up, out into the sea to grow fat.

But his father, greatly wishing to go once more to their old hunting
grounds, went there again as chief of a party, after many years had
passed. His daughters rowed for him. And when they came in near to
the base of the fjord, he thought of his son, and began to weep. But
his son, coming up from the sea with the other salmon, saw the umiak,
and his father in it, weeping. Then he swam to it, and caught hold
of the paddle with which his father steered. His father was greatly
frightened at this, and drew his paddle out of the water, and said:

"Anarteq had nearly pulled the paddle from my hand that time."

And for a long while he did not venture to put his paddle in the water
again. When he did so at last, he saw that all his daughters were
weeping. And a second time Anarteq swam quickly up to the umiak. Again
the father tried to draw in his paddle when the son took hold of it,
but this time he could not move it. But then at last he drew it quite
slowly to the surface, in such a way that he drew his son up with it.

And then Anarteq became a man again, and hunted for many years to
feed his kin.

THE GUILLEMOT THAT COULD TALK

A man from the south heard one day of a guillemot that could talk. It
was said that this bird was to be found somewhere in the north,
and therefore he set off to the northward. And toiled along north
and north in an umiak.

He came to a village, and said to the people there:

"I am looking for a guillemot that can talk."

"Three days' journey away you will find it."

Then he stayed there only that night, and went on again next
morning. And when he came to a village, he had just asked his way,
when one of the men there said:

"To-morrow I will go with you, and I will be a guide for you, because
I know the way."

Next morning when they awoke, those two men set off together. They
rowed and rowed and came in sight of a bird cliff. They came to the
foot of that bird cliff, and when they stood at the foot and looked
up, it was a mightily big bird cliff.

"Now where is that guillemot, I wonder?" said the man from the
south. He had hardly spoken, when the man who was his guide said:

"Here, here is the nest of that guillemot bird."

And the man was prepared to be very careful when the bird came out
of its nest. And it came out, that bird, and went to the side of the
cliff and stared down at the kayaks, stretching its body to make it
very long.