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3 Many days passed by, and the Chief’s determined to have a great medicine dance before they started off for the hunt. All the young men were busy making ornaments to decorate their persons for the great medicine dance; Ish-pau-bi-kau said: “I will go and catch a grey eagle and make myself a head-dress with his feathers.” He started out with no weapon but his knife; then the young men said, “how will he catch an eagle?” We cannot even get near enough to shoot them: “But Ish-pau-bi-kau knew what he was about. He first directed his steps towards a tamarack swamp, where thousands of white rabbits might be seen frisking about, at all hours of the day; pulling some strips of smitten bark, he soon manufactured a snare, and setting it in his own ingenious manner, he captured a large rabbit alive in a very short time: tying the rabbit to his belt he left the swamp, and turned his steps across the wide prairie towards a high rock where the eagles built; the same rock from which he derived his name, in consequence of its being the scene of some distinguished exploit of his youth. And now he began his preparations for catching the grey eagle; taking his knife, he commenced digging up the soft sand of the prairie, until he had made a long trench, about eighteen inches in depth, and of length and width sufficient to allow him to lie down in it, stretched out at full length on his back; then collecting a quantity of grass, he fixed himself in his trench and covered himself so completely with the grass, that, at a few paces distant, no one could have been aware of his presence. He now let out his rabbit, keeping fast hold of its leg, that its struggles might attract the attention of the Eagles, intending when the eagle should swoop on its prey, to grapple with it, and then victory would rest with the strongest. Suddenly the rabbit is struck whirling into the air, and the astonished hunter removing his eyes from the eagles on top of the cliff, to his own more immediate vicinity, beholds standing over him an immense white bear, apparently contemplating with great

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