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hundred score of dried raccoon skins, sea-otter skins, marten skins, 

 dancing-blankets, and all kinds of goods. When he was richer than 

 all the chiefs, he invited the chiefs of all the tribes and made a great 

 potlatch and took his new name, Hasdii, which means "craving 

 food." He gave away many elk skins, slaves, marten blankets, 

 dancing-blankets, horn spoons, abalone shells, and rings of killer- 

 whale teeth, and he became a great chief among the Tsimshian, and 

 his wealth increased more and more. 



Again he gave a great feast and invited all the chiefs, more than 

 he had done before. When all the chiefs were in his house, he took 

 ten costly coppers, ten large canoes, fourscore and ten slaves, elk 

 skins, twenty score of sea-otter garments, marten garments, dancing- 

 blankets, and many horn spoons and horn dippers, and many costly 

 abalone shells, and earrings of killer-whale teeth, and many boxes 

 of grease and crabapples mixed with grease, and all kinds of pro- 

 visions. Before he gave away all of this, he took one of the costly 

 coppers. They placed it on his chest, and he took his new name, 

 Deserted One. After that they proclaimed his new name. Then 

 he took the costly coppers and gave one to each chief, and he gave 

 away the rest of his goods. All the princes of the various tribes 

 received gifts from him, and all the chieftainesses received horn 

 spoons and horn dippers, costly abalone shells, ear-ornaments of 

 killer-whale teeth, and so on. And as long as he lived, the eagles 

 gave him whales, sea otters, sea lions, seals, spring salmon, halibut, 

 and all kinds of fresh fish. His fame spread all over the country 

 in those days, and he became greater and greater until his life ended. 



33. The Princess and the Mouse 1 



It was soon after the Deluge. A new town was built in the same 

 place where the old town had been before the Deluge, and the people 

 grew up and became numerous in the same town at Prairie Town. 

 They had a great chief who had a beautiful daughter. Her mother 

 and her father loved her very much. The girl grew up, and many 

 princes wanted to marry her; but her parents refused them, for the 

 chief wanted his daughter to marry a high prince. The chief watched 

 her in the night, lest some one visit her. Her father made her bed 

 above his own bed. She went up early every evening, and woke up 

 late every morning, as her parents ordered her to do. When she 

 wanted to take a walk in her father's village, she invited some young 

 women to walk with her. She did so once every year. The name of 

 this girl's mother was Gundax, and her own name was Su-da'°l. 



Thus many years passed. One night the princess felt that some 

 one came to her, and she saw a young man by her side. Before day- 



> Notes, pp. 747, 791. 



