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fame spread all over the different villages, and all the Cannibals gath- 

 ered and tried to kill him. 



All these companies of dancers gathered in one house; and they 

 prepared a mixture of poisonous herbs, urine, and other bad things, 

 and they began to sing. While they were singing, they heard a cry 

 from the tree. Then they heard a noise on the roof of the house in 

 which they were. He was coming right down into the house where 

 they were assembled, and caught a person in the house. Then they 

 threw the mixture over him and caught him. They were pouring the 

 mixture into his mouth, and they made a heavy ring of red-cedar 

 bark mixed with white for him, and they gave him a large grizzly- 

 bear skin to be his garment, and they put a red band of red-cedar 

 bark on each leg, and rings of red-cedar bark on each hand; and 

 everybody was glad because they had tied him hand and foot. 



While he was sleeping, a terrible whistling was heard in his hah, 

 although there was nobody with him. They watched over him for 

 four nights. Then they did not give him any more medicine, and 

 they all went to sleep. Now the great Cannibal threw off all his 

 cedar-bark ties around his neck, and the large grizzly-bear skin, and 

 the cedar-bark bands that were on his feet and on his hands. Then 

 he shouted and caught one of the men who was holding his foot- 

 bands of red-cedar bark, and he ate him right there. Then he flew 

 up to his house on the tree, and the noise of the whistles struck terror 

 to those in the houses. 



He came down twice every day to catch people, and he ate them, 

 and he went everywhere to devour people. 



Then the chief said, "Let all the people of the village move tomor- 

 row!" On the following morning they moved, leaving the young 

 man behind; and he flew to every place, caught people, and devoured 

 them. Once he flew away, and alighted on a very high mountain 

 on Nass River. Then he ran down, and saw a fish lying on a sandbar 

 at low water. He started a little fire at the foot of a large tree, 

 gathered some fuel, and roasted the fish by the fire. Then a super- 

 natural being came to him, and asked him, "What are you doing 

 here?" He replied, "I am roasting fish." The supernatural being 

 said, "This fish is not fit for you to eat. Are you not ashamed of 

 yourself? Is that the way of dancers? Fly away to yonder place 

 on the large tree!" Then he flew back to his own place. 



He continued to eat live people as well as the bodies of the dead, 

 and all the villages were, in great distress on account of him. 



They held a council in order to determine how to catch him. They 

 made a large trap of wood; and in the night, after they had finished 

 the trap, the companies of dancers assembled. They sang and beat 

 time on their wooden drums, and beat with sticks on planks. He came 



