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hunters, and follow them up. The women became so 

 much afraid of going out to work, that the men as- 

 sembled to deliberate on a plan for killing him. 



This beast had its residence at, or near, a lake, 

 from which the water flows in two different ways (or 

 has two different outlets), one northerly, and the 

 other southerly. The Indians being well informed 

 of this circumstance, a resolute party of them, well 

 armed, with bows, arrows, and spears, made towards 

 the lake. They stationed themselves on a high, per- 

 pendicular rock, climbing up the same by means of 

 Indian ladders, and then drawing these ladders up 

 after them. 



After being well fixed, and having taken up with 

 them a number of stones, the Indians began to imi- 

 tate the voices and cries of the various beasts of the 

 woods, and even those of children, in order to decoy 

 the Jagisho thither. Having spent some days in this 

 place, without success, a detached party took an ex- 

 cursion to some distance from the rock. Before they 

 had reached the rock again, the beast had gotten the 

 scent of them, and was in full pursuit of them. They, 

 however, regained that position, before he arrived. 

 When he came to the rock, he was in great anger, 

 sprang against it with his mouth wide open, grin- 

 ning, and seizing upon it, as though he would tear 

 it to pieces * * * *. During all this time, numbers 

 of arrows and stones were discharged at him, until, 

 at length, he dropped down, and expired. 



