***TSI-001*** TS001 THE FLYING CHAIN TS00100010 ALONG THE COAST OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, THE LAND AND THE SEA DO TS00100020 NOT MEET IN A STRAIGHT AND CLEAN-DRAWN LINE, THEY RUN TOGETHER IN A TS00100030 TANGLE OF BAYS AND INLETS, POINTS AND ISLANDS. THERE ARE HUNDREDS TS00100040 OF ISLANDS, THOUSANDS OF THEM, MORE ISLANDS THAN ONE COULD BELIEVE TS00100050 POSSIBLE, AND THIS IS HOW IT HAPPENED. TS00100060 MANY YEARS AGO, WHEN THE WORLD WAS STILL TENDER AND GREEN, AN TS00100070 INDIAN VILLAGE STOOD NEAR THE MOUTH OF THE NASS RIVER. TO THE WEST TS00100080 LAY THE GREAT OCEAN, SPARKLING IN THE LAZY SUNLIGHT. FROM THE EAST TS001?0090 CAME THE RIVER, FLOWING OUT OF THE GREAT SNOW-CAPPED MOUNTAINS, TS00100100 DOWN THROUGH A ROCKY CANYON WHERE THE EAGLES NESTED. TS00100110 THE PEOPLE WERE HAPPY THERE. THE SEA AND THE RIVER, THE TS00100120 TIDE-FLATS AND THE HILLSIDES, GAVE THEM PLENTY OF FOOD: SEALS, TS00100130 CLAMS, AND FISH, AND MOUNTAIN GOATS. THEIRS WAS A LIFE OF EASE, TS00100140 WITH TIME FOR REPOSE AND PLEASURE, AND THE PLAY OF CHILDREN. TS00100150 ONE MORNING A LITTLE BOY WAS OUT IN FRONT OF HIS HOUSE, BUSY TS00100160 WITH A BOW HIS UNCLE HAD MADE FOR HIM. WHEN A GREAT SHADOW MOVED TS00100170 SLOWLY ALONG THE GROUND BEFORE HIM, HE LOOKED UP AND SAW A HUGE TS00100180 EAGLE FLYING LOW OVER THE VILLAGE, AS THOUGH LOOKING FOR GAME. TS00100190 "OH, LOOK, DADDY] THERE'S A GREAT BIG EAGLE, AND HE'S DOWN TS00100200 EVER SO LOW. LOOK, DADDY. I'M GOING TO SHOOT HIM WITH MY BOW. TS00100210 LOOK, DADDY] WATCH ME]" TS00100220 "IT'LL TAKE A STRONGER ARM AND A LONGER BOW THAN YOURS, MY TS00100230 BOY," HIS FATHER LAUGHED. TS00100240 "NO, IT WON'T. TRULY. LOOK, DADDY]" TS00100250 THE LITTLE BOY LOOSED HIS ARROW. THE EAGLE WAS LOW INDEED, TS00100260 BUT THE ARROW FELL TO THE GROUND WITHOUT COMING ANYWHERE NEAR THE TS00100270 BIRD AT ALL. TS00100280 DROPPING LOWER AND LOWER, THE EAGLE CIRCLED SLOWLY OVER THE TS00100290 VILLAGE. TS00100300 "JUST LOOK AT THAT] I NEVER SAW ONE DOWN SO LOW]" TS00100310 "NO," AGREED ANOTHER. "AND SEE HOW BIG HE IS. IT MUST BE THE TS00100320 THUNDERBIRD." TS00100330 "OF COURSE NOT] IT'S NOT NEARLY BIG ENOUGH FOR A THUNDERBIRD. TS00100340 IT'S JUST A BIG EAGLE, FLYING A LITTLE LOWER THAN USUAL. WHY TS00100350 DOESN'T SOMEBODY SHOOT IT?" TS00100360 OLD LOKOMA, THE MEDICINE MAN, SPOKE UP AT ONCE. HIS VOICE TS00100370 TREMBLED WITH ANXIETY. TS00100380 "NO, NO. DON'T SHOOT IT. DON'T DARE TO TRY]" TS00100390 "WHY NOT?" ASKED ONE OF THE YOUNGER MEN. "I NEED SOME EAGLE TS00100400 FEATHERS FOR MY ARROWS. WE ALWAYS SHOOT EAGLES IF WE CAN. AND WHY TS00100410 NOT THIS ONE?" TS00100420 "THIS IS NO ORDINARY EAGLE," LOKOMA EXPLAINED. "IT'S EITHER A TS00100430 POWERFUL MEDICINE MAN, OR IT'S THE CHIEF OF ALL THE EAGLES, AND TS00100440 ONLY A FOOL WOULD SHOOT AT EITHER ONE OF THOSE. YOU KNOW THAT]" TS00100450 "OH, STICK TO YOUR MEDICINE-MAKING AND YOUR SILLY SPIRITS," TS00100460 THE YOUTH REPLIED. "WHAT HARM CAN IT POSSIBLY DO, TO SHOOT AN TS00100470 EAGLE?" TS00100480 "HARM ENOUGH] I'VE BEEN A MEDICINE MAN FOR MANY YEARS, BEFORE TS00100490 MOST OF YOU HERE WERE BORN. I TELL YOU PLAINLY, IF YOU SHOOT THAT TS00100500 BIRD, ALL THE VILLAGE WILL SUFFER FOR IT." TS00100510 EVERYBODY WITHIN EARSHOT JEERED AND MOCKED AT HIM, FOR THE TS00100520 WHOLE VILLAGE WAS NOW IN AN UPROAR OF EXCITEMENT. NEVER HAD THEY TS00100530 SEEN AN EAGLE BEHAVE IN SUCH A STRANGE WAY. THE BIRDS WERE COMMON TS00100540 ENOUGH. ONE OR MORE COULD NEARLY ALWAYS BE SEEN, CIRCLING HIGH TS00100550 ABOVE THE RIVER, BUT NOBODY COULD REMEMBER HAVING SEEN ONE SO TS00100560 OBVIOUSLY ANXIOUS TO BE NOTICED. TS00100570 EVERY MAN IN THE PLACE, EVERY BOY AND GIRL, EVERY WOMAN WHO TS00100580 COULD POSSIBLY LEAVE HER COOKING, AND THERE WERE FEW WHO COULDN'T TS00100590 WHEN THERE WAS SO MUCH EXCITEMENT, WAS ON THE SPOT. TS00100600 MOST OF THE MEN AND BOYS HAD RUN FOR THEIR BOWS AND BY NOW TS00100610 THERE WAS A STEADY STREAM OF ARROWS FLYING UPWARDS, BUT NOT ONE OF TS00100620 THEM CAME CLOSE ENOUGH TO THE GREAT BIRD TO MAKE IT PAUSE IN ITS TS00100630 SLOW AND STEADY GLIDING. TS00100640 "WHERE IS STOKOS?" SOMEBODY ASKED. "HE HAS THE STRONGEST TS00100650 BOW. LET HIM SHOOT." TS00100660 OTHER PEOPLE TOOK UP THE CRY. TS00100670 "STOKOS]" THEY SHOUTED. "STOKOS] STOKOS]" TS00100680 "HE HAS GONE UP ALONG THE RIVER BANK," HIS WIFE TOLD THEM, TS00100690 "AND HE'S TAKEN HIS BOW WITH HIM." TS00100700 "LOOK, HERE HE COMES NOW, RUNNING. HURRY UP, STOKOS, AND TS00100710 BRING THAT STRONG BOW OF YOURS." TS00100720 "WHAT'S IT ALL ABOUT?" PANTED STOKOS. "WHAT ARE YOU ALL TS00100730 LOOKING AT?" TS00100740 AT ONCE A HUNDRED PEOPLE BEGAN TO TELL HIM ALL ABOUT THE GREAT TS00100750 EAGLE AND ITS STRANGE BEHAVIOR, AND THEY ALL URGED HIM TO SEE IF HE TS00100760 COULD SHOOT IT, FOR NOBODY ELSE HAD BEEN ABLE TO. TS00100770 "SHOOT IT? OF COURSE I CAN SHOOT IT. HOW COULD I POSSIBLY TS00100780 MISS? WHY, IT'S SO LOW DOWN YOU CAN HEAR THE WIND WHISTLING TS00100790 THROUGH ITS FEATHERS]" TS00100800 FOLLOWING THE BIRD WITH HIS EYE, STOKOS STRUNG HIS BOW, AND TS00100810 NOCKED AN ARROW ON THE STRING. TS00100820 "DON'T SHOOT, STOKOS," URGED OLD LOKOMA. "THAT'S NO COMMON TS00100830 EAGLE. YOU CAN SEE THAT, FOR YOU KNOW MORE ABOUT SUCH THINGS THAN TS00100840 MOST PEOPLE DO. THIS IS EITHER SOME GREAT MEDICINE MAN WHO HAS TS00100850 COME TO VISIT US, OR IT IS THE CHIEF OF ALL THE EAGLES HIMSELF." TS00100860 STOKOS PAUSED, STARED AT THE OLD MEDICINE MAN FOR A MOMENT, TS00100870 AND THEN HE LAUGHED. TS00100880 "WELL, HE'S CERTAINLY BIG ENOUGH TO BE THE CHIEF, IF SIZE HAS TS00100890 ANYTHING TO DO WITH IT, BUT ONCE I'VE SHOT HIM IT WON'T MATTER TS00100900 WHETHER HE WAS CHIEF, COMMONER, OR SLAVE. STAND CLEAR, ALL OF YOU. TS00100910 IF THAT HUGE BIRD DROPS ON YOU, YOU'LL NEVER KNOW WHAT HE WAS." TS00100920 SOME PLEOPLE MADE A HALF-HEARTED MOVE TO GET OUT OF THE WAY, TS00100930 BUT NOBODY REALLY DID ANYTHING ABOUT IT, JUST AS PEOPLE USUALLY TS00100940 BEHAVE IN A CROWD. SO STOKOS PUT AN ARROW ON HIS STRING AND SHOT. TS00100950 THERE WAS A DEAD SILENCE AS EVERYBODY FIXED HIS EYES ON STOKOS TS00100960 AND THEN ON HIS ARROW. NOBODY WHO LIVED THROUGH THE REST OF THAT TS00100970 AWFUL DAY COULD EVER FORGET THE SOUND OF THE TWANGING BOWSTRING AND TS00100980 THE WHISTLING ARROW WHEN STOKOS SHOT AT THE EAGLE. TS00100990 UP AND UP WENT THE ARROW. NOW THE BIRD AND THE ARROW APPEARED TS00101000 TO BE BUT ONE. TS00101010 "HE'S GOT HIM]" SHOUTED A YOUNG MAN. "SEE? IT CAN'T MISS. TS00101020 HE'S GOT HIM]" TS00101030 "NO, NO. THE ARROW CAN NEVER REACH HIM. SEE, IT'S A MISS. TS00101040 WHY, LOOK] LOOK AT THAT] THE EAGLE IS WATCHING THE ARROW AS IT TS00101050 RISES TOWARDS HIM]" TS00101060 SURE ENOUGH, THEY SAW THE GREAT BIRD'S HEAD TURN TO WATCH THE TS00101070 ARROW AS IT REACHED THE TOP OF ITS FLIGHT AND TURNED LAZILY OVER, TS00101080 HUNG STILL FOR A MOMENT IN MID-AIR, AND THEN PLUNGED SWIFTLY TO THE TS00101090 EARTH. TS00101100 "AH] HE MISSED. TRY AGAIN, STOKOS, HE'S LOWER THAN EVER NOW. TRY TS00101110 AGAIN]" TS00101120 "STOP, YOU FOOLS, STOP]" OLD LOKOMA SHOUTED ONCE MORE. "I'VE TS00101130 WARNED YOU, WARNED YOU AGAIN AND AGAIN. THIS IS NO COMMON BIRD. TS00101140 STOP NOW, BEFORE SOME GREAT EVIL COMES TO US." TS00101150 BY NOW, EVERYBODY WHO HAD A BOW WAS SHOOTING AND THE ARROWS TS00101160 WERE CERTAINLY GOING AS HIGH AS THE EAGLE, AND EVEN HIGHER. BUT TS00101170 NOT ONE OF THEM TOUCHED HIM. IT WAS VERY STRANGE THAT SO MANY TS00101180 ARROWS SHOULD ALL MISS. TS00101190 WAS THE OLD MEDICINE MAN RIGHT AFTER ALL? WAS THIS REALLY TS00101200 SOME GREAT MAGICIAN WHO HAD COME TO VISIT THEM, ONLY TO MEET SUCH TS00101210 UNFRIENDLY PEOPLE? OR WAS IT INDEED THE CHIEF OF ALL THE EAGLES? TS00101220 THE PEOPLE WERE STANDING AS CLOSELY TOGETHER AS THEY COULD GET TS00101230 AND STILL FIND ROOM TO DRAW THEIR BOWS. WHY NONE OF THEM WAS TS00101240 KILLED BY THE SHOWER OF ARROWS FALLING BACK TO THE GROUND IT IS TS00101250 DIFFICULT TO GUESS. LOWER AND LOWER THE HUGE BIRD CIRCLED UNTIL TS00101260 THEY COULD SEE HIS GLITTERING EYES, THE CRUEL TALONS, AND COUNT TS00101270 EACH BURNISHED FEATHER AS IT GLISTENED IN THE SUNLIGHT. TS00101280 "I BELIEVE HE IS COMING RIGHT DOWN AMONG US. TAKE CARE, HE TS00101290 MAY STRIKE AT SOMEBODY]" TS00101300 "SHOOT HIM NOW]" CRIED ANOTHER. "SHOOT HIM NOW, BEFORE HE TS00101310 DOES US ANY HARM." TS00101320 OLD LOKOMA SLIPPED INTO THE HOUSE TO FETCH HIS MAGICAL RATTLE, TS00101330 CARVED LIKE A BIRD WITH A LITTLE MAGICIAN LYING ON ITS BACK. HE TS00101340 PUT ON HIS GOAT'S-WOOL BLANKET WITH THE SECRET WOVEN DESIGNS, AND TS00101350 THE HIGH, CARVED HEAD-DRESS, BRIGHT WITH ERMINE SKINS AND TREMBLING TS00101360 SEA-LION BRISTLES, INLAID WITH IRRIDESCENT