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TIhmi ho flew up with hi.s wife and arrived in heaven. He went to 

 his house, 'riiey entered. .Yfter they liad oaten he showed the girl 

 where to lie down. He did not lie down with her, but stayed in a room 

 by liimsolt'. His niiine in heaven was lltsle<riyo'ontli:". Every morning 

 the rays of the sun fell througli a chinlv upon her, and soon slie found 

 tiiat she was witli child. After a short time she gave birth to a boy, 

 whom she called after the chief in heaven, Hislegij'o'ontk". After 

 .some time, when the rays of the sun struck iier bod}', she conceived 

 another son. She called him Ax-t'Em-hwilhwi'lg'it (Headless). Then 

 a third son was born, whom she called Le-g"a'amExsk" (Lying-on). 

 Finally she gave birth to two daughters, whom she called KsEm- 

 mamil'm and KsEm-gwadziq-t'e'lix' (Woman-excrements-grease). 



Th(> chief made bows and arrows for the boys, and ordered them to 

 fight aiuong themselves. The}' shot at one another and aimed at their 

 eyes. When an arrow had .struck one of them, the girl stepped up to 

 him, took it out, and sucked the woiuid, which closed at once. When 

 they were grown up, the chief made houses for the bo\'s. The front 

 of the house of the eldest had three doors. It was called Lax-6'Em. 

 The doorways were oruamonted with skulls. It was dark in the 

 entrances. Therefore thedoors were called Qalx'si-.sqil'Exk". Painted 

 planks were laid in front of the house. The eldest brother had a head 

 ornament of abalone shells. .Another one had a head ornament of 

 skins. Still another had a bow inlaid with abalone shells. They had 

 lilankets made of ermine skins. They also had the carved club by 

 means of which they were al>le to overturn houses. 



Then the chief in heaven sent the children and their houses down to 

 the place where the village of the G'ispawaduwE'da used to stand. 

 Th:^ir mother stayed in heaven. Late in the evening the G'itg'inio'x 

 heard a noise: "Be, Ije, 1)e!" When they went out to see what 

 caused the noise, they saw that it was fogg}'. A man went down to 

 the river and heard people singing on the other .side. They sang: 



He ran back to the house and said, "I hoar people singing on the 

 other side." The others made fun of him, and said, "Those are the 

 ghosts of the G'ispawaduwE'da.'' 



On the following morning the}' .saw four beautiful hou.ses on the site of 

 the formiM' town of the G'ispawaduwE'da. The chief of theG'itg'inio'x 

 ordered his people to cross the ice, and to make war on the occu- 

 pants of the houses. They began to shoot with arrows. An arrow 

 struck the eye of one of the brothers. Their sister sucked it out, 

 and the wound closed again. After some time the eldest l)rother 

 shouted, " Stop tightiug, else I shall turn over my club, and your town 



