she moved it so. And then she saw some men with long hair flying
towards the passage way. When she looked closer, she saw that it was
a host of black seal. And when very many of them had come in this
manner, she said:

"Now it is enough." And she put the lamp in its place. Then the old
woman looked over towards her, and said:

"When you come home, tell them that they must never more face towards
the sea when they empty their dirty vessels, for when they do so,
it all goes over me."

When at last the woman came out again, the big dog wagged his tail
kindly at her.

It was still night when Tugto's wife came home, and when she came in,
none of them had yet yawned or winked an eye. When she lit the lamp,
her face was fearfully scratched, and she told them this:

"You must not think that the ice will break up at once; it will not
break up until these sores are healed."

After a long time they began to heal slowly, and sometimes it might
happen that one or another cried in mockingly through the window:

"Now surely it is time the ice broke up and went out to sea, for that
which was to be done is surely done."

But at last her sores were healed. And one day a black cloud came up
in the south. Later in the evening, there was a mighty noise of the
wind, and the storm did not abate until it was growing light in the
morning. When it was quite light, and the people came out, the sea was
open and blue. A great number of birds were flying above the water, and
there were hosts of black seal everywhere. The kayaks were made ready
at once, and when they began to make them ready, Tugto's wife said:

"No one must hunt them yet; until five days are gone no one may
hunt them."

But before those days were gone, one of the young men went out
nevertheless to hunt. He tried with great efforts, but caught nothing
after all. Not until those days were gone did the witch-wife say:

"Now you may hunt them."

And now the men went out to sea to hunt the birds. And not until
they could bear no more on their kayaks did they row home again. But
then all those men had to give up their whole catch to Tugto's
house. Not until the second hunting were they permitted to keep any
for themselves.

Next day they went out to hunt for seal. They harpooned many, but
these also were given to Tugto and his wife. Of these also they kept
nothing for themselves until the second hunting.

Now when the ice was gone, then that old man we have told abo