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them? up from his kaiak. A strange woman lay beside my husband. 
I ооо “Sine tre, winy 1S sine зо Close, TOO Closey — №5 
your future co-wife.” & — I said: “For the present I will not have any 
co-wife.” — Then she moved still closer, the beast.“ — “You are a 
traitor!“ Now I understand why I, for many nights, continually dreamed 
that you came here. Oh!” She went out. He followed again after her. 
When I showed the desire to go in my husband continually kicked 
me away from him(?). I went out again and again she came over 
to him. She accompanied him..... I left them. I said (to myself): 
“Wonder whether he is about to separate from me?” ..... Marhraa 
came again: I snatched the white whale (he carried). — How strange! 
I was out there with the dead in the underworld, — because I dreamed, 
— I had begun to eat (of) it. So I said: “Му step-mother ) gave 
it to me,” and further, “Marhraag, will you have it?” Although I 
would give him it, he, however, would not accept it. — At last 
Marhraa began in a small way to prepare to depart, only through 
the air, he whirled round just like the air, while he flew and sang 
with aja-refrains loud and clear. I said: “Marhraa is coming at full 
speed”, while I still only glimpsed him whirling through the air." 
When I came 11,8) Marhraa was dizzy.“ How surprising! It was be- 
cause he had been deprived of his soul that I had seen him in the 
underworld. 9 
Notes. — © Namely that which the husband had requested to have up, 
his travelling clothes or other things from the kaiak. — * ©) awillä:csakaje'. — 
(3) gat-erqit:iwakaje tarpon. — 4) i®tin ke'’tuikaje putin (cf. WGr. kiL‘uiwoq). — 
(5) uwima isiminen”’orpara < isüm'ip a ? — ©) nukarma < nukag, probably 
= Nukaag the name of her step-mother. — (7) This must be as seen from Tee- 
miartissaq’s sleeping-place, when she comes to consciousness of being there. 
— (8) “When I (i. e. my soul) came in” namely into the body, or merely into 
the hut (or tent). — ©) o:-tan-iwon. — (0) That she has seen him in the under- 
world proves to her that his soul has been stolen away: therefore she finds 
him dizzy when she returns from the world of dreams to the hut. 
