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cohoes salmon, and cuts off its tail (this is here substituted for the connection with 

 the Spring Salmon story which occurs in the other versions). When they go fishing, 

 Raven pretends to cut bait off his own belly (evidently his testicles), showing the 

 piece of salmon which he holds in front of his body. He urges Bear to do the same. 

 When Bear does so, and feels that he is dying, he rushes at Raven and tries to kill 

 him, but dies before he can get at him Ts. 



The Nass River version is practically the same, with the sole exception that Raven 

 gives Bear his own knife to cut himself, and that when Bear attacks him he jumps 

 overboard and clings to the bow of the canoe from underneath. It is also said that 

 Bear has only one wife N6. 



The Tlingit tale opens with the spring-salmon incident. When the birds steal part 

 of the spring salmon, they dress themselves; that is, they take their present form. 

 Raven carries along the belly of the salmon and visits Bear and his wife. He calls 

 him his aunt's son. Before entering the house he buries the salmon behind the point. 

 Here is introduced the Bungling Host, incident, the Bear letting grease drip from 

 his body in order to treat Raven (see p. 696) . On inquiry, Bear says that he does not 

 know of any halibut fishing-ground. Raven knows one, and invites Bear to go fishing. 

 Before they start Raven gets his salmon and steers the canoe. He tells Bear how to 

 take sights in order to locate the fishing-ground. Raven catches many halibut, and 

 Bear asks him what kind of bait he is using. Raven says he cut off his testicles, and 

 Bear wants to do the same. Raven sharpens his knife and tells Bear to put his scrotum 

 on the thwart. Raven then cuts it, and the dying Bear falls into the water (here 

 follows the Cormorant tale Tla, see p. 678). 



In another Tlingit version the order of events is reversed, evidently 

 erroneously. 



Raven goes with Bear and Cormorant halibut fishing. He makes Cormorant dumb 

 and causes the Bear to fall on his knife Tl 5. 



Bear has two wives. Raven goes fishing with Bear and Cormorant. Bear has no 

 bait. Then they make a fish-line of spruce twigs. Raven uses the salmon which he 

 had killed and which he had hidden under his blanket to bait his hook. He tells 

 the Bear that the bait is taken from his testicles, gives him his own sharp knife, and 

 causes him to kill himself (here follows the tearing-out of Cormorant's tongue) Tl 4. 



Raven goes fishing with Bear, and Bear asks him what kind of bait he shall use. 

 Raven says he gets much because he uses ''other things " as bait M6. 



Raven goes fishing with Bear and Cormorant. He uses as bait the salmon which 

 he has caught, and catches many, but Bear none. Upon inquiry, he tolls Bear that 

 he uses his testicles as bait. He convinces him by holding the salmon in front of his 

 body, and induces him to allow Cormorant to cut him also. Thus the Bear is killed 

 Ne5. 



Raven goes fishing with Cormorant, Bear, and Pitch. Grizzly Bear says he use- 

 squid as bait, but Raven tells him to use his own testicles. In order to convince him, 

 he shows the salmon, which Links like a wound. The Bear cuts himself and dies 

 (the Cormorant story does not follow heie) Ne 9. 



Raven goes fishing with Bear and tells him that tne halibut bite because he uses 

 his privates as bait. Thus he induces Bear to let him cut off his privates. Bear 

 dies. Here follows the Cormorant incident. Then he eats the Bear and says that a 

 halibut pulled him overboard Nu ap 900. 



After the killing of the Bear follows the account of the death <>f 

 the Bear's wife or wives. This is missing in the Ne and Nu versions. 



He tells the women that their husband has fainted, and that in order to revive him 

 they must swallow red-hot stones. He tells them to open their mouths and close their 

 eyes. He throws in the red-hot stones. They tumble about, and he kills them Ts. 



