e that menaced him, raised his voice and exclaimed, "Thus
will I deal with all who come near me. What right have you, ye ravenous
birds, who were made to feed on beasts, to eat human flesh? Is it
because that cowardly old canoe-man has bid you do so? He is an old
woman. He can neither do you good nor harm. See, I have already slain
one of your number. Respect my bravery, and carry me back that I may
show you how I shall treat you."

The eagles, pleased with his spirit, assented, and clustering thick
around him formed a seat with their backs, and flew toward the
enchanted island. As they crossed the water they passed over the
magician, lying half asleep in his canoe.

The return of the young man was hailed with joy by the daughters, who
now plainly saw that he was under the guidance of a strong spirit. But
the ire of the old man was excited, although he kept his temper under
subjection. He taxed his wits for some new mode of ridding himself of
the youth, who had so successfully baffled his skill. He next invited
him to go a hunting.

Taking his canoe, they proceeded to an island and built a lodge to
shelter themselves during the night. In the mean while the magician
caused a deep fall of snow, with a storm of wind and severe cold.
According to custom, the young man pulled off his moccasins and
leggings, and hung them before the fire to dry. After he had gone to
sleep, the magician, watching his opportunity, got up, and taking one
moccasin and one legging, threw them into the fire. He then went to
sleep. In the morning, stretching himself as he arose and uttering an
exclamation of surprise, "My son," said he, "what has become of your
moccasin and legging? I believe this is the moon in which fire
attracts, and I fear they have been drawn in." The young man suspected
the true cause of his loss, and rightly attributed it to a design of
the magician to freeze him to death on the march. But he maintained the
strictest silence, and drawing his conaus over his head, thus communed
with himself: "I have full faith in the Manito who has preserved me
thus far, I do not fear that he will forsake me in this cruel
emergency. Great is his power, and I invoke it now that he may enable
me to prevail over this wicked enemy of mankind."

He then drew on the remaining moccasin and legging, and taking a dead
coal from the fireplace, invoked his spirit to give it efficacy, and
blackened his foot and leg as far as the lost garment usually r