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the jacket a small lamp called fumiujang (literally ‘resembling a footprint’) 
or guming, over which they melted snow in a small pot. Some people say 
that they opened the seals as soon as they were caught, and cooked some 
meat over these lamps.” They are described as a people of the stone age, 
and they made neither kaiaks nor bows .... “The old stone houses of the 
Tornit can be seen everywhere, etc.” The name /palilik signifies ‘one who 
carries an inaleq “a cooking-place”’, (cf. WGr. igaleq (or inaleq) ‘a little side- 
building to the house passage of a Greenland house, used as kitchen’). Klein- 
schmidt (Ordbog, p. 73) has the following explanation of igalilik ‘one with 
kitchen, a pot-ogre (an enormous ogre, or in some people’s opinion an un- 
usual Tuneq, that is an Indian who on his one shoulder carries an entire 
kitchen, in the pot of which he can easily boil a whole seal at once: this 
giant pot boils on his shoulder wherever he happens to: be, without the fire 
inconveniencing him in the least, etc.)’ It is evident that there is a popular 
exaggeration of a real fact in this explanation, just as the statement that on 
Baffin Islands or in Labrador there once lived two different Eskimo tribes 
or two different peoples side by side finds support in several records and 
reports first and foremost Е. Boas (1888) р. 634—635; further Е. W. Hawkes 
(1916) pp. 146—148. Cf. also my Grønlandske Sagn etc. (1913) pp. 69—71; and 
First Part p. 690. 
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At Aqåttiaq's, father and son, they began to starve. When they 
began to starve they (father and son) started off-shore (eastward) in 
a somewhat northerly direction. W 
After having got some way out (kaiaking) they came to the sea- 
ice. An ice-hummock, of which a large portion projected from the 
water® (they scaled it and) they made steps downward [through a 
hole in the hummock]|. [Aqättiak crept down and] his son held on to 
him from the surface by fastening him with a rope of skin.® At last 
(he notices) him down there doing thus |the narrator imitates the 
movement) having killed an animal (a seal); after having drawn it 
towards himself by repeated jerks, he hauls it up™, and gets it up 
(on the ice), a fine great, little, young common seal which he had 
caught.” Aqättiaq now began to long to get home.® When they 
were home they eat it (the slain seal) up, with skin and hair. 
Next day, when they again went sealing, they again got a big 
common seal. Returned home, they satiated themselves with it. When 
they again went sealing, they got a big young bearded seal (a young 
one).“ Returned home, they remained there next day. But the day 
after, they again went out.“ He (the father down in the hole) shouts 
(up) to him (the son) that he shall draw it forward, he hauls it up, 
gives his energy to hauling it up, a large narwhal which he has 
caught. Next day they remained at home, but the day after they 
again went out in the kaiaks, and again caught a narwhal.(® There- 
upon they set out on the way home. father and son. 
“Oh heavens, what a surprise!” Aqättiaq points and makes vehe- 
ment signs: “See the enormous giant there!” The son looks. In front 
of him (there is) а big Inalilik.* When this approaches him, he tries 
to spring aside, (but) he (the ogre) quickly robs him.4? The Inalilik 
