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bear on his back, he started off, trailed by his wife. He soon reached 

 a lodge, which he entered, wholly unaware that his wife was follow- 

 ing him. Creeping up to the lodge, she listened outside to what was 

 being said within, and overheard the voice of a woman, saying, 

 " The next time you come you must stay here, and you must not go 

 back home again." Hadjowiski replied, "It is well; I shall do so." 

 Thereupon he came out of the lodge, in which he left all the meat 

 he had killed that day. and started for home. 



His wife ran on ahead, and, reaching liome ahead of her husband, 

 she said to her boys, " Sons, yoiir father has another wife, so I 

 shall not remain here any longer." Then putting on her panther- 

 skin robe, she departed. 'Wlicn Hadjowiski arrived at his home, not 

 finding his wife, he asked: "What is the matter? Where is your 

 mother? " One of the boys told him that his mother had l.)een gone 

 all day, and that, returning but a short time before, she had put 

 on her panther-skin robe, declaring that she was going away. Had- 

 jowiski hung his head, but at last he asked, " Why did she go away?" 

 The boy replied: " She told us that you have another wife." To this 

 the father answered : " It is well. My sons, I shall follow her. I 

 want you to remain in the lodge while I am away. If I am alive 

 then, I will be back home in 10 days." Hadjowiski departed and 

 traveled all night. The next morning he found his wife's tracks, 

 and discovered that she had doubled on them, but he kept straight 

 ahead, knowing well that she had done this in order to deceive him. 

 Soon afterward he was again on her trail, going directly westward. 

 After traveling for some time he came at last to a lodge in which 

 lived an old man, who said : " You are traveling, my friend ? " 

 Hadjowiski replied : " Yes. I am following the woman whose tracks 

 come to this lodge." Then S'hagoiyagenfha,''* for such was the old 

 man's name, who belonged to the Nosgwais people, answered, " I 

 do not know where she has gone." Hadjowiski again declared, 

 " Her tracks come here, anyway." S'hagoiyagent'ha replied : " It is 

 well. You can look for her, if you like." So Hadjowiski searched 

 for her everywhere, but he could not find her. Finally the old man 

 resolved to send him off, so he asked him, " Do you want me to tell 

 you which way she went from here?" Hadjowiski replied, "Yes; 

 I do." Thereupon S'hagoiyagent'ha brought a small canoe made of 

 flint, telling the man to sit in it. When Hadjowiski had done so the 

 old man shoved the canoe out of the doorway, and at once it rose 

 into the air, through which it passed with great rapidity. Finally 

 the canoe collided with a high rock, and the renegade Hadjowiski 

 was flung out; falling among the rocks, he was killed. The canoe, 

 which was endowed with life, returned to the old man. 



Wien the sons of Hadjowiski had been at home for several days 

 the eldest went out to hunt. When night came he did not return to 



