and wandered forth. And she found little children, and
dressed them in the clothes, and brought them home.

And in this way men grew to be many.

And being now so many, they desired to have dogs. So a man went out
with a dog leash in his hand, and began to stamp on the ground, crying
"Hok--hok--hok!" Then the dogs came hurrying out from the hummocks,
and shook themselves violently, for their coats were full of sand. Thus
men found dogs.

But then children began to be born, and men grew to be very many on the
earth. They knew nothing of death in those days, a long, long time ago,
and grew to be very old. At last they could not walk, but went blind,
and could not lie down.

Neither did they know the sun, but lived in the dark. No day ever
dawned. Only inside their houses was there ever light, and they burned
water in their lamps, for in those days water would burn.

But these men who did not know how to die, they grew to be too many,
and crowded the earth. And then there came a mighty flood from the
sea. Many were drowned, and men grew fewer. We can still see marks
of that great flood, on the high hill-tops, where mussel shells may
often be found.

And now that men had begun to be fewer, two old women began to
speak thus:

"Better to be without day, if thus we may be without death," said
the one.

"No; let us have both light and death," said the other.

And when the old woman had spoken these words, it was as she had
wished. Light came, and death.

It is said, that when the first man died, others covered up the body
with stones. But the body came back again, not knowing rightly how to
die. It stuck out its head from the bench, and tried to get up. But
an old woman thrust it back, and said:

"We have much to carry, and our sledges are small."

For they were about to set out on a hunting journey. And so the dead
one was forced to go back to the mound of stones.

And now, after men had got light on their earth, they were able
to go on journeys, and to hunt, and no longer needed to eat of the
earth. And with death came also the sun, moon and stars.

For when men die, they go up into the sky and become brightly shining
things there.

NUKUNGUASIK, WHO ESCAPED FROM THE TUPILAK [1]

Nukunguasik, it is said, had land in a place with many brothers. When
the brothers made a catch, they gave him meat for the pot; he himself
had no wife.

One day he rowed northward in his kayak, and suddenly he took