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it is said. On the undivided (plane without cracks?) the couple (of 
inland dwellers)’ vanished into nothing.’ (9 Inwards, he said, he had 
only to struggle up, in order to reach his goal. 4 The angakok pupil 
should get up to the twofold enormous and aggressive bear apper- 
taining to the inland ice; the terribly growling (bear) which has ‘a 
peculiar face.’ 0 Then they (the two) said: “Leap over those hideous 
things, leap over them, leap over them!” He replied: “I am very 
afraid of them, the hideous things there.” ©? Again he said: “I 
thought you were an angakok pupil, leap over them. You who will 
soon begin to conjure your spirits shall become invincible.” @ Then 
he made him draw near up there. Running away, and at last getting 
round south of him [?] they passed him by, far up to the north, 
in the direction of the great ugly darkness on the interior of the 
inland ice. Down there in the south, along the other way, he 
slipped out again. Because he flew like a spirit through the air he 
could not fall into the sea. 
(4) After this he went home. Next day they arose. The angakok 
pupils are accustomed to undergo their training in secret. Again 
they set out for the interior. © Among the Jjaaijuätsiags he visited a 
house with three house-fellows. (9) In the upper end (lives) a married 
woman, in the lower end (lives) the man-catcher, who catches people 
of this (our own) kind— one visits her ‘lying on one’s back’ [in trance]. 
@) In the centre lives Qittusuinnag*, ‘she who always twines.’* The 
uppers husband is a kaiak rower, but he catches only foxes and 
ptarmigan, things killed by throwing stones|?] ©) In the language 
of the Eeajuätsaat people these (are called) ‘the ones he ‘brings to 
motion’ [he pursues Шет?]. 29 The lower’s (man-catcher) food is the 
upper bone of the fox’s foreleg. ©) She snatched at (him?). The 
said Qitussuinnaq turned towards him and said: “Have you come 
hither to stay here?” © “I shall not remain here, as I am an an- 
зако pupil, one who moves always further.” (Otherwise she would 
have eaten him). — © “She wants you to stay here”, said another, 
she acted thus [the narrator put his one hand to his mouth whispering]. 
(33) “My lower neighbour’s husband (is) completely mad*, hurry 
over to him” |?] ** © — “It is because the young girl who is on the 
side-platform has again begun to mend (her kamiks) |?], she is de- 
ranged, she has risen.” © Qittisuinnaq said: “Let him down there 
make her rise ‘for the first time’!” ©? She took off her kamik |?]. 
A sinew thread so long! She began to sew it {her kamik]. ©” The 
Eeajuätsiag blew on it: wfu:! From below — the young girl saw 
it — suddenly one emerged, it was his great oracular spirit. * ‘It being 
(there) as with us, he also had trained for angakok|. He ‘summoned’ 
it for sewing these petty things *. © Qittisuinnaq said: “Look about 
you!” said she, “she* appears.” — % He began to go out, the 
angakok pupil while she up there now and again appeared: 
“Hurry, descend, she is snatching at you!” “ Again they (the 
two) led the pupil by the hand. He who had come in sight (the 
spirit which appeared) said: “) “It is the great man-catcher (who 
is abroad) after people, the people of the coast.” — “If I could get 
to see you!” — “) The angakok pupil said: “She says that she 
wants to look for ше.” “*) — “She shall not set eyes on you !”.... 