ABALONE SHELL. TS00101370 NOW HE CAME BACK, SHAKING HIS RATTLE, AND SINGING A MAGICAL TS00101380 SONG, WHICH HE HAD JUST MADE UP OF COURSE, FOR THERE WAS NO CHANCE TS00101390 OF HAVING ONE READY FOR SUCH AN EVENT AS THIS, BUT HE HOPED THE BIG TS00101400 BIRD WOULD UNDERSTAND AND FLY AWAY. TS00101410 "HAI, HAI, HAI. HY-AH, HY-AH, HY-AH] TS00101420 CHIEF OF ALL THE EAGLES, WE WELCOME THEE] TS00101430 CHIEF OF ALL THE EAGLES, WE ARE THY CHILDREN] TS00101440 CHIEF OF ALL THE EAGLES, WE SING TO THEE] TS00101450 LEAVE US IN PEACE, O CHIEF, AS WE LEAVE THEE] TS00101460 HY-EE, HY-EE. HY-AH, HY-AH. HAI, HAI, HAI-I-I]" TS00101470 ALL THE PEOPLE STOOD SILENT AS HE SANG. AT LAST HIS RATTLE TS00101480 GREW STILL AND HIS VOICE FADED AWAY ON A HIGH, LONG NOTE. THEN, TS00101490 NOT A SOUND WAS TO BE HEARD, ONLY THE THIN, SWEET TUNE OF THE WIND TS00101500 WHISTLING THROUGH THE GREAT BIRD'S WING FEATHERS, AS HE SWUNG AND TS00101510 BALANCED AT EASE ON THE AIR CURRENTS. TS00101520 SLOWLY THE MEN'S ARMS RELAXED AND THEIR BOWS DROPPED TO THEIR TS00101530 SIDES. LISTLESS FINGERS SLID BACK INTO THEIR QUIVERS THE ARROWS TS00101540 THEY HAD ONLY JUST DRAWN OUT AND, FOR A LONG MOMENT, IT SEEMED AS TS00101550 IF THE LIFE OF THE WHOLE VILLAGE HAD COME TO A STOP. TS00101560 SUDDENLY, IN THE FLASH OF AN EYE, THE EAGLE DROPPED. DROPPED TS00101570 DOWN INTO THE CROWD OF INDIANS, HUDDLED SO CLOSE AND TIGHT THAT TS00101580 NOT ONE OF THEM COULD HAVE RUN TO SAVE HIS LIFE. AND WHO WAS HIS TS00101590 VICTIM? TS00101600 STOKOS, OF COURSE. STOKOS, WHO HAD TRIED SO HARD TO SHOOT TS00101610 HIM. STOKOS, WHO HAD JEERED AT HIM, WHO FANCIED HIMSELF SO MUCH TS00101620 AS AN ARCHER. TS00101630 "LOOK, LOOK] THE EAGLE HAS CAUGHT STOKOS BY THE HAIR]" TS00101640 "HE'S CARRYING HIM OFF]" SHOUTED HIS WIFE. "LOOK OUT] HE'S TS00101650 AWAY WITH HIM. QUICK, QUICK] GRAB HIM BY THE ANKLES. HOLD HIM, TS00101660 HOLD HIM]" TS00101670 WELL, THEY TRIED TO HOLD HIM, OF COURSE. JUST AS STOKOS WAS TS00101680 ABOUT TO BE LIFTED OUT OF REACH, ONE OF THE TALLEST MEN SEIZED HIM TS00101690 BY THE ANKLES AND HELD ON LIKE A CLAM. HE CLASPED HIS HANDS ROUND TS00101700 THE SLOWLY RISING LEGS AND THEN, TO HIS HORROR, HE FOUND THAT HIS TS00101710 FINGERS WERE LOCKED TIGHT, AND HE COULDN'T LET GO, TRY AS HE WOULD. TS00101720 THE OLD MEDICINE MAN, LOKOMA, HAD BEEN RIGHT. TS00101730 "LET GO] LET GO]" THEY ALL SHOUTED. TS00101740 "I CAN'T] I CAN'T LET GO]" AND THERE WAS A DEADLY FEAR IN TS00101750 HIS VOICE. TS00101760 NATURALLY, THEY ALL TURNED TO LOKOMA. HE WAS THE MEDICINE TS00101770 MAN, THE MAGICIAN. THIS WAS HIS AFFAIR NOW AND HE WOULD TELL THEM TS00101780 WHAT TO DO. TS00101790 "OF COURSE HE CAN'T LET GO. IT'S MAGIC. DIDN'T I WARN YOU TS00101800 ALL A DOZEN TIMES? HERE, LET ME TRY. PERHAPS I CAN HOLD HIM." TS00101810 THE BRAVE OLD MAN HUNG ON TO THE TALL INDIAN'S ANKLES IN THE TS00101820 VAIN HOPE THAT HE COULD HOLD DOWN THE GREAT EAGLE, RISKING HIS LIFE TS00101830 FOR HIS PEOPLE AS SO MANY GOOD DOCTORS HAVE DONE BEFORE AND SINCE. TS00101840 AND HE COULDN'T LET GO EITHER] TS00101850 UP THE EAGLE STRUGGLED, SLOWLY, NOT TOO FAST. TS00101860 THERE WAS A DEEP AND AWFUL CUNNING IN HIS SLOWNESS. ANYBODY TS00101870 COULD SEE THAT THE LOAD HE NOW HAD TO LIFT WAS SO GREAT THAT, TS00101880 MAGICIAN OR NOT, HE COULD BARELY MANAGE IT AND THAT IF THEY ADDED TS00101890 THE WEIGHT OF JUST ONE MORE MAN THEY COULD PULL THE WHOLE LONG AND TS00101900 GROWING CHAIN BACK TO EARTH. TS00101910 ONE BY ONE THEY LINKED ON, AND ONE BY ONE THE EAGLE LIFTED TS00101920 THEM OFF THE GROUND TILL AT LAST EVERY MAN, YOUTH, STRIPLING, BOY, TS00101930 AND MALE CHILD IN THE VILLAGE, RIGHT DOWN TO THE LITTLE BOY WHO HAD TS00101940 FIRST SHOT AT THE EAGLE, WAS HANGING IN A DESPERATE LONG CHAIN, TS00101950 HANDS LOCKED TO ANKLES, HANGING FROM THE BIRD'S GREAT TALONS. TS00101960 "OH, LOOK] MY LITTLE BOY. MY OWN LITTLE, LITTLE BOY. LET TS00101970 GO] LET GO AT ONCE, BEFORE YOU GO TOO HIGH. LET GO QUICKLY]" TS00101980 THERE WASN'T ONE OF THEM WHO COULD LET GO. TS00101990 UP AND UP FLEW THE GREAT BIRD, RIGHT INTO THE EYE OF THE SUN. TS00102000 HIGHER AND HIGHER TILL HE COULD HARDLY BE SEEN AT ALL, TILL HE TS00102010 LOOKED LIKE A MOSQUITO WITH A LONG, THIN TAIL, OR A SKEIN OF GEESE TS00102020 HIGH IN THE CLOUDS. TS00102030 THE WOMEN AND THE GIRLS OF THE VILLAGE WERE THE ONLY ONES LEFT TS00102040 "WHAT SHALL WE DO?" THEY ASKED EACH OTHER. "WHAT SHALL WE DO? TS00102050 THERE IS NOT A MAN LEFT IN THE WHOLE VILLAGE. THERE WILL BE NOBODY TS00102060 TO GO OUT HUNTING OR FISHING. THERE WILL BE NOBODY TO PROTECT US TS00102070 WHEN THE HAIDAS COME RAIDING FOR SLAVES. NOBODY TO COMFORT US IN TS00102080 THE LONG COLD NIGHTS OF WINTER." TS00102090 THEIR TEAR-FILLED EYES FOLLOWED THE EAGLE'S FLIGHT FAR ABOVE TS00102100 THE EARTH. TS00102110 "LOOK] LOOK] HE'S COMING DOWN AGAIN. HE GROWS BIGGER EVERY TS00102120 MOMENT. PERHAPS HE JUST WANTED TO PUNISH THE MEN FOR HAVING SHOT TS00102130 AT HIM. THAT'S IT, OF COURSE. HE JUST WANTED TO TEACH THEM A TS00102140 LESSON. SOON HE'LL PUT THEM ALL DOWN AGAIN, SAFE AND SOUND. OH, TS00102150 HOW NOBLE, HOW KIND. THEY'LL ALL BE SAFE ON EARTH AGAIN." TS00102160 WEEPING WITH RELIEF, HARDLY BREATHING, THE WOMEN WATCHED AS TS00102170 THE BIG BIRD LOOMED LARGER AND LARGER. BUT HE DIDN'T COME DOWN. TS00102180 WHEN THE LOWEST LINK OF THE FLYING CHAIN OF MEN WAS SO CLOSE TS00102190 TO THE GROUND THAT HE COULD ALMOST TOUCH IT, THE EAGLE FLEW OFF TS00102200 TOWARDS THE OPEN SEA, FLYING SO FAST THAT THE CHAIN OF BODIES TS00102210 STRUNG STRAIGHT OUT BEHIND HIM LIKE THE SMOKE FROM A TORCH IN A TS00102220 STRONG WIND. TS00102230 THEN HE STOPPED SUDDENLY AND THE CHAIN SWUNG THE OTHER WAY. TS00102240 AGAIN AND AGAIN, HE FLEW AND STOPPED, NOW THIS WAY, NOW THAT, UNTIL TS00102250 HE HAD ALL THE PEOPLE SWINGING BACKWARDS AND FORWARDS AT A FURIOUS TS00102260 RATE. TS00102270 THEN, ALL AT ONCE, HE LET GO] TS00102280 AND, AS SOON AS HE LET GO, EVERYBODY ELSE LET GO TOO, FOR HE TS00102290 HAD BROKEN THE MAGICAL SPELL WHICH HAD HELD THEM ALL LOCKED SO TS00102300 TIGHTLY TOGETHER. TS00102310 STILL DRIVEN BY THEIR DIZZY SWINGING THROUGH THE AIR, THEY TS00102320 SPREAD OUT IN A LONG LINE OF FALLING BODIES. SOME WENT A LONG WAY, TS00102330 OTHERS FELL NEAR BY, BUT THEY ALL FELL SOONER OR LATER, UP AND DOWN TS00102340 THE COAST AND FAR OUT TO SEA. AND, AS THEY HIT THE WATER, THEY ALL TS00102350 TURNED INTO ISLANDS. TS00102360 THE BIG MEN OF THE VILLAGE MADE BIG ISLANDS, AND THE TS00102370 MIDDLE-SIZED PEOPLE, OF NO GREAT IMPORTANCE ONE WAY OR THE OTHER , TS00102380 MADE MIDDLE-SIZED ISLANDS, AND THE DOZENS AND DOZENS OF CHILDREN TS00102390 MADE THE LITTLE ISLANDS. TS00102400 THE SMALL BOY WHO STARTED ALL THIS MADE THE SMALLEST ISLAND OF TS00102410 THEM ALL AND, IF YOU LISTEN CAREFULLY ON A FINE DAY WHEN TINY WAVES TS00102420 BEAT GENTLY ON HIS SHORES, YOU CAN HEAR HIM CALLING WITH A LITTLE TS00102430 CHUCKLE IN HIS VOICE, "LOOK, DADDY] LOOK, DADDY]" JUST AS HE DID TS00102440 ON THAT SAD DAY WHEN THE CHIEF OF ALL THE EAGLES MADE THE ISLANDS. TS00102450 ***TSI-002*** TS002 THE MAKING OF A SHAMAN TS00200010 THERE WERE MANY FORMS OF HALAEIT (POWER), BUT THAT OF TS00200020 MEDICINE-MAN WHO WENT ABOUT CURING PEOPLE WAS THE MOST IMPORTANT. TS00200030 WHILE MANY CLAIMED TO HAVE THIS POWER, ONLY A FEW REALLY HAD IT. TS00200040 THIS POWER CAME UNEXPECTEDLY. WHOMEVER THIS POWER STRUCK BECAME TS00200050 VERY ILL AND WOULD BE NEAR DEATH. HE (OR SHE) WOULD GO INTO MANY TS00200060 TRANCES AND HAVE VISIONS IN WHICH THE DIFFERENT (SPIRIT) AIDES TS00200070 APPEARED THAT THE NEW MEDICINE-MAN WOULD HAVE. HIS SONGS AND TS00200080 AMULETS WOULD BE SHOWN TO HIM IN A VISION. THESE HE WOULD USE TS00200090 HENCEFORTH AS HIS OWN. TS00200091 THERE WAS A YOUNG PRINCE AT METLAKATLA WHO WITH HIS FOUR TS00200100 COMPANIONS BEGAN TO PLAY AT BEING SHUWANSK (OR MEDICINE-MAN). THE TS00200110 YOUNG PRINCE PRETENDED THAT HE WAS A HALAEIT AND HE USED A CLAM TS00200120 SHELL WITH PEBBLES INSIDE AS A RATTLE. HE MADE HIMSELF A CROWN OUT TS00200130 OF A PIECE OF CEDAR MATTING AND AN APRON (AMBELAN) FROM THE SAME TS00200140 BARK. THEN HE FELL BACK AS IF IN A TRANCE AND BECAME UNCONSCIOUS. TS00200150 THE FOUR COMPANIONS WERE AFRAID TO TELL THE OTHERS WHAT HAD TS00200160 HAPPENED, AS IT WAS FORBIDDEN FOR ANYONE TO IMITATE IN PLAY A TS00200170 MEDICINE HALAEIT. SO THEY TOOK THE PRINCE TO A SMALL HUT THEY HAD TS00200180 BUILT, WHERE THEY OFTEN CAMPED OUT FOR NIGHTS AT A TIME. AS THEY TS00200190 HAD SOME PROVISIONS THERE, THEY COULD STAY FOR SEVERAL DAYS. THEIR TS00200200 FRIEND WAS VERY ILL AND IN A TRANCE; HE SPOKE IN A STRANGE TS00200210 LANGUAGE, AS IF TO SOME INVISIBLE PERSON WHOM THEY COULD NOT SEE. TS00200220 AFTER THE SECOND DAY THE