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point."" ThoY picked up his paddle. The}^ ag"ain owned the sea. 

 They again owned the land. 



After that liis father died, and (r.oa'ldao took his place. '^'^ His son 

 was Lu-.iiklia'o. At that time they went to Gwai'ya to fish. He (the 

 son) l)(>og-o(l some l)o^^s to accompany him thither. And the}' went out 

 in a crowd. Then, as soon as they had taken out hadja,'*" they plucked 

 ort' their feathers and made fun of them. 



After the\' had been doing this for some time they went to I'liloa-i- 

 A'ndjusg.as^' after iJklia'o.^' They then let down Lg-.aklia'o into a 

 crevice. After he had taken off L!k!ia'o and given them to the children 

 foi- a while he tried to get out. The Avails were jammed in against 

 his head. The tide was coming up to him. 



The}' at once carried the news to his parents. His parents immedi- 

 atel}' took hides, paints, and feathers and went thither. They then 

 started a fire there and put these into it, and talked [through the fire] 

 to I'Llga-i-A'ndjusg.as.''^ The}' asked to have him let out. When all 

 (he property was destroyed the crevice became large and they pulled 

 him out of it. They (supernatural ))eings) started to take him ])ecause 

 he. made fun of the ha'dja of I'lJga-i-A'ndjusg.as. 



After that they again went for birds. Then again, as soon as they 

 had plucked the hadja, they let them fiy away. They made fun of 

 them. AVhile they were going along the edge of a clifi' Lg.aklia'o fell 

 down. And he fell from the clifi'. When he was caught halfway 

 down they told him not to move. But still he did move, and fell again. 

 That time he was smashed to pieces below. 



Then, when the children went home, his father told theni not to 

 enter their houses. At once the parents of the children gave him 

 property. They paid him many moose skins. They then set him 

 (i. e., his body) up there. They made four posts for his grave. ^* It 

 is the one on [a post of] which there is a tree. After that boys stopped 

 playing with boys of Those-born-at-Skedans, because they had paid 

 for this injury.^'' 



Before that a woman of Those-born-at-Skedans became a shaman. 

 When she began to perform she told her father to tie a dancing skirt 

 upon her. Her father did so. The supernatural power spoke to her. 

 He promised her ten whales. 



After she had fasted for a while she went out, and something made 

 a noise near by, such as a person makes between his lips. When she 

 looked toward the noise she saw some mussels. Those were the souls 

 of whales. She said they were going to be in Skedans creek. After 

 ten nights had passed they went to look. Whales floated there. 

 There was a row of them. They found ten whales in the creek. 

 Even at this day their vertebra are to be seen there. 



They said something against a supernatural power which was Avalk- 

 ing on the seaweed [on an island owned by Those-born-at-Skedans]. 



