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to help you, for this is a very dangerous spot. The magic power 

 (orenda) of the man you are looking for extends to this place, and 

 he has a great many other places under his control. You must fol- 

 low me, or you will not live through the night." They went with 

 the owner of the voice, seeming to rise in the air as they journeyed. 

 After a while the guide said, " Stop here and see what would have 

 happened to you if you had stayed in the tree." As they looked back, 

 they saw Ganiagwaihegowa ^^' tear the tree into bits, which flew 

 around in every direction. Ganiagwaihegowa looked for the men, 

 saying : " He who notified me said that two men were here. He al- 

 ways disappoints me, but if he does this once more, I will cut his 

 head off." Then Ganiagwaihegowa went away. The guide said, 

 " Ganiagwaihegowa has gone home, and you are now safe." 



They spent the night in another hollow tree. The next morning 

 they hurried on and at midday came to the place where the rocks 

 were high — the highest rocks in the whole world — on the summit of 

 which lived the old man. As they stood at the foot and looked up, 

 they said, " How is it possible to get up where that old man 

 lives? " but the}' went. They searched until they found a ledge that 

 seemed to ascend in a spiral; this they began to climb, one ahead of 

 the other. Sometimes they slipped, almost falling off. At length 

 the man ahead slipped on a round stone, and over he went, striking 

 on the rocks as he fell and going down out of sight. " Well," 

 thought the other man, " my friend is dead ; " thereupon he kicked 

 the round stone from the ledge. In falling it struck the fallen man, 

 who was just regaining consciousness, on the top of his head, killing 

 him. 



The man above went on until he reached the top of the rocks. 

 At the lodge of the old man, whose name was Has'honyot (i. e., " his 

 back is turned"), of the Odjieqdah'** (Crayfish or Lobster) people, 

 he stood a while, thinking, " this man is at home, I suppose." Looking 

 down among the rocks, he said, " See where I would fall if he were 

 to kill me." Peeping into the lodge, he said: "Sure enough, he is 

 at home ; he is looking toward me and must have been looking at me 

 ever since I came up. I wonder where that thing is for which I 

 have come. I wonder whether that is it hanging up there. How 

 shall I manage to get inside? Perhaps I would better turn the 

 lodge over and let it fall among the rocks." He overturned the 

 lodge — down it went over the precipice, whereupon he thought: 

 "What will happen when it strikes? I will go and see. I have 

 overturned the lodge of the most magically powerful person in the 

 world, and did not have much trouble in doing so." When the man 

 got halfway down he slipped. The farther he fell the faster he 

 went. At last, slipping over the edge of the rocks, he fell till he 

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