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A little later the young prince came to the women's camp. He 

 went toward the princess's seat and sat down by her side. She still 

 felt chilly, and the young man asked her, " Why do you feel so chilly '. " 

 She replied, "I am very cold." The princess was glad to have her 

 cousin come, although she had refused to marry him before. Then 

 the young men went up to cut firewood, and the women heard them 

 knocking down dried trees for firewood, which they carried to the 

 women's camp. They piled the dried wood on the fire, but still the 

 young princess felt veiy chilly. 



One of the friends of the princess said, "I am sorry that you feel 

 so chilly, I will call for rain." So he shouted for a heavy rain. He 

 did so twice. He did so four times. Then clouds with points on 

 both sides came out of the west. Rain began to fall, and there was 

 a heavy rainstorm. The river of Kiyaks overflowed that night, and 

 the water reached the camp. 



They searched for another densely leaved spruce tree, and soon 

 they found one above their old camp-site, better than the first. 

 They moved there the same night. 



The prince said, "I wall go back home before daylight," and asked 

 the princess, "Will you go back with me, my dear cousin?" She did 

 not say a word to him; but her aunt said, "My dear, go with your 

 cousin, lest you get sick, for you still feel chilly." Then the girl said, 

 "Yes, I will go home with him." 



After midnight the young man said to his companion, "Let us go 

 back home now!" Then the young princess went aboard the canoe, 

 and the friend of the young man made a bed for them in the canoe. 

 "Now lie down there, lest you get wet!" They lay down, and he 

 spread mats of cedar bark over them. They went down the river, 

 and the prince's friend paddled along. 



Now the girl felt something moving on the mat. When they 

 arrived on shore, the prince's friend said, "We have arrived on the 

 beach." She arose, and, behold! they had reached a strange country. 

 They went up to a house, and many people were in the large house. 

 Before she went in, she looked back at the canoe. It had become a 

 drift-log. She, went in, and her mother-in-law spread a mat by the 

 side of the fire. They sat down there. Then the chief said to his 

 relatives, "Go and boil some fresh halibut!" Then the Mouse 

 Woman came to her, and said, "Throw your ear-ornaments into the 

 fire!" The princess did what the Mouse Woman asked. Then the 

 Mouse Woman asked the princess, "Do you know these people?" 

 She replied, "No." Then the Mouse Woman said, "This is the Otter 

 prince, who ha9 married you because you refused to marry your 

 cousin. Therefore his father has sent his son to take you. Now 

 do not eat any of the food that they give you first, but the second 



