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started up, wearing his claw snowshoes, which must have been shod 

 with points as strong as the iron ones people have now. He stepped 

 up a httle distance, shook himseh', and looked down. Then he 

 called like the niurrelet and went up flying. The warriors were 

 surprised and said, ''Now give him some more things to put on his 

 feet." They talked about him in the canoes. They said, "Look! 

 he is up on the very top ol" the mountain peeping at us." Then 

 he lit fires all along on top of the mountain. All the war canoes 

 went along to another place where was a sandy beach. 



Then they tied all the canoe ropes to the body of Murrelet's steers- 

 man, intending to use him as an anchor. Murrelet heard him crying 

 and ran dowm the mountain toward him. He turned the world 

 over with his foes." As he came he made a noise like the murrelet. 

 When he got near he told the man to cry very loudly. Probably 

 this man was his brother. It is rather hard to say. Then he said, 

 "I am going to cut the ropes now. Cry harder." So he cut all of 

 the ropes, and they ran off, while the war canoes floated away. 

 Afterward, however, the warriors found where they had drifted to 

 and recovered them. 



Then they started for the fort toward which they had originally 

 set out and captured it. 



One high-caste woman they saved and carried south. They took 

 good care of her on account of her birth. At the time when she 

 was captured she was pregnant, and her child was born among the 

 southern people. They also took good care of him; and while he 

 was growing uj) his mother would take some of his blood and put it 

 upon his nose to make him brave. 



For a long time he was ignorant that they were slaves, until one 

 day a young fellow kicked his mother in the nose so that it bled. 

 Then they told him, but he said, "You people know tliat she is my 

 mother. Why don't you take gootl care of her even if she is a 

 slave?"' After that a spirit possessed him. It was sorrow that 

 made him have this spirit. Then he ordered them to make a paddle 

 for him, and they made him a big one. His spirit was so very 

 powerful that he obtained enough blankets for his services to pur- 

 chase his mother's freedom. ^Vfterward he got ready to come north 

 with his father and mother, and they helped him to load his canoe. 

 Before he started his father's people asked him not to bring war 

 do^\^l upon them. No one else went with them because his spirit 

 was going to gui^le them. 



When they were about to start they put matting over his mother, 

 and, whenever they were going to encamp, they never went right 

 ashore but always dropped anchor outside. How it happened 

 they did not know, but on the way up his mother became pregnant 



<• Meaning that he sent sleep on them to make them sleep harder. 



