nd when
he came close to the iceberg, he heard those in the kayaks saying
among themselves:

"We can cut steps in the ice, and climb up to him."

And they began cutting steps in the iceberg, and at last the ice pick
of the foremost came up over the edge. But now the boy took one of the
great pieces of ice and threw it down upon them as they crawled up,
so that it sent them all down again as it fell. And again he heard
them say:

"It would be very foolish not to kill him. Let us climb up, and try
to reach him this time."

And then they began crawling up one after another. But now the boy
began as before, shifting the great piece of ice. And he waited until
the head of the foremost one came up, and then he let it fall. And
this time he also killed all those who had climbed on to the iceberg,
after he had so lured them on to follow him.

But the others now turned back, and said:

"He will kill us all if we do not go."

And now the boy jumped down from the iceberg and swam to the kayaks
and began tugging at their paddles, so that they turned over. But
the men righted themselves again with their throwing sticks. And at
last he was forced to hold them down himself under water till they
drowned. And soon there were left no more of all those many kayaks,
save only one. And when he looked closer, he saw that the man had no
weapon but a stick for killing fish. And he rowed weeping in towards
land, that man with no weapon but a stick. Then the boy pulled the
paddle away from him, and he cried very much at that. Then he began
paddling with his hands. But the boy gripped his hands from below,
and then the man began crying furiously, and dared no longer put his
hands in the water at all. And weeping very greatly he said:

"It is ill for me that ever I came out on this errand, for it is
plain that I am to be killed."

The boy looked at him a little. And then said:

"You I will not kill. You may go home again." And he gave him back
his paddle, and said to him as he was rowing away:

"Tell those of your place never to come out again thinking to kill
us. For if they do not one of them will return alive."

Then Atarssuaq's son went home. And for some time he waited, thinking
that more enemies might come. But none ever came against them after
that time.

PUAGSSUAQ

There was once a wifeless man who always went out hunting ptarmigan. It
became his custom always to go out hunting ptarmigan every day.

And whe