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old man. (She saw the stranger and said :) "You spoke the truth ; a 

 man is near you." Wa'walis said to the old man: "I wish to marry 

 your daughter." "I will give her to him who restores my eyesight." 

 "I want to marry her " (replied Wfi'walis). " Where are all the people 

 of your town, my dear?" " When they went to fetch water, that being in 

 the water devoured them, my dear. Are you a shaman ?" "Yes, I am a 

 shaman." "Then restore my eyesight." "I shall restore your eye- 

 sigbt." He did so. Then Wa'walis' child wished to have water. He 

 sent his slave after water. Then (the monster) Skyamsky devoured him. 

 Wa'walis went out, pointed his baton at it, and Skyamsky died. He 

 opened its belly (and said) : " Come, my dear, and look at your people. I 

 wish to resuscitate them." (The old man said:) "They are not my 

 people. Don't say anything, they will be your slaves. They will be your 

 servants." Wa'walis washed them and healed them. One of them 

 limped (because one of his bones was lost). Wa'walis first washed his 

 slave and healed him. Then he washed those who had been dead long ago. 

 They became slaves of Wa'walis' wife. After he had finished, Wa'walis 

 built four times large houses, and he became a great chief. 



Once upon a time Wa'walis' wife went to wash the intestines of a seal. 

 She liked only one kind of food. Then the killer whale came paddling 

 and took her in his canoe. "Wa'walis ! the killer whale took your wife 

 in his canoe." Then Wa'walis said to his slave : " Come, we will follow 

 him and recover my wife." Wa'walis went in his canoe and pursued the 

 killer whale. He stopped. Then he took a rope and the slave let him 

 down. Wa'walis jumped into the water and followed his wife. When 

 he almost reached the bottom of the sea it grew light, and the sun was 

 shining. Wa'walis arrived in a country and saw a stout old man who 

 chopped a tree for fuel. Wa'walis hid in the tree and broke off the point 

 of the (slave's) wedge. The old man cried : ananah. He became angry 

 on account of his wedge. (Wa'walis said :) " Old man, stop crying. If 

 you so desire, I will repair your wedge. Don't you know about a woman 

 whom a man carried away in his canoe, my dear?" " He carried her into 

 the house, where she is sitting near the fire, in the bouse of the chief. I 

 am going to carry fuel and water into the house. I shall make a fire. 

 You stay behind the post of the house and wait. She will be right there. 

 Then I shall pour the water into the fire. At that time you must go and 

 take your wife." Wa'walis went and took the woman. "Come, rise. 

 I am Wa'walis." She arose (and they went out). The stout man lay 

 down on the threshold of the house (and made himself so big that the 

 killer whale could not leave the house). Wa'walis took his wife along 

 and they returned to their country. Wa'walis was the first to climb up 

 the rope. He shook it and then the woman climbed into the canoe. Only 

 the bones of the slave (whom Wa'walis had left in the canoe) remained. 

 Wa'walis healed him and revived him. Then Wa'walis paddled to their 

 country. They had been away one winter and one summer. The people 

 assembled and he became a great chief in the country of his wife. 



