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desert him on a soalion rock. When the tide rise.s he puts lii.s staff 

 in a crevice and sits down on top of it. When the tide recedes, he lies 

 down and is called bj- a Mouse, which he observes through a hole in his 

 hlmiket. lie finds the house of th(^ Sealions under a l)unch of jj-rass 

 and cures their chief whom he himself had wounded. The Sealions 

 send him back in a sealion stomach. He makes two artificial killer- 

 whales, which kill his brothers-in-law. 



The Grouses 



A chief's daughter elopes with the chief of the Grouses, who 

 appears as a man in fox skins. Their four children cross the river 

 on the ice, intending to visit their grandfather. The children chase 

 them away, but finally they enter the house of the chief, who suspects 

 that they are his grandchildren and issues an invitation to the Grouse 

 tribe to visit him. They all come, among them the lost woman. 

 They bring as a present a pole covered with grease. The woman 

 returns with them. 



Tsegu'ksk" 



A shaman has a carved squirrel, which comes to life and kills all 

 the people of a village except TsEgu'ksk". He lies down on a 

 painted board in a canoe, sings, sacrifices, and is taken down to the 

 bottom of the sea, where he receives a box in the form of a killer- 

 whale and a magical cIuIj. The box, by his orders, becomes a live 

 whale, which breaks the ice and takes away all the women of his 

 enemy's village when they come down to get water. Eventually the 

 club and the box kill all these people. The Haida make war on the 

 Nass river villages and kill TsEgu'ksk". His head is cut off and 

 taken along, but it swims back to the body and joins it, and TsEgu'ksk" 

 revives. He is invited to a feast. He knows that he is to be 

 poisoned and tells his friends to take out his intestines when he seems 

 to be dead and to replace them with those of a dog. This is done 

 and he revives. Another time he capsizes in his canoe, but is rescued 

 by gulls, which carrj' him to the shore. An epidemic of smallpox 

 visits the villages. He becomes sick. Four arrows are shot up to 

 the sky, which do not return, and with each shot blood flows from 

 TsEgu'ksk"'s cheek. This shows that he will die, but will afterward 

 revive. He dies. His body is tied in a box. l)ut revives and sits on 

 the grave box in the shape of an owl. A painted pole which he has 

 erected in front of his house falls over and is seen to be rotten. At 

 the same time the owl falls back into the box dead. 



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