PRINCE SEEMED QUITE RECOVERED AND WAS ABLE TS00200230 TO MOVE ABOUT. HE SAID TO HIS COMPANIONS, "I AM NOW VERY TS00200240 DIFFERENT. IN MY VISIONS I LEARNED I WOULD BE A SHAMAN (HALAEIT) TS00200250 AND THAT I WOULD BE HELPED BY A SUPERNATURAL CRANE. I FEEL NOW TS00200260 THAT I HAVE A STRANGE POWER." HE HAD A CUT IN ONE OF HIS FINGERS, TS00200270 SO ONE OF HIS FRIENDS ADVISED HIM, "TRY YOUR POWERS ON YOURSELF. TS00200280 SEE IF YOU CAN CURE THE CUT IN YOUR HAND." SO THE YOUNG PRINCE IN TS00200290 FUN BEGAN TO SING THE SONG THAT HAD COME TO HIM IN HIS VISIONS. TS00200300 THEN HE RUBBED HIS CUT FINGER AND SANG ANOTHER SONG THAT HAD COME TS00200310 TO HIM IN HIS VISIONS. THEN HE RUBBED HIS CUT FINGER AND SANG TS00200320 ANOTHER SONG. AFTERWARDS HE AND HIS FRIENDS ATE FOOD. WHEN THEY TS00200330 HAD FINISHED EATING, ONE OF THEM LOOKED AT HIS HAND AND BEHOLD] THE TS00200340 CUT FINGER WAS HEALED. "YOU ARE A HALAEIT, YOU HAVE HEALED YOUR TS00200350 OWN CUT FINGER." AGAIN THE PRINCE SAID, "I CANNOT EXPLAIN TO YOU TS00200360 HOW I FEEL, BUT I KNOW THAT I AM A DIFFERENT PERSON." TS00200370 THEY NOW MADE READY TO RETURN TO THEIR HOMES. UPON REACHING TS00200380 DOWN TO THE EDGE OF THE WATER, THEY SAW A HUGE CRANE STANDING AT TS00200390 THE WATER'S EDGE. AS THEY DREW NEAR, THE CRANE FLEW UP AND TS00200400 EXCRETED SOMETHING SHINY. THEY WENT TO THE SPOT WHERE THE CRANE TS00200410 HAD STOOD. THERE THEY FOUND A SHINY CRYSTAL. "THIS," SAID THE TS00200420 PRINCE, PICKING UP THE CRYSTAL, "WAS THE CRANE I SAW IN MY VISIONS. TS00200430 THE CRANE TOLD ME THAT IT WOULD GIVE ME A CRYSTAL FOR AN AMULET." TS00200440 THE NEXT DAY THE YOUNG PRINCE AND HIS FOUR COMPANIONS WENT OUT TS00200450 IN A CANOE TO SPEAR CRABS. THE YOUNG MAN KNOWING THAT HE WAS A TS00200460 HALAEIT WONDERED IF HIS CHARM WAS ALSO SUPERNATURAL. TAKING THE TS00200470 CRYSTAL AS HE SAW A GOOSE IN THE DISTANCE, HE ADDRESSED IT SAYING, TS00200480 "GO AT ONCE, YOU SUPERNATURAL BEING (NARHNORH) AND STRIKE THAT TS00200490 GOOSE DOWN." THE CRYSTAL DARTED FROM HIS HAND AND STRUCK DOWN THE TS00200500 GOOSE IN ITS FLIGHT. THEY PADDLED OVER TO WHERE THE DEAD GOOSE LAY TS00200510 AND PICKED IT UP. THE PRINCE HID HIS SUPERNATURAL CRYSTAL, NOW TS00200520 BEING AWARE THAT HE HAD GREAT POWER. TS00200530 HIS FRIENDS THEN CONTINUED TO SPEAR CRABS A SHORT DISTANCE TS00200540 FROM THE SHORE. SOON THEY SAW A MAN WALKING DOWN TO THE WATER'S TS00200550 EDGE AND RECOGNIZED HIM AS A CHIEF. ONE OF THEM SAID TO THE TS00200560 PRINCE, "TRY YOUR POWERS ON THIS MAN. SHOULD HE BECOME ILL, YOU TS00200570 CAN CURE HIM." SO THE YOUNG PRINCE TOOK HIS CRYSTAL AND SAID, "GO TS00200580 AND HIT THAT MAN'S FOOT SO HE MAY NOT BE ABLE TO WALK, AND I WILL TS00200590 BE ABLE TO CURE HIM." THE CRYSTAL FLEW FROM HIS HAND AND STRUCK TS00200600 THE MAN'S FOOT. THE MAN FELL AND CRIED IN AGONY, "I HAVE HURT MY TS00200610 FOOT. COME AND HELP ME RISE." THE YOUNG MEN WENT TO HIS HELP AND TS00200620 BROUGHT HIM INTO HIS HOUSE. HE WAS SUFFERING GREAT PAIN. THE TS00200630 MEDICINE-MAN CALLED BUT COULD FIND NO INJURY NOR DID ANY GOOD. ONE TS00200640 OF THE YOUNG MEN TOLD HIS AUNT, A MEMBER OF THE INJURED CHIEF'S TS00200650 HOUSEHOLD, "WE KNOW A YOUNG CHIEF WHO CAN RELIEVE THE INJURED LEG TS00200660 OF THE CHIEF. WHY NOT CALL HIM IN?" THE WOMAN WENT TO THE HOUSE TS00200670 AND SAID, "A YOUNG PRINCE WHO IS MY NEPHEW THINKS HE MAY CURE THE TS00200680 CHIEF. HE HAS CURED A NUMBER OF PEOPLE FROM INJURIES. NOW THAT TS00200690 ALL THE HALAEITS CAN DO NOTHING, PERHAPS HE MAY SUCCEED." TS00200700 "BRING HIM IN AND SHOULD HE CURE OUR CHIEF, HE WILL BE WELL TS00200710 COMPENSATED." ONE OF THE INJURED CHIEF'S HEADMEN (LEKARHKIGET) TS00200720 APPROACHED THE YOUNG PRINCE AND SAID, "PRINCE, MY MASTER HAS HEARD TS00200730 OF YOUR ABILITY AND SENDS FOR YOU. HE HAS BEEN ILL FOR A LONG TS00200740 WHILE AND NO ONE HAS BEEN ABLE TO FIND THE CAUSE OF HIS PAIN. MANY TS00200750 HALAEITS HAVE BEEN CALLED IN FROM ALL OVER, BUT NONE HAVE HELPED TS00200760 HIM. HEARING OF YOU, HE HAS HOPES YOU MAY CURE HIM, FOR HE HAS TS00200770 SUFFERED A LONG WHILE." "I WILL GO," ANSWERED THE PRINCE, "BUT TS00200780 FIRST I MUST GATHER MY ASSISTANTS, THEN WE WILL GO TO YOUR MASTER'S TS00200790 HOUSE." THE YOUNG MAN TOOK HIS APRON WHICH HE NOW HAD MADE OF TS00200800 MOOSE HIDE AND FRILLED WITH DEER HOOFS AND PUFFIN BILLS. HE PUT ON TS00200810 A CROWN OF BEAR CLAWS AND HIS RATTLE SHAPED AS A CRANE. HE TS00200820 CONCEALED THE CRYSTAL, SO THAT NO ONE COULD SEE IT. THEN HE TS00200830 PROCEEDED TO THE INJURED CHIEF'S LODGE. HE SAID TO HIS COMPANIONS, TS00200840 "SPREAD THE MAT OVER HIM. TWO OF YOU STAND AT HIS HEAD, AND TWO AT TS00200850 HIS FEET." THEN HE WORE HIS HEAD-DRESS AND APRON AND WAVED HIS TS00200860 CRANE RATTLE OVER THE INJURED MAN. HE BEGAN TO DANCE AND SING HIS TS00200870 HALAEIT SONG CALLING UPON THE CRANE TO COME TO HIM. THEN HE PUT TS00200880 HIS HAND WHICH HELD THE CRYSTAL NEAR THE INJURED MAN'S FOOT AND TS00200890 SAID, "RELIEVE THE INJURED FOOT, BUT DO NOT CURE IT COMPLETELY." TS00200900 AT ONCE THE CHIEF FELT RELIEVED OF THE PAIN. THE YOUNG PRINCE AND TS00200910 HIS FOUR COMPANIONS WENT OUT, BUT IN A FEW DAYS THE HEADMAN OF THE TS00200920 INJURED CHIEF CAME AGAIN, ASKING, "PRINCE, GREAT HALAEIT, MY MASTER TS00200930 FELT RELIEVED WHEN YOU TENDED HIM. BUT NOW HE FEELS THE PAINS TS00200940 AGAIN AND WISHES YOU TO CURE HIM." TS00200941 "GO, I WILL CALL MY COMPANIONS TO HELP ME." HE CALLED IN HIS TS00200950 ASSISTANTS WHO WERE HIS HALAEIT ATTENDANTS, AND SAID TO THEM, "TO- TS00200960 DAY, WE WILL GO TO THE CHIEF'S HOUSE, AND THIS TIME WE WILL CURE TS00200970 HIM FOR GOOD. THEN MY POWERS WILL BE MADE KNOWN TO ALL." SO THEY TS00200980 WENT TO THE INJURED CHIEF'S HOUSE AND CAME NEAR HIM WHERE HE LAY. TS00200990 THE PRINCE, WEARING HIS OUTFIT, COVERED THE SICK CHIEF WITH THE TS00201000 CEDAR-BARK MAT AND BEGAN DANCING AROUND HIM. HE RAISED HIS HAND, TS00201010 IN WHICH WAS CONCEALED THE CRYSTAL CHARM, AND SPEAKING TO IT IN TS00201020 THOUGHT, SAID, "CURE THE INJURED FOOT, SO THE CHIEF MAY GET UP AT TS00201030 ONCE FULLY CURED." TS00201040 CUPPING HIS HAND OVER THE INJURED FOOT, HE WITHDREW IT. THEN TS00201050 HE WENT TO THE FIREPLACE, LOOKED UP INTO THE SMOKE HOLE AND BLEW TS00201060 THROUGH HIS CUPPED HAND AS IF BLOWING AN OBJECT FROM IT. HE TURNED TS00201070 TO THE INJURED CHIEF AND SAID, "YOU ARE NOW CURED. ARISE FROM TS00201080 YOUR SLEEPING PLACE AND WALK ABOUT." THE CHIEF GOT UP. HE WAS TS00201090 COMPLEGELY CURED. HE GAVE A LARGE COMPENSATION TO THE HALAEIT TS00201100 PRINCE, WHO WAS NOW BEGINNING TO BE KNOWN AS A GREAT POWER. HE TS00201110 WOULD SEND OUT HIS SUPERNATURAL CRYSTAL TO CAUSE AN INJURY TO SOME TS00201120 DISTANT PERSON. ON HIS OR HER BECOMING ILL, THE DIFFERENT TS00201130 HALAEITS WERE CALLED IN BUT WERE UNABLE TO FIND WHAT WAS THE TS00201140 TROUBLE. THEN THE YOUNG PRINCE WAS CALLED IN AND HE WOULD CURE THE TS00201150 INJURED PERSON. HIS FAME WAS KNOWN ALL OVER AND SOON THE OUTSIDE TS00201160 TRIBES AND VILLAGES BEGAN CALLING HIM IN. AS WELL AS BECOMING TS00201170 FAMOUS AND MUCH SOUGHT AFTER HE GREW WEALTHY. HIS COMPANIONS ALSO TS00201180 GREW WEALTHY, SINCE THEY WERE HIS ATTENDANTS AND THEY WERE ALSO TS00201190 COMPENSATED. TS00201200 AT THE NEXT VILLAGE, A GREAT CHIEF HAD A BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTER TS00201210 WHO WAS MUCH IN DEMAND BY MANY SUITORS. THE FAME OF HER BEAUTY TS00201220 HAD GONE TO ALL THE DISTANT FOREIGN VILLAGES, AND SUITORS CAME. TS00201230 BUT HER FATHER WOULD NOT ALLOW THEIR MARRIAGE. ALL HAD BEEN TURNED TS00201240 DOWN WHEN THE YOUNG PRINCE WENT TO HIS MOTHER, SAYING, "I WILL TAKE TS00201250 MUCH WEALTH WITH ME AND GO AND ASK THE CHIEF FOR HIS DAUGHTER TO TS00201260 MARRY ME." HIS MOTHER WAS AFRAID AND SAID, "YOU KNOW THAT THE TS00201270 GREAT CHIEF HAS REFUSED ALL THOSE WHO HAVE COME FOR HIS DAUGHTER, TS00201280 YET THEY WERE GREAT CHIEFS. NOW I AM CERTAIN HE WILL GIVE THE SAME TS00201290 ANSWER TO YOUR REQUEST. YOU SHOULD FORGET THE PRINCESS AND LOOK TS00201300 FOR ANOTHER WHO WILL LISTEN TO YOUR VOICE." BUT THE PRINCE WAS TS00201310 FIRM AND SAID, "AM I NOT AS GREAT AS HE, THAT HE SHOULD NOT LISTEN TS00201320 TO ME?" THE MOTHER THEN GATHERED TOGETHER MOOSE HIDES AND FUR TS00201330 ROBES, AND PUTTING THESE ALL IN A LARGE BOX SHE SUMMONED SLAVES TS00201340 SAYING, "FOLLOW ME WITH THE BOX, AND WHEN WE GO INTO THE CHIEF'S TS00201350 HOUSE WHICH I INTEND TO VISIT, PLACE THE BOX IN FRONT OF THE CHIEF. TS00201360 THEN I WILL SPEAK." SO THEY SET OUT, AND WHEN THEY CAME TO THE TS00201370 GREAT CHIEF'S HOUSE, THEY ENTERED, AND THE WOMAN WAS FOLLOWED BY TS00201380 THE SLAVE WHO PLACED THE BOX IN FRONT OF THE CHIEF. AS HE WAS A TS00201390 RELATIVE OF THE WOMAN, SHE