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sea monster, and he gave his wife's uncle the yew-wood canoe, and 

 he gave to her father many costly coppers. He also gave presents 

 to all the relatives of his wife. Then all his nephews married there, 

 too, and his niece married the old chief's son, and thus the empty 

 village was peopled again. The young chief took the monster woman 

 for his crest. He killed the two monsters, and the island was free 

 to those who wanted to hunt sea otters. Therefore the young chief 

 became great among his people. 



32. The Prince Who Was Deserted 1 



Once upon a time there was a great town of the G"id-wul-g - a'dz 

 tribe between Metlakahtla and Port Simpson, where there is a great 

 sandbar in front of Kumalgo. There was a great chief there, and 

 his four brothers-in-law. He had an only son. The prince did not 

 eat, but was only chewing dried kidney fat. He was sitting on top 

 of his father's house, and made arrows all the time. He did so every 

 day; and when the humpback salmon arrived in the rivers, his 

 father's people went everywhere to catch salmon, and dried them 

 for winter use. The prince and his little slave also went to the little 

 rivers in the great bay, and caught many humpback salmon and took 

 them home. They unloaded the canoe on the sandbar in front of 

 the village, and in the morning the eagles would gather and eat all 

 the humpback salmon. He did so the whole summer; and when the 

 eagles were fat, then- feathers dropped out on the sandbar, and the 

 prince sent down his little slave to gather the eagle feathers. The 

 little slave went down and brought to his young master the eagle 

 feathers, and the prince was very glad. He liked to feed the eagles 

 with the salmon, because he wanted their feathers. He made many 

 boxes full of arrows; and he used the eagle feathers, which he fastened 

 to the shaft, so that the arrows were very swift. 



Now the salmon-run was over. Summer had passed, and winter 

 came, and the people had used up all then- salmon, and all the dif- 

 ferent kinds of food were nearly gone. Then the prince's father, the 

 chief, was much displeased with his son because he had fed the eagles 

 in the summer during the salmon-run. Therefore the great chief 

 sent his wife to his four brothers-in-law. He gave them this advice: 

 "Let none of my sons' uncles take pity on him when he comes to 

 their house, starving and hungry, for he has always been feeding 

 the eagles during the past summer. Let the eagles feed him now!" 

 Thus spoke the chief to Ins wife. Therefore his wife went to her 

 eldest brother's house, and she told him what her husband had said. 

 Then her eldest brother said, "I will do so." She went to her second 

 brother and told him what her husband had said. She went into the 

 house of the third and fourth brothers and told them the same. 



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