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Then she ran to the shore of the great sea. A man in a canoe paddled near her. She cried, "Let me go with you!" At first he paid no attention to her, then he said, "Get in." He let her get into his canoe.

Just at that moment, in a great crowd, the Bears came after her. They crowded about the shore and then began to swim out to her. The man put a carved club into the water, and this club of itself killed all the Bears. The man said to her, "Look out here," and the woman saw the Bears were all dead.

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