hey did at that time.
And now one day they had sent their bird arrows showering down among
the birds, and were busy placing the killed ones together in the
kayaks. And then suddenly a kayak came in sight on the sunny side. And
when that stranger came nearer, they looked eagerly to see who it might
be. And when Kiliteraq came nearer--for it was Kiliteraq who came--he
looked round among the kayaks, and when he saw that Kanagssuaq was
among them, he thrust his way through and came close up to him, and
stuck his paddle in between the thongs on Kanagssuaq's kayak, and then
loosened the skin over the opening of his own kayak, and put his hand
in behind, and drew out a splendid tow-line made of walrus hide and
beautifully worked with many beads of walrus tooth. And a second time
he put in his hand, and took out now a piece of bearskin fashioned to
the seat of a kayak. And these things he gave to Kanagssuaq, and said:
"Once in the spring, when I could not make my tow-line fast to a seal,
you helped me, and made it fast. Here is that which shall thank you
for that service."
And then he rowed away.
Note.--The particular sources of the various legends are as follows:
Polar Eskimo, Smith Sound-- Page
The two Friends who set off to travel round the world 15
The coming of Men, a long, long while ago 16
The woman who had a bear as a foster-son 40
The great bear 81
The man who became a star 82
The woman with the iron tail 83
How the fog came 84
The man who avenged the widows 86
The man who went out to search for his son 88
Atungait, who went a-wandering 90
Kumagdlak and the living arrows 93
The giant dog 95
The Inland-dwellers of Etah 97
The man who stabbed his wife in the leg 98
The soul that lived in the bodies of all beasts 100
Papik, who killed his wife's brother 104
Patussorssuaq, who killed his uncle 107
The men who changed wives 109
Artuk, who did all things forbidden
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