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he will probably return by tomorrow." Having said this, the old 

 man lay down, saying to the young man and the young woman: 

 "Do ye two retire to sleep. I my own little self am asleep" (i.e., 

 lying down to sleep). 



After they had all retired for the night the old man said aloud, 

 "Let me tell a tale," and thereupon he began to sing, " They (masc.) 

 have a lodge as a home, it is said; they are eight in number; they arc 

 lost (devoted to destruction)." He sang this song through three 

 times. Now the young man began to snore loudly, for he had fallen 

 sound asleep. In a short time the old man arose, and carefully i-e- 

 adjusting his robe, said: "I am greatly perturbed in my mind. A 

 game animal has come into my lodge on a visit." Then taking down 

 his war club and approaching his sleeping guest, he killed him by 

 blows on the head. 



Going to a corner of the lodge, he obtained there a great clay pot 

 and. after putting water in it, he set it over the fire. Having quar- 

 tered the body of his victim, he put it into the pot to cook. While 

 he was engaged in this gruesome work he kept saying, " There is 

 still no lack of power to do things in my manner of living, for T 

 have no trouble to live. Game animals habitually come to my lodge." 

 So spake the old man, who was then cooking the entire body of a 

 human being, and was happy. (It is said that he gave to his grand- 

 daughter the flesh of leeches to eat and putrid things also. She was 

 not aware of what she was eating, for he had hypnotized her to 

 think these things were proper and good. This granddaughter was 

 a prisoner whom he had taken in one of his raids. But he himself 

 ate human flesh in his lodge, and in order to satisfy his unnatural 

 appetite he was engaged in killing people from all the neighboring 

 settlements; this conduct agitated the entire country around.*'") 



In the meanwhile the brothers of Honenhineh, it is said, were not 

 very much surprised when night came and the next younger brother 

 had not returned, for they suspected some harm had befallen both 

 their missing brothers. Then the eldest of the remaining brothers 

 said, " Well, it is now for me to go to find my brothers who have not 

 returned from the north." So in the morning when they had eaten 

 their morning meal he started out alone on the northward trail to 

 seek for his missing brothers. After having gone some distance from 

 the lodge he found the tracks of the eldest of the two brothers and 

 followed their lead. 



AVhile running along he suddenly saw ahead of him the light in 

 the forest from clearings near by. Keeping on his course, he finally 

 came to a large clearing or field, where he stopped to look around, 

 because the tracks of his two brothers led him to this point. While 

 examining the country he saw in the distance the Great Valley, and 

 as the trail led thither he followed it until he came to the brink of 



