I went inside and saw a dead man, who rubbed me all over to make me clever, and gave me some crystals.

When we came out, my father pointed to a tiger-snake, saying, 'That is your familiar.

It is mine also.' There was a string extending from the tail of the snake to us--one of those strings which the medicine-men bring up out of themselves.

My father took hold of the string, and said, 'Let us follow the snake.' The snake went through several tree-trunks, and let us through them.

At last we reached a tree with a great swelling round its roots.