ter she had placed herself there, her husband was
heard approaching, weeping because he had lost his wife. He stayed
there with them, and in the evening, the brothers began singing songs
in mockery of him, and turning towards him also, they said:

"Men say that Imarasugssuaq eats his wives."

"Who has said that?"

"Misana has said that."

"I said it, and I ran away because you tried to kill me," said she
from behind the hangings.

And then the many brothers fell upon Imarasugssuaq and held him fast
that his wife might kill him; she took her knife, but each time she
tried to strike, the knife only grazed his skin, for her fingers lost
their power.

And she was still standing there trying in vain to stab him, when
they saw that he was already dead.

Here ends this story.

QALAGANGUASE, WHO PASSED TO THE LAND OF GHOSTS

There was once a boy whose name was Qalaganguase; his parents lived at
a place where the tides were strong. And one day they ate seaweed, and
died of it. Then there was only one sister to look after Qalaganguase,
but it was not long before she also died, and then there were only
strangers to look after him.

Qalaganguase was without strength, the lower part of his body was
dead, and one day when the others had gone out hunting, he was left
alone in the house. He was sitting there quite alone, when suddenly
he heard a sound. Now he was afraid, and with great pains he managed
to drag himself out of the house into the one beside it, and here he
found a hiding-place behind the skin hangings. And while he was in
hiding there, he heard a noise again, and in walked a ghost.

"Ai! There are people here!"

The ghost went over to the water tub and drank, emptying the dipper
twice.

"Thanks for the drink which I thirsty one received," said the
ghost. "Thus I was wont to drink when I lived on earth." And then it
went out.

Now the boy heard his fellow-villagers coming up and gathering outside
the house, and then they began to crawl in through the passage way.

"Qalaganguase is not here," they said, when they came inside.

"Yes, he is," said the boy. "I hid in here because a ghost came in. It
drank from the water tub there."

And when they went to look at the water tub, they saw that something
had been drinking from it.

Then some time after, it happened again that the people were all out
hunting, and Qalaganguase alone in the place. And there he sat in
the house all alone, when sudd