CAME TO HIM AND SAID AT ONCE, "MY TS00201400 BROTHER, I HAVE COME TO YOU AND PLACE THESE HUMBLE GIFTS IN FRONT TS00201410 OF YOU, SO THAT YOU MAY LISTEN TO ME AND HAVE PITY FOR MY HUMBLE TS00201420 REQUEST. FOR A LONG WHILE MY SON HAS WANTED TO TAKE YOUR DAUGHTER TS00201430 TO BE HIS WIFE, BUT ALWAYS HAVE I DISCOURAGED HIM KNOWING HOW YOU TS00201440 FELT TO YOUR DAUGHTER, BUT HE URGED ME TO COME. SO NOW GREAT CHIEF TS00201450 MY BROTHER, I PLACE MY HUMBLE PLEA BEFORE YOU. WHEN YOU HAVE TS00201460 CONSIDERED IT, YOU WILL LET ME KNOW." THE GREAT CHIEF DID NOT SAY TS00201470 ANYTHING FOR A LONG WHILE, THEN HE FINALLY ANSWERED, "I HAVE HEARD TS00201480 YOU, AND I WILL THINK THIS OVER." THAT WAS ALL HE SAID. THE TS00201490 MOTHER THEN WENT OUT AND RETURNED TO HER SON. SHE SAID, "I HAVE TS00201500 TOLD THE CHIEF WHAT YOU ASKED FOR, AND HE SAYS HE WILL THINK IT TS00201510 OVER. SO NOW WE MUST AWAIT HIS REPLY." TS00201520 AFTER MANY DAYS OF WAITING, FINALLY THERE CAME ONE OF THE TS00201530 GREAT CHIEF'S SLAVES CARRYING THE LARGE BOX OF OFFERINGS WHICH THE TS00201540 YOUNG PRINCE HAD SENT OVER. THIS WAS TO SIGNIFY THAT THE CHIEF HAD TS00201550 REFUSED THE YOUNG PRINCE'S PROPOSAL. THE PRINCE WAS VERY SAD AND TS00201560 WENT UP INTO THE HILLS FOLLOWED BY HIS FOUR COMPANIONS. AFTER THEY TS00201570 HAD STAYED THERE FOR SOME TIME, ONE OF HIS COMPANIONS SAID, "USE TS00201580 YOUR SUPERNATURAL POWERS AND MAKE THE PRINCESS ILL. THEN ONLY YOU TS00201590 CAN CURE HER, AND FOR CURING HER YOU MAY DEMAND HER AS YOUR WIFE." TS00201600 THE YOUNG PRINCE THOUGHT OVER WHAT THE COMPANION HAD SAID, AND THEN TS00201610 HE SPOKE, "WE WILL GO TO THE GREAT CHIEF'S VILLAGE AND WATCH OUR TS00201620 CHANCE ON SEEING THE PRINCESS. I WILL USE MY POWERS ON HER AND TS00201630 CAUSE HER TO BE ILL, THEN I WILL BE THE ONLY ONE THAT MAY CURE HER. TS00201640 I WILL ATTEND HER ONLY IF THE GREAT CHIEF WILL LET ME TAKE HER TO TS00201650 BE MY WIFE." TS00201660 THE PRINCE AND HIS COMPANIONS WENT TO THE VILLAGE OF THE GREAT TS00201670 CHIEF, AND THERE THEY AWAITED THE APPEARANCE OF THE PRINCESS. AT TS00201680 THE END OF EACH DAY, THE PRINCESS WOULD WALK OUT OF HER FATHER'S TS00201690 HOUSE, ACCOMPANIED BY CHOSEN COMPANIONS WHO ATTENDED HER. SHE TS00201700 WOULD GO SOME DISTANCE FROM THE VILLAGE, TO RELIEVE HERSELF, AND TS00201710 THEN RETURN TO HER FATHER'S HOUSE. SHE WAS NEVER ALONE. THE TS00201720 YOUNG PRINCE WHO WATCHED THE PRINCESS FROM HIS HIDING PLACE, TOOK TS00201730 HIS SUPERNATURAL CRYSTAL AND SAID, "GO AND INFLICT AN INJURY UPON TS00201740 THE PRINCESS' FOOT." THE CRYSTAL FLEW FROM THE HANDS OF THE PRINCE TS00201750 AND IMMEDIATELY THE PRINCESS FELL TO THE GROUND WITH GREAT AGONY, TS00201760 CRYING OUT, "SOMETHING HAS HURT MY FOOT, I CANNOT USE IT." SHE WAS TS00201770 IN GREAT PAIN, AND THEY CARRIED HER INTO HER FATHER'S HOUSE. THE TS00201780 ATTENDANTS SAID, "THE PRINCESS' FOOT HAS BEEN INJURED, AND NOBODY TS00201790 KNOWS HOW SHE WAS HURT. SHE WAS WALKING IN OUR MIDST WHEN SHE TS00201800 SUDDENLY CRIED OUT, 'MY FOOT IS INJURED,' AND THEN SHE FELL TO THE TS00201810 GROUND." THE FATHER IMMEDIATELY SENT HIS HEADMAN FOR THE TRIBAL TS00201820 HALAEIT, WHO CAME, BUT AFTER HE HAD WORKED ON HER FOR A LONG WHILE TS00201830 HE GAVE IT UP, UNABLE AS HE WAS TO KNOW WHAT WAS WRONG. THEN THE TS00201840 GREAT CHIEF CALLED IN HALAEITS FROM ALL THE OTHER TRIBES, AND THESE TS00201850 COULD DO NO GOOD. THEN ONE OF THE GREAT CHIEFS SAID, "WHY NOT CALL TS00201860 SQE'NU; HE HAS MADE SOME VERY WONDERFUL CURES, AND HE IS BECOMING TS00201870 GREAT." THE HEAD CHIEF HAD THOUGHT OF HIM, BUT HE WAS EMBARRASSED TS00201880 AS HE HAD REFUSED HIS OFFER OF MARRIAGE TO HIS DAUGHTER. HIS TS00201890 DAUGHTER WAS VERY ILL AND MOANING AS IN GREAT PAIN. THE CHIEF TS00201900 FINALLY SAID TO HIS HEADMAN. "TAKE MUCH WEALTH AND GO TO THE TS00201910 HALAEIT PRINCE. TELL HIM I WANT HIM TO CURE MY DAUGHTER. FOR THIS TS00201920 I WILL GIVE HIM MUCH WEALTH." TS00201930 THE MESSENGER WENT TO THE YOUNG PRINCE AND, LAYING THE TS00201940 PRESENTS IN FRONT OF HIM, SPOKE, "MY MASTER IS GREATLY CONCERNED TS00201950 ABOUT HIS DAUGHTER. SHE HAS BEEN ILL A LONG WHILE, AND HE THINKS TS00201960 THAT ONLY YOU, GREAT HALAEIT, MAY CURE HER. HE WILL GIVE YOU MUCH TS00201970 WEALTH." THE YOUNG PRINCE DID NOT ANSWER FOR A LONG WHILE, THEN HE TS00201980 SAID, "I WILL THINK ABOUT IT." THE MESSENGERS RETURNED TO THE TS00201990 CHIEF, AND THE SPOKESMAN SAID, "WE HAVE SEEN THE GREAT HALAEIT, BUT TS00202000 HE HARDLY NOTICED US. FINALLY HE SAID, 'I WILL THINK ABOUT IT.'" TS00202010 THE PRINCESS WAS NOW GETTING WEAKER AND THE GREAT CHIEF, HER TS00202020 FATHER, KNEW THAT THE ONLY ONE WHO COULD CURE HER WAS THE YOUNG TS00202030 HALAEIT. SO HE CALLED HIS HEADMEN, "GO AGAIN TO THE YOUNG HALAEIT, TS00202040 AND TAKE MORE WEALTH WITH YOU. URGE HIM TO COME AND ATTEND MY TS00202050 DAUGHTER WHO IS NOW VERY ILL. ASK HIM TO COME AT ONCE." SO AGAIN TS00202060 THE MESSENGERS WENT TO THE HOUSE OF THE YOUNG PRINCE AND SAID, TS00202070 PRINCE GREAT HALAEIT, MY MASTER HAS SENT ME AGAIN TO URGE YOU TO TS00202080 COME, AS HIS DAUGHTER IS NOW VERY ILL. HE WILL GIVE YOU MUCH TS00202090 WEALTH." THE YOUNG MAN LISTENED, AND FOR A LONG WHILE HE DID NOT TS00202100 SPEAK; HE DID NOT EVEN LOOK AT THE GIFTS THAT WERE BROUGHT IN, AND TS00202110 THE TRIBESMAN OF THE GREAT CHIEF SAW THAT THE OTHER PRESENTS HE TS00202120 BROUGHT IN THE FIRST TIME HE CAME WERE STILL IN THE SAME PLACE; HE TS00202130 HAD NOT EVEN TOUCHED THEM. THEN AFTER A LONG WHILE, THE YOUNG TS00202140 PRINCE SAID, "I WILL THINK ABOUT IT." THAT WAS ALL HE SAID, AND TS00202150 THE MESSENGER RETURNED AND SAID TO THE GREAT CHIEF, "THE PRINCE TS00202160 HARDLY SPOKE TO US, AND HE DID NOT APPEAR AS IF HE WERE CONCERNED. TS00202170 HE TOLD US HE WOULD THINK IT OVER, BUT HE WOULD NOT SAY WHETHER HE TS00202180 WAS COMING." THE YOUNG WOMAN WAS GROWING WEAKER, AND HER FATHER TS00202190 WHO LOVED HER VERY MUCH WAS BECOMING MORE AGGRIEVED AND ANXIOUS. TS00202200 HE KNEW THAT HE HAD BROUGHT ABOUT THE PRINCE'S ANGER BY REFUSING TS00202210 HIM WHEN HE WANTED TO MARRY HIS DAUGHTER. SHE WAS NOW ILL, AND HE TS00202220 WAS VERY SAD. THEN HIS WIFE SPOKE TO HIM SAYING, "THERE IS TS00202230 NOTHING MORE YOU CAN OFFER THE PRINCE. SEND YOUR MESSENGERS OVER TS00202240 TO HIM AND TELL HIM IF HE CURES OUR DAUGHTER HE CAN TAKE HER AS HIS TS00202250 WIFE." THE GREAT CHIEF SAT FOR A LONG WHILE BY HIS SICK DAUGHTER, TS00202260 AND HE SAW SHE WAS GETTING VERY WEAK, SO FINALLY HE CALLED TO HIS TS00202270 HEADMAN, "GO AT ONCE TO THE YOUNG PRINCE AND TELL HIM TO COME. IF TS00202280 HE CURES HER, HE MAY MARRY HER." TS00202290 NOW THIS IS WHAT THE YOUNG PRINCE HAD BEEN WAITING FOR, AND AS TS00203300 SOON AS THE MESSENGERS WERE SENT FOR, HE FELT AND KNEW THEY WERE TS00203310 COMING. SO HE TOLD HIS FOUR COMPANIONS, "THE GREAT CHIEF IS TS00203320 SENDING HIS MESSENGER TO ME, AND HE WILL NOW LET ME MARRY HIS TS00203330 DAUGHTER. SO WE SHALL BE READY TO GO AS SOON AS THE MESSENGER TS00203340 COMES AND TELLS ME THE WISHES OF THE GREAT CHIEF." SOON THE TS00203350 HEADMEN CAME INTO THE PRINCE'S HOUSE AND ADDRESSED HIM, "PRINCE, MY TS00203360 MASTER IS NOW VERY WORRIED ABOUT HIS ONLY DAUGHTER, WHO IS VERY TS00203370 WEAK. HE HAS TOLD US TO ASK YOU TO COME AT ONCE AND CURE HER. TS00203380 SHOULD YOU CURE HER, THEN YOU MAY TAKE HER AS YOUR WIFE. HE KNOWS TS00203390 THAT ONLY YOU HAVE GREAT HALAEIT POWERS, SO HE ASKS THAT YOU TS00203400 HURRY." THE YOUNG PRINCE SAT FOR A WHILE AND THEN SAID, "I HEAR TS00203410 YOUR VOICE OH WISE MAN, AND I RECOGNIZE YOU. TELL YOUR MASTER I TS00203420 WILL COME AT ONCE." THE MESSENGER HURRIED TO THE GREAT CHIEF, TS00203430 SAYING, "THE HALAEIT, THE YOUNG PRINCE, IS COMING AT ONCE TO CURE TS00203440 THE PRINCESS." THE GREAT CHIEF AND HIS WIFE WERE PLEASED, AND SOON TS00203450 THEY SAW A CANOE APPROACHING. THE YOUNG PRINCE WITH HIS COMPANIONS TS00203460 CAME TO THE GREAT CHIEF'S HOUSE AND WAS GREETED BY THE SPOKESMAN, TS00203470 "HERE, GREAT HALAEIT, AT THE REAR OF THE HOUSE THE GREAT CHIEF MY TS00203480 MASTER HAS AWAITED YOUR COMING, BECAUSE HE EXPECTS YOU TO CURE HIS TS00203490 DAUGHTER, WHO IS VERY WEAK." TS00203500 SO THE YOUNG PRINCE WENT TO THE COUCH WHERE THE PRINCESS WAS TS00203510 LYING, AND COVERED HER WITH HIS CEDAR MAT. THEN WEARING ALL HIS TS00203520 DANCING PARAPHERNALIA, HE BEGAN DANCING AND SINGING ABOUT WHERE THE TS00203521 PRINCESS LAY. HE TOOK THE CRYSTAL AND RUBBED THE PRINCESS' INJURED TS00203530 LEG, AND SOON THE YOUNG WOMAN HAD NO MORE PAIN. SHE WAS CURED TS00203540 ALMOST AT ONCE, AND ABLE TO SIT UP. WHEN SHE WAS WELL, THE GREAT TS00203550 CHIEF SAID TO THE YOUNG PRINCE, "NOW, MY SON-IN-LAW, YOU WILL STAY TS00203560 HERE, AND YOU SHALL