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Version Kai 5 was told by a Kaigani Haida, which may account for 

 this incident. It agrees with Type II, in which the woman and her 

 child move from her husband's village to that of her brother (see p. 625) . 



The sister went [into the woods to kill herself Tl 4] to a rock on the beach to wail Tl 3, 

 Kai 5 [separated from her brother during the flood Tl 2]. [While her head was cov- 

 ered, she heard some one say, "Arise!" but on looking up did not discover anyone. 

 The fourth time she looked through a hole in her blanket and saw a gull Kai 5.] 

 The Gull Kai 5 [the Killer Whale Tl 3; large handsome man Tl 2; old man Tl 4; 

 Heron T16 80] addressed her, and advised her to heat one [four Kai 5] small smooth 

 beach-pebble until it was red-hot, and then to swallow it Tl 4, Kai 5, T16 80 [to get a 

 small stone from the bottom of the sea, to swallow it, and to drink water after it T13 ; 

 and gave her a small round pebble, which she swallowed.] He said, "Do not be 

 afraid!" Tl 4, T16 [after swallowing the stone, she drank of the waves which the 

 whales caused when swimming away Tl 3]. She built a hut for herself Tl 4 [lived in 

 hiding from her brother Tl 3], and gave birth to one son Tl 3, Tl 4, T16 81 [four sons 

 Kai 5] after eight months Tl 3, who was Raven (Yel). 



Being the son of the Stone, he was called ItCA'k!' 1 ("a hard rock") and TA'qlikMc 

 ("hammer father"), and could not be easily killed T16 81. [She put a stone that she 

 had received from an old woman under his throat, thus making him invulnerable. 

 She washed him twice every day in the lagoon, which caused him to grow up quickly 

 Tl 4; she bathed him in the sea Tl 2.] 



His mother made bows and arrows for him Tl 3, T14; and he shot first small birds, 

 and then larger and larger animals; his mother made blankets out of bird skins Tl 4. 

 [NAfiki'lsLas made bow and arrow for him Kai 5; his mother taught him to shoot birds 

 Tl 2.] He killed many hummingbirds for a blanket for his mother Tl 2, Tl 3. *From 

 a small hut he shot a long-tailed bird with long, thin, bright beak as hard as iron — the 

 "heaven-bird" Kuzgatu'li [a large white bird T12] — put on its skin, and flew upward 

 until he reached a cloud, in which his beak stuck. Then he pulled it out again, 

 returned, and hid the skin Tl 3* 



It would seem that the events related later on, after the Deluge, are 

 repeated here in advance of the passage where they belong. 



[He could not fly well, and wished himself back in his mother's hut. At once he 

 was back there Tl 2.] He also shot a diver, whose skin he preserved Kai 5. He gave 

 it to his mother, who, when she put it on, was aide to swim Tl 3. [He shot a whale 

 {ya'i) with his arrows. It floated ashore; and every day he saw many kinds of sea 

 birds on the bay. He did not like them. Finally he shot a car and a large bird with 

 a beak that looked like copper T16 119.] 



Then he learned from his mother about all his relatives, and proceeded to his uncle's 

 house T16 119, Tl 2, Tl 3. 



In T1& 119 this return is placed after many exploits of the Raven. In 

 Kai 5 it has been placed after the killing of the children, which appears to 

 have occurred in their father's village. Evidently both these versions 

 are not good, since the return in T1& is without any connection with 

 what precedes and follows, while in Kai 5, a version told by a Kaigani 

 Haida, it does not appear how and why the uncle should have killed 

 his nephews, if his sister did not live with him, but in her husband's 



