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a human being. The fried fat was poured over it* — (therefore) they 
are slimy.” 4 — “I will merely say: Г for my part do not eat that 
kind of thing!’ ©? He throws it away— hear how it resounded! * CD 
— He goes out after having put on his anorak.@) He looks back 
(and sees) that she hurries out carrying her knife in such a way 
that with the other hand she covers the edge (so at not to cut her- 
self). He goes into his kaiak (and) discovers her about to seize the 
bow of his kaiak as she swims. He escaped from her (and thought:) 
“Oh, she nearly bewitched me to death.” Y— He goes off (and) when 
he had reached his homestead®® he said: “She up there, the ugly 
troll, nearly bewitched me to death” * °?— “What must we hear! She, 
up there, the ugly troll, was wont to catch our former housemates 
(who have disappeared). 9 — “To-morrow I will again pay her a 
visit.” @) — His wife says: “You must not visit her, she is plotting 
against you.” ©) 
The following day he went to her.© Then is heard as usual: 
“Hello little kaiak, approach!” He approaches. 69 — “Get out!” — “I 
will not get out, for it was you, who yesterday, nearly bewitched 
me to death.” 2) — “It was not I, who bewitched you, (but) it was 
our little one up there [the child in the hood on her back] who be- 
witched you, who gnawed you.” *“) — “No it was you, you wretch 
who bewitched me!” 39 — “Little child in the amaut, you little good- 
for-nothing! ..... Your child in the amaut scratches you with its 
nails.” ©) — “],—I am content with the child around there on my 
back.” 69 — “You little child in the amaut, listen you dear little 
scalli wag!— Your little good-for-nothing in the amaut,— take it out!” 69 
— She took it out.— “Hurl it away!”’®® — She hurled it away. °?— [His 
housemates exclaimed:| “Ho! Ho! She, the wretch up there has thrown 
her child out!” © — His great little stern (of the kaiak), the child was 
wont to bite it #40 — So, — no more! 
him.’ — The word may really be said to be the cardinal or tone-giving word 
of the entire story. (Cf. too, ne:rgiara: under @%).) 
* (33) < WGr. neriorpa’ ‘wears him out by rubbing, gnaws him, wastes 
him away.’ 
*(40) Here is understood, no doubt: “and to devour him, beginning from 
behind.” Cf. the end of no. 220 and 226. 
B. 
“Kaiak hello! kaiak, kaiak, hello! ® Approach!” He approaches. ® 
“Get out!” He gets out.® “Draw your kaiak up on the beach above 
the high water mark!” “АП right! Presently ГИ draw it up on the 
beach above the high water mark, when the water begins to rise.” ® 
— “Come up (to the house)!” He comes up.® “Go in!” He goes in. ©) 
“Take off the overcoat!” He takes it off.” “Hang up your anorak!” © 
“There, shall I place it.”©) — “How is he? Shall he, too, have no- 
thing?” (® She begins to scrape her meat tray clean.“!) — “I must 
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not eat that kind (for) the fingers of a human being are among them. 
“He is one who is abstemious, he there.” At that she goes out again, 
and gone out (she) makes him fall asleep{?|. She seelks eagerly, (finds) 
the bones of a dead man.@” She comes in again (with) frozen vege- 
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