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Then he got him ii.shore. Some of the old people said thtit he (South- 

 east)"^ died. 



His mother was named "To-morrow" (Da'gMiJ)/ For that reason 

 they were accustomed not to say da'g.ti}; else they said there would be 

 bad weather, so they called da'g.aJ, alg.ala'g.a. 



The end. 



This little story seems to have been very well known throughout the Queen 

 Charlotte islands. What seems to have been a longer version was known to old 

 Chief Edensaw at Masset. This one was related to my informant by an old man of 

 the Ninstints people, now dead. 



^ Master-carpenter went to war because Southeast had given the people too much 

 bad weather. The southeast wind along this coast is both rainy and violent. Sria-i 

 was the southernmost town upon the Queen Charlotte islands, lying just east of 

 Cape St. James. 



