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saw on the shore a man whose name was Handjoias."" When they 

 met, this man asked, " What have you lost? " " My canoe," answered 

 Hagowanen. "Well, the man who lives on that island yonder was 

 here yesterday, and he took your canoe," replied Handjoias. "Who 

 is the man on the island ? " said Hagowanen. " He is one of the 

 Ganyaqden ^^' people," was the answer. " How am I to get my canoe 

 back ? " inquired Hagowanen. " Give me what meat you have, and I 

 will get it for you," said Handjoias. " What am I to eat if I do that," 

 replied Hagowanen. " I will do better, I will bring the canoe. Take 

 your meat home, and roast it, keeping half and putting the other 

 half outside of the door of the lodge for me," declared Handjoias. 

 " Very well," answered Hagowanen. Handjoias, who himself had 

 taken the canoe to the island, now brought it back, saying : " That 

 man on the island is a very ugly fellow. He almost killed me." 

 Getting into his canoe, Hagowanen sailed home; on arriving he drew 

 up his canoe safely on the rocks. Then he untied and threw down the 

 bundle of meat, which in a moment regained its natural size. The 

 meat he piled up inside of the lodge, and tanned the skins, but he 

 never paid Handjoias for bringing back the canoe. 



After a time a woman of the Hongak (Wild Goose) people came to 

 Hagowanen 's lodge, bringing a basket of marriage bread, and say- 

 ing, " My mother has sent me to Hagowanen to ask him to take me to 

 wife." Hagowanen hung his head a while thinking, and mused, " I 

 suppose nothing ill-starred will come of this." Then, looking at her, 

 he said, " It is well ; I am willing to do what your mother wants me 

 to do." On hearing this reply the woman was glad. She placed the 

 basket of nuptial corn bread before him. In accepting it he said: 

 " I am thankful. For many years I have not tasted bread which was 

 made by a woman." So he ate some of the bread, whereupon they 

 became husband and wife. 



At the end of the first year the Hongak woman bore a son to 

 Hagowanen, and so she did every year until at last they had ten 

 sons, whom they named in their order from the eldest to the youngest, 

 as follows: (a) Tgwendahenh Niononeoden ; '^^ (J) Hononhwaes; (c) 

 Haniodaqses; (d) Hagondes; (e) Dahsihdes; (/) Dahsinongwadon; 

 (g) Daheqdes; (h) Oeqdowanen; {i) Donoengwenhden ; and (y) 

 Ot'hegwenhda. 



They lived together for some time at Hetgen Tgastende, until one 

 morning when Hagowanen, who was sitting on a stone outside the 

 lodge with drooping head, said to himself: "Well, I have many 

 children now. I did not think that woman would have so many. I 

 must go home again." So he rose, and going aboard his canoe, sailed 

 away across Ganyodaeowanen ("The Big Lake"). After a while 

 his wife, missing him, said, " ^Vhere is my husband?" She looked out 

 and around everywhere but could not find him. The eldest son was 

 then a youth and the youngest a lively little boy. 



