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one went out into the water; and when the water reached above his 

 knees, he went down to the bottom of the great lake. Then the water 

 rose again as before, and the great whale came out. The younger 

 brother remained on the shore. He saw the waters rising higher and 

 higher; and the Skeena River was flooded again, for the water of the 

 great lake rose higher than ever. 



As soon as the man had gone down, he saw a large house at the 

 bottom of the lake. He entered; and no one was in there, but a 

 large fire was burning in the middle of the house, and he himself 

 sat down on a mat which was spread by the side of the fire. After 

 he had been sitting there for a while, the door opened suddenly, and, 

 behold! a flash of lightning came in. This happened four times. 

 Thunder was rolling four times. It was a terrible thunderclap. 

 After it had thundered four times, it began to hail, and it was terrible 

 hail. Soon after this a large Grizzly Bear came out from the carved 

 screen in the middle of the rear of the house. The Grizzly Bear 

 came toward the man who was seated on the mat by the large fire. 



The Grizzly Bear stood in front of him, and said, "Open my back!" 

 Thus spoke the Grizzly Bear to the man. The man did so, and the 

 Bear had become a carved box. Then the Thunderbird came from 

 behind the carved screen. The Thunderbird came up to the man, and 

 said to him, "Take me and put me into the box!" The man took it 

 and put it into the grizzly-bear box, and the Thunderbird became a 

 drum, and the lightning was his red ocher. Then Living Eyes came 

 forth from behind the carved screen; and after a while, behold! 

 a very large animal came in at the door, which they call at this 

 time Mouth At Each End. It came toward the man, stood in front 

 of him, and said, "Take me and put me into the box!" A Cuttlefish 

 also came, went toward the man, and said, "Take me and put me 

 into the box!" The man took both of them and put them into the 

 grizzly-bear box. At last the Living Eyes came in. It was the hail. 

 It was a baton. It also went toward the man, and said, "Take me 

 and put me into the box!" The man took it and put it into the 

 carved box. Still no living person was to be seen in the house. 



Then he started for home; and the five Grizzly Bear said to. him, 

 "Your name shall be Mouth At Each End. " 



The man came ashore with the Grizzly Bear walking by his side. 

 The man had been in the depths of the Lake Of The Beginning 

 quite a long while. 



His brother had been waiting for him since the water began to 

 subside, after it had risen and overflowed the banks of Lake Of The 

 Beginning. He had been waiting there for twenty days. He was 

 hungry, and sat clown at the foot of a large spruce tree and died of 

 starvation. Then the martens came and ate him. They ate all the 



