414 W. THALBITZER. 
her when she once went salmon fishing up the fiord with the other women 
from the settlement. In his youth Aqissiaq had two of the sons of his pa- 
ternal uncles as play-fellows, whom he surpassed in wrestling and racing. 
As he was of mixed descent he was smaller in stature than the inland dwel- 
lers, but bigger than the coast dwellers: “His back was as broad as two 
person’s together, and his height only a little less than two people one on 
the top of the other, about so” (Rink’s version). He used to visit the coast 
dwellers in order to get to know something about his mother’s relatives. 
According to the West Greenland version, the /paliliks are to be appre- 
hended as a rare genus of the inland dwellers, who are only met with from 
time to time and who perhaps belong to a distinct “tribe” or to a people of 
foreign nationality. Agissiaq seems to have felt himself to be allied most 
nearly to the coast dwellers — “he would not kill one of the coast-dwellers 
because he was related to them, he said” —, but to have lived most of his 
life amongst the inland dwellers. It seems to be presupposed in the East 
Greenland version that he lives out at the coast, but he speaks of the “ma- 
nikins” of the coast as being a half foreign race, from whom he (as angakok) 
had fetched one of his assistant spirits. 
In F. Boas’s Central Eskimo, p. 635 is found a description of the Tornit 
people in Baffin Land, who in various traits call to mind the /paliliks of the 
Greenland legends. These Tornit of the past are said to have carried “under 
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