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The very younoc.st, wlio was good for nothing, wus always near the 

 door. He used to urinate in bed. "I will go," he said. But his 

 elder l)rothers laughed at him. After some time had passed they came 

 after him. At midnight they came by sea and got him. He told his 

 nephews that they were coming to get him that night, and he told all 

 of his nephews to keep a sharp lookout. "Let the one who thinks of 

 going with me remain awake. They will come to get me to-night." 

 Now the one that urinated in bed slept near the door. 



There was the picture of a mallard on the rattle that he owned. He 

 had it made for himself when he became a shaman. On this night 

 they came and got him. 



They came in and took him out. He was unable to awaken his 

 nephews. The Land-otter people placed sleep'* upon them. But when 

 he tried to awaken the worthless one, he awoke him. And Tclaawu'nk!'' 

 took him ])y the arm. They got him for the son of the chief among 

 the Land-otter people who was sick. It was the Land-otter people 

 who put his nephews to sleep. From the 3^oungest only they could 

 not pull away [the soul]. 



He now took his drum and the urine he had let rot, and they started 

 off with him. They had him lie on his face in the bottom of the 

 canoe. They did the same thing to his nephew. After they had gone 

 along for some time they said that the bottom of the canoe had become 

 foul, and they landed to clean it. This meant that their fur had 

 become wet. The cleaning of the canoe was done by their twisting 

 about. They then got in again, put them on the bottom, and started 

 off. After they had gone along for a while longer something touched 

 their heads. This, they felt, was the kelp under which [the otters] 

 were diving with them. After they had gone along for a while longer 

 they said that they were near the town. 



They then took the coverings off them. When they came in front of 

 the town sparks were coming out of the house standing in the middle. 

 A large crowd of people waiting in that house also made a huge volume 

 of sound. Landing, they said to him: "Get off, Tclaawu'nk!''." 

 Now he got off with the rattle which had the picture of a mallard on 

 it and let it walk up in front of him. When it went up before him 

 it entered a different house from the one where the crowd of people 

 awaited him, and he entered after it. And he held his nephew tightly. 

 They said then that they were glad to have him. "Tclaawu'nk!'"," 

 they said of him, "truly he is a shaman." In this one lay the person 

 for whom they had brought him, but they waited in a crowd for him 

 in a different one. This was the way in which the}'^ tested him to see 

 how much power he had. 



When he entered he saw many shamans gathered in the house. He 

 plainly saw a bone spear on the surface of the body of the sick man. 

 Just before this some persons had gone hunting from the town where 



