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Looking about, he found some grass, which he wove into a kind of 
loose mantle, which helped to keep out the cold, after which he saw some 
reindeer grazing near by and felt a sudden desire to kill and eat one 
of them. He crept closely on his hands and knees, and springing for- 
ward on the nearest one seized it by the horns and broke its neck with a 
single effort, threw it over his shoulders, returned, and cast if down near 
his sleeping place. Then he felt all over the reindeer’s body and found 
that its skin formed a covering which his fingers were unable to pene- 
trate. For a long time he tried to think of a way to remove the skin, 
and finally noticed a sharp-edge stone, which he picked up and found 
that he could cut through the skin with it. The deer was quickly 
skinned, but he felt the lack of a fire with which to cook the flesh. 
Looking around, he found two round, white stones upon the beach 
and, striking them together, saw that they gave out numerous sparks. 
With these and some dry material found along the shore he succeeded 
in making a fire, upon which he roasted some of the meat. He tried 
to swallow a very large piece of the meat just as he had eaten mice 
when he was an Owl, but found that he could not do it; then he cut 
off some small fragments and ate them. Another night passed, and 
in the morning he caught another reindeer, and the day following two 
others; both of these last deer he threw over his shoulders, and at once 
carried them back to his camping place on the shore. Chii-th/-lik 
found the nights very cold, so he skinned the last two reindeer and 
wrapped himself from head to foot in their skins, which dried upon 
him very soon and became like a part of his body. But the nights 
grew colder and colder, so that Chin-ah/-lik collected a quantity of 
driftwood along the shore, with which he made himself a rough hut, 
which was very comfortable. 
After finishing his house he was walking over the hills one day when 
he saw a strange black animal among some blueberry bushes eating 
the berries. Chai-th/-ltk did not at first know whether he should 
interfere with this unknown animal or not, but finally he caught it by 
one of its hind legs. With an angry growl it turned about and faced 
him, showing its white teeth. Ina moment Ohitin-th/-lik caught the 
bear by the coarse hair upon each cheek and swung it over his kead, 
bringing it down to the ground with such force that the bear lay dead; 
then he threw it across his shoulders and went home. 
In skinning the bear Chan-ih’-lik found that it contained much fat, 
and that he might have a light in his house if he could find something 
to hold the grease, for he had found it very dark inside and trouble- 
some to move about. Going along the beach he found a long, flat stone 
with a hollow in one surface, and in this the oil remained very well, so 
that when he had put a lighted moss wick into it he saw that his house 
was lighted as well as he could wish. 
In the doorway he hung the bearskin to keep out the cold wind which 
sometimes had come in and chilled him during the night. In this way 
