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town one after another. But he kept refusing them. Now he .saw 

 that his mind had become fixed. His future father-in-law wanted to 

 keep his daughter by means of the many things he owned. And, after 

 he had refused the property", he offered liis daughter in marriage. 



Immediately he turned around and started off. Then he again bound 

 [bark] around himself. And they took him across. He entered and 

 went round the man who was hung doul)led up. By and b}, while he 

 was doing it, he pulled the arrows out of his buttocks, and he also 

 pulled the arrow points out from the left side of his body. Then he 

 took hold of him and made him sit up. He sat there; and, when he 

 had finished pulling the arrow points out of his sides, back, and breast, 

 not one was left in him. He sat up. 



Then he said to his daughter: ""Chief-woman, my daughter, come 

 hither and sit down near your hus])and.'' He married the chiefs 

 daughter. At once Master Carpenter's daughter came over. Now 

 he had two wives. 



After he had lived with his wives for a while, one day he lay abed. 

 When the people went to bed again he was still there. Next day he 

 did the same thing. His two wives said not a word to him. As he lay 

 abed he wept. 



Then he (his father-in-law) asked his daughter:''' ''Chief-woman, 

 my daughter, why does your husband lie abed?" Then she went to 

 her husband and talked with him a while. And she said to her father: 

 "He lies abed because he is homesick for his younger brother whom 

 he left.''' "Now, chief -woman, my daughter, go away at once with 

 your husl)and. You and your husband go and look for the canoe 1 

 own which lies at the end of the town." 



Then they went there together. They arrived. Only a whale's 

 head la}^ there. Then they w^ent home. She .said to licr father: 

 "Father, there is only a whale's head there." "That is it. (io and 

 say to it 'Seaward, father's canoe.'" 



Lo! it floated on the water. Hu lui hu lui hu, it was a big caiioe. 

 Its edges were broad. They had cross lines. Then they put good 

 food into it, launched another for Master Carpenter's daughter, and 

 into it put good food. They filled it with cranberries, l)erry cakes, 

 mountain-goat fat, all kinds of berries. Then they pulled the canoes 

 alongside and started off. Both wives accompanied him. 



When they got near the town site he spanned his bow. He held 

 two arrows in readiness. Then he jumped out of his canoe at a 

 rock}' point near the town, and he ran to his own house. When he 

 entered he pushed off the drum which he had placed over his younger 

 brother. The bones of his j'ounger brother and the dog lay under it, 

 held together only by their joints. 



And, when the canoes landed, he went down to them. He held his 

 bow ready to shoot the daughter of Ga'ogila. Then she said to him. 



