MICHELSON. ] THE GHOST-FEAST. 477 
time (I shall take a view) yonder,’ our nephew thought: so it is 
reported of him. Exactly as he started to climb (the cliff) he heard 
his younger brother crying out, but he departed. Our nephew 
thought he would stop to take a view. After he had taken a view, he 
was told, ‘Well, Wi'sa‘kii'*’, now these persons are truly killing me; 
my elder brother, wherever you are, come, Wi'sa‘ki‘*‘,’’ our nephew 
was told by his younger brother. Our nephew ran at full speed 
toward where he heard him, such is the report told of him. He alit 
across the hills: such is the report regarding our nephew. When 
he stopped in his flight somewhere yonder, lo, his younger brother 
was surely crying out. “Hey, Wi'sa‘kii‘“*, wherever you are, do come,” 
he was told by his younger brother, ‘‘now indeed these persons are 
lulling me,” he was told by his younger brother. Then it seems that 
our nephew ran at his highest speed, alighting in the hollows across 
the hill: such is the report regarding our nephew. As he arrived 
yonder falling down across the hill his younger brother faintly con- 
tinued crying. Well, when our nephew arrived falling there were 
traces on the grass where his younger brother had struggled. Our 
nephew groaned as if to cry. As his heart shook, the earth shook. 
His fellow manitous were nearly shaken out of their places. ‘‘ Well, 
get down deep in the earth, Wi'sa’ki‘“’ is a kind of manitou,” said 
they by whom (his little brother) had been slain. ‘‘For Wi'sa‘ka‘** 
will have no mercy upon us,” they by whom (his little brother) had 
been slain said to each other: such is the report regarding our nephew. 
“He did nothing to us,” they said to each other. ‘Get down deeper 
in the earth,” they said to each other, “‘we went at him (in the) first 
place,” they said to each other. 
He immediately already knew what those by whom (his little 
brother) had been killed were thinking. ‘Well, my uncles and 
aunts * will pay close attention to the manitous at the time when 
they begin to lose sight of each other,” it seems our nephew thought. 
“And that is why we mortals each at some time meet death while 
we are living about with our fellow mortals at the time when 
it already has been fixed how long our life shall continue to endure.” 
Then it seems he started to walk to where they dwelt. As he 
started to enter his grandmother was sitting there. ‘‘ Where are the 
people who were here?’’ it seems he said to his grandmother. ‘Oh 
ho, you thought they were people. Really those with whom we 
have been living in a village are manitous,’’ it seems he was told by 
his grandmother. ‘Oh, I see, manitous,” it seems our nephew said 
to his grandmother. Then it seems our nephew started to lie down 
where his place was: such is the report concerning him. It is reported 
of him that when it was evening he heard some one there. ‘Who 
may it be that has come to play a prank on me when my younger 
* This is the sense of the passage, but the rendition is rather free. 
4 I. e., human beings. 
