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tables preserved in blubber. “These things here you should eat!” 
He was just about to eat them (when he stopped). “Why are these 
then so slimy?’ 4% “They are wet, and slimy from tried-out human 
flesh.“ “I must not eat that kind of thing.” ?%— He runs out to go 
into the kaiak © (and) at once, quickly, gets possession of it again. 3) 
When he has reached home he says:®@) “That beastly Koopajeeq 
nearly bewitched me. Early to-morrow I will visit her again.” — 
“She will bewitch you to death. — How he is drawn to her!” CO Again 
he went off to her. “Kaiak, hello, kaiak! Come here!” He approaches. 
— “Get out of it!” — “I will not get out of it, for you it was who 
nearly bewitched me yesterday.” 3) — “It was not I who bewitched 
you, (but) that little one up there (on my back) nearly bewitched 
you. 6) — Look there, % the child in the hood (amaut) !” — “That's 
good, the little creature.” — “Look there the child in the hood!” She 
drew it out, threw stones at it so that it died, poor thing.” Its 
mother cut it up and made a new blubber bag for herself from it. 
C. 
“Hello kaiak, approach!” He approaches.© “Get out of it!” He 
gets out.® Draw your kaiak up on the shore above the high water 
mark !” — “As soon as it is high tide I will place my kaiak on the 
shore above the high water mark (when the tide turns in upon the 
land). — “Come up!” He comes up.® “Come in.” He comes in.® 
“Take off your outer clothing, (the outer anorak, outer boots and 
trousers)!” He removes his outer clothing. ® “Hang up the anorak!” ® 
— “There will I place it all, [the outer clothing]. ©) — “How is he 
over there in the east, shall he not have something (to eat)?” 0 — 
She begins to scrape a wooden plate clean.” Thereupon she goes 
out (and comes in) a large portion crow-berries. 9 “These here, I 
must not eat, (I abstain from Фет)” — “He there in the east (east 
side of the room) is abstemious” > [housemates гетагК]. — Then she 
goes out again (and comes in)“® frozen plants preserved in blubber. 
“Do you eat these?” — “Why are they so wet and slimy?” — “Because 
they are preserved in tried-out human fat. That is why they are wet 
and slimy.” 4 — Then he said: “From that kind of disgusting thing 
I abstain, disgusting thing.” © — With that he departed towards 
home. “9 — “They, up there, (the wretched beings inland) are wont 
to slaughter them” (they who disappeared earlier) [remark of the house- 
mates].@) — The next day he visited them again. 9 Again he began 
to be addressed. 2» "Kajak, hello, hello, hello! Approach!” He ap- 
proaches. € “Get out of the kaiak !”— “(No) it was you who bewitched 
me yesterday.” ©?) — “It was that one up there (on my back) who be- 
witched you.®® Look at the little one there in the hood, the little 
troll.” — Thereupon she killed it,®” then she cooked it and ate it.©® 
D. 
Не was about to go into the fjord. @ — “Hello you little kaiak, 
approach !”— He approaches ®—“‘Get out (of the kaiak)!” He gets out.© 
He goes in. He takes off his clothes.” “Hang up the anorak!” & — 
“How is it, he over there in the east—shall he not have something 
