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silammut [kind of edible herb]. Isn’t there anything down there?” 49 — 
“Here is a great quantity of dwarf lumpfish. Isn’t there anything up 
there, kakaka?” — “Here is a great quantity of juniper shrub, kaka- 
kaka. Isn’t there anything down there?” 0 — “Here is a great quantity 
of iwyiwyiwät [kind of fish}, kakakaka. Isn’t there anything up there?” 
— “Here is a great quantity of kindling moss, kakakaka. Is there not 
anything down there?” D —“Here is a great quantity of snails, kaka- 
kaka. Isn't there anything up there?” — “Here is thick lamp-wick moss, 
a great quantity of lamp-wick moss, kakakaka. Isn’t there anything 
down?” 22) “Here is a great quantity of refuse and trash,” kakakaka. 
Isn’t there anything up Шеге?” — “Here is a great quantity of crow- 
berry heather, kakaka. Isn’t there anything down there?’ (23) — “Here 
are great bearded seals, the same, you know, as the ‘big seals’, baby 
common seals, half-grown common seals, almost and fully grown 
common seals, Greenland seals, two and three year old Greenland 
seals, white whales, walruses, cdcsaraliks.” 2# 
Neemilah! I heard again. I fled, shaking and trembling, — that 
horrid Neemilah! © 
After I had fled, I again ascended another day. I set eye ona 
monster.) I then let him teach me. I said: “How (i. e. what) will 
you teach me?” 7) — “If you begin to have a husband, the expedients 
to get him to die.” — “How? haa, if you would mention (them) !” (28) 
— “If you begin to have a husband, you shall cut off (some) of his 
hair, with a hair-cutting knife.* When he starts off in his kaiak you 
must throw [the cut hair] (after him) from the place where he left 
(the shore).© If his hair cannot be cut off, (then) the hairs of a 
dead dog (to be placed ‘between [?]) the soles of your husband’s ka- 
miks. @ These dog-hairs, if you take them round ‘here’ {namely 
round the neck and shoulders] (you shall place them) between the 
hairs of his boot-sole.“!) If you place them there he will be robbed 
of his soul. When he has been robbed of his soul, he will а1е.* (2) 
Also in the joinings of the kaiak cover you shall place, likewise as 
in his boot-soles, you shall place in (the joinings of) the side laths * 
of his kaiak expedients to make him be robbed of his soul.” — 
Then this (spirit) left me. ©” 
Another day I again ascended. I got to see but only very dimly * 
some small Taarajuätsiags who gave me tuition (as follows): 69 — 
“When you begin to summon your spirits, those who are in (the aerie 
of) the ‘falcon’, all, you must exert yourself to get to see them.» 
When you have seen them all, you will know how to begin to summon 
spirits with the drum. ‘You shall become able to do everything.” CO _ 
My stepfather betrayed me, (saying): “She teaches herself the 
practice of angakokism.” %9 — Then I ceased to search for visions (in 
solitude), before I bore him.“® When, now, Oottuayne {her first-born 
son] had a narrow escape from death (my stepfather said:) “What 
is it they say, said he, about your efforts to become an angakok ? 
He narrowly avoided death, didn’t he? (because) I betrayed them, 
he [Oottuanne] recovered.’ (49 
Thereupon I ceased to search for the visions, although, other- 
wise, I should have liked to wander around [inland]. I ceased to 
search for the visions, like people who are ashamed of themselves, 
although I had kept (my searching for) them secret.“ 
