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it. At once wluit he had drunk spurted from his month us he went 

 along. After they had gone along for a whik' the}' landed upon 

 certain flat rocks extending into the sea. 



Then Raven went up first and lighted a tire. He again watched 

 Eagle as he kept taking out his ])asket and drinking water. He 

 intended to take it, but he did not have an opportunity. Eagle also 

 let the contents of his stomach run into the ground, and they went out 

 of sight. Then he (Raven) took a walk. *"■ I am going to drink,"' he 

 said, and passed into the woods. Having taken roots and put root 

 sap into the hat he wore, he went to him. While coming back he 

 drank of it on the way. And he asked Eagle to taste it. He handed 

 it to him. He looked into it. He snifted at it. "''Tell me, cousin, 

 why does your water smell like pitch?" '"Well, cousin, the water 

 hole was in clay." 



He then broke off tips of l)ranches from a hemlock that had clusters 

 of twigs sticking out all round them and gave them to him. '"Cousin, 

 put these upon the Are." And he put them upon the fire. Wa-a-a, 

 it burned brightly. And after he had done this a while, lo. Eagle 

 pulled out his ))asket. As soon as he saw that, he (Raven) ran to the 

 end of a clump of limbs and stepped heavily upon it to l)reak it. 

 "Clump of branches, fall down, fall down" [he said], and it broke 

 and was coming down. Tiien he said to Eagle, '" llukukukuk.'' '^ 

 Eagle ran from his water in terror. 



Then Raven put on his feather clothing and flew away with it. 

 Eagle, too, put on his feather clothing and flew after him. He tried 

 to hook his claws into him, and water was jerked out of [the ])asket]. 

 As this happened the salmon streams were formed. Eagle gave up 

 the pursuit, and he (Raven) continued scattering water out of his 

 mouth. After a while he emptied the last where he had stretched out 

 the first [lake]. He treated this island in the same manner. After 

 that he emptied [the last] at the head of Skeena.^'* 



Eagle was also called La'g.alAm.'-' 



Raven finished this. He then traveled northward. After he had 

 traveled for a while he came to where a village lav. He then put 

 himself in the form of a conifer needle into a water hole behind the 

 chief's house and floated about there awaiting the chief's daughter. 



The chief's child then went thither for water, and he floated in the 

 water that she dipped up. 8he threw this out and dipped a second 

 time, but he was still there. And when close to her he said: "' Drink 

 it." 



Not a long time after that she became pregnant. Then she gave 

 birth [to a child], and its grandfather washed the child all over and 

 put his feet to its feet. It began to creep about. After it had crept 

 about for a while it cried so violently that no one could stop it. 

 "Boo hoo, moon," it kept saying. After it had tired them out with 



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