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mentsof the supernatural people ; " whereupon Blue- Jay said : " ' Ehehiu', 

 you say; do you think I eat them? I merely look at your kinnikiunik 

 berries." 



They stayed there. After awhile a person came out of the house and 

 said: "They wish to play with you; you will dive." Blue Jay said: 

 "We always dive in our country." "Do you think they do as you are 

 accustomed tof' said tlie woman. "When they dive the one dies and 

 the other one has won." She said to them : " Blue- Jay shall dive." 

 Blue-Jay went down to the water and threw the bushes out of his 

 canoe into the w^ater. Then be and the diver fought against each other. 

 They dived. Blue-Jay hid his dub under his blanket. They jumped 

 into the water and after awhile Blue Jay's breath gave out. He came 

 up and hid under the bushes which he had thrown out of his canoe. 

 There he breathed and dived again. He said to the diver: "Where 

 are you?" "Here I am," she replied. After awhile his breath gave 

 out again. Once more he came up under the bushes. Four times he 

 did so, and then he became tired. He went to look for the diver. He 

 found her biting the bottom of the sea. She had her eyes closed. Blue- 

 Jay took his club and hit her on the nape. The people saw something 

 floating on the water and then a person said: "There is Blue Jay." 

 He was, however, in the bushes which he had thrown out of his 

 canoe. After a little while Blue- Jay jumped ashore and a person 

 shouted: "Ehehiu, how Blue- Jay won over the diver of the supernat- 

 ral beings." "'Ehehiu', you say; we always dive so in our country," 

 said Blue Jay. 



Then again a person stepped out and said : " They want to play with 

 you; you will climb up a tree together." Then Blue- Jay said : "We 

 climb every day in our country," But the young woman remarked: 

 "Do you think they are just like Indians? They will place a piece of 

 ice uj)right, then you will have to climb up the ice. When a climber 

 falls down he breaks to i^ieces and the other one wins." Then they 

 said to Blue Jay : "You shall climb up." They placed upright a piece 

 of ice which was so long that it reached to the sky. Blue-Jay made 

 himself ready and tied his bearskin blanket around his bell3^ [The 

 supernatural beings sent a] chipmunk who made himself ready [to 

 climb up the ice]. They began to climb, and when they had reached a 

 certain height Blue- Jay grew tired. [Then he let go of the ice] and flew 

 upward. [When he had rested] he again took hold of the ice. Then 

 he grew tired again. He looked back to the one with whom he was 

 racing and saw her climbing up with her eyes shut. She did not grow 

 tired. Then Blue-Jay took his club [from under his blanket] and struck 

 her on the nape. The chipmunk fell down. The people looked up and 

 saw a person falling down. "Ah, that is Blue- Jay! There he falls 

 down." (But when they saw the chipmunk] a person shouted : "Ehe- 

 hiu, how they won over the chipmunk of the supernatural beings." 



