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They have quarrelled among themselves. And before the white men came, did they not reproach us, their wives and their betrothed, with thy name and the vaunted skill of thee? Thou art as the woman with an iron tail, she who killed men when they came to her, their skins flushed with love. Thou destroyest men! Thou didst send Ootah and Koolotah to the mountains! And they have perished! Ioh-h! Ioh-h!"
In a fit of anger Ootah shook his arms frantically at the shrieking birds. For they seemed to mock him. "Spirits of the clouds," he wailed, "Ioh ioh ioh-h! Ye that wander to the south! Ye that fly to the north! Ye that struggle hither and yon, from the east to the west. Bear my curses to Annadoah. Tell her that the heart of Ootah is bitter.
Tell her Ootah would that her face become withered as frozen lands in winter. Tell her Ootah would that her heart rot within her, that the wild beasts feed upon her breasts. Ioh-h ioh-h-h! Sing unto her the curses of Ootah, and may she not rest!" Below him the clouds, burning with vivid fire, moved in the varying strata of air currents to Ootah they were conveying his messages.
"Nerrvik! Nerrvik! To him who loved her Annadoah lied. Dead, she told him, was her heart as a frozen bird in wintertime but her heart was only sleeping! And now the wings are beating beating within her breast! Ootah! Ootah! Ioh-h, ioh-h!" Her voice broke. She beat her little breasts. She bent over the sea and listened. For a long while she watched.
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