"Oh, my children, are you still alive? There is no one to provide for you, and I am afraid you are dead." The Thunderer knew his thoughts and said, "Do not worry, your wives are quite well. One of them has married again. I will take you back to-morrow." What the Thunderer called the next day was actually the next year.
The following day he took him under his armpits and put him back at the foot of the spruce-tree, from where he had taken him, and then flew back home. The, man believed that he had been away only four days, but it had been four years. He did not go to his house, but stayed in the woods near by. There his son found him. He asked the boy, "Who are you? is your father at home?" The boy replied, believing him to be a stranger, "No, I have no father; he was lost four years ago. For a long time they looked for him, and finally they found his clothes and his salmon spear." Then the man said, "I am your father. The Thunderer took me up to the sky, and I have returned." Then he inquired after his wives, and the boy replied, "Mother is well, and all my brothers have grown up and are also well. Your other wife has married again, but mother remained true to you." Then the man sent him to call his wife. The boy ran home and said, "Mother! father is in the woods." His mother did not believe him, and whipped him for speaking about his father. Then the boy went out crying. He said to his father, "Mother did not believe me." The man gave him a piece of whale meat and said, "Take this to your mother; I brought it from where I have been." The boy obeyed, and took the whale meat to his mother, who said, "I will go with you, but if he is not your father I shall beat you." She accompanied her son and found her husband. He returned with her into the house, and she invited the whole tribe. The man danced and became a great shaman. For ten days he danced, and the people feasted. Then he told them where he had been and what he had seen, and said that whenever they wanted to have a whale he would get one.
After some time the Thunderer came back and took him up once more and he stayed for ten years with him. Then he came home and lived with his people.
One day he went elk-hunting, and came to a small lake, where he found a small canoe. When crossing the lake he heard a voice calling him from out of the water, and on looking down he saw a hole in the bottom, and a human being in it, which called him. He jumped overboard, went to the bottom of the lake and stayed with the supernatural being for ten years. Then the latter sent him out in company of the beaver to gather some skunk-cabbage. They followed a trail and came to a parting of the roads. The man did not know where they were going. Then the beaver asked him:
