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They went down to the canoe, and the prince went aboard with them. 

 Then the friend jumped aboard. The four men, however, did not 

 see him, and the prince also did not see him. They paddled away 

 happy, and their hearts full of joy. The man was very anxious to 

 talk to the prince, and went to him in the canoe, sat down by his 

 side, and said, "My dear prince, did you know that I came aboard 

 with you?" but the prince took no notice of him at all. Therefore 

 the man began to cry. 



Now the prince said to the men who took him in the canoe, "Pull 

 hard! I feel something touching me on my right side." They 

 pulled hard. 



The prince's friend was angry with those men who were taking 

 away the prince, and he saw that they all had around their throats 

 large wreaths of cedar bark. Therefore he went to the steersman, 

 took the big red tiling around his throat, and pressed it between his 

 hands. Then the steersman fainted. The young man left him and 

 went to the others and did the same, until he had done so to all of 

 them. As soon as he let go, each man revived. Therefore they 

 paddled away hard to get home. When they reached there, the 

 whole village of the Salmon people greatly rejoiced, and the friend 

 of the prince was astonished to see them. 



They took the prince into the chief's house, where there were a 

 great number of Salmon people. The prince's friend stood outside. 

 No one took notice of him. Therefore he was thinking of his own 

 home, and stood outside crying. When he stopped crying, he wiped 

 the tears from his eyes down his cheeks with the palm of his hand. 

 Then he felt something in his own mouth. Behold! it was the small 

 pebble which the prince had put into his mouth before they had 

 gone to the eagle trap. Therefore he took the stone out of his own 

 mouth and offered it to the prince, who was seated by a large fire, 

 where he was eating. The young man took the small pebble and 

 put it into the prince's mouth. Then the prince looked around, and 

 saw his friend sitting by his side. He put his arm around his neck, 

 and said to him, "Did you come along with me?" The youth replied, 

 "Yes, I came along with you, my beloved prince." 



Then the prince said to his friend, "If you are hungry, go behind 

 the village, and you will see the children playing on the sand-hill. 

 Take one of them and club it. Make a fire and roast it whole; and 

 when you have eaten enough, throw the remains into the fire, bones 

 and all, and drink fresh water." 



None of the Salmon people knew that the young man was there, 

 only the prince. At night they lay down in one bed to sleep, and 

 they were talking together. Whenever he was hungry, the young 

 man did what the prince had told him. 



On the following day the prince asked his friend, "Did you hear 

 the drum which is always being beaten at the end of the village?" 



