LEGEND OF UKIABL. 609 
And his wife told her father. And her father commanded an old man to go around 
among the people and proclaim all the words that the Orphan had told. So the old 
man went through the village as a crier or herald, saying, “ He says indeed that you 
shall dance! He says indeed that all of you in the village, even the small children, 
are to dance!” The Orphan, his wife, and his grandmother, having the drum, went 
inside the circle (of lodges). The Orphan fastened his belt very tightly around his 
waist and then said to his wife, “Grasp my belt very hard. Beware lest you let it 
go!” Then he told his grandmother to grasp the other side (of the belt), saying, 
“Do not let go!” 
When all the people assembled inside the circle of lodges the Orphan sat in the 
very middle (surrounded by the people). And when he beat the drum he made the 
people rise about a foot and then come to the ground again. The people were enjoy- 
ing themselves when he beat the dram. When he beat it a second time he made them 
jump a little higher. Then said his grandmother, “Oh! grandchild! f usually dance 
very well.” He made her jump and come down suddenly as he beat the drum, just as 
he had done to each of the others. When he gave the third beat he made the people 
jump still higher, and as they came down he beat the drum before they could touch 
the ground, making them leap up again. He beat the drum rapidly, sending all the 
people so high into the air that one could not get even a glimpse of them. And as 
they came down after a long time, he caused them to die one after another as they lay 
on the ground. He thus killed all the people by concussion, which resulted from his 
beating the drum. 
Though the Orphan’s wife and grandmother were taken up into the air at each 
beat of the drum, it happened that only their feet went up into the air and their heads 
and bodies were turned downward, because the women held him by the waist, as he 
had ordered them. Of all the people only three survived, Ictinike, the chief, and the 
chief's wife, As the chief was coming down he implored the Orphan to spare him. 
But the latter was inexorable, sending him up repeatedly until he grew tired of hear- 
ing the chief’s entreaties. Then he let him fall to the earth and die. In like manner 
he caused the death of the chief’s wife. Only Ictinike remained. ‘“O younger 
brother! I go to you and my wife’s sister! Pity ye me !” said Ictinike. But the Or- 
phan beat the drum again and when Ietinike fell to the ground the concussion killed 
him. 
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Ga” nikacif ga aka qubaf té, wa¢ipizna” dtai te, Ukfabiaké. Gan’yi 
And person the was mysteri- doing things ex- the Ukiabi~ the And then 
(sub.) ous, skillfully ceeded (past (sub.). 
act), 
ijin’ge ak dubai té, wi" aka na" te, ¢ibei® jingai te. Hau. Gan’yi na™ 
his son the were four, one the was grown, three “were small. 4] Andthen grown 
(sub.) (sub.) 
ropes Pay senile) pe Ne finee Hi NOM ne RO oi) Lie beans Che 
aka qubé égiga” qtia’i té. Hau. Gan‘yi ca” qti i¢Adi ¢inké t'éoi¢e ga™ dai té 
the mysteri- was just like his (father). 1 Andthen strangeto his the one tokillhim, wished. 
(sub.) ous say, father who his own, 
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