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turned, going directly eastward. On the course he passed the tree 

 wliere he had killed so many raccoons, and finally came to a second 

 tree, which was also full of raccoons. Stopping there, he killed a 

 large number, and while throwing them to the ground from the tree, 

 he again saw the woman who had accosted him at the other tree. 

 She urged him to come down, and did not fail to use very enticing 

 terms. As he recalled his grandfather's words, the young man well 

 knew that he should not go down to her, but a feeling came into his 

 heart which urgently prompted him to comply with her request. So 

 reluctantly descending halfway, there he stopped. But the woman 

 kept urging him to come down. P'inally, having reached the ground, 

 he sat on the end of the log, near the middle of which the woman 

 was sitting. She asked him, " AVhy do you sit so far away'^ Young 

 people customarily sit near each other when they talk together." 

 At this the young man drew a little nearer to her. But she still 

 urged him to come close to her, so finally he took his seat right at 

 her side. Now she began to tell him stories of wonders and magic 

 power, talking to him until at last, becoming wearied, the young 

 man fell asleep. Then the young woman, placing him in a bag which 

 she threw over her shoulder, hurried away through the aii*. At 

 the end of a long journey she alighted on the ground, and taking 

 the young man from the bag, she aroused him and asked, " Do you 

 know this place?" Looking around, he i-eplied, "Yes; my grand- 

 father and I have fished here." The young woman replied. " I do 

 not believe what you say. Point out something you remember." The 

 young man (willing that she should see these things) said, "Oh! 

 there are the poles we set up, and there is an old kettle in which we 

 cooked." He had bewitched her eyes, so after seeing these objects 

 she believed what he had said. 



Again the woman told him ftories until she had put him to sleep; 

 then putting him into her bag she carried him far away, finally alight- 

 ing on the ground. Taking him out of the bag and causing him to 

 open his eyes, she set him on a narrow cliff under a mountain, where 

 he had room only sufficient for him to lie down — a place not wider 

 than a small deerskin. 



Looking upward, he saw the mountain extending far above him, and 

 looking downward, he saw that the earth was many hundreds of feet 

 below. Nearer to him were Other mountain peaks, narrow^ and pointed, 

 on which were lying the bodies of men — some alive, some half dead, 

 others half eaten, and still others reduced to mere skeletons. The 

 sight of these things caused the young man many bitter reflections. 

 He repeatedly said : " Oh ! now I see that my grandfather was 

 entirely right in the advice he gave me. There are indeed very 

 wicked women who dwell in the east." His feelings of chagrin 

 were only heightened by what he learned from what one of the living 



