The hunter then rises, replaces his fetich, and pursues the trail with all possible ardor, until he either strikes the animal down by means of his weapons, or so worries it by long-continued chase that it becomes an easy capture. Before the "breath of life" has left the fallen deer (if it be such), he places its fore feet back of its horns and, grasping its mouth, holds it firmly closed, while he applies his lips to its nostrils and breathes as much wind into them as possible, again inhaling from the lungs of the dying animal into his own. Then letting go he exclaims: Ha! é-lah-kwá! hom tä-tchú, hom tcha-lé. Hom tâ tâ-sho-na-né, All! Thanks! my father, my child. To me thou seeds (of earth) k'iä-she-ma án-ik-tchi-a-nap-tú. Hom tâ té-k'o-ha-na, o-né, yäthl water (want) meet (grant) do. To me thou light trail over (favor) k'ok-shi, án-ik-tchi-a-nap-tú. good meet (grant) do. FREE TRANSLATION. Ah! Thanks, my father, my child. Grant unto me the seeds of earth ("daily bread") and the gift of water. Grant unto me the light of thy favor, do. As soon as the animal is dead he lays open its viscera, cuts through the diaphragm, and makes an incision in the aorta, or in the sac which incloses the heart. He then takes out the prey fetich, breathes on it, and addresses it thus: Si! Hom tä-tchú, lú-k'ia yät-ton-né, lithl k'ia-pin-hâ-i an k'iáh-kwïn Si! My father this day here Game animal its life-fluid (blood) a-k'iá tâs í-k'iah-kwi-ná, tâs i′-ke-i-nan a-k'iá hence thou shalt dampen thyself, thou shalt (thy) hence with, heart with i'-te-li-a-u-ná: add unto: FREE TRANSLATION. Si! My father, this day of the blood of a game being thou shalt drink (water thyself). With it thou shalt enlarge (add unto) thy heart: He then dips the fetich into the blood which the sac still contains, continuing meanwhile the prayer, as follows: ----les-tik-lé-a ak'n' hâ-i′, k'ia-pin-hâ-i an k'iáh-kwïn, likewise cooked being, game being its fluid done raw (of life) shí-i-nan a-k'iá hâ's lithl yam í-ke-i-nan í-te-li-a-u-ná. flesh hence I shall here my heart add unto (enlarge). with */ FREE TRANSLATION. --- likewise, I, a "done" being, with the blood, the flesh of a raw being (game animal), shall enlarge (add unto) my heart. Which finished, he scoops up, with his hand, some of the blood and sips it; then, tearing forth the liver, ravenously devours a part of it, and exclaims, "É-lah-kwá!" (Thanks).