n he was out one day, hunting ptarmigan as was his custom,
he came to a place whence he could see out over a rocky valley. And
it looked a good place to go. And he went there.

But before he had come to the bottom of the valley, he caught sight
of something that looked like a stone. And when he could see quite
clearly that it was not a stone at all, he went up to it. He walked
and walked, and came to it at last.

Then he looked in, and saw an old couple sitting alone in there. And
when he had seen this, he crawled very silently in through the passage
way. And having come inside, he looked first a long time at them,
and then he gave a little whistle. But nothing happened when he did
so, and therefore he whistled a second time. And this time they heard
the whistle, and the man nudged his wife and said:

"You, Puagssuaq, you can talk with the spirits. Take counsel with
them now."

When he had said this, the wifeless man whistled again. And at this
whistling, the man looked at his wife again and said earnestly:

"Listen! It sounds as if that might be the voice of a shore-dweller;
one who catches miserable fish."

And now the wifeless man saw that the old one's wife was letting down
her hair. And this was because she was now about to ask counsel of
the spirits.

And he was now about to look at them again, when he saw that the
passage way about him was beginning to close up. And it was already
nearly closed up. But then it opened again of itself. Then the wifeless
man thought only of coming out again from that place, and when the
passage way again opened, he slipped out. And then he began running
as fast as he could.

For a long time he ran on, with the thought that some one would surely
come after him. But at last he came up the hillside, without having
been pursued at all.

And when he came home, he told what had happened.

Here ends this story.

TUNGUJULUK AND SAUNIKOQ

Tungujuluk and Saunikoq were men from one village. And both were
wizards. When they heard a spirit calling, one would change into a
bear, and the other into a walrus.

Tungujuluk had a son, but Saunikoq had no children.

As soon as his son was old enough, Tungujuluk taught him to paddle a
kayak. At this the other, Saunikoq, grew jealous, and began planning
evil.

One morning when he awoke, he went out hunting seal as usual. He had
been out some time, when he went up to an island, and called for
his bearskin. When it came, he