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into the canoe. The other one was left behind as they paddled off; she 
wept and wept. And the others paddled along, 
“Kill some game/’ they told him. 
They saw some buffaloes. Then that hell-diver beached his canoe. 
He killed one, 
“First let me eat the belly-fat!” 
“Oh dear, no! I should say not! I am going to use it when religious 
rites are performed.” 
Then that one woman said, “He is the diver-duck.” 
The other, “No! The Bead-Man.” 
Then they got into the canoe again. In due time he beached it. 
“Stay here,” he told his wives. 
So they stayed. 
“Your sister-in-law will come call you,” he told them. 
Then he went. In due time someone came: two young women, 
“Come, sister-in-law!” 
Then they went there. 
They arrived over there. 
Then that other woman who had been left by the canoers arrived 
there; she found another man for herself. Then, when night came they 
danced. 
Then, “Don’t peep in where the dance is going on,” that hell-diver 
told his wives. 
But those women peeped in just the same. There was the hell-diver 
being trampled on, their husband, the hell-diver. Then that one woman 
hated having the hell-diver as her husband. They went away; they went 
to take another husband. They took a crumbly old log that had many 
bugs on it; they placed it like someone lying down in their bed. Then 
they went away. 
When the dance was over, the hell-diver came home. 
The other one, also, kept pinching him. 
“Now both of you pinch me, even though there has been a dance,” he 
said to them. 
Something there spoke: “Long ago by this time they have gone to 
find a husband; it’s bugs are biting you there; . 
Then the hell-diver wept. Then he looked for them. He found them 
staying with another man. He cut the other man’s throat; he killed him. 
Suddenly the women woke up; that man had been killed. They went 
away from there. 
