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side and tumbled down, went up again and again tumbled down. ®) 
Down there, when he had come down, he seated himself in his kaiak 
and rowed off.” — “Eh, eh, eh!” [the danger-signal is heard.) Some- 
one cried, one who has nearly killed himself, destroyed himself by 
breaking all his bones.® He was on his way home; people said: 
“Qasiattak is coming, shrieking aloud. What is the matter with him ?” 
— Qasiättak told: “An iceberg nearly burst asunder on me!” — Qasi- 
ätta’s housemates said: “Qasiätta, were you indeed nearly killed?” He 
answered: “Yes, I was almost dead.” ©) — When they who had been 
out picking berries came home, the housemates told them: “An ice- 
berg burst asunder on top of Qasidttak.’"° The berry-pickers said: 
“Qasiättak (himself) destroyed his kaiak.” One asked them: “Did 
you see it?” “We saw him hurl his kaiak against a great stone and 
fill it with pieces of ice. After he had climbed up a steep mountain- 
side he tumbled down.” — “You have led atrociously, Qasiättak,” 
(said his wife). He frightened his wife. Ashamed of having frightened 
his wife, he sang drum-songs. (D 
Now Qasiättak lay dying, then his countrymen (began to believe 
in him), wished that he might soon recover (and kept up their be- 
lief in him). — They heard that the little son belonging to some 
other people (far away) was dead. When Qasiättak heard this, he car- 
ved a doll, made a child for his wife. Qasiätta went off on a visit, 
and when he reached the place where the visit was to be made, he 
said:"*) “My wife has chosen your little child’s name (for hers); she 
has given the name to our newborn child.” The old man said: “Thanks 
be to her, that was kindly done by her.” Qasiätta said: “You must be 
sure to come and see your little child’s namesake!” 4% They (he) gave 
him [as gifts on account of the name] meat and a knife and a hide. 
Qasiätta said: “She shall have that for a new anorak (coat).” — 
When Qasiätta came home one of his housemates said: “From whom 
do those things come?” Qasiätta answered: “From the eldest (parents) 
among our fjord-neighbors — (they are) my name-gifts.” 49 The follow- 
ing day when the fjord- -neighbor’s eldest arrived, he seule Betzmies See 
your newborn child!” Then they showed it to him. When the visitor 
saw it he began to weep because it was not a real human being. 9 
— When he had departed Qasiatta’s wife turned to him: “Now you 
have been lying as usual.” Qasiätta frightened his wife. — Qasiättak 
sang a drum-contest song, when he was reminded of the fact that 
he had lied and said he had a child.“® The end. 
B. 
Qasiätta, the atrocious liar, who could not catch seals. When 
the others rowed out. — “Of course, Г row out, too.” — so he fin- 
ally rowed out, even he. When he came home he said: “What was 
that big little one I saw?” — His wife answered: “A big little seal?” 
— Qasiätta said: “A seal, what? Was it a seal?’ 4 Another day, 
when he had been out he said again: “Yes, what big little one do 
you think? A big little dog which swam?” His wife said: „How 
silly he is: Suppose it had been a big little bear?” — “Right before 
these [my eyes] here it got away from me (and) how dreadfully 
it growled!” His wife said: “It must surely have been a big little 
