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The people were astonished and said, "He must be a wonderful person to be born 

 in this way," so both mother and child were treated with great respect. 



He was indeed a wonderful child. Whatever he said came true. He would say- 

 to his father, "Go and get a bear," and his father would find one without any diffi- 

 culty. It was no effort at all for the family to get enough food. The child grew up 

 rapidly, and when he was a young man he had as his friend and companion one who 

 was his mother's brother's son — his cousin. 



When he grew up he began to consider, "I must begin to instruct these Indians in 

 the Mide^; that is the purpose for which I came." 



After thinking this over he said to the old man, his father, "We will go on a journey 

 to the end of the lake;" his mother went with them. The point to which they 

 went was not where Duluth now stands, but was where Superior is located. This 

 was the location of the old town of Fond du Lac. 



They reached this place and stayed four days. On the fourth day a terrible storm 

 came from the northeast, sweeping across the lake. During the storm the East manido'' 

 said to his father and mother, "My cousin at Madeline island is very ill; we must 

 go back." 



His father said, "It is impossible to even put the canoe on the water in such a 

 storm." 



Then the East manido^ said, "Put the canoe on the water, and the waves will at 

 once subside." 



As soon as his father put the canoe on the water the storm subsided. 



It was about noon when this happened, and the distance to Madeline island was 

 about 80 miles, but they paddled so fast that they reached there before sundown. 

 When they arrived they found that the cousin had been dead four days, but the body 

 had been kept so that they could see him. 



The East manido^ told his father and mother and their friends not to weep for the 

 young man. Then the next morning he told the people to make a long lodge extend- 

 ing east and west, such as is now used for the Mide^. He showed them how to make 

 it with the top open and the sides of birch bark and leaves, and he said that they 

 must all bring tobacco and cooked food. In the center of the lodge he placed a Mide^ 

 pole, and told the Indians to sit in rows around the lodge; he also made a Mide^ 

 drum and rattles, such as are still used. 



West of the pole and a few feet away he placed the hewn coffin of the dead man; 

 on the south side of the lodge he seated the relatives and friends. 



Then he told his father to take the Mide^ drum and sing. 



The old man said, "I do not know how to sing." 



His son said, "Just try; make the effort and you will be able to sing." 



Then the East manido^ spoke to the parents of the dead man and to his own parents, 

 saying, "I am about to leave you. I will be absent four days. You must stay here 

 continuously and do every day as I have told you to do to-day." The old man 

 promised to sing the Mide^ songs and do everything as he had been told to do. 



Then the East manido^ took vermilion paint and also blue paint and made marks 

 across the faces of the parents of the man and also his own parents- — streaks across 

 their foreheads, the lowest red, then blue and red alternately. Then he started 

 away and said he would return on the morning of the fourth day. He went through 

 the air toward the eastern sky. They could see him go. 



After he had disappeared the old man took the Mide^ drum and sang more and more 

 Mide^ songs. They came to him one after another. He was assisted by his son. 

 Even while his son was absent he directed him spiritually. 



During the four days that the East manido^ was absent the sun shone constantly. 

 There was not a cloud and the wind did not blow. 



On the morning of the fourth day they looked toward the east and saw the sky 

 streaked with colors like those he had painted on their foreheads. The Indians all 

 looked in that direction with expectation. 



