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imaitillugu kisiani qaujigajunniqsausuungugatta ilaak ukiukkut<br />

naukkuurviqanngimmata,<br />

Only when it is like this (summer). Well, in the winter they are not able to go through<br />

the ice.<br />

uuttuujjaagatillugu iqaluugamik namiiqattaqtuapiugaluakkiaq.<br />

They do not go on ice because they are fish. I do not know where they go and stay.<br />

uattiarukkannialuk pitaqariakkanniqpallaivanniraluarngat<br />

ikkualikiaq namut qimaajukuluit.<br />

I think there were a lot more long ago but I do not know where they went.<br />

taimatuarli Aalasiup uiviningata Juanasiup tainna tuqusimajanga.<br />

Maybe they ran away. The only one I have heard about, is when Alasi’s husband killed<br />

one.<br />

qaujimajatuara ilaak tusaumajatuara tainna<br />

qimmimuuqtavininga.<br />

Well, [that is] the only one I heard about, the one he gave to the dogs.<br />

takujaqtuliraluarmimmagu pitaqarunniituviniq, iqqummarami<br />

pijaminikuluqai ilanginnut.<br />

He went to see it the next day, but it was gone when he went up. Maybe it was taken<br />

back by its friends.<br />

qimminilliguuq nirijumajaunngittuq, takuvattussaummimmatali<br />

The dogs did not want to eat it. The dogs probably see these Taliilajuut<br />

qimmilli sunalimaamilli qaujimammata tininnisuqpalaurmata.<br />

since they walk around the low tide area, because when or where dogs go, they see<br />

different animals.<br />

200 <strong>Introduction</strong> to the Oral Traditions

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