had done this long enough, he said:

"Now swim back to land, but keep under water as much as you can."

The son dived down, but it was a long time before he came up again. And
now his father was greatly afraid. But at last the boy came up,
a long way off. And then he rowed up to where he was, and laid one
hand on his head, and said:

"Clever diver, clever diver, dear little clever one."

And then he sniffed.

And a second time he said to him:

"Now swim under water a very long way this time."

So he dived down, and his father rowed forward all the time, to come
to the place where he should rise, and feeling already afraid. His
face moved as if he were beginning to cry, and he said:

"If only the sharks have not found him!" And he had just begun to
cry when his son came up again. And then they went in to land, and
the boy did not dive any more that day.

So clever had he now become.

And one day his father did not come back from his hunting. This was
because of his enemies, who had killed him. Evening came, and next
morning there was a kayak from the north. When it came in to the shore,
the boy went down and said:

"To-morrow the many brothers will come to kill you all."

And the kayak turned at once and went back without coming on
shore. Night passed and morning came. And in the morning when the
boy awoke, he went to look out, and again, and many times. Once when
he came out he saw many kayaks appearing from the northward. Then he
went in and said to his mother:

"Now many kayaks are coming, to kill us all."

"Then put on your swimming dress," said his mother.

And he did so, and went down to the shore, and did not stop until he
was quite close to the water. When the kayaks then saw him, they all
rowed towards him, and said:

"He has fallen into the water."

When they came to the place where he had fallen in, they all began
looking about for him, and while they were doing this, he came up
just in front of the bone shoeing on the nose of one of the kayaks
which lay quite away from the rest. When they spied him, each tried
to outdo the others, and cried:

"Here he is!"

But then he dived down again. And this he continued to do. And in
this manner he led all those kayaks out to the open sea, and when
they had come a great way out, they sighted an iceberg which had run
aground. When Atarssuaq's son came to this, he climbed up, by sticking
his hands into the ice. And up above were two large pieces. A