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body of which was converted into various animals; the
hurtfulness of lavishing the game; seven boys who were transformed
into birds and left their parents; a youth who went fishing and
found some boys who had laid off their wings and were
swimming, they gave him wings too that enabled him to follow them,
but afterwards they took his wings and left him helpless. But
the most curious coincidence is this: in a lonely place, where
some hunters had disappeared, a monster was said to sit on a
rock watching people who passed by, while then he would call
out: «Kung-ku, kung-kuin», i. e.: «I see thee, I see thee». —
Now the Greenlanders tell that a girl fled to the (fabulous)
inlanders, got one of them for her companion and when on
her wandering with him they got sight of a settlement, he
shouted: «Kung, kung, kujo» (words unintelligible to the present
Greenlanders), wherupon people living there directely would
know who was approaching.
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