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the dog as her husband. She began to be pregnant, and when her 
time had come she gave birth to four children." She let them be 
placed over on quite a large island, (and) on this quite large island 
she began to live.) When they were out on the sea their grand- 
father used to bring them gifts, 12) they liked the cover of his kaiak. (3) 
He departed. Not long after this his son-in-law (arrived), that big 
bad dog swam аз hard as he could." His father-in-law was filling 
his own big trousers with meat,” the son-in-law departed with this 
swimming across the water. (7 Another day when he came he (the 
father) fooling him (his son-in-law)"® filled the big trousers with 
stones and placed the meat on top.“ Carrying it on his head, the 
son-in-law went off, swimming out alone.?% Sinking he muttered [?] * 
a little magic formula?” (and) in a pitiable plight reached his home. 2”) 
His wife began to haul, out (the contents) and got some of the big 
ugly stones (out):°—“‘what does this mean?” —(she understood that) 
her father-in-law would have make him sink and drown.*° In a 
sinking state, arriving for the first time— now take care!) [Turned 
to the children]: “When your wretched grandfather comes you shall 
lick him down [?]” 2) — When he came (and) the things he brought 
with him were brought ashore, they began to lick the cover of his 
kaiak.?” Constantly licking more and more they gradually pressed 
their grandfather down. °°) The mother send some of her small children 
off on a journey, giving them soles of boots as стай. 29) Some of them 
[she sent away saying]: “Your grandfather* and your father could 
not work. You shall grow up and become skilled workmen (with 
your hands).” ©” Others she sent off (saying): “Your father was not 
clever at hunting. You shall grow up and become (clever) hunters.” CD 
Still others she sent away (saying): “Your father did not avenge him- 
self, you shall grow up and avenge yourselves.’ & Here it ends. 
(Addition:) (These dog-people became the ancestors of four races), 
some of them Qattunaat, some Timerseen, some Innertiwin, (and) some 
Ergittit (plural of Erqilik). 
D. 
Besides the three complete variants I have some very fragmentary notes 
from Maratte’s dictation (May 21, 1906). The description of how the dog grad- 
ually approaches the woman is portrayed in great detail: ke'sa userpog ‘at last 
he pulls off his boots to lie down on the platform.’ He lies with her (kujap:a') 
and she becomes pregnant (ilimiaqa‘lerpoq). The children are placed out on 
an island. The swimming dog which is about to sink is rescued by a magic 
formula, etc. 
[ce No. 215. The Sun and the Moon. 
(Ilulissät) in Disko Bay. The tale, in Egede’s version, opens by relating how 
the brother and sister were wont to play with other young people in a 
snow-hut covered by a roof of skins, “just as young people’s play-houses are 
in the winter.” This is one of the very few instances in which the Eskimo 
gashse is mentioned in the traditions from West Greenland. In the main the 
tale resembles the East Greenland versions which follow, but I must mention 
as a characteristic of this local version the fact that the torch of the brother 
