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  PROCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  NATIONAL 
  M 
  CSEUM 
  

  

  The 
  bears 
  were 
  the 
  first 
  t<> 
  inert 
  in 
  council 
  in 
  their 
  town 
  house 
  in 
  Kuwahi, 
  

   the 
  " 
  Mulherrj 
  Place," 
  and 
  the 
  old 
  White 
  Bear 
  Chief 
  presided. 
  After 
  each 
  in 
  

   turn 
  had 
  made 
  complaint 
  against 
  the 
  way 
  in 
  which 
  man 
  killed 
  their 
  friends, 
  

   devoured 
  their 
  flesh 
  and 
  used 
  their 
  skins 
  for 
  Ids 
  own 
  adornment, 
  it 
  was 
  unan- 
  

  

  Fii;. 
  <;. 
  Medicine 
  man 
  administering 
  to 
  patient 
  

  

  imouslj 
  decided 
  to 
  begin 
  war 
  at 
  once 
  againsl 
  the 
  human 
  race. 
  Some 
  one 
  asked 
  

   what 
  weapons 
  man 
  used 
  to 
  accomplish 
  their 
  destruction. 
  "Bows 
  and 
  arrows, 
  

   Of 
  course, 
  " 
  cried 
  all 
  the 
  hears 
  in 
  chorus. 
  "And 
  what 
  are 
  they 
  made 
  of?" 
  was 
  

   the 
  next 
  question. 
  "The 
  bow 
  of 
  wood 
  and 
  the 
  string 
  of 
  our 
  own 
  entrails," 
  

  

  