TAKE MY DAUGHTER AS YOUR WIFE, AND YOUR TS00203570 COMPANIONS SHALL STAY HERE ALSO." THE YOUNG PRINCE NOW TOOK THE TS00203580 PRINCESS AS HIS WIFE, AND HIS COMPANIONS STAYED WITH HIM. TS00203590 THERE NOW CAME UPON THE COUNTRY A GREAT FAMINE AND FOOD GREW TS00203600 SCARCE. MANY PEOPLE WERE DYING OF STARVATION. SO ONE MORNING THE TS00203610 YOUNG PRINCE SAID TO HIS COMPANIONS, "TO-MORROW, WE WILL GO AND TS00203620 HUNT SEALS. GET THE LARGE CANOE OF MY FATHER-IN-LAW READY, AND WE TS00203630 WILL GO VERY EARLY WHILE IT IS STILL DUSK." THE PRINCE'S TS00203640 COMPANIONS WENT FOR THE CHIEF'S LARGE CANOE AND BROUGHT IT BELOW TS00203650 THE CHIEF'S HOUSE, SO THEY WOULD BE READY TO GO JUST BEFORE TS00203660 DAYLIGHT. THE PRINCE TOOK HIS CRYSTAL AND CARRIED IT IN A SMALL TS00203670 BAG AND HUNG IT ABOUT HIS NECK. NEXT MORNING BEFORE DAYBREAK, HE TS00203680 SET OUT WITH HIS COMPANIONS AND HEADED OUT TO SEA. THEY HAD NOT TS00203690 GONE FAR WHEN THEY SAW A SEAL SWIMMING SOME DISTANCE AWAY. THE TS00203700 PRINCE THEN TOOK HIS SUPERNATURAL CRYSTAL AND POINTED IT AT THE TS00203720 SWIMMING SEAL AND SAID, "GO AND KILL THAT SEAL, YOU SUPERNATURAL TS00203730 BEING." THE CRYSTAL FLEW OUT OF THE PRINCE'S HAND, AND THE SEAL TS00203740 LAY ON HIS BACK DEAD; THEY PADDLED OVER AND PULLED IT INTO THE TS00203750 CANOE. SOON THEY SAW ANOTHER SEAL AND KILLED IT IN THE SAME TS00203760 MANNER. THIS THEY DID ALL DAY AND SOON HAD A CANOE LOAD, AND THEN TS00203770 RETURNED TO THE VILLAGE OF HIS FATHER-IN-LAW. WHEN THEY LANDED, TS00203780 THE PRINCE CAME IN AND SAID TO HIS FATHER-IN-LAW, "YOUR CANOE IS TS00203790 FULL OF SEALS. TELL YOUR SLAVES TO BRING THEM UP AND PREPARE THEM TS00203800 FOR FOOD." EVERY DAY THE YOUNG PRINCE WENT OUT AND BROUGHT IN A TS00203810 LOAD OF SEALS, AND SOON HIS FATHER-IN-LAW'S HOUSE WAS FULL OF SEAL TS00203820 MEAT. THE NEXT DAY, THE PRINCE SAID TO HIS COMPANIONS, "WE WILL TS00203830 NOW GO AFTER SEA LIONS." NEXT DAY THEY WENT OUT AND, AS THEY HAD TS00203840 DONE WITH SEALS, THEY SOON FILLED THE CANOE WITH SEA LIONS AND HAD TS00203850 A LARGE QUANTITY OF SEA-LION MEAT. THEN THE YOUNG PRINCE SAID, TS00203860 "TO-MORROW, WE SHALL GO AFTER WHALES." EARLY THE NEXT DAY, THE TS00203870 PRINCE AND HIS FOUR COMPANIONS SET OUT. SOON THEY SAW A WHALE TS00203880 SWIMMING IN THE DISTANCE. THEN THE PRINCE TOOK HIS SUPERNATURAL TS00203890 CRYSTAL AND SAID, "GO AND KILL THE WHALE, SUPERNATURAL ONE." AT TS00203900 ONCE THE CRYSTAL FLEW OUT OF THE YOUNG MAN'S HAND AND STRUCK THE TS00203910 WHALE AND KILLED IT. THE PRINCE AND HIS COMPANIONS WENT TO IT AND TS00203920 TOWED IT TO THEIR VILLAGE. WHEN THEY LANDED, THERE WAS GREAT TS00203930 REJOICING AMONG THE PEOPLE, WHO HELD THE FLESH OF THE WHALE AS THE TS00203940 GREATEST DELICACY. THE GREAT CHIEF WAS VERY PROUD OF HIS SON-IN- TS00203950 LAW AND NOW, AT A TIME WHEN THE PEOPLE OF THE OTHER TRIBES WERE TS00203960 STARVING, HE HAD PLENTY, AND HE BEGAN TO TRADE WITH THE OTHER TS00203970 TRIBES. THUS HE BECAME VERY WEALTHY. SOON THE PRINCE WENT BACK TO TS00203980 HIS OWN VILLAGE, TAKING HIS WIFE WITH HIM, AND HIS FAME AS A TS00203990 HALAEIT WAS KNOWN TO ALL DISTANT TRIBES WHO CAME TO HIM FOR HELP. TS00204000 ONE NIGHT AS HE SAT BY HIS SLEEPING PLACE, HE CALLED HIS FOUR TS00204010 COMPANIONS, WHO WERE HIS AIDES; THEY WENT WITH HIM WHEREVER HE WAS TS00204020 CALLED. HE SAID TO THEM, "AT THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT WHEN ALL THE TS00204030 PEOPLE OF THE VILLAGE WILL BE ASLEEP, THERE WILL BE A CANOE WITH TS00204040 STRANGE PEOPLE COME TO GET ME. THEIR CHIEF IS IN GREAT AGONY AND TS00204050 NEARLY DEAD. THAT IS WHY THEY COME. YOU SHALL BE PREPARED, AND WE TS00204060 WILL GO WITH THEM AT ONCE." WHEN ALL IN THE VILLAGE WERE ASLEEP, TS00204070 THE FOUR COMPANIONS AND THE PRINCE HEARD VOICES AT THE WATER'S TS00204080 EDGE, SAYING, "THIS IS THE PLACE, THIS IS WHERE HE LIVES, COME, WE TS00204090 WILL FIND HIM]" THE PRINCE'S COMPANIONS SAW THESE STRANGE MEN TS00204100 COMING UP TOWARDS THE PRINCE'S HOUSE. THEY ENTERED RIGHT IN AND TS00204110 WITHOUT WAITING BEGAN ADDRESSING THE PRINCE, "CHIEF, GREAT HALAEIT, TS00204120 WE HAVE COME TO YOU TO ASK YOUR AID, TO USE YOUR GREAT POWER TO TS00204130 CURE TS00204131 OUR CHIEF WHO NOW LIES NEARLY DEAD AT THE VILLAGE. WE KNOW THAT TS00204140 ONLY YOU CAN CURE HIM, AS ONLY YOU ARE A GREAT HALAEIT. WE ARE TS00204150 READY TO TAKE YOU AND YOUR AIDES TO WHERE HE IS ILL, AND HE EXPECTS TS00204160 YOU." THE YOUNG PRINCE WENT AT ONCE AND GATHERED TOGETHER HIS TS00204170 DANCING OUTFIT, AND HIS COMPANIONS WENT WITH HIM ON TO THE STRANGE TS00204180 LOOKING CANOE. TS00204190 SOON THEY WERE TRAVELLING AT A TREMENDOUS SPEED, YET THOSE IN TS00204200 THE CANOE WERE HARDLY PADDLING. THE PRINCE HAD CAUTIONED ONE OF TS00204210 HIS COMPANIONS TO BRING ALONG HIS URINAL IN CASE THEY WOULD NEED TS00204220 IT. SOON THEY LANDED ON A BEACH AND IT WAS DUSK, BUT THE YOUNG TS00204230 PRINCE GUESSED THAT IT WAS AN ISLAND AWAY OUT TO SEA, UNKNOWN TO TS00204240 ANYONE. THE PRINCE'S COMPANIONS SAW THAT THERE WERE MANY DRIFTED TS00204250 LOGS ON THE BEACH, AND THERE WAS NO HOUSE. THE STEERSMAN OF THE TS00204260 CANOE, WHO WAS THE SPOKESMAN, SAID TO THE PRINCE, "COME, FOLLOW ME, TS00204270 I WILL LEAD YOU TO WHERE OUR MASTER LAYS ILL. MANY HALAEITS HAVE TS00204280 COME, BUT NONE HAVE DONE HIM ANY GOOD, AND HE IS NOW MUCH WEAKER." TS00204290 THE YOUNG PRINCE WAS LED TO WHERE THE AILING CHIEF WAS, AND AS THEY TS00204300 ENTERED A VOICE AT THE REAR CALLED OUT, "DID YOU GET THE GREAT TS00204310 HALAEIT? DID YOU BRING HIM AS OUR MASTER NEEDS HIM NOW?" "HE IS TS00204320 HERE," REPLIED THE SPOKESMAN. SO THE PRINCE WAS LED TO WHERE THE TS00204330 SICK MAN LAY. THE PRINCE THEN PUT ON HIS DANCING OUTFIT, AS ALSO TS00204340 DID HIS FOUR COMPANIONS. THE YOUNG HALAEIT WENT INTO A TRANCE, AND TS00204350 HIS AIDE THE CRANE CAME TO HIM AND SAID, "A RIVAL CHIEF IN ANOTHER TS00204360 VILLAGE IS KILLING THIS GREAT CHIEF. HE HAS MADE AN IMAGE OF THE TS00204370 SICK CHIEF, AND INTO THIS IMAGE HE IS PUTTING AN ARROW POINT INTO TS00204380 THE MIDDLE OF HIS BACK. EVERY DAY HE SHOVES THE ARROW POINT TS00204390 FURTHER, AND THIS IS CAUSING THE CHIEF TO BECOME WEAKER. WHEN THE TS00204400 ARROW STRIKES THE BACKBONE OF THE IMAGE, THEN THE CHIEF WILL DIE. TS00204410 FIRST YOU MUST SEND THE CHIEF'S TRIBESMAN WITH GIFTS TO THIS CHIEF TS00204420 WHO IS CAUSING THE ILLNESS OF THE SICK CHIEF, AND THEY WILL SAY TO TS00204430 THIS CHIEF, 'MY MASTER WANTS YOU TO STOP ANNOYING HIM'" THAT WAS TS00204440 ALL THE MESSENGER SAID, BUT THIS CHIEF WHO WAS CAUSING THE ILLNESS TS00204450 OF HIS RIVAL CHIEF KNEW WHAT THEY MEANT. TS00204460 THE MESSENGER RETURNED, AND THE PRINCE KNEW THAT THIS RIVAL TS00204470 CHIEF WOULD NOT DO ANYTHING FOR A LONG WHILE. SO HE AGAIN DANCED TS00204480 ABOUT THE SICK CHIEF AND THEN HE WENT INTO A TRANCE. AGAIN HIS TS00204490 AIDE THE CRANE CAME TO HIM IN HIS VISIONS AND TOLD HIM, "SEND YOUR TS00204500 SUPERNATURAL CRYSTAL TO GET THE IMAGE OF THE SICK CHIEF." THE TS00204510 AILING CHIEF WAS NOW FEELING SOMEWHAT BETTER, BUT WAS STILL VERY TS00204520 WEAK. THE YOUNG HALAEIT NOW AWAITED THE RETURN OF HIS SUPERNATURAL TS00204530 CRYSTAL, AND THE NEXT NIGHT AFTER THE CRYSTAL HAD GONE, IT RETURNED TS00204540 TO WHERE HE WAS SLEEPING, TOGETHER WITH THE IMAGE OF THE SICK TS00204550 CHIEF. WHEN THE HALAEIT SAW THIS, HE TOOK IT AND WENT TO HIS TS00204560 COMPANIONS. PUTTING ON HIS DANCING PARAPHERNALIA, HE SET THE SMALL TS00204570 IMAGE ON THE FLOOR AND BEGAN DANCING ABOUT IT. THEN HE SPOKE TO TS00204580 HIS CRYSTAL, "PULL OUT THE ARROW POINT FROM THE IMAGE]" THE TS00204590 CRYSTAL DID THIS WHILE THE YOUNG HALAEIT WAS DANCING AND WAVING HIS TS00204600 RATTLE, AND HIS COMPANIONS WERE ALSO SINGING HIS HALAEIT SONGS. TS00204610 JUST AS SOON AS THE CRYSTAL HAD EXTRACTED THE ARROW POINT FROM THE TS00204620 IMAGE, THE CHIEF LYING ON HIS SLEEPING PLACE FELT RELIEVED AND TS00204630 AROSE FROM WHERE HE LAY; HE WAS BETTER AND WELL AGAIN. THE HALAEIT TS00204640 THEN WENT TO THE CHIEF, AND CUPPING HIS HANDS OVER THE PART OF HIS TS00204650 BODY IN WHICH HE FELT THE PAIN, THE YOUNG HALAEIT SEEMED TO EXTRACT TS00204660 SOME THING FROM THE CHIEF'S BODY, AND THEN WENT UNDER THE SMOKE- TS00204670 HOLE AND BLEW THROUGH HIS CUPPED HAND AS IF BLOWING AT SOMETHING. TS00204680 HE BLEW IT THROUGH THE SMOKE HOLE. THE PEOPLE IN THE HOUSE HEARD TS00204690 SOMETHING FALL ON THE ROOF. THEN THE YOUNG HALAEIT TOLD ONE OF HIS TS00204700 COMPANIONS, "GO AND SEE WHAT FELL ON THE ROOF." THE MAN WENT AND TS00204710 CLIMBED UP ON TOP OF THE HOUSE, AND THEN HE CAME DOWN AND INTO THE TS00204720 HOUSE TO THE CHIEF WHO WAS NOW WELL. HE SAID, "THIS IS WHAT I TS00204730 FOUND; IT IS AN ARROW POINT." NOW