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thing. When he came down, his wives were gone. He said to his 

 father, "Do you know where they wejit?" but he answered, "No." 



Then the young man said, "I will start down on foot to the place 

 whither I think they have gone." So he set out, and after he had 

 gone on for some time, he heard people making a noise. It was the 

 brant tribe in camp. On this journey he took a bag full of arrows 

 with nuissel-shell jioints, and bows. For this reason, when he came 

 back of the place where they were, and they caught sight of him, they 

 were afraid and flew away. Then he went down to the place where 

 they had been sitting and found all kinds of green herbs such as brants 

 live on. 



After this the girls said to their father, "Let us camp a little way 

 ofi". He has been with us for some time, and we have gotten his 

 heat. Therefore let us camp near by so that he can come to us and 

 be taken along." But their father answered, "When he comes be- 

 hind us again and camps, say to him, 'Our fathers" do not like to see 

 your bows and arrows. Get rid of them.'" They came to him and 

 repeated these words, but he said, "I do not take them in order to 

 do harm to your fathers but to get game for myself. I wish you 

 woulil tell them that I want to go along, too." So they told him to 

 come down,- and, when he did so, his father-in-law said, "Bring out 

 the best coat. I want to put it on my son-in-law." 



After that his wives said to him, "We are going to start along with 

 you. When we set out do not think about going back and do not 

 look down." Then they put a woven mat over him and started. 

 After they had gone on for some distance the man wanted to urinate 

 and tlropped down from among them on the smooth grass. The 

 brants did not want to leave him, and they followed. It was quite 

 close to their real camping place. The brant tribe was so large that 

 he felt as if he were in his own father's house. They would play all 

 the evening, and he felt very hap]')y among them. 



When they arrived at their real home, this man took off his bag of 

 bows and arrows and hid it back in the woods so that they could not 

 see it. In the same town were fowls of all kinds — lirants, swans, 

 herons, etc. — and by and by war arose over a woman, between the 

 brant tribe and the heron tribe. They went outside and started to 

 fight. The swan tribe was between, trying to make peace. When 

 they came out to fight for the second time, the brant tribe was pretty 

 well destroyed by the heron people's long, pick-like bills. It was 

 from the herons that the Indians learned how to make picks. This 

 is also the reason why the LiuklnAxA'di use the swan as their crest, 

 for they are very slow, and the KiksA'di use the brant as their em- 

 blem because they are very lively. 



a Meaning tlieir father and his brothers. 



