“I have nothing to give you by way of thanks, but you shall have my cooking pot.”
And when he was setting out again for home, they gave him great quantities of food to take home to his little girl. But when he came back to his own place, his fellow-villagers asked:
“Wherever did you get all this?”
“An umiak started out on a journey, and the people in it were hurried and forgetful. Here are some things which they left behind them.”
Towards evening a number of kayaks came in sight; it was people coming on a visit, and they had all brought meat with them. When they came in, they said:
“Tell Qasiagssaq and his wife to come down and fetch up this meat for their little girl.”
“Qasiagssaq and his wife have no children; we know Qasiagssaq well, and his wife is childless.”
When the strangers heard this, they would not even land at the place, but simply said:
“Then tell them to give us back the beads and the cooking pot.”
And those things were brought, and given back to them.