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they went on until they passed Grizzly-Bear Point. Behold! there 

 was a great sea hi front of them. Then the girl asked the young 

 eagle, "Where is your mother's native land, Young Eagle?" and 

 the eagle led them to a camping-place. There they waited until the 

 following morning. Early the following morning the eagle screeched 

 to wake them up. They arose and went on. The young eagle flew 

 across the great sea high up in the air, and the princes paddled on as 

 hard as they could; and when the sun rose high up in the sky, they 

 saw a small blue mountain far ahead. They followed the eagle, 

 which was flying way up in the air, and before evening they saw the 

 island ahead. They paddled very hard, and late in the evening they 

 arrived at Slave Island. They camped there and took a rest; and 

 after they had eaten, they slept . Only a girl watched over them while 

 they were asleep. They camped there for two days. The following 

 day they went on again and crossed Beaver-Tail Island. 



The girl asked the eagle again, "Where is your mother's native 

 land, Young Eagle?" and it always flew ahead; and when they 

 arrived on the mainland, they camped on Hole Island. On the fol- 

 lowing day they went on to Nass River, and in the evening they 

 camped on Gravel Bar Camp ( ? ?). The young eagle left them there ; 

 and they did not know which way they should go, because it was at 

 the mouth of three rivers where they were camping — the rear river, 

 middle river, and Nass River. 



The eagle bad been away for two days, and the princess was still 

 encamped there. The eagle had gone up to her ( ?) mother's uncle, 

 and was sitting on top of his house, screeching. After two days the 

 eagle came back; and the princess started once more, going up 

 Nass River, the eagle flying ahead. Now they understood that 

 they were near home, and they were very glad. Before they arrived 

 at the village, they put on their good clothes; and their sister looked 

 shining, like a supernatural being, when she put on her dress of white 

 sea-otter skin. The four brothers wore their garments of black sea- 

 otter skin, and they had red paint on their faces and eagle down on 

 their heads. They paddled along, and the young eagle was sitting 

 on the bow of the canoe. 



Before the sun set hi the west, the canoe came up to a village; 

 and the young people were shouting outside on the street, when they 

 saw the canoe coming up to them. The canoe arrived on the beach 

 in front of the village, and the people saw the young eagle sitting in 

 the bow. Some one asked them, "Where do you come from ? What 

 people are you ?" Then the girl said, "We are the children of your 

 Princess Daul, who was among the children that were carried away 

 by the high tide in the hollow tree." Then all the people cried, and 

 some shouted for joy. They took them up into their grandfather's 

 house. 



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