return. And while she stood there feeling great fear of her husband,
he came out from behind a rock, dragging a seal behind him.

Then he came forward and said:

"Where is our little son?"

"He vanished away from me this morning, after you had gone, when he
was playing kayak-man out in the passage."

And when she had said this, her husband answered:

"It is you, wicked old hag, who have killed him. And now I will
kill you."

To this his wife answered:

"Do not kill me yet, but wait a little, and first seek out one who
can ask counsel of the spirits."

And now the husband began eagerly to search for such a one. He came
home bringing wizards with him, and bade them try what they could do,
and when they could not find the child, he let them go without giving
them so much as a bite of meat.

And seeing that none of them could help him, he now sought for a
very clever finder of hidden things, and meeting such a one at last,
he took him home. Then he fastened a stick to his face, and made him
lie down on the bedplace on his back.

And now he worked away with him until the spirit came. And when this
had happened, the spirit finder declared:

"It would seem that spirits have here found a difficult task. He is
up in a place between two great cliffs, and two old inland folk are
looking after him."

Then they stopped calling spirits, and wandered away towards the
east. They walked and walked, and at last they sighted a lot of
houses. And when they came nearer, they saw the smoke coming out from
all the smoke holes. It was the heat from inside coming out so. And the
father looked in through a window, and saw that they were quarrelling
about his child, and the child was crying.

"Who is to look after him?"

So he heard them saying inside the house; each one was eager to have
the child. When the father saw this, he was very angry.

And the people inside asked the child:

"What would you like to eat?"

"No," said the child.

"Will you have seal meat?"

"No," said the child.

And there was nothing he cared to have. Therefore they asked him
at last:

"Do you want to go home very much?"

Angangujuk answered quickly: "Yes." And his father was very greatly
angered by now. And said to those with him:

"Try now to magic them to sleep."

And now the wizard began calling down a magic sleep upon those in the
hut, and one by one they sank to sleep and began to snore. And fewer
and fewer remained awake; at last