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On the following day the prince went out again, and he heard the 

 eagles screaming on the beach. He sent his little slave down. The 

 slave ran down, and, behold! a large spring salmon was on the sand. 

 The slave shouted, and said, "There is a large spring salmon!" The 

 prince said, "Take it, take it!" So the slave took it up. It was 

 very heavy ; and when he was halfway up, the prince went down to 

 help him carry it. The prince split it and dried it. They did so for 

 many days, and his house was full of dried fish. 



Another morning he went out, as usual. Behold ! there were many 

 eagles down on the beach. He sent his slave down, and, behold ! there 

 was a great halibut on the sand. The slave shouted, and said, 

 "There is a large halibut here, my dear!" The prince said, "Take 

 it!" but he could not drag it along. When he told the prince that he 

 coidd not drag it, the prince himself went down, and he dragged it up. 

 He cut it and dried it. 



Another morning the prince went out, and he heard the eagles 

 screeching on the beach. There, were a great many eagles there. 

 So he sent down his slave ; and when the slave came, he saw a seal. 

 Then the slave shouted, "Here is a great seal on the beach, my dear!" 

 The prince said, "Take it!" The slave could not carry it, and so 

 the prince went down and dragged the seal up to his camp. He cut 

 it and dried it. Now one house was full of all kinds of fish. Because 

 the prince had fed the eagles the past summer, they now gave him 

 this food. They did so many days, and every day a seal was on the 

 beach. He dried them all. 



One morning the prince went out, and, behold! there were many 

 eagles down on the beach. He sent his slave down; and when he 

 came there, behold! a large sea lion was there. He shouted -with. 

 all his might, "Here is a great sea lion, my dear!" and when the 

 prince heard that there was a sea lion, he went into the woods, took 

 cedar twigs, twisted them, and joined them together; and when he 

 had thus made a rope, he went down and tied the large sea lion to the 

 shore; and when the tide rose, he and his slave hauled it up on shore; 

 and when the tide turned, it was on the beach. The prince carved 

 it and dried it. Now one house was full of dried seal meat, and 

 he had another house full of sea-lion meat. The sea lions are very 

 large and have much meat and fat. They did so many days, and 

 two houses were full of sea-lion meat and fat. 



Now the people who had left him were dying of starvation on Nass 

 River; for no olachen had come, and they had no food. 



Another morning the prince went out again, and there was a great 

 number of eagles far out on the water. They were flying ashore 

 with a great whale, and they landed there. Therefore the prince 

 and his slave went into the woods and took many cedar twigs, which 

 they twisted the whole day long. They tied the great whale to the 



