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you were coming. Xow, nephew, I have a game which I always 

 l^lay when anyone visits me — it is a foot race. We run from one 

 end to the other of the narrow opening." " I have nothing to bet," 

 replied Doonongaes. "Oh!" replied the old man, "bet your head." 

 "Very well," said Doonongaes. "Wait a while," said the old man; 

 " I will tell you when I am ready," and he went into another room. 

 Doonongaes. making himself invisible, followed him. The old man 

 iiad a bark canoe there, in which was a living thing that seemed to 

 i)e without bones, being a mass of flesh about 2 feet long, in the 

 shape of a lizard. As the old man rubbed his hand over it, a fluid 

 resembling milk came out of the living object, with which the old 

 man rubbed his hands and his whole body. Doonongaes also rubbed 

 liimself with the juice before going out. Then the contestants placed 

 themselves at the end of the opening, whereupon the old man said. 

 •• I will start just as the sun comes to the middle of the sky." They 

 stood watching until the sun was exactly in the middle of the sky. 

 'J'hen they started. The old man, throwing out his arms, pushed 

 Doonongaes far back. The latter, springing up. however, soon 

 overtook the old man, and catciiing him by the neck, threw him 

 back, saying. " That is what I do when I want to win." They ran 

 on until the middle of the afternoon, when they reached the other 

 end of the opening. At sunset Doonongaes was back at the starting 

 place, where he staid all night. In the morning the old man came, 

 and Doonongaes said : " I have won. Now I will take off j'our head." 

 " Well," said the old man, "I will have a smoke first." ^'"'' " Oh. no," 

 said Doonongaes, cutting off the old man's head at once. 



Then Doonongaes continued his journey northward, traveling for 

 two days and nights. When he tired of walking he turned into 

 a long hoi'ued snake. Soon, seeing a great black cloud coming with 

 rain and thimder, he thought, " Hinon '"' wants to kill me "; hence he 

 went down into the earth so far that Hinon could not reach him. 

 After staying there a good while, he said, "I must go on"; so he 

 changed himself into a man again on account of his dread of Hinon. 

 He soon came to a river, on the bank of which he stood, wondering 

 how he was to cross. He went along the bank to the point where the 

 river entered a lake. There he thought, " I must change myself into 

 a snake and go into the water." After crossing he became a man 

 again so Hinon would not pursue him. 



Doonongaes journeyed on a whole month. One morning he came 

 to an opening called Gendagwen (t) ,"" where he saw nothing. Having 

 passed through this he saw a woman. He ran forward swiftly, but 

 could not overtake her. She went with such speed that they were 

 the same distance apart at night, when he thought, " I can r.ot catch 

 her. so I may as well camp." Picking up some dry sticks, he made 

 a fire. Od looking around he saw that the woman had camped just 



