His speech was not ineffectual. The girl was delivered of a boy, and shortly after, of another. The elder was called Wee-suck-ā-jāāk; the younger "Mi (or Mee) shaw-bôse". After this the girl recovered and became as aforetime. These two young men immediately attained "man's estate", manhood, and became hunters. [Death of Mishabôse] The younger of the two one day was in pursuit of a grey or rein deer (carriboeuf), after which also pursued a wolf. The deer, having thus no hopes of escape, fled to a rock on the edge of the waters and plunged in. Mishabôse and the wolf followed. But they all three became a prey to the Michi-Pichoux, or Great Lynx, i.e. Water Lynx, Water-Cat, or Water Dog. [Wee-suck-ā-jāāk and Kingfisher] Wee-suck-ā-jāāk was very uneasy for his brother. [He] was anxious to revenge his death, but scarcely knew well how. At last one day, seeing a Kingfisher hovering in a certain spot, [ Wee-suck-ā-jāāk] addressed him thus, "My younger brother! What art thou there looking at?" "I am looking at Mishabôse, your brother, lying in the bottom of the deep, drowned." [Myths of the Flood] [Wee-suck-ā-jāāk's Revenge on the Sea Lynxes] After some further conversation, Wee-suck-ā-jāāk discovered the means of avenging himself. He accordingly set to work and made himself a _large canoe_ on board of which he embarked the Moose, Deer, Bear, Otter, Beaver, Muskrat, Wolf [and others] and repaired to the place where the Sea Lynxes used to resort to sleep. This was a fine, pleasant place on the land. Here he observed several of them and began his work. It is not related how many he did kill, but the water upon their death came rushing upon him in a violent torrent. As he expected this, he had brought his canoe near hand. But before he reached it, after killing his enemies, he was already knee-deep {14} in the water. However, he got safely on board, but in his hurry [he] forgot to embark a little earth. Now the waters swelled immensely, and in a very short time the highest land was covered, and Wee-suck-ā-jāāk was tossed about by the wind and water. It appears that he had not the foresight either of taking with him sufficiency of provisions, for he became very hungry, and thus expressed himself to his crew. [Wee-suck-ā-jāāk Tricks a Water Lynx and Beaver] After some time he saw something on the water, very large and moving toward him. He thus addressed it, "Who or what art thou my younger brother?" (For he, being the first born, always addressed the rest of the creation, whether animate, inanimate, or rational or not, as his _younger brothers._) "And whither art thou going?" "Why, my elder (brother), I am a _water lynx_, and am sent by _confrers_ in search of Wee-suck-ā-jāāk and to destroy him! "Aye! Is it so indeed? And how or with what instrument do you intend to destroy him?" "I have a large and very strong iron tail, with which if I smite his canoe he must perish!"