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They moved Ixick ;i<;uin to the town of Sqe'na. After they had 

 lived there for a while a woman of the Food-giving-town people 

 became pregnant. She gave birth to a girl. And when spring 

 returned some supernatural being came out of the ground and swal 

 lowed [the people] together with their canoes. That was Cave-super- 

 natural-lxMng,"" the}^ say. 



Then she, too, went to Skidegate creek. While the}" were going 

 along by canoe it came after them. When it got near she threw her 

 child, which had just begun to creep about, into its mouth. It then 

 went under water, and they landed there. That is why the place is 

 named "Landing-of-man^-canoes." 



Then she and her husband went about crying. B}^ and b}^, when 

 day began to break, they fell asleep. Very earl}^ in the morning 

 they heard a child cry. Then they looked where it cried. The 

 child was creeping about on top of a whale floating in a woodland 

 lake and crying. He then took aAvay his child. She did right when 

 she threw her child into the mouth of the supernatural being. 



The child grew up as rapidly as a dog. Now they went over 

 to Skidegate creek, and the girls walked along on shore. As she 

 walked along she sang. They tried to stop her. She did not listen. 

 After she had gone along for a time the supernatural })eing came 

 after them out of the woods with open mouth. She did not run 

 away from it. 



When it came near her, she seized it. The children found out 

 that her linger nails w^ere made of copper. She then tore it in pieces 

 and threw it round about. "Even future people will see you lying 

 about," she said. She threw its head down. It is the one (rock) that 

 they call ''Chief."" The Food-giving-town people were then glad 

 because she had killed it. 



After that they lived at Skidegate creek. They did not know that 

 she had power within herself disproportionate to her size. She 

 pla3^ed for a while and brought in a salmon. She came in from pla}^- 

 ing on a board. All that time she looked at it. By and by the 

 youngest of her brothers, who was full of mischief, ate her fish. And 

 he laid a bright humpback in its place. 



When she came in from playing she looked in the place. " M3' 

 child, Taxe't,"^^ she said. She was sad on account of her salmon. 

 She started it, that future people would be stingy.'*'^ 



After they had lived there for a while her eldest [brother] lay dead 

 in the morning. On the next morning the next to the eldest lay dead. 

 On the day after that ai¥)ther one was dead. This went on until seven 

 had been found dead. 



One night, while the youngest was in bed, his sister came and 

 sat at his feet. He drew himself together. His sister felt for his 

 buttocks. He was astonished. He then drew in his bcU}^ closer, and 



