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mannikins ** from the coast as an assistant spirit, I am accustomed 
to laugh thus!” 
When he (Aqattiaq) now began to run, his son followed * (and 
imitated his movements).®) When Aqittiag sprang, his thick, cut hair 
flapped. & When his son again sprang, he sank deep down into the 
ground. The spot where he had sunk down they (the giant people) 
stabbed into with their weapons. €» — At last (one heard) in there (in 
the house) their great old ones (the parents) say: “See those out there! 
Who are they?” ©) — They then entered through the house-passage. 
As they entered, Aqattiaq said: “When I seek one of the quick 
mannikins of the coast as an assistant spirit I am accustomed (to 
laugh): 6: ho ho--! How I laugh!” 65) — — 
When the great old man in the interior cuts his knees [then he 
says(?)| —: “Heavens, how admirable he out there (by the sea) is! 
He also is accustomed to procure himself one of the small, quick- 
speaking manikins from the coast for his assistant spirit.” * 
Then he set off (and) returned to his homestead. When he had 
got home they again began to starve. 9 He (again then) went visiting 
in the interior. When he had come in (into the house), a child of 
one of the housefellows was very ill? He (the father of the sick 
child) turns to Aqåttiaq and says: “Are you not an angakok ?” — 
Agattiaq replies: “(No, but) I can, however, practise the art of a 
gilalik.” 88) —“Then be so kind as to examine him!” — “I will exer- 
cise my art of qilaarutserneq.” © — Aqättiaq says (after beginning his 
examination): “Perhaps he [or she, the child] has been robbed of its 
soul for the ammassät fishing place” [?]49 — “Ah-yea! When I put 
him in my hood as | was about to go salmon fishing, he [the child 
very nearly fell out.” [The angakok’s reply:] “At that time, then, 
he began also to lose his soul.” U 
When he had finished his examination, they asked: “What (which 
food) is it that he [the child? or she, the mother?] now, therefore, 
has to abstain from eating? 2) ?]* How annoying! Just these * his 
mouth was watering for !” 4) — Agättiaq said: “Alas [?]*, only to- 
morrow may he eat them (the forbidden things), the ammassäts he 
must not touch (now)!” 49 — The child’s big father went (immediately 
afterwards) in order to bring them (the provisions) inside. Some 
big bunches of ammassäts, three on top [the three topmost bunches ?| 
he took off for the father and the son. What a surprise! It was (only) 
as a foretaste (a temporary morsel) for them.“ He thought (at first) 
that those up there (the bunches) were to be his real (whole) pos- 
session, but then it appeared that those there were only as a little 
morsel for them. &7 Of these big gifts (the payment), when they again 
approached their home at full speed, they took with them these great 
bunches of ammassäts. 9 When they had arrived home, they had 
them to live on during the waxing and waning of a moon, (and thus) 
they were fortunately saved (from dying of hunger). — So it came to 
an end; also this. 
* (12) This legendary inland people, the Inaliliks is mentioned in First Part 
pp. 82—84, and p. 230; cf. this part p. 384 and 414—415. 
* (14) Illustrations of drags are seen in First Part pp.460—461 (figs. 162—163). 
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