Note 9 — PREFACE. (continued 5)
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The end of this contest saw Kila master of all the lands. The canoe was then beached and he went ashore. At this the shells9 cried and asked: “What is the object of this voyage that has brought my lord here?” Kila replied: “It is a voyage in search of a chief.” The shells said: “There are no more chiefs; all are dead. We were deserted by your father in this place, without food and without fish, your father taking everything with him, and we have managed to just exist.”