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Note 5 — Moldy-forehead

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Then the Herring people started off. Some time after that the Salmon people also began to move. They started off in one canoe toward the surface of the earth.5 They loaded the canoe. Some stood about with injured feet and eyes bound up, wanting to go. The people refused to let them. After the provisions had been put on board they hunted about among these, found some one, pulled him up, and threw him ashore. They did not handle such carefully. One of these had hidden himself. In the fall many of them have sore feet and their eyes are sore.6

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