a little stream, and sprang across.

"Flow over your banks!" he cried to the stream. And now it was
impossible for her to get across.

"How did you get across?" cried the woman.

"I drank up the water. Do you likewise."

And the woman began gulping it down.

Then the man turned round towards her, and said:

"Look at the tail of your tunic; it is hanging down between your legs."

And when she bent down to look, her belly burst.

And as she burst, a steam rose up out of her, and turned to fog,
which still floats about to this day among the hills.

THE MAN WHO AVENGED THE WIDOWS

This was in the old days, in those times when men were yet skilful
rowers in kayaks. You know that there once came a great sickness
which carried off all the older men, and the young men who were left
alive did not know how to build kayaks, and thus it came about that
the manner of hunting in kayaks was long forgotten.

But our forefathers were so skilful, that they would cross seas which
we no longer dare to venture over. The weather also was in those times
less violent than now; the winds came less suddenly, and it is said
that the sea was never so rough.

In those times, there lived a man at Kangarssuk whose name was
Angusinanguaq, and he had a very beautiful wife, wherefore all men
envied him. And one day, when they were setting out to hunt eider
duck on the islands, the other men took counsel, and agreed to leave
Angusinanguaq behind on a little lonely island there.

And so they sailed out to those islands, which lie far out at sea,
and there they caught eider duck in snares, and gathered eggs, and were
soon ready to turn homeward again. Then they pushed out from the land,
without waiting for Angusinanguaq, who was up looking to his snares,
and they took his kayak in tow, that he might never more be able to
leave that island.

And now they hastened over towards the mainland. And the way was long.

But when they came in sight of the tents, they saw a man going from
one tent to another, visiting the women whom they left behind at that
place. They rowed faster, and came nearer. All the men of that place
had gone out together for that hunting, and they could not guess who
it might be that was now visiting among the tents.

Then an old man who was steering the boat shaded his eyes with his
hand and looked over towards land.

"The man is Angusinanguaq," he said.

And now it was revealed that Angusinanguaq was a gr