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birds lying on the rock. She gathered them all, and she also saw 

 bare bones on the rock and hand baskets. 



Now, the princess knew that this bad old man had killed all the 

 princesses who had been lost year after year. She wept again, 

 sitting there all alone. 



Four days passed, and early in the morning she saw a canoe coming 

 down from the little, island where the bad shaman lived. Therefore 

 r she hid in the rock on the beach, and she put some seaweed on her 

 head. She heard the old man sing a canoe-song. He seemed very 

 happy. He reached the place where the princess was in hiding on 

 the beach, and tied his line firmly around the solid rock. Then he 

 went to the top of the rock. 



The princess crept out of her hiding-place, went into the canoe, 

 cut the line with her little woman's knife, and pushed the canoe off 

 from the rock with all her might. When the canoe was a little way 

 off, the old ugly man looked back, and he saw his canoe on the water 

 with the 3'oung princess in it. 



Then he said, "Is that you, my dear wife? I came to take you 

 back to your father's house. Come ashore, and take me with you! 

 Ever since I left you I have not been able to sleep. I have always 

 been thinking of you, my dear wife! Do come ashore and take me!" 

 The princess replied, "No, I will not take you, for you are fooling 

 me, and you intended to kill me. Besides, I saw all the bare bones 

 of the princesses on the bare rock. There you have killed them, you 

 bad shaman ! I will give your flesh to the birds of the ah, and your 

 bare bones shall lie on that rock!" Then the old man cried bitterly, 

 and said, "Take pity on me, take pity on me, my good child! Come 

 and take me with you! I won't deceive you." 



The princess in the canoe, however, said, "I will shout and call 

 down all the birds of heaven and give them your flesh, as you did to 

 my fellow-princesses on this bare rock!" and then she shouted as 

 the old man had done. She shouted four times and paddled away 

 from the rock. 



When she had gone some distance and looked back, she saw that 

 the heavens were darkened by numerous birds. They went down 

 to the rock where the old man was and devoured him there. 



She paddled away, and in the evening she arrived at her father's 

 town. She went in and sat down by her mother's side. Her mother 

 looked at her, and said, "Is that you, my daughter?" — "Yes, mother, 

 I am still alive," said the princess. "Where is my father?" — "He 

 was invited by some of his own people who wanted to comfort him, 

 for he was in deep sorrow while you were gone." 



Then some one ran and told the great chief that his daughter had 

 come home, and all rushed out and assembled in the chief's house, 