THE MAN WAS CURED, AND THE RIVAL TS00204740 CHIEF WHO HAD TRIED TO OVERCOME HIM NOW BECAME ILL, HIS EVIL TS00204750 INFLUENCES RETALIATING ON HIMSELF. HE BECAME VERY WEAK AND DIED TS00204760 FROM THE DEFEAT OF HIS OWN INFLUENCES, WHICH WERE TURNED BY THE TS00204770 YOUNG HALAEIT. TS00204780 THE YOUNG PRINCE BEGAN LOOKING ABOUT THIS ISLAND WHICH WAS WAY TS00204790 OUT TO SEA. HE SAW THAT THE LOGS WHICH WERE LYING ON THE BEACH AND TS00204800 WHICH THE GREAT CHIEF HAD USED AS FIREWOOD, WERE SEALS. NO CANOE TS00204810 WAS TO BE SEEN, AND THERE WERE NO TREES ON THIS ISLAND, AND THE TS00204820 CHIEF'S HOUSE AND HIS TRIBESMEN WERE UNDERGROUND. HE KNEW THAT THE TS00204830 CHIEF WHO HAD BEEN ILL WAS THE CHIEF OF THE BAEGWES; THESE WERE TS00204840 SUPERNATURAL PEOPLE, BUT WERE VERY DANGEROUS. THEY WENT ABOUT TS00204850 INFLUENCING PEOPLE, AND THEY BECAME CRAZY AND THEN DIED. IN ORDER TS00204860 TO OVERCOME THEIR SUPERNATURAL POWER, THE YOUNG HALAEIT AND HIS TS00204870 COMPANIONS USED TO BATHE THEMSELVES EVERY MORNING WITH URINE AND TS00204880 THEY KEPT THEIR URINE VESSEL BY THEM AT ALL TIMES. NOW THE BAEGWES TS00204890 CHIEF WAS WELL, AND HE CALLED HIS PEOPLE TOGETHER AND SAID, "I AM TS00204900 NOW GOING TO COMPENSATE THIS GREAT HALAEIT. ARE YOU PEOPLE JUST TS00204910 GOING TO WATCH, OR ARE YOU GOING TO SATISFY THE FEELINGS OF THIS TS00204920 GREAT HALAEIT AND HIS COMPANIONS?" THEN HIS TRIBESMEN WENT OUT AND TS00204930 SOON RETURNED EACH WITH HIS OWN OFFERING. SOME BROUGHT ROBES OF TS00204940 SEA OTTER, FUR SEALS AND HIDES, AND ALL BROUGHT VALUABLE GIFTS. TS00204950 THESE THEY PILED IN FRONT OF THE CHIEF, WHO THEN CALLED THE YOUNG TS00204960 PRINCE AND HIS COMPANIONS, "I AM HAPPY THAT YOU RESPONDED TO MY TS00204970 CALL AND THAT YOU HAVE OVERCOME MY ENEMY. THESE GIFTS I GIVE YOU TS00204980 ARE POOR COMPENSATION FOR WHAT YOU HAVE DONE. BUT ONE THING I WILL TS00204990 GIVE YOU IN ADDITION TO THE POWERS YOU HAVE NOW AND THAT IS YOU TS00205000 WILL BE ABLE TO PROPHESY THE FUTURE AND THUS PROTECT YOUR PEOPLE. TS00205010 YOU WILL BE THE GREATEST HALAEIT AMONG YOUR PEOPLE. YOUR AIDES TS00205020 WILL PROSPER IN WEALTH AND POWER. WHEN YOU WANT TO RETURN TO YOUR TS00205030 VILLAGE, I WILL SEND YOU BACK." THE PRINCE NOW HAD MUCH WEALTH, TS00205040 MORE THAN WOULD FILL HIS CANOE, AND THE PRINCE WANTED TO RETURN TO TS00205050 HIS VILLAGE. SO HE SENT ONE OF HIS COMPANIONS TO THE CHIEF AND TS00205060 SAID, "MY MASTER WANTS TO RETURN TO HIS VILLAGE, GREAT CHIEF." THE TS00205070 CHIEF BAEGWES NEVER SPOKE FOR A LONG WHILE AND THEN HE SAID, "TO- TS00205080 MORROW MORNING, JUST BEFORE DAYBREAK, MY CANOE WILL LAND BELOW ON TS00205090 THE BEACH, AND YOU WILL BE HOME BEFORE NIGHT." TS00205100 NEXT MORNING WHILE IT WAS STILL DARK, THE SLAVES IN THE HOUSE TS00205110 BEGAN PACKING DOWN THE BELONGINGS OF THE YOUNG HALAEIT AND HIS TS00205120 COMPANIONS. THE CANOE REALLY SEEMED AS IF IT WERE A LIVING BEING; TS00205130 IT SEEMED TO MOVE ABOUT WITHOUT ANY PADDLING, AND WHEN IT PULLED TS00205140 AWAY FROM THE SHORE, THE PRINCE SAW THAT IT WAS A HUGE WHALE. JUST TS00205150 BEFORE DARK, THE WHALE CANOE CARRYING THE YOUNG PRINCE LANDED BELOW TS00205160 THE PRINCE'S VILLAGE, AND THE SLAVES THAT WERE WITH HIM BEGAN TS00205170 PACKING ALL OF THE GOODS THAT HAD BEEN GIVEN HIM AND HIS FOUR TS00205180 COMPANIONS IN FRONT OF HIS HOUSE. AS FAST AS THESE WERE LAID ON TS00205190 THE GROUND, THEY BEGAN TO INCREASE IN SIZE UNTIL THERE WAS A HUGE TS00205200 PILE AND QUANTITY OF GOODS. THEN THE CANOE DISAPPEARED AND WENT TS00205210 AWAY. THE YOUNG HALAEIT WENT INTO HIS HOUSE. THINGS SEEMED TS00205220 DIFFERENT, AND WHILE HE HAD COUNTED THAT THEY WERE AWAY ONLY SIX TS00205230 DAYS, THEY HAD BEEN AWAY SIX YEARS. TS00205240 THE YOUNG PRINCE NOW GAVE A GREAT 'IYAEOK. AT THIS FEAST HE TS00205250 ASSUMED HIS NAME OF SQE'NU, A GITWALGIYOTS, GISPEWUDWADA. HE HAD TS00205260 BECOME A GREAT HALAEIT, AND WAS VERY WEALTHY. HIS FAME WAS KNOWN TS00205270 ALL OVER, AND PEOPLE CAME FROM EVERYWHERE TO GET HIS SERVICES. TS00205280 ***TSI-003*** TS003 "THE MAKING OF ONLY-ONE," A GREAT HALAEIT TS00300010 ONE OF THE GREATEST HALAEITS (MEDICINE-MEN OR SHAMANS) WAS TS00300020 GYILODZAU (A MID-SKEENA RIVER TRIBE OF THE TSIMSYAN). HALAEIT TS00300030 POWERS WERE ACQUIRED IN MANY WAYS. SOMETIMES THEY ARE HEREDITARY, TS00300040 AND THE HALAEIT IS SUDDENLY STRUCK BY A SUPERNATURAL POWER WHICH TS00300050 ALMOST OVERCOMES HIM (OR HER). THEN HE GRADUALLY RECOVERS. DURING TS00300060 HIS RECOVERY, MANY VISIONS COME TO INITIATE THE NEW HALAEIT, AND TO TS00300070 GIVE INSTRUCTIONS AS WELL. BEFORE ACQUIRING COMPLETE POWER THE TS00300080 INITIATE MUST GO TO THE CHIEF OF ALL HALAEITS OF WUDSTAE (AMONG THE TS00300090 BELLA BELLA, TO THE SOUTH). THEN HE IS RECOGNIZED AS BEING A REAL TS00300100 HALAEIT AND AS HAVING GREAT SUPERNATURAL POWER. TS00300110 NOW AMONG THE GYILODZAU TRIBE ON THE SKEENA AT KLARHGYAELS TS00300120 WERE SOME MEN WHO HAD FELT THAT THEY WERE TO BECOME HALAEITS. IN TS00300130 ORDER TO ACHIEVE THIS, THEY WOULD HAVE TO ACQUIRE POWER FROM AN TS00300140 UNKNOWN SOURCE ON THE KLARHGYAELS RIVER. SOME DISTANCE FROM THE TS00300150 VILLAGE, THERE WAS A PIT DOWN WHICH PEOPLE HEARD STRANGE NOISES AND TS00300160 SOMETIMES CRYING OR SINGING. THEY WERE MUCH AFRAID OF THIS PLACE. TS00300170 IT SEEMED TO BE THE ABODE OF A SUPERNATURAL BEING. WHILE AS YET NO TS00300180 PEOPLE HAD BEEN INJURED OR LOST THERE, EVERYBODY FEARED THE PIT. TS00300190 SO NOW THESE MEN WHO FELT THE HALAEIT INFLUENCE MADE UP THEIR MINDS TS00300200 TO SEARCH THIS CAVERN OR PIT. THEY WOULD HAVE TO DO MANY THINGS TS00300210 BEFORE THEY HAD ACQUIRED POWERS. SO THEY STARTED OFF TO GO TO THIS TS00300220 PLACE. THEY TOOK WITH THEM THEIR SPEARS, A LONG CEDAR ROPE, AND TS00300230 SOME FOOD, AS THEY EXPECTED TO BE GONE MANY DAYS IN THEIR SEARCH TS00300240 FOR POWER. THEY CAME TO THE PIT (OR CAVE) AND FOUND A DEEP HOLE. TS00300250 ONE OF THE MEN SAID TO THE OTHERS, "TIE THE ROPE AROUND MY WAIST TS00300260 AND LOWER ME DOWN. I SHALL SEE WHAT THERE IS AT THE BOTTOM. THIS TS00300270 MUST BE THE ABODE OF THE SUPERNATURAL BEING." THE TWO MEN FASTENED TS00300280 THE END OF THE ROPE AROUND HIS BODY AND LOWERED HIM DOWN INTO THE TS00300290 PIT. HE HAD NOT GONE DOWN VERY FAR WHEN THEY HEARD HIM SHOUTING, TS00300300 "PULL ME UP] PULL ME UP, OR I SHALL PERISH." THE TWO ON THE GROUND TS00300310 PULLED HIM UP VERY QUICKLY. WHEN HE EMERGED FROM THE HOLE, HE WAS TS00300320 EXHAUSTED. HE TOLD HIS COMPANIONS, "AS YOU WERE LOWERING ME, A TS00300330 GREAT CLOUD OF INSECTS ATTACKED ME, ALMOST SUFFOCATING ME." WHEN TS00300340 HE HAD RECOVERED, ONE OF THE OTHER MEN SAID, "I WILL TRY TO GO TS00300350 DOWN. MAYBE THESE INSECTS ARE GONE NOW." SO THEY FASTENED THE TS00300360 CEDAR-BARK ROPE ONTO HIM AND BEGAN TO LOWER HIM DOWN. HE SOON WAS TS00300370 SHOUTING. "PULL ME UP, PULL ME UP]" THEY PULLED HIM UP, AND THEY TS00300380 SAW HIS BODY ALL RED FROM THE BITES OF THE INSECTS. HE WAS ALMOST TS00300390 UNCONSCIOUS. A LONG TIME LAPSED BEFORE HE RECOVERED. WHEN HE HAD, TS00300400 THE LAST OF THE THREE MEN SAID, "NOW I MUST TRY. MAYBE I CAN TS00300410 OVERCOME THESE INSECTS." SO HE WAS LOWERED IN THE SAME WAY AS THE TS00300420 OTHERS. HE WENT RIGHT ON DOWN AND WAS NOT ATTACKED LIKE THE TS00300430 OTHERS. WHEN HE LANDED AT THE BOTTOM OF THE DEEP PIT, HE FOUND IT TS00300440 VERY DARK, AND FELT HIS WAY ROUND. A GREAT SOUND AS OF THUNDER TS00300450 ALMOST DEAFENED HIM. THEN A DOOR OPENED FROM WHICH A VERY BRIGHT TS00300460 MAN STEPPED AND CAME STRAIGHT TO THE GYILODZAU MAN, AND ASKED, TS00300470 "WHERE ARE YOU FROM, AND WHAT DO YOU WANT?" "OH] SUPERNATURAL ONE, TS00300480 I HAVE COME TO GET HALAEIT POWER, TO CURE MY PEOPLE." THE BRIGHT TS00300490 MAN SAID, "COME WITH ME, I WILL TAKE YOU TO MY FATHER. HE MAY HELP TS00300500 YOU." THE GYILODZAU FOLLOWED THIS SHINING MAN, WHO LED HIM INTO A TS00300510 LARGE HOUSE. A NUMBER OF PEOPLE SAT ABOUT, AND AT THE REAR WAS A TS00300520 GREAT CHIEF, WITH MANY RATTLES WHICH LOOKED AS IF THEY WERE ALIVE. TS00300530 ALONG THE SIDE OF THE GREAT FIRE THERE WERE A NUMBER OF PEOPLE, AND TS00300540 ACROSS FROM THEM, ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE FIRE, WAS AN EMPTY TS00300550 SPACE. THE GYILODZAU MAN WAS SEATED NEAR THE BIG CHIEF, AT THE TS00300560 REAR OF THE HOUSE. THE CHIEF WORE A CROWN OF GRIZZLY-BEAR CLAWS, TS00300570 AND IN EACH HAND HE HELD A RATTLE WHICH APPEARED TO BE ALIVE. THEY TS00300580 RATTLED OF THEIR OWN ACCORD. WHILE HE SAT THERE, ANOTHER DOOR TS00300590 OPENED THROUGH WHICH A YOUNG MAN ENTERED. HE HAD A RATTLE IN EACH TS00300600 HAND, AND CAME TO WHERE THE GYILODZAU SAT. HE ALSO HAD A RATTLE IN TS00300610 EACH HAND, AND WORE AN APRON (AMBELAN) WHICH WAS FRINGED WITH DEER