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��stones. Then he went back and sat ck vvn, pulling his hood down as a sign of mourning. Meanwhile his wife arose again, and began walking about the tent in which her husband was. Then he took his spear and killed her. Thereupon a great many geese came, which he also killed, but two (the two boys?) went away.

The following is added to one version : Irqayudlung had a daugh- ter. Some people went to get her, but she did not want to marry, and ran away. She stumbled, however, and fell, and became a great many auks and gulls.

VIII. QAUTIPALUNG.

There was a woman named Qautipalung, who had an unmarried daughter. One day some people came in a boat to get this daugh- ter to be wife to one of them. But when the girl saw the suitor, she said to her mother, " He is much too old ; don't let him have me ! " When the man heard that his suit was rejected, he said that he would go away, but that the girl would be turned to stone. Qau- tipalung now was frightened and asked him to stay, but he refused and went on his way. "The boat is going away," Qautipalung said to her daughter, and the girl made herself ready to go out-doors. When she got out-doors the boat was already some distance away, and she began to run after it over the land to catch up with it. But as she ran her feet turned to stone, so that she fell down on her face, and the rest of her body turned to earth. As she fell, the bag she had in her hand was spilled, and the contents, falling out, turned into small auks, that flew away, crying tuu, tun, tuu.

IX. THE ORIGIN OF THE BEAR.

A sealskin fat-bag became a bear, when there were no bears at all. 1

X. THE ORIGIN OF THE SNOW-BUNTING AND THE PTARMIGAN.

The snow-bunting and the partridge were once persons. Then they turned into birds, flying from the land, and crying.

XI. NAULAXSSAQTON. 2

A seal-hunter was watching for a seal at its blow-hole near Igluluaxssuin. He was not far from the land, and on shore some children were playing at a cliff, in a large crack in the rocks. The seal-hunter, fearing their noise would frighten his seal, said to them, " Make less noise." They, however, did not hear him, and con-

1 In Baffin Land the angakoq-language word for nanuq, bear,, is uxsureling, (having fat, from uxsuq, fat).

2 Cf., for the same story, Rink, T. and T. p. 232 ; Boas, p. 639 ; Turner, p. 262.

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