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being punished there, those who because they had stolen. They 

 were going to the Skeleton House, but were still punished there, but 

 they were concerned that their thieving should come to an end,' 

 and then sometime they might arrive at them in the Skeleton 

 House. Now when he came upon them the one that was sitting there 

 said to him: "So you have come back again!" "Yes," the young 

 man replied, and at once proceeded, running very fast. Now he came 

 upon the woman. She said, "So you have come back again !" "Yes," 

 he answered, and upon that proceeded, running very fast. 



He now came upon the one that had killed some one, north of 

 Ap6hnivi. "So you have come back again," said the one that was 

 punished there. "Yes," he answered. Having said this, he pro- 

 ceeded, running. Now he arrived a little north of Apdhnivi. Now 

 there the one that did not want it to rain was sitting. He also said 

 the same thing. "Yes," the young man said, and proceeded, running. 

 Now he arrived at his house in Orafbi and entered his body. Now 

 when the sun was rising he awoke and sat up. He was thinking. 

 The sun was somewhat high already. Now his mother, because she 

 was through making the food, came to look after him and he had 

 awoke. "Are you awake?" the mother said. "Yes," he replied. 

 "Come then, let us eat; come this way," the mother said. "Very 

 well," answered the young man. So they were eating. When they 

 had eaten the father asked the young man: "Now what have you 

 found out?" "Yes," he said, "yes, truly they are living. I have 

 seen everything there in the Skeleton House and there the chief told me 

 thus, thus I tell you. There that Kwan-mongwi bums these wicked 

 ones there, and these others he throws into the dark, and then again, 

 these that have been chiefs here they live well there and they are chiefs 

 there again. I have seen their way of living there. So when some 

 time you will not see me here, you must not worry over that; truly 

 they are living there." Thus he told them. And after that they 

 were living together. By and by the young man wanted to go back 

 again, and he said to his father, "My father, my mother." "Hah," 

 they said. "I shall go back again," he answered. "Very well," said 

 the father, and that night he took some of that medicine and then 

 slept, but now he was really dead. And (in the morning) the mother, 

 in order that he should eat, in order that he should refresh himself, 

 looked after her boy, but he had died. Now they wrapped him up 

 and put him away, there below Kuivo. There they buried him. 



' The meaning is somewhat obscure; bat the narrator explained, that those souls wished that 

 their thefts and the attending punishment might terminate so that they could go on to the other 

 world. 



