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said to her: “What is she doing there?” The Koopajeeq answered: 
“I am out to find for myself a foster-son.” She looked about search- 
ingly.“ Her husband addressed her: “Whom are you gazing after?” 
— “It is our old angiak” (a premature birth ог. an abortion) ©) — “by 
gazing I have discovered him!” Her husband said again: “When did 
he depart?” * — “The year before last.” He (the kaiak-man) slew 
her (and) drew the embryo out, bore it down to his kaiak (and) put 
it into the kaiak.“ When he too had got into the kaiak with “a 
quick” *, he paddled out to sea.® From inside his kaiak he fancied 
there was an inner speed and power ® — (the angiak) began to eat 
(bore like a worm) to devour him from behind (9), it pulled out his 
rectum, — he died. 
No. 221. Koopajeeq IT. 
requested to eat him. The child’s mother and elder brother as well as several 
other people seek for the lost one and discover the house of the canibals. 
They conceal themselves inside and slay the cannibals one after another as 
they come in. 
(A child) left its relatives in sorrow (and in the distance) caught 
sight of rising smoke. ” He went in there (at the Koopajeeq’s). When 
night began to fall, he began to cry a little (or quietly).© At last! 
Yes (it is) evening. ® — “Your poor little child [or you poor children ?| 
you shall devour.” Then he (the child) went out (and) fled. She 
pursued him (and) began to devour him. &— Then they (the child’s 
mother or the others, who had searched for it) came home to their 
own home.) — Then said one: “An ugly bad Коора]ее has eaten 
her dear little child up.” — “Off with you, you wretch! if you are 
unfortunate enough to die, I can get a delicious little morsel to eat.” ® 
— “Will you kill me?” — So the next day they went up (into the 
country), then they went in to the Koopajeeq.® Then the little que 
q’aaq (elder brother) began to cry.“ — “Hush! Hush! Listen! To- 
night your little child (or you little children) shall eat!” © Then 
they killed (her). At this the other came in, him they killed (too); 
the third one also came in, 4? him they killed by strangling him in 
a noose. Their elder brother said: “If they only would take Бег!” 
But the very fact that he threathened to beat her*@” (thus) in the 
air he (or she).... it.* Then they departed.“ The end. 
No. 222. Koopajeeq III. 
Who Drank of the Stream till She Burst. 
night is carried off too. A troll has got possession of him and the children 
of the troll wish to devour him, but at the critical moment he succeeds in - 
cutting off the head of the sleeping troll and escapes with only the troll- 
woman pursuing him. However his magic incantations checks her pursuit 
and causes her to drink of a stream till she bursts. 
The child died. She covered it with heavy stones as weights in 
the grave.” She went to see to it, (then) it was not there. © Her 
husband spoke thus: “Me, cover me with stones (in the grave) ! ®— 
