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he had gone thither he .said to him: "They call each other for cakes of 

 hemlock bark and cranberries'' "Now, cousin, be my messenger." 

 Eagle then said: "The chief is coming." "No; we call each other for 

 mussels." 



Before the}'^ had begun eating he ran into the woods. After he had 

 made rotten trees into ten canoes he put in spruce cones, standing 

 them up along the middle. Grass tops he put into their hands for 

 spears. They then came around the point, and he walked near them 

 with his blanket wrapped tightly around him. Terrible to behold, 

 they came around the point, men standing in lines along the middle of 

 the canoes. Leaving their food, the people fled at once. He then 

 went into the house and ate the cakes. He ate. He ate. Where the 

 canoes landed they were washed about by the waves. 



He then started oft". He traveled al)out. On the way he got his 

 sister neatly, they say. He then left his sister with his wife. And 

 he started off by canoe. He begged Snowbird*' to go along with 

 him, and took him for company. He also took along a spear. And 

 short objects** lay one upon another on a certain reef. Then, when 

 they came near to it, the bird became different.*" He took him back. 

 And he begged Blue-jay also to go, and he started with him. But 

 when they got near he, too, flapped his wings helplessly in the canoe. 

 And, a.fter he had tried all creatures in vain, he made a drawing on a 

 toadstool with a stick, placed it in the stern, and said to it: "Bestir 

 yourself and reverse the stroke" [to stop the canoe]. He then started 

 off with him. But when he got near it shook its head [so strong was 

 the influence]. 



He then speared a big one and a small one and took them back. 

 And when he came home he called his wife and placed the thing he 

 had gone for upon her. And he put one upon his sister as well. Then 

 Siwa's (his sister) cried, and he said to her: "But j^ours will be 

 safe.""^" 



After he left that place he married Cloud-woman. And, as Cloud- 

 woman had predicted, a multitude of salmon came up for him. But, 

 when they were on the point of moving and he went through the 

 middle passage of the .smokehouse, salmon bones stuck in his hair, and 

 he used bad language that made his wife angry."' She then said to 

 the dog salmon: " Swim away." From all the places where they lay 

 they began to swim off. And a box of salmon roe on which his sister 

 sat was the onh^ food left in the house. 



The}' then moved the camp empty-handed. And he made himself 

 sick. He went along in the bow beside the salmon roe. After he 

 bad gone along for a while his sister smelt something, and he said it 

 was a scab he had pulled ofl' with his flnger nails. After she had 

 spoken about it many times as they went along he threw Siwa's's box 

 empty ashore. 



