he vomited and filled the kettle with blood. Then he took the arrow-point that had killed him out of his mouth, and was as well as before.
The people returned to the village, and now he caused a heavy thunderstorm to rise, which split the trees of the forest and killed many of the Tillamook. Then he sent some of his people to the village of the Tillamook and challenged them to another game of ball. The latter were singing and dancing because they believed they had killed Txäxä′. After they had been challenged again, they sent two old men to see what the Natā′hts were doing. When these messengers arrived at Natā′hts, they saw Txäxä′ practising with his ball. At first they would not believe their own eyes. But when approaching nearer, they saw that their enemy was still alive. They returned to Tillamook and said: "Are you not ashamed to dance and sing? He whom you killed is alive and playing ball." Then the people took off their fine garments and threw them into the fire.
Franz Boas.
