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get clams. The children in playing about fell upon the feet of their 

 grandmother. At last she got angry and said, " Now, don't bother me. 

 I do not even know where your mother comes from." The little ones 

 felt unhappy, and when their mother returned they asked, " Mother, 

 where is your home ? Grandmother says she does not know where you 

 came from." The mother replied, "I went with a slave in my boar. 

 For many days we drifted to and fro and at last we reached this couu- 



FlG. 13. Kne'qakila's heraldic column at Qmnta'sqe. 



try." " Oh, make us happy/' cried the childreu, "let us go and see our 

 grandfather." Then she told them that he was a mighty chief. Their 

 father gave them his copper boat, which he rilled with copper plates, 

 and Ahjja/oejia said to them before parting, " Before you come to my 

 home you will hear the eagles cry ou our post." They started, and after 

 a longjourney they heard the eagles on the post, and now they knew 

 that they were near Xomase'nqilis's house. They gave him the copper 



