Tales the Eskimos tell, selected and retold . big mans kayak seemed to crawl whilethe little mans kayak skimmed ahead with theswiftness of a bird. When Alasuq was round-ing the island, long before he came into sight,the people could hear a sound—shish, shish,shish—it was Alasuqs kayak cleaving the 29 water. Soon he came into sight and hadreached the finishing point even before thegiant had rounded the end of the island. The giant took his defeat good-naturedly,as, of course, he should, for it was he who hadchallenged the hunters. This w^as the song that kept going throughAlasuqs hea
Tales the Eskimos tell, selected and retold . big mans kayak seemed to crawl whilethe little mans kayak skimmed ahead with theswiftness of a bird. When Alasuq was round-ing the island, long before he came into sight,the people could hear a sound—shish, shish,shish—it was Alasuqs kayak cleaving the 29 water. Soon he came into sight and hadreached the finishing point even before thegiant had rounded the end of the island. The giant took his defeat good-naturedly,as, of course, he should, for it was he who hadchallenged the hunters. This w^as the song that kept going throughAlasuqs head w^hile he w^as racing:Shish, shish, shish!Cut through the waves of the the water and slip steady and swift and , shish, shish! 30 AN ESKIMO TELLS HOW THE CARIBOU LOST THEIR LARGE EYES Look, here is a little bone—a bone takenfrom a caribous ankle! I will tell you a storyabout it. A long time ago when the Eskimo firstfound the caribou they had very large could see a great distance and were very. 31 savage. So it was hard to get close enough toshoot them with bows and arrows. As a resultthe Eskimos often had no meat. By and by they asked Torngarsoak tohelp them. Oh, Torngarsoak, they said,help us, for we are starving! The caribouare strong and swift and keen of sight. Oh,Torngarsoak, our hunters are as young chil-dren—they cannot kill the caribou! There-fore, have pity on us (we are hungry), havepity on us and tame the caribou so that ourhunters may kill them and so that our childrenmay have meat. Presently one of the caribou became verythoughtful. He said in caribou language tothe others, I wish our eyes were not so we should be better looking. So the other caribou said, Sew up oureyes, then. The thoughtful caribou took this little 32 bone from his foreleg. He said, This willmake a good needle. Then he took a piece ofsinew and said, This will make good thread. How handsome we shall look when oureyes are small! said al
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