e place and rowed round it, and there was
nothing to be seen.

Then the others said:

"Qasiagssaq is lying as usual. Let us kill him."

But he answered:

"Wait a little; let us first make sure that it is a lie, and if you
do not see it, you may kill me."

And again they asked:

"Where is it?"

"Yes ... where was it now ... over there beyond that little ness."

And now they had almost reached the base of that great fjord, and
again they rounded a little ness farther in, and there was nothing
to be seen. Therefore they said:

"He is only a trouble to us all: let us kill him."

And at last they did as they had said, and killed him.

THE EAGLE AND THE WHALE

In a certain village there lived many brothers. And they had two
sisters, both of an age to marry, and often urged them to take
husbands, but they would not. At last one of the men said:

"What sort of a husband do you want, then? An eagle, perhaps? Very
well, an eagle you shall have."

This he said to the one. And to the other he said:

"And you perhaps would like a whale? Well, a whale you shall have."

And then suddenly a great eagle came in sight, and it swooped down on
the young girl and flew off with her to a high ledge of rock. And a
whale also came in sight, and carried off the other sister, carrying
her likewise to a ledge of rock.

After that the eagle and the girl lived together on a ledge of rock
far up a high steep cliff. The eagle flew out over the sea to hunt,
and while he was away, his wife would busy herself plaiting sinews
for a line wherewith to lower herself down the rock. And while she
was busied with that work, the eagle would sometimes appear, with a
walrus in one claw and a narwhal in the other.

One day she tried the line, with which she was to lower herself down;
it was too short. And so she plaited more.

But as time went on, the brothers began to long for their sister. And
they all set to work making crossbows.

And there was in that village a little homeless boy, who was so small
that he had not strength to draw a bow, but must get one of the others
to draw it for him every time he wanted to shoot. When they had made
all things ready, they went out to the place where their sister was,
and called to her from the foot of the cliff, telling her to lower
herself down. And this she did. As soon as her husband had gone out
hunting, she lowered herself down and reached her brothers.

Towards evening, the eag