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saw the great chief lying down in front of his large fire. He was 

 groaning when he saw the shaman prince coming to his house. 

 Now the prince sat down at the foot of his bed, looking into the eyes 

 of the chief who pretended to be sick. The chief ordered his attend- 

 ants to bring forward his box, and so his attendants brought up the 

 box containing his rattles. 



Now we will go back to the people of the village. As soon as the 

 prince left them, following the invitation of the Ghosts, all the 

 Ghosts went down to the prince's people and shot them with their 

 arrows, and all the men of the village threw the fluid behind their 

 houses. Then the Ghosts could not come right down to shoot them, 

 because Ghosts are afraid of urine mixed with poison. The arrows 

 of the Ghosts were dried nettles. 



The prince, who was in the house of the chief of the Ghosts, opened 

 the box of rattles which they had given to him. He took out the first 

 rattle, which was a skull, and the handle was a backbone. Next he 

 took out the dancing-apron, which was set with bones of a skeleton, 

 which hung all round the bottom like fringe. Third, he took out 

 the crown, which was made of dead men's ribs. 



Now the prince took the dancing-apron; but before he put it on, 

 he blew water from his mouth into the hollow of his right hand and 

 rubbed it on his loins, then he put it on; and before he put on the 

 crown of dead men's ribs, he blew water into the hollow of his right 

 hand and rubbed it around his forehead. Then he put on the crown 

 of ribs. Again, before he took the skull rattle he blew water from 

 his mouth into the hollow of his right hand and rubbed it over his 

 arms. Now he was ready for work. 



He heard a noise outside the house. The people were saying, 

 "All our arrows have failed ! They have all come back to us ! " Now 

 the prince started; and his supernatural power said to him, "Run 

 four times around the chief who pretends to be sick!" The shaman 

 prince did what the supernatural power said to him. After he had 

 run about four times, his supernatural power said to him, "Now 

 kick the ground at the head of the chief who pretends to be sick!" 

 He did what his supernatural power had told him; and as soon as he 

 kicked the ground, he jumped another way. At once the earth 

 opened and swallowed up the chief of the Ghosts. The earth swal- 

 lowed him up, and this was his second death. The supernatural 

 powers of the prince took him and dropped him into the burning 

 river which runs in front of the Ghost town. Then the shaman 

 prince walked down safely to his own village. 



Now he had still more power than he had before. He had double 

 what he had before. 



(It was known among the people in those, days that dead men were 

 very dangerous to shamans.) 



