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their clothes were full of seaweeds, sea anemones, and sea kales, and 

 thai all kinds of shells were sticking to the canoe, to the paddles, 

 the stern-board, and the bailer, that their root hats were covered 

 with shells and seaweeds, and that everything in the canoe was that 

 way. . 



Soon they came ashore. Then the young people wanted to take 

 up the canoe; but they could not, because the canoe was made of 

 copper and was very heavy; and two young men carried up their 

 paddles, which were also made of copper; and when they had carried 

 up everything, the four men themsejves carried up the copper canoe, 

 two men at each end. 



Now Dragging Along Shore sent messengers to his tribe to invite 

 all his people. When they were all in, he told the story of what had 

 happened to them on their way — how they had been in the house of a 

 chief at the bottom of the sea, and how his host had invited all his 

 fellow-creatures when he had given him his presents, and also how 

 his host had given him his own crest. He showed his people a killer- 

 whale hat covered with horns, and the garment of green seaweeds, 

 and the. two rooms with oarved sides, also the copper canoe and 

 paddles ; and he told how Chief Na-gun-a'ks had given his brother-in- 

 law a real sea-apple hat and a carved box-cover set with all lands of 

 shells, and how they had fed them with one seal each as soon as they 

 had been taken down. 



After he had told his story, he asked his people if he should give 

 a great feast and invite all the tribes around them. His people 

 agreed, and he sent messengers around to invite the chiefs. 



On the appointed day all the chiefs came to his feast, and a crowd 

 of canoes covered the water in front of his house. Then the head 

 man of the village, came out and called them ashore; and when all 

 the guests were ashore, they called them in; and when all the chiefs 

 were in the house, Dragging Along Shore asked every chief to wear 

 his own crest, hat, and decorated garment. Therefore all the in- 

 vited chiefs wore their own crests. 



When they had put on their own crests, Holdamia opened his 

 carved box, the cover of which was inlaid with all lands of shells, 

 and thick fog filled Dragging Along Shore's house. Then the chiefs 

 from all the tribes were silent. They were afraid to speak. Soon after 

 the thick fog had come out, Holdamia closed his carved box, the fog 

 disappeared, and the chiefs looked around the inside, of the house. 

 They saw that it was now full of seaweeds, sea anemones, and sea 

 kales, which were hanging all around the house, and the copper canoe 

 was on the. first platform of the house ; and there was a carved room 

 on one side, with a design of the two killer whales joined together 

 by their noses, and named Dashing Against Each Other; and on the 

 other side of the fire a room appeared carved with green seaweeds. 



