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Only One stood by the sick prince's head, and he saw an arrow 

 right between his ribs. Chief Bagus, sitting in the rear of his house, 

 said to him, "My dear Only One, I ask you to cure my sick son." 

 Only One went toward the sick person, took the end of the broken 

 arrow, and pulled it out, and he rubbed the wounded side of the 

 prince Bagus, and the prince was cured and arose. 



The great chief was glad to see that his son was cured. Only One 

 wanted to go back home hi the evening, and the chief promised to 

 send him home hi the night. Only One went to the old shaman and 

 asked him how long he had been hi there. He told him that Chief 

 Bagus had invited him when he was young, but that now he was very 

 old, and that also part of his body had become stone, and that 

 therefore he could not go back home. He told him that many 

 shamans had tried to heal the prince, and that they had all failed, 

 and that the chief had thrown them into a lake of blood, and that 

 they were still there. 



In the evening Only One went out with the Prince of Bagus; and 

 the prince caught one child that was playing outside, and gave it to 

 Only One to be his supernatural power. So he took it, and placed 

 it in his long hair. He went down to the beach and boarded the same 

 new canoe, and the same three men paddled away toward his home. 

 As soon as the canoe, touched the shore, the sun rose, and the canoe 

 and the three men who took him home were transformed into a log of 

 driftwood. Only One lived many years after this; and it is said that 

 he never died, but that he was taken by the supernatural powers into 

 their home in the deep pit. 



56. Story of the Ghost 1 



Long ago there were many people in the various villages among the 

 Indians. A large village of three rows was situated on Gits lEmga'lon 

 River, and a great many people were in that village, who shouted 

 when the geese were flying over the village. When they shouted, 

 the geese would fall down to the ground and die. They were very 

 healthy, and had a great chief and chieftainess, who had an only 

 son, whom they loved much, and all the people of the village loved 

 him much. The prince was called Brown Eagle. The only kind of 

 food he ate was salmon-dip ( ?), and everybody hi the village knew that 

 he only ate salmon-dip; therefore in summer everybody cut out the 

 salmon-dips and sent them to the chief's son. They did this for 

 many years, and everybody loved him tenderly. 



It came to pass, when this prince had grown up to be a young man, 

 that he became sick. He was very ill, and it was not many days 

 before he died. Then all the people mourned for him. His father 



