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thing. When he came down, his wives were gone. He said to his father, "Do you know where they went?" but he answered, "No."

Then the young man said, "I will start down on foot to the place whither I think they have gone." So he set out, and after he had gone on for some time, he heard people making a noise. It was the brant tribe in camp. On this journey he took a bag full of arrows with mussel-shell points, and bows. For this reason, when he came back of the place where they were, and they caught sight of him, they were afraid and flew away. Then he went down to the place where they had been sitting and found all kinds of green herbs such as brants live on.

After this the girls said to their father, "Let us camp a little way off. He has been with us for some time, and we have gotten his heat. Therefore let us camp near by so that he can come to us and be taken along." But their father answered, "When he comes behind us again and camps, say to him, "Our fathers^[1] a do not like to see your bows and arrows. Get rid of them. " They came to him and repeated these words, but he said, "I do not take them in order to do harm to your fathers but to get game for myself. I wish you would tell them that I want to go along, too." So they told him to come down, and, when he did so, his father-in-law said, "Bring out the best coat. I want to put it on my son-in-law."

After that his wives said to him, "We are going to start along with you. When we set out do not think about going back and do not look down." Then they put a woven mat over him and started. After they had gone on for some distance the man wanted to urinate and dropped down from among them on the smooth grass. The brants did not want to leave him, and they followed. It was quite close to their real camping place. The brant tribe was so large that he felt as if he were in his own father's house. They would play all the evening, and he felt very happy among them.

When they arrived at their real home, this man took off his bag of bows and arrows and hid it back in the woods so that they could not see it. In the same town were fowls of all kinds—brants, swans, herons, etc. and by and by war arose over a woman, between the brant tribe and the heron tribe. They went outside and started to fight. The swan tribe was between, trying to make peace. When they came out to fight for the second time, the brant tribe was pretty well destroyed by the heron people's long, pick-like bills. It was from the herons that the Indians learned how to make picks. This is also the reason why the LiuklnAxA di use the swan as their crest, for they are very slow, and the KiksA di use the brant as their emblem because they are very lively.