142. ANOTHER TALE FROM EAST GREENLAND

142. ANOTHER TALE FROM EAST GREENLAND.—A widow and her son were despised by their housemates, and suffered want of food. At last she died, and the child, named Kongajuk, being very sick, was left alone in the house. There it heard the bones of the graves rattling, and in came its mother, leading another child in her hand, and afterwards its father, accompanied by p. 469 other deceased people, who took Kongajuk along with them to their abodes.