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## (31) ah hoah ....uwiwitsiortitua"ivn'ik. These seem to be some char- 
acteristic and carefully preserved expressions about a coast-dweller (an Inuk), 
which may perhaps once have been used to characterize a certain person, a 
certain narrator, in this case a man who had assistant spirits without being 
a fully trained angakok. — In Holm’s tale no. 28 (First Part, р. 279) is men- 
tioned an angakok of the name Karrak, who had an inland dweller as his 
assistant spirit (by the by, a very common occurrence among the East 
Greenland angakut). Here the case is reversed; Aqattiaq’s assistant spirit was 
a coast dweller. These are described as small energetic, petulant people, as 
distinct from the slow and clumsy inland giants. 
* (36) See under (1). 
*(41) Herewith Aqattiag diagnoses the illness. While alternately question- 
ing his assistant spirit and the child’s mother he forms his opinion. The 
process may, in reality, last an hour or more, whereas the narrative, as 
usually, only gives us a minimal quintessence. 
* (43—44) silan'un an ejaculation? or a kind of plant or roots? 
B. 
seal, and a white whale.” “They buried the Inalilik they had killed, by re- 
moving the moss and digging a grave for him; in it they laid both his pot 
and his lamp. At home they miss the slain one and ask: ‘Have you killed 
him, we wonder?” 
Hereupon the narrator proceeded without transition to Åråttiaq's utter- 
ances about his assistant spirits: “I am accustomed to summon an assistant 
spirit from the coast dwellers, which is the cause of their (my assistant 
spirits) being petulant and energetic, — heavens! How dauntless they are! 
we wecuarte tuarait silakän'a ersisiwitsikulut ut).” 
[Bl No. 220—223. Koopajeeq Tales. 
ally [Koopaan}?), which means ‘Great River’ and is the Eskimo name given 
to the Mackenzie River, the Yukon as well as other large rivers.! The deriv- 
ation, Koopajeeq, possibly designates ‘a dweller of the great river. 
No. 220. Koopajeeq I 
or 
The Troll-Woman’s Unborn Child Avenges her Slaughter. 
This tale correspond with Holm’s: “The Old Bachelor and the Kobajak 
Child” (First Part p. 294, no. 41). 
Listen now! He paddled away in his kaiak. He was off on a 
little trip in the great fjord. ” About half-way lived the mighty Qaar- 
siwaqasaaq, the troll-woman, who was busily occupied digging and 
turning up the ground.® Just below her house he got out of the 
kaiak and caught sight of Koopajeq, busily engaged in digging. He 
1 Thalbitzer (1913) pp. 79—80. 
