resolved to cut open their faces. He took a stone, sharpened his knife, and opened the face of one of them. He told him to wash the wound he had made, and then to eat fish. After he had made a mouth for this one, all the others came to him, and asked him to do them the same favor. They paid him with fish and whale meat. He enjoyed this occupation, and made sport of the people, cutting some of the mouths so that they stretched from one ear to the other; others he slashed from nose to chin. Finally they left this place and travelled on.
After they had travelled for a long time they came to a house, which they entered. They met two old women, but did not see any provisions in the house. The chief wondered what they lived on, but the old women did not take any notice of the strangers. They made a large fire and put stones into it, talking among themselves, and the men did not understand what they said. The chief of the travellers looked about the house, and all of a sudden he saw that their canoe had been transferred to the top of the roof. He did not know how it came there. He told his companions to throw grass on the fire, so that the smoke should fill the house, and to take the canoe down as quietly as possible. He alone continued to stay in the house, and pretended to talk with his companions. Soon the men succeeded in launching their canoe, then the chief ran down to the beach, jumped aboard, and they paddled away as fast as they could. When the old women found that their victims had escaped they began to cry, and said, "Our good dinner has run away." They were cannibals.
The men travelled on, and one night after dark they heard singing and dancing on the beach. They went ashore, and asked whether they might stay in the village over night. They were invited to a house in which a shaman performed his dance. The latter disliked the arrival of the strangers, and forbade them to enter his house. Then the chief of the travellers grew angry. He went down to the beach with his men; they took their bows and arrows, returned to the house, and demanded to be admitted. He threatened to kill the whole tribe if they denied them admittance to the house. The shaman did not allow them to enter, and when the chief attacked the house he made him faint before he reached the door. His men poured water over his head, but were unable to restore him to life. Then the shaman said: "If you will give me two slaves, I will cure him." They promised to give him the slaves, and he cured the chief. They gave him the slaves, but then they killed him, entered the house, took away a large part of his property, and took three men and two women as slaves.
They travelled on, but the people whose shaman they had killed
