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this kind of a thing.’ Even those who know witchcraft, it (their 
medicine) was gone also. But it is all around here; it came also. 
I am the reason why they see their medicine,” he said. 
Some of them, it is said, began to sweat at once, for they were 
frightened by what they had been told; because surely he would 
start to tell ovtright, they thought, where it was. 
Then it is said, “‘Now you may get it at noon,” the owners were 
told. They went to get their belongings next day at noon. ‘‘ Noth- 
ing of mine is missing,” they said among themselves. All of them 
said the same among themselves, that nothing was missing, that all 
was there. Some of them were bashful when seeking their things. 
Then the next day one household prepared a feast for him. Then 
at noon another household. Then in the evening another household. 
They kept this up. Just at midwinter all then had cooked feasts for 
that young man. 
Then it is said they remained abiding here for a long time. They 
remained living there for many years. It is said no one died during 
that time except that man cores above); that was the only 
death, it is said. 
Then it is said they were addressed by their chief. ‘‘ Now, eventu- 
ally we must move to a new location, we shall think it clean when 
we first camp somewhere. We shall go to live in some good land. 
I am getting tired of this place where we are now,” he said. ‘This 
coming fall, early in the fall then we shall move immediately. We 
shall eat meat all the time on the way,” he said. Behold, they were 
many people who favored it at first. Then he (the hero), ‘‘ Mother, 
probably we had better go along (with the people), but we must 
always live behind. No one would ever have died if we remained 
here all the time,” he said to her. ‘“‘Just as long as we remained here 
no one would ever have died,”’ he said to her. 
They went along living anywhere. While they were moving the 
chief’s family had a death, and he felt very badly. Then it is said 
he (the hero) was besought by the chief and asked that the person 
who had already died should come back to life. “I shall pray to 
you for the last time, I shall never again trouble you im anything. 
I have the control over this town, which you see, I have control over 
all these people. If any one speaks to you, he will in no respect 
speak truthfully. I shall speak to the person myself if any one 
prays to you. And if he nevertheless speaks to you, ‘Stop talking 
to him. I have already told him,’ I shall say to him,” he was told. 
