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the frog, ami a live eagle at the upper end; and he made a glittering 

 garment, like the one which his mother saw by the side of a lake, and 

 a supernatural halibut, and the eagle that his mother had seen in mid- 

 ocean Avhile she was being driven away by the southwest wind. Then 

 they gave their mother a new chief's name, Picking Strawberries and 

 Great Haida Woman. She got these names on account of her quarrel 

 with the elder wives of the chief a little while ago. Therefore these 

 people have these names and crests, and they have their mother's 

 mourning-song which she sang while escaping from the burnt village. 



Many years after this the mother called her children together and 

 told them what had happened to her. She said, ''These are not 

 your people. Our people lived on the other side of this land, way 

 out at sea." She told them the story about her brother Asdilda — 

 what had happened to him when he was out fishing trout, and how 

 the Frog had burned their village, and how she alone was saved 

 when her father dug a pit and put her into it with much valuable 

 property and six costly coppers, and so on, and how she came to the 

 other village among her relatives who had the same crest, and how 

 she was driven away by the southwest wind, and so on, until she 

 had married the children's father. Thus spoke the princess to her 

 children. 



As soon as she ended her story, one of the boys said, "Let lis go 

 and visit our native land and our relatives there!" Then the eldest 

 one said, "Let our younger brother and our younger sister go to 

 visit them!" So they made themselves ready and went. Their 

 father the chief bought a new good-sized canoe, large enough to 

 withstand the sea and the wind, and the mother went down with 

 them to the beach. She pointed out the direction with her finger, 

 saying, "You must keep ahead between Dundas Island and Stephens 

 Island; and when you get out to sea, keep ahead in the direction 

 where the sun sets, and the stern toward sunrise; and when you get 

 to the islands, turn your canoe to the southwest. Then you will find 

 your grandfather's village." Thus she said to her two children. The 

 children started out, and six slaves went along with them. They 

 went on and on until they passed between the two islands, Dundas 

 and Stevens, and went out to sea, as their mother had told them. 

 Then they turned their canoe to the southwest; and after some 

 time, when the mainland sank out of sight, they saw land ahead of 

 them, and they were glad. On the following morning they landed 

 on the other shore and camped for a while. They went on, turning 

 their canoe southward, as their mother had told them, and they went 

 along the shore of the island; and when they passed the first point, 

 they saw a village in front of them, and before evening they arrived 

 in front of the village. 



