Very shortly after, they heard the same cries of pain, faintly at first, but the voice soon entered. The _conjurer_ said he was carried to where the people were. "They are all asleep, at such a place and tomorrow will be here." He said there were four (spirits) of them, that carried him off. Each held him by the _little finger_ and _little toe_! [Stories] I shall here relate a couple more of these stories. [The Hunter and the Wolf Spirit] An Indian told me that several years back he left his lodge on the borders of a large lake to go to the house for some necessaries he wanted. He took a traverse for some islands. The weather was dull but mild. A storm very soon set in. But he persevered. Thinking the wind had changed, he also changed his course. He became very much fatigued and laid down on the ice to rest himself and wait for daylight, for _the_ night had overtaken him. He was not long down before, reflecting on his situation, he became extremely uneasy and was afraid of freezing. At last he heard a curious noise near him that he could not account for. At first his fears increased, greatly dreading it was some malignant spirit. But having no alternative he resigned himself to his fate. And I became as composed as though I were safe. And I was too, for an animal much resembling a wolf, and black, came up and covered me. I was very cold, shivering in every limb, but I soon became quite warm. He rose from off me and went on as if inviting me to follow. His eyes appeared like two candles. I followed. He led me to an island where I made a fire and warmed and dried myself. And as soon as I was rigged, I followed him, for he went off and looked at me so earnestly I took it for an order. He led me straight to the water hole. There happened to be people at the time there going for water. They saw _these_ lights and asked me what occasioned them, or who it was that came with me. I told them it was a compassionate spirit that retrieved me from a dreadful death. [Pursuit by a Pahkack] _Second_ [Story]! A young man lately told me the following. I was returning home with my uncle when come to _that_ point, we heard something crying behind us, "He! He! Ha! Ha!" and whistling alternatively. My uncle told me it was a Pah-kack (Skeleton), and [it] wanted to destroy us. It came up with us very soon and kept constantly buzzing and whistling in our ears so that, indeed, we were quite bewildered at last. It was at night and dark, but we kept straight on as we thought. We were mistaken for, after walking a long time, we at last came to the water hole again from where we had set off. We were both of [us] much afraid, but finding this path, we minded it no more though it pursued us making more and more noise the nearer we got _home_.