418 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 40 



[Translation] 



Children plaj-ed camping every day. There were many of them, 

 and there was onl}^ one great log. It had a great hole inside. It was 

 a large log. That is the place where the children went in. Then the 

 large tree with the hole in it was their house. They made a fire buin 

 in it, and they also ate [many] traveling-provisions. Salmon was the 

 traveling-provisions of all the children. When they had done so for 

 a long time every day, when the water was great (high) again, the}- 

 again camped in the great log. The water rose again and the great 

 log floated. It drifted out to sea. The children did not know it. 

 They were playing inside of the great log while it was going out to sea 

 and when it was far awa}" from the shore. Then one bo}^ went out. 

 He saw that the}^ had drifted seaward and that the}' were way off shore. 

 Then the children went out. Then they cried. They cried all the 

 time. Then the great log went way out on the ocean. 



Then a little wdse boj^ went out. He saw gulls flying about. He 

 returned again into the great log, and he told them, "Gulls are always 

 sitting on top of us. Can we not do anything? " Then one child said 

 the following: "Let us strike our noses. Then the}' will bleed. 

 Then we will rub (the blood) on the outside of the great log. Then 

 the feet of the gulls will stand on it." They did so. They struck 

 their noses, and blood came out of them. Then they rubbed it on 

 the great log. Then they entered the inside of the great log. Many 

 gulls came and sat on it. Then their feet dried against it. When the 

 sun was right in the middle of the sky, the one who was really a little 

 large went out again. Then the gulls flew. They did not succeed in 

 flying. Then one })oy took them. Then he twisted off the necks of 

 all the many gulls. Then he put them down into the hole of the great 

 log. Then the children were glad. They ate the meat and forgot 

 what was happening, that they were going way out on the ocean. 



They were not anywhere near shore or the edge of the water. Then 

 one day they heard a great noise. The boys went out. Behold! 

 there was a whirlpool in which they were going down. Then they 

 began to cry when the great log stood downward in it, about to be 

 swallowed by the whirlpool. 



While it was standing downward in it, a man ran seaward. The 

 man had one foot. Then he speared the great log with his harpoon. 

 He pulled it ashore. The man saved them. Then the children went 

 up into the house of the man. Then Only-One-Foot began to feed 

 them. 



