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Then I said: For those things which my stepfather at last has 
betrayed I have felt ashamed. I had thought, to be sure, I should 
have performed spirit-raising; also, why ever did he disclose it? 
Purposely I withdrew{?| although I wanted to learn angakok skill; 
purposely I kept it secret, my angakok wisdom, as I did not care 
to lose it. I thought, to be sure, I should have flown both below 
(to the deep sea) and above (to the heavens). 
‚Also I (like the others), (when) it was night, I lay down on my 
back. I began to sleep. I sank, sank down into the interior of the 
earth.“ Two persons appeared to ше], the one I should have for 
assistant spirit placed himself under me[?|.“) I sank down into 
the interior of the earth. Thereupon they spoke, they addressed 
me solemnly: “Will you go out a little in the sea to the poor 
departed?” — I said: “How shall I behave? Let me accompany 
you.” (5) 
Then I set off (and) acted thus, out there, down [chanting]: “Let 
me sink right down into the deep!” *“@” The boundary of the ocean 
and the boundary of the earth (the horizon), we reached that. & 
I said: “Through where (which way) shall we go?” — My companion 
answered me: “This way you shall go. Along the boundary of the soft 
[the зеа].” 9— He put his hand in [searching down along his hip] (and) 
drew forth (a thing) which was so long [she shows the length of her 
forearm], a quite black (thing), with which he began to make a boun- 
dary. © Thereupon it (the “зоЁ”) was diminished. I skipped across, I 
followed them there eastward. We set off down there to the deep sea, 
we wandered, we wandered, we wandered, we wandered. ©!) My younger 
and elder brothers who had died earlier — I should see them! I ceased 
to weep.©?) I then ascended through the interior of the ocean, there 
I saw a great many tents (of the dead). The other, his attendant, 
addressed me: “Remain here! he will procure you the spirits(?). If 
you (afterwards) begin to summon the spirits (by means of the drum),* 
then you will be able again to get out there (?). 6% Now, then, wait 
here! I (and you) out there we two shall move. We must tread [or 
tramp] it flat. Your elder (and) your younger brothers we shall go 
and talk with them.” ©) — Then I began to await, as (while) from 
its (the height’s) upper part they out there descended to the place. 
Then ‘they’ |we|* went upwards; three together they came, my elder 
brother was with them.®® Then I said: “How was it that you stayed 
away?” — “I capsized” (he said).— Also I (then said): “Alack !” 69 — 
I stuck my arm down in the neck opening of his anorak, I touched 
his upper arm’s amulets.®® I said: “Ah, yes! How was it? I had 
thought to become an angakok. Certainly if, all the same, I had be- 
come an angakok I should have been able to visit you. Heigh-ho! It 
would have been nice to ‘fly through the air’.”©) — “Indeed,” then 
said my brother. “Then it was really I you longed for, like me you 
should have summoned spirits, you should have been a real anga- 
kok. If one has oneself become a real angakok one should be able to 
fly (through the air). ©—I said again: “How injudicious I was, that 
I did not become a fully trained angakok,” I said. “Your namesake, 
my stepfather, .... my angakok knowledge ended in nothing on ac- 
count of his importunity ...[?|” *© because your namesake mentioned 
