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Now his fame spread all over the country, and all his companions 

 staid with him wherever he went. He became very rich, for all 

 the sick people whom he healed paid him. Every year he went 

 around from place to place. 



Once he came into a village, and saw a crowd of people standing 

 on the beach weeping, and everybody looking very sad. He inquired 

 of some one who stood near by, and the young man told him that 

 one of the princesses was drowned in a river. Then the shaman 

 prince said, "If you will bring the body to me, I will cure her." 



This happened in the fall, when the river was flooded. This was 

 the time when the young princess was drowned. They searched for 

 her body, but in vain, and the father and mother whose only daughter 

 she had been were very sad. They searched all the year round until 

 the next spring, when they found the girl's skeleton caught by a 

 branch at the bank of the river. The people took the bones up to the 

 house of her father. 



Now the chief who had lost his only daughter sent for the shaman 

 prince to cure her who had been drowned the preceding fall. There- 

 fore the shaman prince went there. He wore all the things that he 

 had taken from the house of the Ghost chief. As soon as he came 

 in, he saw a skeleton laid out on a mat. All his companions sat down, 

 ready to sing. Then the shaman prince started a song; and while they 

 were singing, the shaman prince's supernatural power said to him, 

 "Sprinkle ashes over the skeleton four times, and it shall be trans- 

 formed into flesh. After that take your eagle tail and fan her, then 

 she shall come back to life." 



The shaman prince did what his supernatural power told him. 

 While the song was proceeding, the shaman went to the fire and 

 sprinkled the hot ashes over the skeleton of the princess. Then all 

 the dust stuck to the bones and gathered on the skeleton. He did 

 so four times, as his supernatural power had told him. Then the 

 bare bones were covered with flesh and skin, but there was no life 

 in her. Therefore he took his eagle tail and fanned the body. Then 

 she came back to life, and all the people were surprised to see her; 

 and the chief, the father of the girl, paid him much property — slaves, 

 costly coppers, canoes, and all kinds of goods. 



When all his fellow-shamans perceived that he was greater than 

 all the others, they held a secret council, intending to entrap him; 

 for he was a great power, and able to cure any kind of disease and to 

 revive the dead. Therefore his fellow-shamans agreed to invite him. 



On the following day they assembled in one of the shaman's houses 

 and called the shaman prince. They were trying to kill him there. 

 One of his supernatural powers was helping him, and warned him. 

 He went across the river and entered the house of his enemies and 

 sat down. When the food was ready, his supernatural power spoke 



