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After another space of time had elapsed, something again said as 

 it had said before: " He-who-was-born-from-his-mother's-side, are you 

 awake? Do you not feel that the supernatural beings, whom people 

 are afraid even to think of, are coming together against you?" Then 

 he picked up his bow and ran out. Again there were ten canoes with 

 red paintings on their bows. 



Then he went to his grandfather. "They are coming after me by 

 sea, grandfather."''' "Stop! brave man, what are the bows of their 

 canoes like?'' "They have red paintings upon them." Then he said 

 to him: "Have the urine in this town gathered together and hot 

 stones put into it. Then have it spilled about in front of them." 

 And so he did. Those were the sand fleas, ^'^ they say. 



By and l)y, something went along under his pillow, saying the same 

 thing it had said before, and he again laid hold of his bow. Again 

 ten canoes with their bows painted red were coming along. 



Then he started off to his grandfather. "They are coming against 

 me by sea." "What, brave man, what do the bows of their canoes 

 look like ?" "The canoe bows have red paintings on them." "Do the 

 same way 3'ou did when you destroyed the others." Then he again 

 spilled urine around in front of them. Again their dead bodies lay 

 around thickly. These were the fleas,*^'^ they say. 



And he again la}^ in bed. Something passed hurriedly under his 

 pillow. "He-who-was-born-from-his-mother's-side, are you awake? 

 Do you not feel that the supernatural beings, whom people do not 

 even like to think of, are assembled against you ? " He quickly took 

 his bow. lie looked in the direction from whence they had always 

 come. Nothing was to be seen. Then he also looked upward. There 

 was nothing in sight. Then he looked toward the edges of the sk3^ 

 Lo! a great tire came toward him upon the surface of the ocean. ^^ 



Then he went to the old man. "Grandfather, they are coming to 

 me by sea." "Whatdo the canoe bows look like?" "The edges of 

 the sky come burning." "Alas! Alas! I wonder what will happen. 

 Now, brave man, scatter the bones of the town people about in front 

 of the town and stand the sides and ends of the grave boxes on their 

 edges in front of the houses. People always endeavor to stop it that 

 way, brave man," 



And, after it had come along burning for a while, it came to the 

 human bones. After some time had passed it burned through. It 

 burned through in another place. By and by it came landward faster, 

 without having been stopped. When it reached the sides and ends 

 of the grave boxes it stopped there also. 



He put on his five blankets and put his mother in his armpit. His 

 wife he'put in the knot in his hair. Then he walked about behind 

 [the boxes]. After some time those were also thrown down by the fire. 

 Immediatel}'^ he started ofl". 



