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took his weasel and feather ajid went with him to get it. His uncle 

 set a net where some sticks stuck out on top of a very high clitf. A 

 cormorant got into it. Then he said to him: '"Now, nephew, get it," 

 And, when he started down upon the pole, he pushed his nephew over. 

 Then he put himself into the feather and dropped easily. He heard his 

 uncle rejoice. "Look at the one whom I killed because he wanted to 

 marrv my wife." Then he started ofl". 



Now he entered his weasel skin and climbed up the cliti". And he 

 stretched the net across. In it he caught a number of cormorants. 

 After he had taken them out he tore his uncle's net to pieces and 

 threw the pieces about. Then he took the cormorants on his back 

 and brought them into the house. They were his uncle's supernatural 

 helpers. 



The day after that his uncle went with him to get bark. He con- 

 cealed the thing he had made. He followed his uncle. By and by 

 [they came to] the bark which was burning, and his uncle took some 

 of it. Then he told him to get some also. When he did so he pushed 

 him into it. And he got inside of the mud he had pressed together. 

 He did not feel the burning. Then his uncle said he was glad. His 

 uncle said: "Look at the man whom I killed because he wanted to 

 marry my wife. He will tr}^ it no longer." 



When his uncle started away from him, he went to the place, pushed 

 the bark down, and threw it around. Then he carried some home on 

 his shoulder and threw it down inside. That was his uncle's super- 

 natural helper, they say. And again he slept with his [uncle's] wife. 



Next day he again said to his nephew: "Come! nephew and go with 

 me for a small cockle I own, which is just over yonder." Then he 

 started thither with him. He took his knife. The cockle opened its 

 mouth. Then his uncle told him to get it and, when he went to get 

 it, he pushed him into its mouth. Again his uncle rejoiced. "Look 

 at the one whom I killed because he wanted to marry my wife." 



When his uncle started off he cut the ligaments^ with the knife and 

 pushed it open. Then he threw half of it around and carried half of 

 it off on his shoulders and threw it down in the house. He had 

 destroyed all of his supernatural helpers, they say. 



Then he spread out a bearskin for them and had them lie there. 

 While he slept his uncle and his friends took him up and put him into 

 a box. Then his uncle put cords around it. And they took him far out 

 to sea toward the middle of the ocean. And there they threw him 

 into the water. Again he rejoiced and went home. 



After he had floated about for some time he felt himself float ashore 

 upon the sand. When he was about to burst the cover by stretching 

 he heard two women talking together, saying as follows: "Cloud- 

 watcher,^ a box has floated ashore.'' And, when he heard it, he did not 

 burst the box. 



