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Updated: May 29, 2025
Suddenly the dogs scented something, and dashed off inland over a great plain. Then they checked, and sniffed at the ground. And now it was revealed that they were at the entrance to an inland-dweller's house. The inland-dwellers screamed aloud with fear when they saw the dogs, and thrust out an old woman, but hurried in themselves to hide. The old woman died of fright when she saw the dogs.
There was once a man whose name was Neruvkâq, and his wife was named Navaránâ, and she was of the tunerssuit, the inland-dwellers. She had many brothers, and was herself their only sister. And they lived at Natsivilik, the place where there is a great stone on which men lay out meat.
And now he understood that the dog had made it a custom to attack the inland-dwellers and bring back their legs to its master. He could see that the legs were legs of inland-dwellers, for they wore hairy boots. And it is from this giant dog that the inland-dwellers got their great fear of all dogs. It would always appear suddenly at the window, and drag them out.
When an inland-dweller is to become a swift runner, they stuff him into the skin of a ribbon seal, which is filled with worms, leaving only his head free. Then the worms suck all his blood, and this, they say, makes him very light on his feet. There are still some inland-dwellers left, but they are now gone very far up inland.
When he came in, it was a big place, and the old creature spoke to him, and said: "When you go out, look towards the west; the inland-dwellers are coming." And when Makíte went out, he looked towards the west, and there he saw a great black thing approaching, and when he then came in again, the old man went to the window and called out: "Here they are; they are close up now."
Since then they have never been seen. The remains of their houses were all that could be found, and when men dug to see if anything else might be there, they found nothing but a single narwhal tusk. The inland-dwellers are not really dangerous, they are only shy, and very greatly afraid of dogs.
But it was a good thing that something happened to frighten the inland-dwellers, for they had themselves an evil custom of carrying off lonely folk, especially women, when they had lost their way in the fog. And that is all I know about the Giant Dog. There came a sledge driving round to the east of Etah, up into the land, near the great lake.
Now the man went in, very ill at ease because he had caused the death of the old woman. "It is a sad thing," he said, "that I should have caused you to lose that old one." "It is nothing," answered the inland-dwellers; "her skin was already wrinkled; it does not matter at all." Then the sledges drove home again, but the inland-dwellers were so terrified that they fled far up into the country.
But Neruvkâq was cruel to his wife; he would stab her in the leg with an awl, and when the point reached her shinbone, she would snivel with pain. "Do not touch me; I have many brothers," she said to her husband. And as he did not cease from ill-treating her, she ran away to those brothers at last. And they were of the tunerssuit, the inland-dwellers.
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