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found him; how he was ashamed to leave the water till she told him of 
the battle being fought outside the village; how he quickly left the 
water, going to the scene of battle; how he went and got his weapons, 
met the men who said his brothers had performed most of the fighting ; 
how he managed to be present at the scene of the fighting ; how he met 
one of his brothers and was told that it was useless that he should go 
further, for his brothers had quite likely killed the last one in the 
battle; how he met his other brothers, and they told him there was one 
who was dangerous still alive; how he met this dangerous man and 
found him dangerous as his brothers told him. Thus he told in song 
the story, telling all of it in words. Then he told in song how he 
killed the enemy; failed the first time, and the second, then the third 
time and the fourth; how they wrestled all around there, rolling on top 
of one another ; how he finally succeeded in getting an arrow while on 
top; how he landed an arrow point in the man’s side and killed him; 
how he thought to show his brothers he had killed the same one that 
neither one of them could kill; how he carried home the body; how he 
rested when he gave out; how he finally succeeded in reaching home; 
and how now he stood outside, listening to his brothers talking. When 
he had ended the song he called his brothers, telling them to come out 
and see if he had not killed the same identical person whom they had 
failed to kill; then he threw the body on the ground. It was then day- 
light and everybody in the village was awake, when they heard him 
singing. He had waited until morning, thinking that his brothers 
might not believe him in the darkness; that they might think he had 
picked up some other dead body and brought it home. All his brothers 
came out and everybody else came, to see the body, and all said that 
it was the same man whom every brave had failed to kill. This was 
the song: 
“Hi-na-ni-i-rai, 
Hi-na-ni-i-rai, 
Hi-na-ni-i-rai. 
Ah-he-na-hi-na-ni-i-rai. 
Hi-na-ni-i-rai, 
Hi-na-ni-i-rai, 
Hi-na-ni-i-rai. 
Ah-he-na-hi-na-ni-i-rai. 
Hi-na-ni-i-rai- 

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