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After that they took all kinds of things to make the frog tribe feel 

 good so that they would let the woman return to her parents, but in 

 vain. By and by her father determined upon a plan and called all of 

 his friends together. Then he told them to dig trenches out fi'om the 

 lake in order to drain it. From the lake the frog chief could see how 

 the people had determined, and he told his tribe all about it. The 

 frog people call the mud around a lake their laid-up food. 



After the people had worked away for some time, the trench was 

 completed and the lake began draining away fast. The frogs asked 

 the woman to tell her people to have pity on them and not destroy all, 

 but the people killed none because they wanted only the girl. Then 

 the water flowed out, carrying numbers of frogs which scattered in 

 every direction. All the frog tribe then talked poorly about them- 

 selves, and the frog chief, who had talked of letting her go before, now 

 had her dressed up and their own odor, which they called "sweet 

 perfumery," was put upon her. After a while she came down the 

 trench half out of water with her fi-og husband beside her. They 

 pulled her out and let the frog go. 



When anyone spoke to this woman, she made a popping noise 

 "Hu," such as a frog makes, but after some time she came to her 

 senses. She explained, "It was the Kikca' (i. e., KiksA'di women) 

 that floated down with me," meaning that all the frog women and 

 men had drifted away. The woman could not eat at all, though they 

 tried everything. After a while they hung her over a pole, and the 

 black mud she had eaten when she was among the frogs came out of 

 her, but, as soon as it was all out, she died. Because this woman was 

 taken away by the frog tribe at that place, the frogs there can under- 

 stand human beings very well when they talk to them. It was a 

 KilvSA'di woman who was taken oft' by the frogs, and so those people 

 can almost understand them. They also have songs from the frogs, 

 frog personal names, and the frog emblem. All the people know 

 about them. 



23. HOW THE FROGS HONORED THE DEAD 



One time, when they were afraitl of being attacked, all of the Kiks- 

 A'di and Ka'gwAntan encamped on IvAnAsqle' (St. Lazaria island). 

 There are two parts to this island separated at high tide, and the 

 KiksA'di encamped upon one, while the KagwAntan lived upon the 

 other. On the same island there is also a small salt water pond at 

 the bottom of which was a creature called l !in, and, being pressed 

 for food on account of their fear of the enemy, the allies often tried 

 to bail out this pond when the tide left it, to get at the sea animal. 



While the people were there, a chief of the Ka'gwAntan died, and, 

 after he had been in the house among his friends for eight days, one of 

 his fi'iends said to the KiksA'di, "Take care of his dead body." All the 



