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knew what had happened; and when the princess went nearer the 

 young eagle, it was flying with its mistress, and the princess named 

 it Young Eagle. 



She cried; but when she went back into the hollow log, she stopped 

 crying. She was afraid that if the children should know what had 

 happened, they might faint. Therefore she tried everything to 

 comfort them. The log was drifting way out on the great ocean. 



When the parents of the children missed the hollow log from its 

 place, they began to cry. They took their canoes, and went down 

 the river to search for their children, but in vain. They did not 

 find them. They went back home, full of sorrow on account of the 

 loss of their children and of their young princess. 



The young eagle was seated on a root of the hollow log in which 

 the children were; and after a few days had passed, the young eagle 

 flew back to Nass River. When all the people in the village were 

 lamenting, the young eagle flew down from high up in the air, and 

 alighted on the roof of the house of the princess's grandfather, and 

 screeched. Then all the people of the village knew that the children 

 were still alive. After the eagle had screeched, it flew away down 

 to the mouth of Nass River. 



The log was still drifting about way out on the ocean, and the 

 tide took it out between Queen Charlotte Islands and Prince of Wales 

 Island, and took it along the south side of Prince of Wales Island. 



The people of a Haida village were camped on the outer coast 

 for halibut fishing; and when the sun set in the west and great 

 waves rolled up on the sandy shore at the end of the camp of the 

 Haida tribe, the log was carried ashore by the waves and grounded 

 there; and when the tide receded, the princess said to all the children, 

 "Now, children, come out!" Therefore all the children came out, 

 and the princess said to them, "Now go up to the woods behind the 

 village, and I will go in front." It was evening now, and all the 

 children went up into the woods. Then she walked in front of the 

 houses of the camp, and stopped in front of the chiefs house. Many 

 young people passed her without noticing her; and while she was 

 standing there, some one came up from the beach. It was a young 

 prince, who asked her where she came from and where she belonged ; 

 and she answered in her own language, which the prince did not 

 understand, and the young princess did not understand what he 

 said. The young man wanted to take her into his father's house. 

 The princess first refused, but finally she went with him. The prince 

 stopped the young men who were playing at the door of bis father's 

 house, and led her into the chief's house, who ordered his young men 

 to spread mats at one side of the house. 



Then the great chief said, "My son shall marry you because I am 

 your relative. What is your name, my dear ? " but she did not under- 



