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b. Two days must you sit fast, my friend; four days must you sit 
fast, my friend. 
The two perpendicular lines on the breast of this figure are read ne- 
o-gone (two days), but are understood to mean two years; so of the 
four lines drawn obliquely across the legs, these are four years. The 
heart must be given to this business for two years, and the constrained 
attitude of the legs indicates the rigid attention and serious considera- 
tion which the subject requires. 
c. Throw off, woman, thy garments, throw off. 
The power of their medicines and the incantations of the Metai are 
not confined in their effect to animals of the chase, to the lives and 
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artes 
Fic. 166.—Song for beaver hunting. 
health of men; they control also the minds of all and overcome the 
modesty as well as the antipathies of women. The Indians firmly be- 
lieve that many a woman who has been unsuccessfully solicited by a 
man is not only by the power of the Metai made to yield, but even in 
a State of madness to tear off her garments and pursue after the man 
she before despised. These charms have greater power than those in 
the times of superstition among the English, ascribed to the fairies, 
and they need not, like the plant used by Puck, be applied to the per- 
son of the unfortunate being who is to be transformed; they operate at 
a distance through the medium of the Miz-zin-ne-neens. 
d. Who makes the people walk about? It is I that calls you. 
This is in praise of the virtue of hospitality, that man being most 
esteemed among them who most frequently calls his neighbors to his 
feast. 
e. Anything I can shoot with it (this medicine) even a dog, I can 
kill with it. 
Jf. I shoot thy heart, man, thy heart. 
He means, perhaps, a buck moose by the word e-nah-ne-wah, or man. 
g. I ean kill a white loon, [ ean kill. 
The white loon (rara avis nigroque similimo cygno) is certainly a rare 
and most difficult bird to kill; so we may infer that this boaster can 
kill anything, which is the amount of the meaning intended in that 
