46zZ THE ESKIMO ABOUT BERING STRAIT [ETH. ANN. 18 
While he was standing close by the edge of the earth, just before 
suprise, he stuck into the sky a bunch of the glowing grass that 
he held in his hand, and it has stayed there ever since, forming the 
brilliant morning star. Going down to the earth he came at last to the 
village where the first people lived. There the old people welcomed 
him, and he told them that Raven had been angry with them and had 
taken the sun away, but that he had put it back himself so that it 
would never be moved again. 
Among the people who welcomed him was the headman of the sky 
dwarfs, who had come down with some of his people to live on the 
earth. Then the people asked him what had become of Man, who had 
gone up to the sky with Raven. This was the first time the Raven boy 
had heard of Man, and he tried to fly up to the sky to see him, but 
found that he could rise only a short distance above the earth. When 
he found that he could not get back to the sky, he wandered away until 
he came to a village where lived the children of the other men last 
born from the pea-vine. There he took a wife and lived a long time, 
having many children, all of whom became Raven people like himself 
and were able to fly over the earth, but they gradually lost their magic 
powers until finally they became ordinary ravens like the birds we see 
now on the tundras. 
RAVEN TAKES A WIFE 
(From the Unalit of Norton sound) 
For a long time Raven lived alone, but finally became tired of this and 
decided to take a wife. For this purpose he looked about and noticed 
that it was late in the fall and that the birds were going southward in 
large flocks. Then Raven flew away and stopped directly in the path 
taken by the geese and other wild fowl on their way to the land of sum- 
mer. As he sat by the way he saw a pretty young Hutchins goose com- 
ing near. Then he modestly hid his face by looking at his feet, and as 
the goose passed he called out, ‘* Who wishes me for a husband? Lama 
very nice man.” Unheeding him, the goose flew on, and Raven looked 
after her and sighed. Soon after a black brant passed, and Raven 
cried out as before, with the same result. He looked after her and cried 
out, “Ah, what kind of people are these? They do not even wait to 
listen.” Again he waited, and a duck passed near, and when Raven 
cried out she turned a little toward him but passed on. For an instant 
his heart beat quickly with hope, and as the duck passed, he cried, 
“Ah, I came very near then; perhaps I shall succeed this time;” and 
he stood waiting with bowed head. 
Very soon a family of white-front Geese came along, consisting of 
the parents with four brothers and a sister, and the Raven cried out, 
“Who wishes me fora husband? Iam a fine hunter and am young 
and handsome.” As he finished they alighted just beyond him, and he 
thought, “Now I will get a wife” Then he looked about and saw a 
