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come to him without endangering his life and even the fowls of the air 
whenever they flew directly over his place of abode would die and fall 
down on his premises, and if he saw a man approaching him he was 
sure to destroy him or kill him. This man was a cannibal, and had left 
the settlement he belonged to for a long time, and lived by himself in 
an isolated place. Da-ka-nah-wi-deh came and approached the abode 
of the cannibal and saw him coming home and he was carrying a human 
body. He went into his house and shortly he came out again and went 
down to the river and drew some water. Then De-ka-nah-wi-deh went 
closer and when he had come to the house he went up onto the roof of 
the house, and from the chimney he looked in and saw the owner of the 
house come back with a pail of water, and put up a kettle on the fire 
place to cook his meal, and after it was done or cooked he took the 
kettle from the fire and placed it by the end of the fire-place or hearth, 
and said to himself, I suppose it is time for me to have my meal, and 
after I am through, then I will go where I am required on business. 
Then De-ka-nah-wi-deh moved still closer and looked straight into 
the kettle. The man Tha-do-dah-ho was then moving around the 
house, and when he came back to take some of the meat from the kettle 
he looked into it and saw that a man was looking at him out of the 
kettle, this was the reflection of De-ka-nah-wi-deh. Then the man 
Tha-do-dah-ho moved back and sat down near the corner of the house 
and began to think seriously and he thought that it was a most wonder- 
ful thing which had happened. He said, Such a thing has never 
occurred before as long as I have been living in this house; I did not 
know that I am a great man, therefore my mode of living must be 
wrong. Then he said, Let me look again and be sure that what I have 
seen is true. Then he got up again and went to the kettle and looked 
into it again, and he saw the same object, that is, the face of a great man 
and it was looking at him. Then he took the kettle and went out and 
went towards the hillside and he emptied it there. 
Then De-ka-nah-wi-deh came down from the roof and made great 
haste towards the hillside, and when Tha-do-dah-ho came up the hill he 
met De-ka-nah-wi-deh. 
Then De-ka-nah-wi-deh asked Tha-do-dah-ho where he came from 
and he said, I had cooked my meal and when I took the kettle from 
the fire and placed it on the floor and when I thought that I would take 
some of the meat out of the kettle, I saw the reflection of a man’s face in 
the kettle looking at me. I do not know what has happened. I know 
such a thing never occurred to me before as long as I have been living 
in this house, and now I have come to the conclusion that I must be 
wrong in the way I am and have been living, and that is why I carried 
the kettle out of my house and emptied it over there by the stump, and 
