And sitting up there, it said quite clearly:

"This, I think, must be that southern man, who has come far from a
place in the south to hear a guillemot."

And the bird had hardly spoken, when he who was guide saw that the man
from the south had fallen forward on his face. And when he lifted him
up, that man was dead, having died of fright at hearing the bird speak.

Then seeing there was no other thing to be done, he covered up the
body at the foot of the cliff below the guillemot's nest, and went
home. And told the others of his place that he had covered him there
below the guillemot's nest because he was dead. And the umiak and
its crew of women stayed there, and wintered in that place.

Next summer, when they were making ready to go southward again, they
had no man to go with them. But on the way that wifeless man procured
food for them by catching fish, and when he had caught enough to fill
a pot, he rowed in with his catch.

And in this way he led them southward. When they came to their own
country, they had grown so fond of him that they would not let him
go northward again. And so that wifeless man took a wife from among
those women, because they would not let him go away to the north.

It is said that the skeleton of that wifeless man lies there in the
south to this day.

KANAGSSUAQ

Kanagssuaq, men say, went out from his own place to live on a little
island, and there took to wife the only sister of many brothers. And
while he lived there with her, it happened once that the cold became so
great that the sea between the islands was icebound, and they could no
longer go out hunting. At last they had used up their store of food,
and when that store of food was used up, and none of them could go
out hunting, they all remained lying down from hunger and weakness.

Once, when there was open water to the south, where they often caught
seal, Kanagssuaq took his kayak on his head and went out hunting. He
rowed out in a northerly wind, with snow falling, and a heavy sea. And
soon he came upon a number of black seal. He rowed towards them, to
get within striking distance, but struck only a little fjord seal,
which came up between him and the others. This one was easier to cut
up, he said.

Now when he had got this seal, he took his kayak on his head again
and went home across the ice. And his house-fellows shouted for joy
when they saw the little creature he sent sliding in. Next day he
went out a