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is trodden down by man}' feet, whistle for him, and when he comes out 

 to you and has nearl}' reached you drop on the ground quickly. Then 

 you will come to yourself sitting' in his Ixdly. Put medicine upon 

 3^ourself. Then you will restore your younger brothers. And when 

 your younger brothers are gone again run quickly to Sealion-town. 

 Then climb into the tree Avhich lies seaward at the end of the trail run- 

 ning inland. When [a creature] comes to j'ou from the sea push the 

 thing you are going to make into his ear, and when he staggers about 

 wounded climb into the tree again. At that place you will restore 

 your yoiuiger brothers again. After all have disappeared again and 

 3^ou start after them you will keep on going forever as one with 

 supernatural power.'' 



Then he went awa}'. After he had been in bed for a while, da}' 

 began to break, and he went up to the woods and reached his destina- 

 tion. There was a place there trodden bare b}^ many feet. The foot- 

 prints of human beings were in it. 



Then, just as day began to break, he whistled. After he had done 

 this for a while something like a person with his hair floating upon 

 the water came along. When it got near him, he dropped flat, and, 

 after some space of time had elapsed, lo, he came to himself in its 

 belly. Then he put the medicine upon himself and stretched himself 

 in its belly. His j^ounger brothers' bones poured out. He, too, was 

 thrown out on top of them. 



Then the hemlock was moving there. And he went to get it. He 

 struck it. It was as when something is split up fine. Then he laid 

 aside two branches and took two short ones. Then he threw one [of 

 'the latter] so that it went into a tree. And he threw another one. It 

 stuck endwise into a hemlock. He spit after it. And he said: "Future 

 people will use these as fishhooks in getting food."'** 



Then he spit the medicine upon his younger brothers. They arose. 

 And he said: "Go together to the place where you used to sit.'' Then 

 he, too, followed them, and, after they had enjoyed seeing each other 

 for a while, again one was gone. One after the other all seven 

 disappeared. 



Then he whittled the hemlock limbs. He sharpened the ends and 

 put them over the fire. Then he took these at midnight and w(Mit to 

 Sealion-town. And he climbed up into a tree which stood at the end 

 of the trail. 



After he had sat there for a while two pieces of pitchwood came 

 burning out of the ocean like lanterns. They came below him like 

 lanterns. Wonderful to see, a wa'sg.o^' came and stood there. At 

 the tree lying seaward it sat. It was coming to him. It had a whale 

 in its mouth. It had another one in the curl of its tail. 



And, when it got just under him, he sat down between its ears. 

 And he pushed the hemlock limbs into its ears. Then he again pulled 



