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grab for them the rack shot up into the air so that he could not reach it. But Kivioq was a great shaman, and one of his helping spirits at last assisted him to get his clothing, and in that way he got out of the house.

Kivioq reached his kayak, jumped into it and pushed off from shore. Ivigtârjuaq rushed after him, but came too late. She was furious with disappointment, seized her ulo and cut right through a rock with it, shouting to him:

"I would have cut you up like that".

"And I would have harpooned you like that", answered Kivioq, harpooning a rock. Beside herself with rage Ivigtârjuaq then flung her ulo at him; it slid across the water and at last came up in the form of a great floe of ice. That was how winter ice first came, for previous to that there had never been ice on the sea. (The remainder of the tale continues exactly as among the Netsilingmiut.)

Later on Kivioq falls in with many adventures. He comes to two lonely women, mother and daughter; he marries the daughter and lives with her, until the mother kills her out of jealousy.

Then Kivioq travels on and for a time is married to a fox, later to a wolf, and finally to a wild goose whom he takes unawares on the banks of a lake where, together with all her companions, she is playing about in human form.

Later on Kivioq lies in a meat cache in order to find out who steals the meat, and in the end kills a brown bear who used to plunder the caches.

He meets with many adventures until he longs so much for his old father and mother that he goes home. At the sight of their son they are so joyful that they fall down dead. Their hearts break with joy.

Grieved at this Kivioq goes away again, and it is thought that he is now in the land of the white men. Rumours have been heard that he will see his own country again, but as he has committed a murder he cannot return just yet.

There was once an old woman whose name was Agtulrarnaut who, with her daughter Heqineq and her son Aningaut, was left alone at a village when all the others went away on a hunting journey. Aningaut was blind.

One day a bear visited them: it put its head in at the window of the snow hut. The old woman wanted to shoot it, but could not bend the bow. Then the blind son said:

"Aim for me, and let me bend the bow".

And in that way he shot the bear. Then he said: