456 THE ESKIMO ABOUT BERING STRAIT (ETH. ANN. 18 
stopped, and Raven remained with them a long time, teaching them 
how to live. He taught them how to make a fire drill and bow from a 
piece of dry wood and a cord, taking the wood from the bushes and 
small trees he had caused to grow in hollows and sheltered places on 
the hillside. He made for each of the men a wife, and also made 
many plants and birds such as frequent the seacoast, but fewer kinds 
than he had made in the land where the first man lived. He taught 
the men to make bows and arrows, spears, nets, and all the imple- 
ments of the chase and how to use them; also how to capture the seals 
which had now become plentiful in the sea. After he had taught them 
how to make kaiaks, he showed them how to build houses of drift logs 
and bushes covered with earth. Now the three wives of the last men 
were all pregnant, and Raven went back to the first man, where he 
found the children were married; then he told Man about all he had 
done for the people on the seacoast. Looking about here he thought the 
earth seemed bare; so, while the others slept, he caused birch, spruce, 
and cottonwood trees to spring up in low places, and then awoke the 
people, who were much pleased at seeing the trees. After this they 
were taught how to make fire with the fire drill and to place the spark 
of tinder ina bunch of dry grass and wave it about until it blazed, 
then to place dry wood upon it. They were shown how to roast fish on 
a stick, to make fish traps of splints and willow bark, to dry salmon 
for winter use, and to make houses. 
Raven then went back to the coast men again. When he had gone 
Man and his son went down to the sea and the son caught a seal which 
they tried to kill with their hands but could not, until, finally, the son 
killed it by a blow with his fist. Then the father took off its skin with 
his hands alone and made it into lines which they dried. With these 
lines they set suares in the woods for reindeer. When they went to look 
at these the next morning, they found the cords bitten in two and the 
snares gone, for in those days reindeer had sharp teeth like dogs. 
After thinking for a time the young man made a deep hole in the deer 
trail and hung in it a heavy stone fastened to the snare so that when 
it caught a deer the stone would slip down into the hole, drag the deer’s 
neck down to the ground, and hold it fast. The next morning when 
they returned they found a deer entangled in the snare. Taking it 
out they killed and skinned it, carrying the skin home for a bed; some 
of the flesh was roasted on the fire and found to be very good to eat. 
One day Man went out seal hunting along the seashore. He saw 
many seals, but in each case after he had crept carefully up they would 
tumble into the water before he could get to them, until only one was 
left on the rocks; Man crept up to it more carefully than before, but it 
also escaped. Then he stood up and his breast seemed full of a strange 
feeling, and the water began to run in drops from his eyes and down 
his face. He put up his hand and caught some of the drops to look at 
them and found that they were really water; then, without any wish 
