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When he was a few years older he began bathing for strength in 

 winter-time. After people had whijij^ed each other they would go 

 to the shaman to see what he predicted. This had l)een going on for 

 some time when four persons went out of the town to carve things for 

 tli(^ shaman. They were gone so long that late in the winter it was 

 thought they had been lost, and the shaman was consulted. They 

 laid liim in the middle of the house and tested his spirits in every way 

 to fmd out what the matter was. Finally, the shaman got his spirits to 

 take a certain man up to the sky to see if he could discover the missing 

 men. The man he chose knew that the yoimg man was_ preparing to 

 kill some one, so, when he awoke, he said to him, ' 'Tell the shaman 

 that they are there (i. e., in the heaven to which those go who are 

 killed)." And the youth said to .the ]>eople, "The persons who 

 destroyed my uncle are the same who destroyed these. Let us go to 

 war." 



Then they made a war hat for the young man all covered with 

 abalone shells, and he went out to fight. Every time he went out he 

 conquered, because he was strong. The missing men, however, got 

 home safely. After some time the youth came against a fort where 

 lived an old sister of his father, and this woman shouted down to him 

 during the fight, "I never thought that that boy would grow into such 

 a powerful man. When I took away the moss** from his cradle he 

 never felt how cold it was." So the young man, when he got into the 

 fort, inquired, "Who said that to me?" 'Tt was jowv father's sister 

 who said it." So he ])itied his father's sister, ])ulled olT his war hat, 

 and smashed it on the rocks in front of her, breaking the abalone 

 shells all to pieces. He gave up fighting, and they made peace. 



Some time after this, however, he killed one of his own friends 

 belonging to another town, and they came over and killexl two of his 

 people in revenge. After that every time the young man ate, he 

 would say, "I will leave- this good ])art for my enemy," meaning that 

 he would feed them on a good war. He always made fun of his 

 enemies because he was brave. So the people at this place, when they 

 had destroyed all of his com])anions, took him captive because he had 

 talked so much. They would not let him touch the bodies of his 

 friends, and he said to them at last, ' 'Let me have my friends." ' 'Will 

 3'ou do this any more?" they said. "No, I will not set out to war 

 any more. Let me have my friends." Then they lowered a canoe 

 into the water with himself and a few others who had been preserved, 

 and they started home with the bodies. On the way one of his com- 

 panions said to him, "I wish you would steer this canoe well." "It 

 can not be steered well," he said, "because there are so few to pad- 

 dle it." Some of the women belonging to his enemies were in the 

 canoe along with tlieiii. When they burned their dead, they put these 



a A piece of moss was placed in tlie cradle for sanitary purposes. 



