NELSON] RAVEN CREATION MYTH 455 
In this way Raven continued for several days making birds, fishes, 
and animals, showing them to Man, and explaining their uses. 
After this he flew away to the sky and was gone four days, when 
he returned, bringing back a salmon for the use of Man. Looking 
about he saw that the ponds and lakes were silent and lonely, so he 
created many water insects upon their surfaces, and from the same 
clay he made the beaver and the muskrat to frequent their borders. 
Then, also, were made flies, mosquitoes; and various other land and 
water insects, it being explained to Man that these were made to 
enliven and make cheerful the earth. At that time the mosquito was 
like the house-fly in its habits and did not bite as it does now. 
Man was shown the muskrat and told to take its skin for clothing. 
He was also told that the beavers would live along the streams and 
build strong houses and that he must follow their example, and like- 
wise that the beavers would be very cunning and only good hunters 
would be able to take them. 
At this time the woman gave birth to a child, and Raven directed 
Man how to feed and care for it, telling him that it would grow into a 
man like himself. As soon as the child was born, Raven and Man took 
it to a creek, rubbed it over with clay, and then returned with it to his 
stopping place on the knoll. The next morning the child was running 
about pulling up grass and other plants which Raven had caused to 
grow near by; on the third day the child became a full-grown man. 
After this Raven thought that if he did not create something to 
make men afraid they would destroy everything he had made to 
inhabit the earth. Then he went to a creek near by, where he formed 
a bear and gave it life, jumping to one side quickly as the bear stood 
up and looked fiercely about. Man was then called and told that the 
bear would be very fierce and would tear him to pieces if he disturbed 
it. Then were made different kinds of seals, and their names and habits 
were explained to man. Rayen also taught Man to make rawhide lines 
from sealskin, and snares for deer, but cautioned him to wait until the 
deer were abundant before he snared any of them. 
In time the woman was with child again, and Raven said it would 
be a girl and they must rub her over with clay as soon as she was 
born, and that after she was grown she must marry her brother. Then 
Rayen went away to the place of the pea vine, where the first man was 
found. While he was gone a girl was born and the pair did as they 
were told, and the next day the girl walked about. On the third day 
she became a full-grown woman, and was married to the young man as 
directed by Raven, in order that the earth might be peopled more 
rapidly. 
When Raven reached the pea vine he found three other men had 
just fallen from the pea pod that gave the first one. These men, like 
the first, were looking about them in wonder, and Raven led them away 
in an opposite direction from that in which he had taken the first man, 
afterward bringing them to firm land. close to the sea. Here they 
