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On the following day they went up to Ksdal. They reached the 

 mouth of the river; and as they camped there, they unloaded their 

 canoe, and built a house in the strange country, which was unknown 

 to them. In the autumn he often went up the mountains to hunt 

 goats while his wife staid at home with her unborn child, and the 

 prince killed many mountain goats. He took their meat and then- 

 fat. 



At the head of the brook he saw a large lake. One day he was 

 thinking of it, and in whiter he went up to the large lake and walked 

 on the ice on his snowshoes. Then he went up the mountain at the 

 end of the great lake. When he reached the top, he looked down on 

 the other side, and there he saw smoke ascending in the valley. It 

 was toward evening, and he went back to his camp. Late hi the 

 night he came home. His wife was crying, thinking that she had 

 lost him. Then he told her that he had seen smoke on the other 

 side of the mountain which he had climbed. They lived there all 

 winter, and their provisions lasted until the following summer. 

 Toward the end of a hard winter they went across the lake in their 

 canoe. They carried enough food with them, and then new child. 

 They walked up the mountain, and soon they reached the foot of 

 the mountahi on the other side. Then they walked down over a 

 large plain, and a brook ran through the plain. They walked down 

 alongside the brook; and when they arrived at its mouth, they saw 

 a house on the other side of it. Therefore they called for some one 

 to take them over. Then a small canoe came across. They crossed 

 the brook, and they met four young men who were encamped there 

 in a small hut, and who gave them food. They were very friendly 

 to these four young men. The eldest of them was in love with 

 the girl, and the girl also loved him dearly. At last the father of the 

 girl became sick and died, and a few days after, her mother also was 

 taken sick and died. Then the girl lived alone with these four 

 young men. 



(These four young men were the offspring of a wild duck who was 

 sent by the daughter of the South Wind while she was in the house of 

 Chief North Wind, where she was almost frozen.) 



The eldest of the young men wanted to marry the girl, and she 

 agreed, so they were married. Then the girl gave birth to four 

 children at one time, as ducks lay eggs hi the spring; and the next 

 spring four other children were born. They grew up to be men and 

 women. Every time she would give birth to four children at a 

 time, and they began to build a village there; and when then mother 

 died, they had begun to be a large and powerful people; and wherever 

 these people moved, there was a heavy snowdrift on the ground. 



Therefore it is told among these people that no one should throw 

 stones at wild ducks hi whiter, lest a heavy snowstorm should set in. 



