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* (27) tat-ine must, in this case denote the spot on the body to which the 
story-teller points (not the plural of taleq ‘arm’), f. inst. his head. **{un'e‘p'a 
seems to be a special EGr. form (< * tuk), the suffix is perhaps = WGr. -piup'a 
‘deprives him (it) of something’ (“he warded off the blow’ ?). 
(35) Probably instead of nan'ipoq ‘the disease has become worse’ ог = 
nayip'oq ‘sinks down. 
ly) No. 225. Qilaatuaq, his son and his great brother-in-law. 
(bear or walrus), after which they arrive at an unknown village in the guise 
of bears, but speaking a human language and soon revealing themselves as 
real human beings. 
The name, Qilaatuaq, is not entirely explainable; it may perhaps have 
some connection with gilaaq ‘the palate’ (possibly referring to the “thirst” 
in the beginning of the tale, cf. 4Пар`о4 ‘is very thirsty, is dead or nearly half 
dead from thirst’); again it may be derived from qila'?t ‘a drum’, and mean 
Big Drum; at all events this, like all the other names given to heroes is 
quite peculiar and unusual. 
A. 
Thereupon, it is told, they went off on their sleds, they sledged 
out (on the ocean) eastwards to the front (the edge of the sea ice). 
A storm from the shore overtook them. They crawled out on an 
iceberg (and) on the iceberg they built a snow-hut. ® They began 
(from hunger) to consume their dogs, ate them all up. After they 
had eaten them they began to thirst. ® (Qilaatuaq’s) his son said: 
“The great mighty Qilaatuaq is learned in magic arts.” Qilaatuag 
made по sound.® His son spoke again: “The mighty Qilaatuaq is 
learned in magic arts.” He was silent again.“ The great thumping 
fellow of a brother-in-law said: “The great mighty Qilaatuaq is 
learned in magic arts.” Qilaatuaq spoke: “Yes, I am learned in magic 
arts on a crooked dipper.” © 
Qilaatuag made (now) two figures of human beings: one he 
made like a married man who has got a (mature or old) wife; the 
other like a married man who has got a little (young) wife; the first 
with his hair cut short, the last with his hair uncut. On the upper 
part of the iceberg he made a hollow (and) began (there) to recite 
a spell over the crooked dipper. He said to his brother-in-law: “If 
that (doll) is carved so, it will soon exchange its wife with the other.” 
Then he went to bed.® The next day he went there; then it had 
made an exchange of wives in the hollow on the top of the iceberg. ©? 
While he fastened his boot-strings, his great wicked son drank (the 
water in the hollow) and it became empty." Qilaatuaq said to his son: 
“I should have drunk first, had it (the water) not been exhausted 
(disappeared).”“!)— In another place he again made a hollow (and) 
the following day he went there. Now how much water there was 
again!” “Now my great thumping fellow of a brother-in-law will 
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