THE WONDERFUL BOY. 97 
received by the chief, given plenty to eat, and was told to continue on his 
journey, as there were other people in the west. He came to the people; 
he was treated very kindly and meat and other things were given him. 
He was told to go on, as there were other people in the west. After a 
while this boy came to a village of people. The people were naked, had 
no bows and arrows, but had sticks. Every day the people went rabbit 
hunting and killed some, and lived on this kind of food altogether. The 
people looked wonderingly at the boy and asked him where he came from. 
They thought he was funny because he wore the leggings, carried a bow 
and arrows, and hadarobe. They tried to keep him, but the boy said, 
‘‘No; I must go, for I am going on a long journey.” 
After a while the boy came to some people and when he got into 
their lodge he found they had no mouths. They fed him with meat. 
He ate. They looked funny at him, for he ate the meat. When these 
people became hungry they put dried meat upon the pole and placed 
it over the fire. When it was smoking they would take the meat and 
place it against their noses and smell of it. When they were filled, they 
would throw the meat to one side. They talked with the sign language. 
The young man left the people and went west. He came to other 
people who were very small, and these people had stones to throw. The 
stones were tied with strings and with these they killed their game. 
When they saw the boy with the bow and arrow they challenged him to 
shoot at a hide. The hide was stretched some feet away and a man 
selected to throw the stones. The stones were thrown at the hide and 
they went through the hide. The boy was told to shoot at it with his 
bow and arrows. He did this and shot through the hide. When they saw 
him shoot they thought it was wonderful. They began to examine the 
bow and the arrows. They kept the boy at their village so that he could 
teach them how to make the bow and the arrows. The boy taught them. 
After several days he asked if there were any more people and they 
said that they did not know of any more. The boy said, “‘I shall now 
goon.” He started. When night came somebody said to him: ‘My 
son, I will now let you know that you are beyond all people. It was 
I who brought you. I am the North-Wind. I shall take you now to 
the place where you are going. To-morrow we shall travel fast; towards 
the evening you will see a high peak. There you must go and you will 
see what the mound is.” 
The next day the boy traveled swiftly. Some time in the afternoon 
he saw a high peak in the distance. He ran towards it and in the even- 
ing when near to it he saw many eagle feathers strewn over the ground. 
When he reached the hill he saw that the point of the hill was a pile of 
