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was ashamed, that he wanted him to let him go away, that his wife 

 had called him glutton. "No; you must stay. I will feed you." 

 "No, turn me loose, and at the end of four days I will go." So the 

 town chief was sad that his eagle was going away. At last the town 

 chief decided to go away with the eagle. "No, you have your people 

 here. You can not go with me." But the town chief was strong- 

 headed, and at last the eagle said he would take him. "Turn me 

 loose, so I can fly and make myself strong to take you." So the 

 town chief turned hhn loose, and the eagle would fly out, from house 

 to house. The people thought that something had happened that 

 the eagle of the town chief was flying about. (The eagle was saying 

 good-bye to the people in the village.) Then the eagle flew back to 

 the house of the town chief and told him to lie down on his back, from 

 wing to wing. Then he flew in the air a Uttle way and came down 

 again. The eagle said, "That is not the right way. Lie down, 

 stretching yourself from head to taU." From the time they were 

 talking about going away, from that time on, all the animals, the 

 sheep and cattle, began to sicken. (The town chief is supposed not 

 to leave the town.) Then they flew up, and the town chief was sing- 

 ing. The people heard and wondered why the town chief was singing 

 and they were thinking that something was going to happen in the 

 towTi. He sang: 



ai ai ai pitsaai 



ho'taiyai ho'tayai 



ai ai hau hau 



Then the people came out to look, the town chief was singing from 

 so far away. They saw that he was on the eagle's back, and they got 

 their sticks and guns, but they could not hit him. The eagle flew 

 down to a high mountain (Poopyenab, Banana moimtain), rocky, 

 without trees. He flew southeast and stopped up in the top, where 

 nobody could go. When he got there, he left him there. He said 

 he was going to thank him for aU the good he had done him by feeding 

 him. "This is my home. As you kept me in your home, now I am 

 going to keep you in my home." So the eagle said, "I am going to 

 get you some food to eat." So in the morning he flew down, and in 

 the afternoon he flew up with a rabbit for him to eat. But he could 

 not eat it, he had no fire to cook it. Every day the eagle brought 

 him a rabbit. So he Uved for seven years. All that time the people 

 were worrj-ing about then- town chief. The animals were dying; the 

 river was drydng up ; the food was gi\'ing out. After four or five years 

 people were star\Tng to death, no rain, no wind. They were burning 

 from the sun. After six years people were dying. Old people would 

 go to the ash heap to look for old bones and hides. The town chief 

 had a pile of the rabbits the eagle had been bringing him, he ate 



