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promptly puts the great narwhal in (in his pot), and sets off rapidly 
with it for the interior. After having carried it off{?|, he quickly 
disappeared from sight in the direction of the interior. 
When Agättiaq with his son got home, he said: “A nasty Inali- 
lik robbed me of the spoil I otherwise should have brought home.” 
— “How did he get strength to do it?” — “He made his drag fast 
to 1 BLD 
Next day, when they were out sealing, they again got a narwhal. 
When they were on their way in towards land — again the same 
experience!) He (the Iyalilik) is continually on their track. After 
having come up to Aqättiaq, he robs him of his catch, (and) after 
having again robbed his son, he unhesitatingly puts (the animal) in 
his big pot. (But) as he was about to set off as he was accustomed 
to do!”, Aqättiaq caught hold of him from behind, and pressed his 
arms together. Thereupon his son came up to him, (and) they cut 
the hanging straps of his big pot“, stabbed him in his great, horrid 
stomach, (and) killed him. After having killed him, they took their 
slain narwhal out of the pot.@® (Only) on the one side is it usual 
(for the Inalilik’s boiled meat) to become tender ?. When they 
got home to their settlement, Aqättiaq said: “The great, horrid Ша- 
lilik had nearly robbed us of our catch, (but) we killed him and 
buried him in the ground.” @!)— Now it was their standing subject: 
“Our great, good hunter has not come home, alas! * It is you two, 
they say, who are to blame |. e., who have killed him]. — Take care, 
now they will (come and) fall upon us, one says.” ©?) 
Out in the house-passage the two lay down |?|.* The son will 
soon recover consciousness ?]. When (now) the enemies began to 
come along at full speed, he [i. e. they] crept into the house-passage. ®) 
The son recovered consciousness. The father noticed that his son had 
nearly stabbed one. ®® After having waited till he stabbed him, the 
father threw him out (of the house-passage). When the son again 
stabbed one violently and in earnest, he threw him out with all his 
might. By acting thus for a little while, they managed to destroy 
a number of people.* Now one again got to hear: a number of 
those who assaulted have not come home, one says. “It is, no doubt, 
you, says one, who have killed them!** Take care, now they will 
come and attack you!®® — Aqättiaq said: “What shall we do?” — 
In both cases, whether they intend to remain at home or to come 
(over here), they had reason to expect them to come over to them. © 
He (they) set out for the interior. They came to the giant people. * 
When they had arrived, they began to make a lengthy visit to them 
(in their house). When (with trouble) they had managed to get up 
on the floor (where they lay) — Holloa! see how they had to jump 
across quite high mountains, though the space between his [the giant’s| 
toes was only scant [?].%% Now they thought it was his groin (they 
mounted), now that it was his armpits (they got into). — Hoy, hoy, hoy, 
— with this (exclamation) they sank down into the ground. — Agät- 
tiaq and his son were left alone. Aqättiaq passed the word to his son: 
“When I now begin to run you must follow me!’ © Aqättiaq said: 
“Ah-hoh ah! When I will summon one of the hasty [flippant ?| 
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