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daughter who had just been burned on the funeral pyre where the 

 wandering princess was sitting. 



Then the chief and his wife and his people took her home, full of 

 gladness, and gave a great feast to the people, because his daughter 

 who had been dead a little while previously had come back to life. 

 So the princess lived with her new parents; and after she had been 

 there for some time, her new parents loved her very much, and her 

 father wanted to marry her to one of his nephews. 



The following summer, when the strawberries were ripe, all the 

 young women started to pick strawberries on a certain island a little 

 distance away from their village. All the young women left the 

 canoe and went to pick berries on one of these islands. The young 

 princess was left alone in the canoe ; and when the whole party began 

 to pick strawberries, the princess, who was alone in the canoe, started 

 to go out to the next island. While she was on her way, a south- 

 westerly gale began to blow, and drove her away. The strong wind 

 drove her canoe away from her new home; and so she arrived in 

 the middle of the great sea, in an entirely unknown part of the world. 

 Then she sang her mourning-song which she had been singing while 

 she wandered away alone, after the fire had consumed her own father's 

 village. Then she looked, and, behold! a large object like a great 

 eagle came forth from the water, with ten little eagles on the head of 

 the large one. She drifted on until she landed a little distance outside 

 of our old town of Metlakahtla. She reached the shore of the G'id- 

 wul-g'a'dz tribe, and their chief took her into his house and mar- 

 ried her. 



She bore him three sons and two daughters, and she was happy in 

 her new home. The chief who had married her had five wives besides 

 her, so he had six wives altogether. And one day the older wives of 

 the chief quarreled with the princess because the chief loved her most ; 

 and the elder wives said to the young princess, "The chief ought not 

 to have married you, for you were driven away by the southwest 

 wind while you were picking strawberries, you Haida slave!" Thus 

 said the elder wives of the chief to Omen. 



Her children grew up. The eldest son used to go out hunting, and 

 they became rich in the foreign land. The boys gave a great potlatch 

 to all the Tsimshian tribes, and took then- names. The eldest son 

 took the name Asdilda, and the second one took the name Younans, 

 the third one Gamqagun; and the first girl was named Lu-xsmaks, 

 and the second one Alula! and Sagabin. Then they had another 

 great feast, and Asdilda made a cormorant headdress covered with 

 abalone shells, like that of the former Asdilda, which he wore when 

 he was out fishing for trout at Dzi'gwa; and he made a cane like that 

 of the Frog Woman, with the frog at one end, and the live person on 



