n shooting down the
others, his wife handing him the arrows as he shot. The men from the
boats shot at him, but all their arrows flew wide. And his enemies
grew fewer and fewer, and at last they fled.

And now Kumagdlak took all the bodies down by the shore and plundered
them, taking their knives, and when the boats had got well out to sea,
he called up a great storm, so that all the others perished.

But the waves washed the bodies this way and that along the coast,
until the clothes were worn off them.

Here ends this story.

THE GIANT DOG

There was once a man who had a giant dog. It could swim in the sea, and
was so big that it could haul whale and narwhal to shore. The narwhal
it would hook on to its side teeth, and swim with them hanging there.

The man who owned it had cut holes in its jaws, and let in thongs
through those holes, so that he could make it turn to either side by
pulling at the thongs.

And when he and his wife desired to go journeying to any place,
they had only to mount on its back.

The man had long wished to have a son, but as none was born to him,
he gave his great dog the amulet which his son should have had. This
amulet was a knot of hard wood, and the dog was thus made hard to
resist the coming of death.

Once the dog ate a man, and then the owner of the dog was forced to
leave that place and take land elsewhere. And while he was living
in this new place, there came one day a kayak rowing in towards the
land, and the man hastened to take up his dog, lest it should eat the
stranger. He led it away far up into the hills, and gave it a great
bone, that it might have something to gnaw at, and thus be kept busy.

But one day the dog smelt out the stranger, and came down from the
hills, and then the man was forced to hide away the stranger and
his kayak in a far place, lest the dog should tear them in pieces,
for it was very fierce.

Now because the dog was so big and fierce, the man had many
enemies. And once a stranger came driving in a sledge with three dogs
as big as bears, to kill the giant dog. The man went out to meet that
sledge, and the dog followed behind him. The dog pretended to be afraid
at first, but then, when the stranger's dog set upon it in attack, it
turned against them, and crushed the skulls of all three in its teeth.

After a time, the man noticed that his giant dog would go off,
now and again, for long journeys in the hills, and would sometimes
re