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water. Then it became quiet, and again it made tumm. Then next it 

 made dEll. ^Kow a Avave came down the river. Five times he heard 

 tLe same noise, dEll, and five times he heard it, giiuim, below the 

 water. Then five black bears came out of the water; their ears were 

 I do not know how long. They stood on the water. Then the youth 

 threw off his elkskin. He threw it ashore. He thought: "I must 

 die," and began to swim across. He passed the first one, the second 

 one, and the third one. When he reached the fourth one it looked 

 at him. It looked that Indian right in the face. He fainted. Now 

 Itclx-ia'u carried him to his house. Behold! he saw Itc!x-ia'n. On 

 one side of the house of this supernatural being they spoke one lan- 

 guage; on the other side they spoke another language. He understood 

 them. In the middle of the house they spoke still another language. 

 " Those women whom you hear now on both sides of the house will be 

 your wives. Thus you will live among the Indians. This will make 

 you a chief." Then they gave him a bird arrowhead made of bone. 

 The supernatural beings finished. He awoke and lay ashore on the 

 other side [of the water]. He arose. It was early now; while it was 

 noon when he began to swim across. His elkskin blanket lay near 

 him. He arose, took his elkskin blanket, and went home. 



He arrived at the mouth of I'tskuil. He came ashore. Now he 

 went to the place where the people of Mythtown played at disks. A 

 person looked up [and said]: "A black bear is running about on the 

 mud." The people looked up and one of them said: "Is that a bear? 

 It is a man who is coming. I think it is the one who was left alone." 

 Then the eldest brother said : " What does he want here? We must be 

 ashamed of him." Then the next to the youngest said: "Let him 

 come, the poor one. What did he do to you that you do not like 

 him?'^ He went up to these people. Now they played at disks. He 

 stood at one end and was looking at them, ' Then he put down the 

 bird arrow which he held in his hand. One of the bystanders looked 

 at it and said: "How pretty is your arrowhead." "Ah, I found it," 

 he replied. The one man was winning all the time the other was 

 losing. Then one man said to him: "Let us bet, I will stake an arrow- 

 head against yours." He replied: "As you like," and after a little 

 while the poor boy won. He won three times, four times, and now he 

 had ten arrowheads. He had won them. He went i o sleep. Then he 

 told his grandmother: "I bought a sea otter and they took it away 

 from me." His grandmother cried; she pitied him. It got day. [Then 

 a person said:] "Come, friend, let us play at disks." He said: "I 

 have no mat." " We can use one mat." "I have no disks." "I loan 

 you my disks." Now he went out. He won and won and won. He 

 won all his arrows and all his property. He won his disks. When 

 they had finished, another person said: "That one with the lousy head 

 is getting hopeful. To-morrow I will play with him." Early the next 

 morning when he was still in his grandmother's house, that person 