TS00300620 HOOFS. THESE HOOFS GAVE A RATTLING SOUND WITH EVERY MOVEMENT THAT TS00300630 HE MADE. WHILE HE STOOD THERE, ONE MORE DOOR OPENED, AND BOARDS TS00300640 CAME OUT AS IF ALIVE AND SPREAD OUT IN FRONT OF THE FIRE. THEN TS00300650 LIVE CLUBS APPEARED. THEY WENT TO THE BOARDS AND BEGAN TO BEAT TS00300660 TIME ON BOARDS. THE PEOPLE IN THE HOUSE BEGAN TO SING, FOLLOWING TS00300670 THE TUNE SUNG BY THE YOUNG MAN WITH THE RATTLES IN HIS HANDS. TS00300680 A LIVE DRUM THEN RAN OUT AND BEGAN TO BEAT ITSELF WITH ONE OF THE TS00300690 BEATERS. EVERYTHING SEEMED TO BE ALIVE. THE GYILODZAU HEARD THE TS00300700 SINGING AND THE DANCING. THE GREAT CHIEF AROSE AND RUBBED THE TS00300710 GYILODZAU-MAN'S EYES. THEN ALL BECAME QUIET IN THE GREAT HOUSE. TS00300720 HE NO LONGER COULD SEE. EVERYTHING WAS IN DARKNESS. HE FELT THAT TS00300730 THE ROPE WAS STILL FASTENED TO HIM. SO HE CALLED OUT, AND HIS TS00300740 COMPANIONS PULLED HIM OUT. TS00300750 WHEN HE WAS OUT HE COULD SEE AGAIN. "COME, LET US RETURN TO TS00300760 OUR VILLAGE," HE SAID TO HIS COMPANIONS. THEY AT ONCE STARTED OFF. TS00300770 WHEN THEY ARRIVED NEAR THE VILLAGE, THE BOWMAN IN THE CANOE FELL TS00300780 BACK UNCONSCIOUS; NEXT, THE MAN IN THE MIDDLE FELL BACK, BOTH TS00300790 VOMITING BLOOD. BUT THE MAN WHO HAD BEEN LOWERED DOWN INTO THE PIT TS00300800 NEVER LOST CONSCIOUSNESS. HE POLED THE CANOE ALONE TO THE VILLAGE. TS00300810 WHEN THE TWO MEN HAD FALLEN BACK AND VOMITED BLOOD, THIS WAS A SIGN TS00300820 THAT THEY WERE NOW UNDER THE HALAEIT INFLUENCE. TS00300830 THE THREE MEN RECOVERED AND WERE NOW POSSESSED OF HALAEIT TS00300840 POWERS. THEY WENT ABOUT DOING SOME HEALING OF THE SICK. ABOUT A TS00300850 YEAR AFTER, THE MAN WHO HAD BEEN TAKEN DOWN INTO THE PIT TS00300860 DISAPPEARED. NOBODY KNEW WHERE HE HAD GONE. HE JUST HAD VANISHED. TS00300870 EVERYBODY LOOKED FOR HIM BUT COULD NOT FIND HIM. ONE NIGHT, THE TS00300880 PEOPLE HEARD A GREAT CRASH AT THE BACK OF THE HOUSE. THEY RAN OUT TS00300890 AND FOUND HIS BODY FACE DOWN IN THE MUD. APPARENTLY HE WAS DEAD. TS00300900 HE WAS BROUGHT INTO THE HOUSE, AND HIS TWO COMPANIONS COVERED HIM TS00300910 WITH A MAT AND LEFT HIM ALONE. SOON IT SEEMED AS IF SOMEBODY WERE TS00300920 SINGING. SO THEY WENT IN, AND HE SPOKE, "I WAS CALLED BACK TO THE TS00300930 HOUSE WHERE I WENT TO LAST YEAR AND HAVE ACQUIRED GREATER POWER TS00300940 THAN ANY OTHER HALAEIT. NOW I HAVE RECEIVED POWERS WHICH ENABLE TS00300950 ME TO RESTORE TO LIFE THOSE WHO ARE DEAD. I HAVE BEEN GIVEN A TS00300960 HALAEIT NAME: QAMKAWL--ONLY-ONE. AND THE TWO COMPANIONS WHO CAME TS00300970 WITH ME SHALL BE MY AIDES." TS00300980 HIS FAME BEGAN TO TRAVEL TO ALL CORNERS OF THE WORLD. MANY TS00300990 TIMES HE RESTORED LIFE TO THOSE WHO WERE DEAD, AND HE FORETOLD TS00301000 GREAT EVENTS. SOON HE WAS GROWING WEALTHY AND POWERFUL. THE OTHER TS00301010 HALAEITS WERE JEALOUS OF HIM AND LAID MANY WITCH TRAPS TO KILL HIM. TS00301020 BUT HE EASILY OVERCAME THEM WITH HIS STRONG SUPERNATURAL POWERS. TS00301030 HE WAS IN GREAT DEMAND AMONG THE FOREIGN TRIBES. HE TREATED TS00301040 EVERYBODY WHETHER THEY WERE WEALTHY OR POOR, AND REFUSED NOBODY HIS TS00301050 POWERS. HE BECAME VERY WELL LIKED BY THE PEOPLE, BUT THE SHAMANS TS00301060 ALL WERE JEALOUS OF HIM AND HATED HIM. THEY MADE A PLOT. ONE DAY TS00301070 A CANOE LANDED AT HIS VILLAGE, AND STRANGE MEN CAME UP AND SAID, TS00301080 "OH] GREAT HALAEIT, OUR MASTER SENDS US FOR YOU TO HELP HIS SON WHO TS00301090 HAS BEEN AILING AND IS NOW DYING. THE OTHER HALAEITS CAN DO TS00301100 NOTHING FOR HIM. SO HE SENDS FOR YOU." WHILE THE MESSENGER WAS TS00301110 TALKING, THE GREAT HALAEIT'S (SPIRIT) AIDE CAME TO HIM, INVISIBLE TS00301120 TO ALL THE OTHERS, AND WHISPERED, "THESE MEN ARE LYING. THEIR TS00301130 PRINCE IS WELL BUT IS PRETENDING ILLNESS, AS THEY WANT TO KILL TS00301140 YOU." SO ONLY-ONE SAID TO THE MESSENGERS, "I WILL FOLLOW YOU." HE TS00301150 WENT INTO HIS OWN CANOE, AND HIS COMPANIONS ESCORTED HIM TO THE TS00301160 VILLAGE. WHEN THEY ARRIVED THERE, THEY WENT TO THE CHIEF'S HOUSE. TS00301170 THE PRINCE WHO WAS PRETENDING TO BE ILL LAY THERE. ONLY-ONE WENT TS00301180 IN AND BEGAN LOOKING AT HIM. HE SAID, "I HAVE COME ON A USELESS TS00300190 TRIP. YOU ARE TOO ILL. YOU WILL NEVER RECOVER, AS YOU ARE DYING." TS00301200 THE MAN WHO WAS PRETENDING ILLNESS FELT HIMSELF GROW VERY WEAK, AND TS00301210 A GREAT FEAR CAME OVER HIM. PERHAPS NOW HE WAS TOO ILL AND WOULD TS00301220 DIE. "GIVE ME WATER] I MUST HAVE SOME FRESH WATER. I AM VERY TS00301230 THIRSTY," SAID ONLY-ONE. WHEN THE CHIEF'S SERVANTS WERE GONE TO TS00301240 FETCH THE WATER, ONE OF ONLY-ONE'S AIDES WHISPERED, "DO NOT DRINK TS00301250 IT, AS IT IS URINE MIXED WITH A VIOLENT POISON" (HOOHLENS). WHEN TS00301260 THE WATER WAS BROUGHT TO ONLY-ONE, HE TURNED TO THE SICK PRINCE, TS00301270 "YOU MUST DRINK THIS; IT HAS BEEN PREPARED ESPECIALLY BY YOUR TS00301280 UNCLE, WHO IS HIMSELF A GREAT HALAEIT." THE PRINCE WHO WAS FAKING TS00301290 ILLNESS SAID, "NO, I FEEL BETTER ALREADY." BUT ONLY-ONE INSISTED. TS00301300 FINALLY HE SAID, "COME, DRINK THIS URINE AND HOOHLENS, WHICH WAS TS00301310 MEANT FOR ME." WITH THAT THE ILL PRINCE FELL BACK ON HIS COUCH, TS00301320 DEAD. ONLY-ONE THEN WENT BACK TO HIS CANOE AND RETURNED TO HIS OWN TS00301330 VILLAGE. HE HAD DEFEATED THE PLANS OF THE HALAEITS WHO HAD TS00301340 GATHERED TOGETHER TO PLAN HIS DESTRUCTION. TS00301350 ONLY-ONE'S FAME WENT TO ALL LANDS, TO VARIOUS COUNTRIES, AND TS00301360 BECAME NOT ONLY FAMOUS, BUT WEALTHY. HE WAS VERY WELL LIKED BY ALL TS00301370 EXCEPT HIS FELLOW HALAEITS. THEY AT ALL TIMES WERE PLANNING HIS TS00301380 RUIN. ONE NIGHT AS HE WAS SITTING BY THE FIRE, HE SAID TO HIS TS00301390 AIDES AND NEPHEWS, "TO-NIGHT THE CHIEF BAGWES WILL COME HERE TO TS00301400 ASK ME TO HELP HIM, AS HIS SON HAS BEEN AILING FOR A LONG WHILE. TS00301410 NOW HE IS NEAR DEATH. YOU, MY AIDES, AND TWO OF MY NEPHEWS, WILL TS00301420 FOLLOW ME, WHEN THEY COME FOR ME." TS00301430 SURE ENOUGH, WHEN ALL WERE ASLEEP IN THE HOUSE, ONLY-ONE TS00301440 HEARD A CANOE LAND, AND TWO MEN ENTERED. WITHOUT ANY HESITATION TS00301450 THEY WENT DIRECTLY TO THE COUCH OF ONLY-ONE. "GREAT CHIEF ONLY- TS00301460 ONE, MY MASTER HAS SENT US FOR YOU. FOR A LONG WHILE HIS SON HAS TS00301470 BEEN VERY ILL. THOUGH MANY HALAEITS HAVE SEEN HIM, NONE CAN DO HIM TS00301480 ANY GOOD. THAT IS WHY MY MASTER SENDS FOR YOU. HE FEELS THAT ONLY TS00301490 YOU CAN SAVE HIS SON. THE CANOE AWAITS YOU." ONLY-ONE GOT UP AND TS00301500 AWOKE HIS AIDES AND THE TWO NEPHEWS WHO WERE TO ACCOMPANY HIM. TS00301510 WHEN HE HAD GATHERED HIS PARAPHERNALIA, HE GAVE THESE TO HIS AIDES TS00301520 AND THEN WENT DOWN TO THE BEACH WHERE HE SAW A HUGE CANOE. THEY TS00301530 ALL WENT TS00301540 INTO THIS, AND IT SEEMED TO COME TO LIFE. IT MOVED AWAY VERY TS00301550 SWIFTLY. ALL NIGHT LONG IT TRAVELLED, AND JUST AT DAWN THEY TS00301560 ARRIVED AT AN ISLAND AWAY OUT AT SEA. BEFORE HE WENT UP FROM THE TS00301570 CANOE ONLY-ONE TOOK HIS URINE VESSEL AND SPRAYED HIMSELF WITH TS00301580 URINE. THIS WAS TO PREVENT THE BAGWES PEOPLE DOING HIM ANY INJURY. TS00301590 HIS AIDES DID THE SAME. THEN HE WENT INTO THE CHIEF BAGWES' HOUSE TS00301600 AND SAW A YOUNG MAN LYING IN HIS SLEEPING PLACE. HE WAS VERY WEAK TS00301610 AND SUFFERED AN AGONY OF PAIN. SEVERAL HALAEITS WERE LOOKING AFTER TS00301620 THE PATIENT. TS00301630 RIBS AN ARROW POINT WAS ABOUT READY TO PIERCE THROUGH TO HIS HEART. TS00301650 THIS WAS BEING DONE BY A WITCH IN ANOTHER PART OF THE COUNTRY. TS00301660 THIS WITCH HAD MADE AN EFFIGY OF THE YOUNG MAN, THEN HAD HUNG IT IN TS00301670 HIS WITCH BOX AND PIERCED THE FIGURE WITH A LONG THORN. EVERYDAY TS00301680 THE WITCH (HALDAOGYET) WOULD PUSH THE THORN IN MORE. IT WAS TS00301690 THEN THAT THE SON OF THE CHIEF OF THE BAGWES FELT GREAT AGONY. TS00301700 WHEN IT NEARED HIS HEART, HE SHRIEKED WITH PAIN. ALL OF THIS TS00301710 BECAME VISIBLE TO THE GREAT ONLY-ONE AS SOON AS HE WALKED INTO THE TS00301720 HOUSE OF CHIEF BAGWES. HE THEN WENT TO THE CHIEF AND SAID, "I KNOW TS00301730 WHAT AILS YOUR SON. HE IS THE VICTIM OF A GREAT HALAEIT WHO ALSO TS00301740 PRACTICES HALDAOGYET. HE HAS AN EFFIGY OF YOUR SON, AND THIS IS TS00301750 WHAT HE IS WORKING ON. SOON THE EFFIGY WILL DROP IN HIS WITCH BOX. TS00301760 THEN YOUR SON WILL DIE. YOU MUST GET THAT EFFIGY AND WITHDRAW THE TS00301770 THORN FROM IT. THEN I WILL BE ABLE TO CURE YOUR SON. THIS MAN TS00301780 LIVES IN ANOTHER COUNTRY, AND YOU MUST GO THERE AND MUST GET TS00301790 REDRESS BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE. THIS MAN IS VERY JEALOUS OF YOUR TS00301800 POWER." TS00301810 AS SOON AS BAGWES KNEW WHAT AILED HIS SON, HE AT ONCE TS00301820 PROCEEDED TO WHERE ONLY-ONE HAD DIRECTED HIM, AND AT ONCE