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center with a face like that of a man, and a good-sized box inlaid 

 with abalone shells. 



After he had given his presents to these men, he Said, "Now go 

 aboard the canoe and sleep there tonight." They did as he had said. 

 The men had always slept in the canoe ever since they had been in 

 the house. Early the next morning the steersman awoke from his 

 sleep, and, behold ! there was a mountain of foam around the canoe. 

 Therefore he called his companions, and said, "Alas! we are in 

 danger." They all awoke, and the mountain of foam became less. 

 However, the men did not know how. The foam was changing into 

 a thick log, so thick that the men could not see one another in the 

 canoe. Then their hearts failed. The steersman, however, encouraged 

 his companions, who were silent from fear; and while they were still 

 silent, they heard a noise like the rolling of thunder. The thick fog 

 vanished, and there was bright sunshine. They looked at one 

 another, and they saw that the hat of the chief in the bow of the 

 canoe was full of all kinds of seaweed, sea anemones, and sea kale ( ?) 

 of all kinds, and the hats of the other men in the canoe were just like 

 his; and the canoe itself was full of seaweeds, sea anemones, and 

 sea kales. Then the man at the bow said, "Take up your paddles 

 and paddle away!" They saw that they were at the foot of the 

 high cliff where they had dropped their anchor a year before. So 

 they took their paddles and paddled away; but their paddles also 

 were full of seaweeds, and were very heavy because they were made 

 of copper. 



Dragging Along Shore said to his men, "Don't pull the seaweeds 

 off from the canoe, from the paddles, and from our clothes!" Now 

 they paddled on; and whenever the handles of their paddles touched 

 the canoe, it sounded like a bell. The canoe went as fast as a bird 

 flies, and at midnight they reached their own home. 



Early in the morning one of Dragging Along Shore's elder sisters 

 would come out and go to the east side of the village, wailing for her 

 brother who had been lost the preceding winter. As soon as she 

 came out this time, behold! there was a large monster floating on the 

 sea in front of the village. She saw something that seemed alive on 

 top of it, and it made a noise like, a bell, boom! 



She ran in and called her husband, and said, "Alas! we are in dan- 

 ger." Her husband arose and went out. He also saw the curious 

 monster on the water. He inquired, and said, "Who is there?" 

 Then they answered, "Was not a chief lost from here last winter?" 

 They said, "Yes." Then the men in the canoe replied, "We are 

 coming home again safe." 



Then the whole village was in excitement. All (lie people in the 

 village went down to the beach to welcome those who had been lost 

 a long while. Some of the people were afraid when they saw that 

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