
capable of handiwork of any kind, you grow up and become skilled 
artisans.”? They sailed away and became the Qalhlunaat [Europeans?|. 
The next journeyed up there, inland [westward] and the mother said 
to them: “Your father could not hunt seals, you grow up and 
become skilful hunters!” They went off and became the Tumerseet 
(inland-dwellers), who are skilful hunters. Finally those remaining 
began to leave for the northwest and the mother said: “Your father 
could not avenge, you grow up and become skilful avengers! Practice 
revenge on your own ennemies!” * °°) When they came to the land in 
(or up) there they became the Erqilhlit.°” 
that the children’s father (the dog) was incapable of avenging himself. — 
* (26) akeqa’t-use better akerqdtase, pl. of akeraq, ‘enemy’ with suffix -{a ‘be- 
longing to you. —*(27) This is the W. Eskimo name for the Tinneh (Athapascan) 
Indians. 
C. 
The woman who married a dog. She was unable to stay mar- 
ried to any man.” And (then) “marry the dog!’ &) — The next day, 
he [her father] untied the dog and tied it up again.“ ine next day 
when the dog was untied it went in (into the manga), ) the next vey 
the dog which was untied lay down (on the platform) by the people, ® 
he took her to wife, he began to mate with her, she ‘began to ae 
