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same us he had done to the two others, and the tJiird one arose ; then 

 he stepped to the youngest one and jumped over him four times, and 

 the youngest one arose from where he had been lying dead. The 

 supernatural being wore his own leggings, snowshoes, and moccasins 

 when he jumped over the dead bodies of the four brothers, and so 

 they arose from where they had been lying dead. Therefore the 

 woman was much pleased to see her brothers alive again. She went 

 to the place where the supernatural being stood, but he disappeared 

 from their sight. 



Then the four brothers went down to the village, accompanying 

 their sister. They saw the desolation of the village. They went to 

 where the great chief's house had stood, and there was only a heap 

 of bones and of ashes on the ground where the people had been 

 assembled in the chief's house. 



After they had been there for a while, they started for their own 

 home in the mountains, taking their sister along, and they still live 

 in the mountains. We call their village TslEtsIa'ut. 1 



31. HakIula'q 2 



There was a village way out at sea near the great ocean. In front 

 of the village were two islands. The first one was large, the second 

 one smaller than the first. The first island was the town of the sea 

 otters. The sea otters lived at the foot of the trees on the large 

 island, and so it was on the next smaller island. There were many 

 sea otters on the two islands. 



Between the two islands a child was floating. So it happened 

 that if any one tried to go to these islands, he saw a beautiful child 

 floating on the water. The canoe went toward it, and they took the 

 child aboard; and whenever they camped on the large island, a 

 monster (HakIula'q) would come out of the water and ask for her 

 child. She would say, "Who stole my child?" Then a storm and 

 high waves would strike against the high rocks on that island, and 

 the island would become covered with foam, and the people would 

 die thei-e. The same thing happened for many years, and many 

 people died there generation after generation. The people had no 

 power to kill the monster. The whole village was in mourning, for 

 their young men had almost disappeared. Only old men now re- 

 mained in the village. Two or three canoes were lost every day, of 

 those who tried to kill the child and the woman but could not do it. 



i Possibly the description of a pantomimic dance given to me at Kinkolith (G-in-go'lix), on Nass 

 River, refers to this tale (see Boas 1, 1895, p. 52): "In one ceremony two men dressed like TslEtsIa'ut 

 hunters appear. Suddenly the noise of thunder is heard, and down through the roof comes a person 

 dressed in eagle skins and wearing the mask of the thunderbird. The hunters shoof at thebird. Atonce 

 there is a flash of lightning and a clap of thunder. One of the men falls dead, and the other one escapes. 

 The fire is extinguished by water which wells up through a tube of kelp that has been laid undergrouud 



and empties into the fire. At the same time water is thrown on thespeel tors i! I Hie roof. This 



performance is accompanied by somrs of the women, who sit on three platformsin Hi" re:ir of the house. 

 The song relates to the myth which is represented in the performance." 



2 Notes, p. 783. 



