my eyes? Hahaha!"
And he put on his spectacles again.

Then her brothers, who longed for their sister, came out one day
to visit her. And her husband being out hunting, they took her away
with them. The husband was greatly distressed when he came home and
found her gone, and thinking someone must have carried her off, he
set out in pursuit. He swung his wings with mighty force, and raised
a violent storm, for he was a great wizard.

When the storm came up, the boat began to take in water, and the wind
grew fiercer, as he doubled the beating of his wings. The waves rose
white with foam, and the boat was near turning over. And when those in
the boat began to suspect that the woman was the cause of the storm,
they took her up and cast her into the sea. She tried to grasp the side
of the boat, but then her grandfather sprang up and cut off her hand.

And so she was drowned. But at the bottom of the sea, she became
Nerrivik, the ruler over all the creatures in the sea. And when men
catch no seal, then the wizards go down to Nerrivik. Having but one
hand, she cannot comb her hair, and this they do for her, and she,
by way of thanks, sends seal and other creatures forth to men.

That is the story of the ruler of the sea. And men call her Nerrivik
[11] because she gives them food.

THE WIFE WHO LIED

Navaranapaluk, men say, came of a tribe of man-eaters, but when she
grew up, she was taken to wife by one of a tribe that did not eat men.

Once when she was going off on a visit to her own people, she put
mittens on her feet instead of boots. And this she did in order to
make it appear that her husband's people had dealt ill by her.

It was midwinter, and her kinsfolk pitied her greatly when they saw
her come to them thus. And they agreed to make war against the tribe
to which her husband belonged.

So they set out, and came to that village at a time when all the
men were away, and only the women at home; these they took and slew,
and only three escaped. One of them had covered herself with the skin
which she was dressing when they came, the second had hidden herself in
a box used for dog's meat, and the third had crept into a store shed.

When the men came home, they found all their womenfolk killed, and
at once they thought of Navaranapaluk, who had fled away. And they
were the more angered, that the slayers had hoisted the bodies of
the women on long poles, with the points stuck through them.

They fe