204 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 40 



[Translation] 



Brothers lived at Sitka of whom the eldest was named Qaq!Atcgu'k. 

 They were fond of hunting. One morning they went out among the 

 islands. He (that is Qjiq'.Atcgu'k) kept coming back without having 

 killed anything. He went out again. Then his name was mentioned 

 among the fur-seals. "The one who always hunts is here. Keep 

 quiet, lest he hear your voices." When they were going towards the 

 shore, the eldest brother said, "Use your paddles quickly, for it has 

 become windy." Now they became angry. The bow-man pushed 

 his paddle down into the canoe. All did the same thing. Then they 

 covered their heads. The canoe, however, drifted on. They drifted 

 out for six days and nights. The twelfth day he (Qaq ! Atcgu'k) awoke 

 and found the canoe drifting against the shore. He saw sea-lions, 

 hair-seals, fur-seals, sea-otters, and sea-lion bristles on the island. 

 All had drifted ashore around the island. They took their things up. 

 They were there for one year. A year and a half was completed. 

 The man kept sleeping, thinking about his condition. One morning 

 he woke up with his dream. He kept dreaming that he had gotten 

 home. And one morning he said to his younger brothers, "Sit up. 

 Put the things into the canoe. The sun always rises from the neigh- 

 borhood of Mount Verstovaia." Then they headed in that direction. 

 When it became dark, they lowered their anchor into the water in the 

 direction from which the sun comes up. After they had spent very 

 many nights, they saw a sea-gull upon the water. What they saw 

 was Mount Edgecumbe. When they got nearer it, they saw plainly 

 that it was Mount Edgecumbe. "Straight for the mountain," said 

 Qaq!Atcgu'k, "steer straight towards it." So towards evening they 

 came near it. They named that place Canoe-resting-place. He 

 pounded out the figure of a sea-lion there so that they might know 

 he had come ashore at that place. When they came ashore in front 

 of the town, his old wife was outside weeping. While she was crying, 

 she saw the canoe coming in front of the town. She saw the root-hat 

 she had woven. She got up to go into the house. They came 

 thither. The old woman's mind was glad. When her husband came 

 up to her, he gave all these things to the people — sea-lion bristles, sea- 

 otter skins, fur-seal skins. He shook hands with these in his hands. 

 His brother-in-law said to him, " The feast was given for you some time 

 ago (that is, the mortuary feast). The young woman is already mar- 

 ried." She (the younger woman) was very much troubled on account 

 of it (because her former husband was now a man of wealth). 



