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Updated: May 20, 2025
It sometimes happens that a stray wolf will hobnob with the dogs, and litters of half wolf, half dog have been born at the posts. * A large open boat with wooden frame and sealskin covering. The women row the umiaks while the men sit idle. It is beneath the dignity of the latter to handle the oars when women are present to do it.
And when they had rowed a little way, they came to a little island, and pitched their tent on the sunny side. And when Asalôq then went up on the hillside to look out, he saw many umiaks coming from the northward, and they camped on the shady side. Then he heard them say: "Now search carefully about." And others said: "He can hardly be on such a little island."
Next day many umiaks and kayaks set out to the eastward, and when they had rowed a long way in, they asked: "Where is it?" "Over there, beyond that little ness," he said. And they rowed over there, and when they reached the place, there was nothing to be seen. So they asked again: "Where is it?" "Over there, beyond that little ness."
Of course, coming among the Eskimos as we did in winter, we did not see them using their kayaks or their umiaks,* but our experience with dogs and komatik was pretty complete. These dogs are big wolfish creatures, which resemble wolves so closely in fact that when the dogs and wolves are together the one can scarcely be told from the other.
When the umiaks had left, and he could not find his kayak, he had wound his body about with strips of hide, bending it into a curve, and then, as is the way of wizards, gathered magic power wherewith to move through the air. And thus he had come back to that place, long before those who had sought his death. And from that day onwards, none ever planned again to take his wife.
And afterwards, when he went to lie down among the dogs, his wicked grandmother beat him and them together, as was her custom. Altogether as if there were no strong man in the village at all. But in the night, when all were asleep, he went down to one of the umiaks, which was frozen fast, and hauled it free. Next morning when the men awoke, there was a great to-do. "Hau!
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