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two C3dindrical objects, one covered with shining' spots, the other 

 black, saying "" I am you. That [also] is you/'' He referred to some- 

 thing blue and slim that was walking around on the screens whose 

 ends point toward each other in the rear of the house. And he said 

 to him: "" I^ay this round [speckled] thing in the water, and after 

 you have laid this black one in the water, bite off a part of each and 

 spit it upon the rest." 



But when he took them out he placed the black one in the water 

 first and, biting off part of the speckled stone, spit it upon the rest, 

 ■whereupon it bounded off. Because he did differcntl}' from the way 

 he was told it came oft'. He now went back to the black one, bit a 

 part of it oft' and spit it upon the rest, where it stuck. Then he bit 

 oft' a part of the pebble with shinj^ points and spit it upon the rest. It 

 stuck to it. These were to be trees, they say.' 



When he put the second one into the water it stretched itself out. 

 And the supernatural beings at once swam over to it from their places 

 on the sea. In the same wa}^ Mainland** was finished and la}' quite 

 round on the water. 



He floated first in front of this island (i. e., the Queen Charlottt^ 

 islands), they say. And he shouted landward: "' Gu'sga wag.elai'dx.Au 

 ha-o-6" (Tsimshian words meaning "Come along quickly"'"') [but he saw 

 nothing]. Then [he shouted]: " Ha'lA gudAfia'ii %.a'gin gwa'-a-a" 

 (Haida equivalent of the preceding). Some one came toward the water. 

 Then he went toward Mainland. He called to them to hurry, [saying] 

 "Hurry up in your minds,"' l)ut he saw nothing. He spoke in the 

 Tsimshian tongue. Then one with an old-fashio.ned cape and a paddle 

 oyei his shoulder came seaward. This is how he started it that the 

 Mainland people would be industrious. 



Pushing off again toward this country, he disembarked near the 

 south end of the island. On a ledge a certain person was walking. 

 Toward the woods, too, among fallen trees, walked another. Then 

 he knocked him who was walking along the shore into the water. Yet 

 he floated, face up. When he again knocked him in the same thing- 

 was repeated. He was unable to drown him. This was because the 

 Ninstints people were going to practise witchcraft. And he who was 

 walking among the trees had his face cut by the limbs. He did not 

 wipe it. This was Greatest-crazy-one (Qona/fi-sg.a'na), they say. 



He then turned seaward and started for the Heiltsuk coast (Ldjin).'' 

 As he walked along he came to a spring salmon that was jumping 

 about and said to it: "Spring-salmon, strike me over the heart." 

 Then it turned toward him. It struck him. Just as he recovered 

 from his insensibility it went into the sea. Then he built a stone 

 wall close to the sea and behind it made another. When he told it to 

 do the same thing again the spring salmon hit him, and, while he was 

 on the ground, after jumping along for a while, it knocked over the 



