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young man was very much ashamed, and he died right there. Then 

 the shaman went back to his home by canoe. 



They were not very iar from the village they had left when Only 

 One said, " I will take that spring of water with me to my own house. " 

 So they went ashore to where the spring of water was — the spring 

 of the rotten old canoe. He carried it in his grizzly-bear garment. 

 He went down to his canoe, and the spring was dried up. He took it 

 along up river. Before they arrived at their own town, they camped. 

 He went up and opened his grizzly-bear garment and put the new 

 spring there. It is still there. 



Not many days passed before a large canoe came from another 

 village, from G'it-qxa'la. They were sent by another shaman who was 

 very sick. Only One went there with his attendants ; and when they 

 arrived, the G'it-qxa'la men tried to kill him; but they could not do 

 it, for Only One's supernatural power foretold him what they were 

 going to do to him. When they had gone up to the house of the sha- 

 man who said that he was ill, he entered, and saw a man who was 

 very sick. The sick person was very thin. He was almost only bones. 

 Then Only One knew what made him sick, for one of his supernatural 

 powers had been placed in the bone of a corpse. Only One took it 

 out from there, and the sick man's supernatural power recovered, 

 and the sick shaman also revived. Therefore the sick shaman paid 

 him well. 



Before Only One left the village, the cannibal dancer invited him 

 and all his attendants, and they cooked seal for them. They cut up 

 the seal skin and blubber in a long line from the foot to the head 

 of the seal, and they cooked it ; and three cannibals took care of one 

 box in wlrich the seal was being cooked, but the box of which the 

 three men took care contained the meat of dead people. They 

 thought that when the great shaman should eat flesh of the dead 

 people, he would also die, and all his supernatural power would flee 

 from him. Before they brought the boiled seal to them, Only One's 

 supernatural power came to him and told him that they were ready 

 to give him the flesh of dead people. He said, " You shall eat it, and 

 I will help you and take it out of your left side; and after you have 

 eaten it, give each of them a piece." 



Now they were ready. The three great men took a long pointed 

 staff, and each had a piece of meat at the end of the staff. They 

 placed this before Only One, and the great shaman opened his 

 mouth and swallowed a piece at a time; and after he had eaten the 

 three pieces, he stood up quickly, opened his left side, and rubbed it, 

 and the end of the piece of meat of a corpse which he had eaten came 

 out. He took the end and pulled it out. Then he went to the three 

 men who had each given him a piece. He stood before the first one, 



