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a noise like thunder. One day the boy followed his mother out of 

 the lodge. They had a small dog. and as the boy was running after 

 his mother, somebody seized him and rushed away ; but the dog ran 

 lifter him, and, contriving to seize his feet, pulled off his moccasins, 

 which he carried home. This was the first indication the woman had 

 that her boy was gone. Hinon Hohawaqk was off with a storm at 

 the time, and when he came home his wife asked whether he had 

 taken the boy. " No," said he. " Oh ! he is lost," cried she. '" Oh, no ! 

 he is all right," said Hinon Hohawaqk ; " he has many relations 

 around the world — uncles and cousins." The boy stayed away all 

 winter. One day when the winter was over he came home with his 

 father. Then Hinon Hohawaqk said to the people of his family, 

 " We must all move away and live with my father." The old woman 

 said, " No, M-e can not go ; it is so far and I am so old." " I will carry 

 you there in a little while," said the grandson. Thereupon Hinon 

 Hohawaqk began to thunder, and lightnings flew around. The lodge 

 was torn to pieces and blazed up in flames. All the rocks and lodges 

 in the opening were broken to pieces. Hinon Hohawaqk and all of 

 his people rose in the air. The east wind began to blow, bearing 

 them to lofty mountains in the west, where they found old grand- 

 father Hinon. All live there in the caves of the rocks to this day. 



69. Hagowanen and Ot'hegwenhda^-' 



At Hetgen Tgastende ^'^ lived a man named Hagowanen, who pos- 

 sessed potent orenda (magic power), and who belonged to the Don- 

 yonda people. One day he set out to hunt. In his canoe he sailed 

 across a broad lake in front of his lodge, and then, leaving his canoe 

 on the other side, he traveled five days toward the west. Then he 

 collected wood and made a camp. 



On the first day of his hunting he killed five bears and deer, 

 which he brought into his camp, saying, " What bad luck I have 

 had today ! " On the second day he killed 10 bears and 12 deer 

 and brought them home and skinned and roasted them to dry the 

 meat of the 15 bears and 18 deer which he had killed, finishing the 

 work before daylight. The next morning he said, " I must go after 

 more meat." That day he killed 24 deer and 20 bears and brought 

 them into camp, and skinned them and finished roasting the meat 

 precisely at midnight. Then he said, " I think I have enough 

 now." Putting all the meat into one heap, he tied it up with bark 

 ropes. Then he shook the package, saying, " I want you to be small," 

 at which it sliranlv into a small package, which he hung in his belt. 

 In the same way be made the skins into similar bundles, which he 

 hung to his belt, and then set out for home. 



When Hagowanen reached the lake he could not find his canoe; 

 he looked everywhere, but he could see nothing of it. At last, he 



