Z7^ri] LEGENDS 709 



In a short time thereafter the young nephew of Okteondon rose 

 to the surface of the water bringing with him, as did the stranger, 

 the large white rock, which he cast aside as he came out of the 

 water. He found no one around and he saw that his garments were 

 missing, so he ran to the phice where he remembered the canoe had 

 been beached. "When he arrived there he found that the canoe, pro- 

 pelled by the swift feet of the wild geese, was far out on the lake. 

 As he reached the shore he overheard the strange man in the canoe 

 say in a loud voice: " To you who feed on flesh and who dwell in the 

 waters of the lake I offer this flesh to eat." These flesh eaters 

 were highly pleased with the idea that they would soon have more 

 flesh to eat. By flesh the stranger signified the flesh of the young 

 man whom he had entrapped on the island. The name of the strange 

 man was S'hagowenot'ha. 



Then the youthful nephew of Okteondon started away, going from 

 place to place in a hopeless effort to find some way of escape. AVhen 

 he found that he had been victimized by S'hagowenot'ha, he began 

 to cry, and he went about crying and saying to himself, " ifbw I 

 know that I am about to die." 



In his wanderings around the island he found, scattered in numer- 

 ous places, many bones of human beings in different degrees of de- 

 composition. Among these decaying bones he was surprised to find 

 the half-decayed body of a man lying on the gi'ound, and he was 

 still more astonished to hear this half-dead man say to him,*"^ " My 

 sister's son. Oh, nephew ! come to me." The youth, in his surprise, 

 obeying the voice, went to the spot where the man lay stretched out; 

 there he stopped and "stood waiting the pleasure of the man who 

 had addressed him as "my sister's son.'' 



Then the man continued to address him. saying. " Oh. my sister's 

 son, you will now become very wretched, for S'hagowenot'ha has now 

 shut you in on this island. Take new courage and exert yourself, 

 for, though you may not know it, you are endowed beyond measure 

 with orenda. You must now put it forth by taking courage to over- 

 come these deceptions of S'liagowenot'ha. Moreover, you must take 

 the following measures for this purpose. Wh^en the sun is near set- 

 ting you must run to and fro all over the island, from one end to the 

 other. You must cover it with your tracks. As soon as it becomes 

 night and darkness is here, then you must return to the place where 

 the canoe was beached at the canoe landing of S'hagowenot'ha. When 

 you have arrived there you must dig a trench in the sand sufficiently 

 large to hold your body. In this you must conceal yourself by cover- 

 ing yourself with sand, but yoii must leave a small aperture for your 

 mouth. Your enemy, of course, will come to visit you. as is well 

 known; he will come at about midnight. Do not under any circum- 

 stances become impatient and do not fear at all. He will bring with 



