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187. Raven and the Wolves. Raven visits Chief Wolf; the Wolves 

 go a-hunting and bring quantities of food Ts 94. Raven 

 leaves the Wolves and returns after some time, wounded; 

 Tomtit takes him to the Wolves' house; the Wolves scent his 

 wound; when the Wolves go a-hunting, they throw down 

 mountain sheep; Raven hides them; when the Wolves dis- 

 cover the theft, he puts on his Raven garment and flies away 

 Ts96. 



1S8, Raven drifts to Cape Fox with the tide, therefore canoes do not 

 capsize in stormy weather when crossing Ts 100. 



189. Raven visits the Salmon chief, who kills his four boys; they are 



transformed into salmon ; when the bones are thrown into the 

 water, the boys revive; Deer hides a single bone from the 

 chest, and therefore one of the boys has no -blanket pin 

 (see p. 773) ; Raven and the animals carry the children away 

 in their canoe, which moves quickly away propelled with the 

 magic paddle ; the salmon overtake them and Deer kills them ; 

 then Raven sends the salmon to the various rivers K 10.346. 



190. He teases the Spider Crab and is drowned by it Ts 70; SkJ 128 



[by Devilfish Ne 5.176]. 



191. He crawls into a child's skin at Rose Spit Mb 304; Ska 110, 118. 



192. He transforms excrement into men, who melt by the fire Ska" 132. 



193. He causes Fern Woman to reach out for olachen that he has in 



his canoe, and tears out hair from her armpit ; her sons cast 

 stones with a throwing-stick and break Raven's paddles; the 

 last stone passes through a knot-hole in the last paddle, and 

 he gets away Ska 117. 



194. He sends people to get food for a feast which lasts ten years 



Ska 123. 



195. Myth-telling contest with Qingi, who asks Raven's companions 



-to tell a story; when they say they do not know of any, Qlngi 

 asks them to relate "Raven Traveling," winch makes Raven 

 ashamed; they then tell about incidents relating to the de- 

 struction of Qingi's people and make him ashamed Ska 124. 



196. He inquires of a woman who is weaving baskets for his cousin; 



when she does not answer, he threatens to knock out her 

 labret ; then she says that his cousin is on the fourth point of 

 land in front of a shell on which she is drawing Sk/ 136. 



197. Raven marries Djila'qons, who appears in the water near Bella- 



bella; she sinks whenever he approaches her, until he uses a 

 wide pea-shell as a canoe; he takes off her dancing-ornaments 

 and wipes her body; he gives her Beaver's house (see No. 50) 

 Ska 115. 



198. Heron makes a canoe; Raven pretends to help him, but cuts 



through the canoe Mb 300. 



