gan to say to one another:

"This must be the first time there have been so many black seal here
in our country; every time he goes hunting he catches two seal."

At last one of the big hunters went out hunting with him. They fixed
the heads to their harpoons, and when they had come a little way out
from land, Qujavarssuk stopped. Then when the other had gone a little
distance from him, he turned, and saw that Qujavarssuk had already
struck one seal. Then he rowed towards him, but when he came up, it was
already killed. So he left him again for a little while, and when he
turned, Qujavarssuk had again struck. Then Qujavarssuk rowed home. And
the other stayed out the whole day, but did not see a single seal.

When Qujavarssuk had thus continued as a great hunter, his mother
said to him at last that he should marry. He gave her no answer,
and therefore she began to look about herself for a girl for him to
marry, but it was her wish that the girl might be a great glutton, so
that there might not be too much lost of all that meat. And she began
to ask all the unmarried women to come and visit her. And because of
this there came one day a young woman who was not very beautiful. And
this one she liked very much, for that she was a clever eater, and
having regard to this, she chose her out as the one her son should
marry. One day she said to her son:

"That woman is the one you must have."

And her son obeyed her, as was his custom.

Every day after their marriage, the strongest man in Amerdloq called
in at the window:

"Qujavarssuk! Let us see which of us can first get a bladder float
for hunting the whale."

Qujavarssuk made no answer, as was his custom, but the old man said
to him:

"We use only speckled skin for whales. And they are now at this time
in the mouth of the river."

After this, they went to rest.

Qujavarssuk slept, and awoke, and got up, and went away to the
north. And when he had gone a little way to the north, he came to the
mouth of a small fjord. He looked round and saw a speckled seal that
had come up to breathe. When it went down again, he rowed up on the
landward side of it, and fixed the head and line to his harpoon. When
it came up again to breathe, he rowed to where it was, and harpooned
it, and after this, he at once rowed home with it.

The old man made the skin ready, and hung it up behind the house. But
while it was hanging there, there came very often a noise as from the
bladder