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below. He threw the ( luh into the Wiitei'. It swam up tlie river and 

 cut the iee. After souu^ time the elul) }>ecaine tired. He took it into 

 the eanoe and put the l)ox on the ice. The box as.sumed the .shape of 

 a killer-whale and moved over the ice, thus cutting- it. Then he told 

 it to go to t\w house of the sliaman who had killed his friends. The 

 latter had a daughter, \vhose name was Lgo-^i'vuk (Little-worker). 

 TsEg-u'ksk" commanded the whale to break the ice when he saw the 

 jiirl on the ri\'er and to brin^- her to him. Soon th(» yii'l came down 

 to the river to fetch water, 'llien the whale I'oseand carried her away 

 to where liis master wa.'i stayinu'. and the latter sang: 



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Next he ordered the whale to watch and whenever a woman went to 

 fetch water to take her away. The inhabitants were therefore in great 

 want of water. Finally TsKgu'ksk" sent his otter club to kill all the 

 people. Th(^ club swam across the river and killed every one. Only 

 one man, who happened to l)e out hunting, was saved. 



At this time the Haida u.sed to make war upon the villages of 

 Observatoi-y iidet. TsEgu'ksk" happened to be there with his friends 

 when the Haida made an attack on the village, and he and all his com- 

 panions were killed. The Haida cut off the heads of the slain to take 

 them along as trophies. TsEgu'ksk"'s head was placed in the bow of 

 the canoe. When the Haida had gone some little distance, his head 

 I'olled overboard and swam back to where the body lay. Head and 

 trunk were joined again, atid TsEgu'ksk" rose hale and well. He 

 returned to Nass river. 



The man who had been absent hunting while TsEgu'ksk"'s otter- 

 club had killed all his friends resolved to take revenge. He invited 

 TsEgu'ksk" to a feast. He was going to give him dried human tlcsh 

 mixed with poison to eat. One of TsEgu'ksk"\s supernatural helpers 

 had warned him, however, and had told iiim to take out his intes- 

 tines after the feast, and to replace them with dogs' intestines, then the 

 poison would do him no harm. TsEgu'ksk" put on a bearskin for his 

 blanket, placed v. ring of red cedar liark around his neck, and strewed 

 eagle-down on lli^: head. Then he went across. He entered the house 

 of his enemy and sat down. When the food was ready for him, he 

 remarked, "This is human carrion." Init he ate it nevertheless. At 

 night he became sick. Then he said to the people, " I am going to die. 

 When I am dead, open my stomach, and take out the intestines. Th(Mi 

 kill a dog, take its intestines, and put them in place of mine. Then 