ACCUSED TS00301830 THE WITCH HALAEIT OF WITCHCRAFT, AND HE WENT TO THE SPOT WHERE TS00301840 ONLY-ONE HAD TOLD HIM THE WITCH BOX WAS HIDDEN. AS SOON AS HE TS00301850 FOUND IT, HE PULLED THE THORN OUT FROM THE FIGURE, THEN BURNED THE TS00301860 FIGURE. AS SOON AS THE THORN WAS PULLED OUT OF THE FIGURE, THE TS00301870 SICK MAN WAS RELIEVED AND COULD SIT UP. ONLY-ONE SAW THAT THE TS00301880 ARROW POINT WAS NO LONGER IN HIS RIBS. THE MAN WAS THEN ABLE TO TS00301890 WALK ABOUT FULLY CURED. THE CHIEF BAGWES WAS VERY HAPPY, AND HE TS00301900 GAVE A GREAT FEAST AT WHICH ALL THE PEOPLE OF THE CHIEF WERE TOLD, TS00301910 "YOU SEE MY NEPHEW] ONLY-ONE HAS CURED HIM. YOU WILL KNOW HIM IN TS00301920 THE FUTURE AND MUST NEVER HARM HIM, BUT RATHER HELP HIM IN ALL TS00301930 WAYS. SHOULD YOU SEE ANY DANGER FOR HIM, WARN HIM." NEXT DAY HE TS00301940 BEGAN TO PUT MANY PRESENTS BEFORE ONLY-ONE. THERE WAS A HUGE PILE TS00301950 OF SEA-OTTER SKINS, FUR SEALS, MINK AND MARTEN, AND OTHER PELTS. TS00301960 THEN HE SAID, "WELL MY NEPHEW. YOU WILL BE TAKEN BACK TO YOUR OWN TS00301970 VILLAGE. YOU SHALL ALWAYS HAVE THE PROTECTION OF MY PEOPLE." TS00301980 SO SHARP WERE THE JEALOUSIES OF THE MANY HALAEITS THAT THE TS00301990 WUDAHALAEITS (CANNIBAL SOCIETY) WERE CALLED TO TRY AND DO AWAY WITH TS00302000 ONLY-ONE. ONE DAY A CANOE CAME FROM GITRHAHLA. ABOARD WERE THE TS00302010 MESSENGERS OF A SHAMAN (HALAEIT) WHO WAS DYING AND WANTED ONLY-ONE TS00302020 TO SAVE HIM. THIS WAS PLANNED BY THE WUDAHALAEIT GROUP, WHO TS00302030 WANTED TO GET HIM OUT TO THEIR VILLAGE. THEN THEY WOULD KILL HIM. TS00302040 ONLY-ONE, AS SOON AS HE ARRIVED AT GITRHAHLA, SAW SOME OF THE TRAPS TS00302050 WHICH THE WUDAHALAEIT HAD SET UP FOR HIM. HE SAW, AHEAD OF HIM AS TS00302060 HE LANDED, A HUGE NET. ALTHOUGH IT WAS INVISIBLE TO ALL, ONLY-ONE TS00302070 WAS ABLE TO SEE IT. HE WALKED ROUND IT. THUS HE DID NOT BECOME TS00302080 ENTANGLED IN THE NET. THEN JUST AS HE WAS ABOUT TO ENTER THE HOUSE TS00302090 OF THE SHAMAN WHO HAD INVITED HIM, HE SAW A PIT, VISIBLE ONLY TO TS00302100 HALAEITS. OTHERS COULD WALK OVER IT OR ON IT, AND NO HARM WOULD TS00302110 COME TO THEM. BUT IT WAS DIFFERENT WITH A HALAEIT, AS IT WAS A TS00302120 TRAP SPECIALLY MADE FOR ONLY-ONE. HE WOULD HAVE SUDDENLY TS00302130 DISAPPEARED DOWN THIS PIT AND WOULD HAVE BEEN DESTROYED. BUT, AS TS00302140 HE WAS ON GUARD, HE SAW THE INVISIBLE PIT AND WALKED ROUND IT. TS00302150 ONCE MORE HE ESCAPED. TS00302160 HE WENT DIRECTLY TO WHERE THE SICK HALAEIT WAS LYING, AND HE TS00302170 SAW A VERY ILL MAN WHO WAS ALMOST DEAD, ONLY SKIN AND BONES. HIS TS00302180 FLESH HAD ALL GONE, AND HE WAS VERY WEAK. HE LOOKED AT THE ILL MAN TS00302190 AND SAID TO HIM. "THIS IS THE WORK OF YOUR JEALOUS HALAEITS. SOME TS00302200 OF YOUR EXCREMENT HAS BEEN WRAPPED IN SKIN AND PUT INSIDE OF A TS00302210 HUMAN CORPSE. THIS HAS BEEN DONE BY YOUR OWN CHIEF HALAEIT. THE TS00302220 CORPSE, AS I SEE IT NOW, IS THE CORPSE OF ANOTHER HALAEIT, WHO HAS TS00302230 DIED RECENTLY. SHOULD YOU KNOW WHERE HIS BODY LIES, SEND ONE THAT TS00302240 YOU TRUST TO EXTRACT THE BUNDLE OF EXCREMENT FROM THE CORPSE. THEN TS00302250 YOU WILL RECOVER." THIS HALAEIT THEN REMEMBERED THAT SOME TIME TS00302260 BACK A FAMOUS HALAEIT HAD DIED, AND AS IT WAS THEN THE CUSTOM AMONG TS00302270 THE PEOPLE, HIS BODY WAS SECRETLY PUT AWAY. ONLY HIS FELLOW TS00302280 HALAEIT KNEW WHERE IT WAS. THEY DID THIS SO THAT NONE WHO WERE NOT TS00302290 HALAEITS COULD COME TO HIS BODY AND ACQUIRE POWER FROM IT. THEY TS00302300 HAD PUT THE BODY IN A CAVE AWAY IN THE HILLS. SO HE CALLED ONE TS00302310 OF HIS NEPHEWS, "GO UP INTO THE CAVE] YOU KNOW WHERE THEY PLACED TS00302320 YOUR GRANDFATHER, AND FIND HIS BODY IN IT. YOU WILL FIND A BUNDLE TS00302330 WHICH YOU MUST EXTRACT AND BRING TO ME HERE." TS00302340 THE NEPHEW WENT TO THE CAVE, AS HE WAS ONE OF THOSE THAT HAD TS00302350 HELPED TO PUT THE HALAEIT'S BODY AWAY FOR DISPOSAL. FINDING THE TS00302360 CORPSE, WHICH WAS ALREADY OPENED UP, AS IT WAS CUSTOMARY FOR THE TS00302370 PEOPLE TO TAKE OUT THE INSIDES OF A HALAEIT BEFORE DISPOSING OF THE TS00302380 BODY, HE FOUND THE BUNDLE AND TOOK IT OUT. JUST AS SOON AS THE TS00302390 ONLY-ONE WENT TO THE SICK MAN AND FOUND OUT THAT BETWEEN HIS TS00301640 BUNDLE WAS TAKEN OUT, THE VICTIM FELT RELIEVED, AND BY THE TIME IT TS00302400 WAS BROUGHT TO HIM, HE WAS MUCH BETTER AND WAS VERY HUNGRY. HE ATE TS00302410 MUCH FOOD. ONLY-ONE, THE GREAT HALAEIT WAS RICHLY REWARDED BY HIS TS00302420 FELLOW HALAEIT WHO WAS NOW RECOVERING VERY FAST. BUT NOW THE TS00302430 WUDAHALAEIT GROUP WAS DETERMINED TO DO AWAY WITH HIM. SO THEY TS00302440 PLANNED A GREAT FEAST TO WHICH ONLY-ONE WAS TO BE INVITED. THERE TS00302450 THEY WOULD FEED HIM POISONED HUMAN FLESH. THEY WERE READY, AND TO TS00302460 ALL APPEARANCES THEY HAD BARBECUED MANY SEALS. THIS WAS TO BE THE TS00302470 MAIN FOOD AT THE FEAST. THE HALAEIT WHOM HE HAD CURED NOW CAME TO TS00302480 ONLY-ONE AND SAID, "THESE WICKED MEN ARE GOING TO FEED YOU HUMAN TS00302490 FLESH. THIS WOULD POISON YOU. THEY HOPE TO DISPOSE OF YOUR BODY, TS00302500 TO BE RID OF YOU, AS YOU HAVE BECOME TOO FAMOUS. THIS THEY RESENT. TS00302510 NOW CUT A HOLE IN YOUR STOMACH. WHEN THEY FEED YOU MEAT, THIS WILL TS00302520 BE HUMAN FLESH. AS YOU SWALLOW IT, THE MEAT WILL PASS THROUGH YOUR TS00302530 STOMACH AND THEN OUT THROUGH THIS HOLE. GATHER UP THE MEAT AND TS00302540 REPLACE IT ON THE WUDAHALAEIT'S DISH. THEY WILL EAT IT AND DIE." TS00302550 NOW THE WUDAHALAEIT WERE READY FOR THEIR FEAST. TS00302560 ONLY-ONE WAS THE GUEST OF HONOUR. HE SAT NEAR THE CHIEF OF TS00302570 THE WUDAHALAEIT AND WAS SERVED FIRST, AS BEING THE GUEST OF HONOUR TS00302580 (MEN'WAW). AFTER ALL THE GUESTS HAD ARRIVED, THE CARCASSES OF TS00302590 BARBECUED SEALS WERE DUG UP FROM THE COAL PITS, CUT UP, AND PLACED TS00302600 IN WOODEN FOOD DISHES AND DISTRIBUTED TO EACH GUEST. THESE SEALS TS00302610 WERE CUT UP IN FRONT OF THE PEOPLE AND DISHED OUT. BUT THE TS00302620 WUDAHALAEIT HAD A WOODEN DISH ALREADY PREPARED; IT WAS FILLED WITH TS00302630 HUMAN FLESH. THIS THEY PLACED IN FRONT OF ONLY-ONE. HIS AIDE, TS00302640 WHO WAS INVISIBLE TO EVERYONE, SAID, "EAT OF THIS AND WHEN YOU TS00302650 SWALLOW, IT WILL COME OUT OF THE HOLE IN THE SIDE OF YOUR STOMACH. TS00302660 THIS I WILL TAKE AND PLACE IN ONE OF THE DISHES OF THE WUDAHALAEIT, TS00302670 SO WE WILL BE ABLE TO KILL THEM ALL." ONLY-ONE BEGAN EATING THE TS00302680 MEAT IN FRONT OF HIM, AND AS HE SWALLOWED, THE MEAT RAN OUT THROUGH TS00302690 THE HOLE IN THE SIDE OF HIS STOMACH, AND HIS INVISIBLE AIDE TOOK IT TS00302700 AND PLACED THIS HUMAN POISONED MEAT FIRST IN THE WUDAHALAEIT TS00302710 CHIEF'S DISH, AND THN INTO EACH DISH OF THIS GROUP. WITHOUT TS00302720 KNOWING, THEY ATE OF IT AND SOON THEY WERE ALL IN GREAT AGONY. TS00302730 THEN ONLY-ONE TOLD THEM, "YOU SHOULD REALLY ENJOY HUMAN FLESH AS TS00302740 THAT IS PART OF YOUR FARE." HE WANTED THEM TO KNOW THAT THEY WERE TS00302750 BEING KILLED WITH WHAT THEY INTENDED TO KILL HIM. HE HAD NOW TS00302760 OVERCOME ALL THEIR ATTEMPTS TO DESTROY HIM. TS00302770 ONLY-ONE HAD NOW BECOME THE MOST FAMOUS OF ALL HALAEITS, AND, TS00302780 AS HE WAS HELPING NOT ONLY THE RICH BUT ALSO MANY THAT COULD NOT TS00302790 PAY HIM, HE NEVER FAILED TO ASSIST ANY THAT REQUIRED HIS HELP. HE TS00302800 WAS ALSO VERY WEALTHY AND LOVED BY ALL OF THE TSIMSYAN, NOT ONLY TS00302810 OF HIS OWN TRIBE, BUT BY ALL OF HIS NATION. HE BELONGED TO THE TS00302820 GYILODZAU TRIBE, AND THAT SUMMER WHEN HIS PEOPLE RETURNED TO THEIR TS00302830 VILLAGE AT KLARHKYAELS ON THE SKEENA RIVER, THEY MADE READY TO TS00302840 PREPARE THEIR FOOD SUPPLY OF SALMON AND MEATS FROM BEAR AND TS00302850 MOUNTAIN GOAT. ONE DAY, A MESSENGER CAME AND WENT TO WHERE ONLY-ONE TS00302860 WAS LYING. HE WAS NOW AGED, AND THIS MESSENGER WENT TO HIM AND TS00302870 TOLD HIM, "THE MASTER WANTS YOU." WITHOUT WAITING FOR A REPLY THE TS00302880 MESSENGER WENT OUT. ONLY-ONE GOT UP AND MADE PREPARATIONS FOR A TS00302890 LONG JOURNEY. HE TOLD THE COMPANIONS, "I AM GOING TO GIVE YOU TS00302900 POWERS THAT I NOW POSSESS. YOU IN TURN SHALL ALWAYS HAVE MY HELP. TS00302910 I AM GOING ON A LONG JOURNEY AND MAY NEVER RETURN, BUT YOU SHALL BE TS00302920 ABLE TO CONTINUE MY WORK AMONG THE PEOPLE." THEN HE WENT DOWN TO TS00302930 HIS CANOE AND WITHOUT ANY EFFORT THE CANOE DROVE AWAY UP TO THE PIT TS00302940 WHERE HE HAD FIRST ACQUIRED HIS HALAEIT POWERS, AND HE VANISHED. TS00302950 HE NEVER RETURNED TO HIS PEOPLE, BUT THEY KNEW HE WAS NOT DEAD. TS00302960 HE HAD GONE TO THE ABODE OF THE GREAT HALAEIT OVER WHICH HE NOW IS TS00302970 THE CHIEF AND GIVES OUT POWERS TO OTHER HALAEITS. TS00302980 THIS IS THE NARRATIVE OF QAMKAWL (QAM: ONLY; KAWL: ONE. "ONLY-ONE" TS00302990