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he squatted down there under a rock, while the devilfish's tentacles 

 swept over him, carrying all the forest trees along with them. Two 

 days after this his spirit told him to set-out again. 



When this shaman arrived at KlAkAnuwu', where many people lived, 

 everybody wanted to see him and try his strength, because they had 

 heard that he was a great shaman. One evening they began trying 

 him. They threw his mask on his face and it stayed there, covering 

 up his eyes so that he could not see where he was going. Then, when 

 he ran around the fire, the people stuck out their feet to trip him, but 

 he jumped over them every time. This showed how strong his spirits 

 were. Another time his spirits came to him they built a big fire and 

 he started around it. Then he threw the fire round upon everyone 

 who was there and as high up as the ceiling, but the fire hurt nobody. 

 By and by his clothes man said, "Another spirit is coming to him soon, 

 named Guts!caxo't!qa." This spirit had a big knife in his hand with 

 which he would hit people on the breast. When it came to him, the 

 shaman told the older people to stand up straight and motionless and 

 not to fear, for if one got scared he would die. lie hit one, and they 

 laid him in a certain place. Then everyone said, "You better kill 

 that shaman, for he has slain the best man in the company." After 

 his spirits had gone away, however, the shaman went to the body out 

 of which blood was still flowing and said, "It will be all right," while 

 his spirits made a noise. Then the man got up and jumped about. 

 The people looked at the wounded place, but there was not so much 

 as a scar upon it. 



After a while the shaman began trading off his grease to all who 

 wanted it. One clay he said, "Something is about to come up that 

 will be very dangerous to you people." It was the moon. When the 

 moon came up it shone brightly, and the stars were briglit, but after 

 a time the moon began to hide its face from them. That was what 

 he had predicted. The people, however, thought this was caused 

 by the shaman himself. 



Then the leading men and women of the Ka'gwAntan dressed them- 

 selves up, put grease on the fire, and began dancing to dance the moon 

 out. After awhile it came out just a little, so they f^dt very happy 

 and danced still harder. They continued doing so until the whole 

 moon was out. At the same time people took whatever property 

 they had, held it up and called the moon for it. They say the moon 

 acts in this way because it feels poor and lonely, so, when the moon 

 or sim does thus, they act in this manner. After tluit the shaman 

 went home and told his fellow shaman how everyone had tried him 

 in this place. "When I went around the fire, people put out their 

 feet to make me stumble. They tried me in ever}^ way." 



The shaman left at home was also trying to exert his power. ITis 

 spirits were singing inside of him in order to bring salmon into the 



