BWANTON] HAibA tp:xts and myths 117 



its onnno- they stopped up the smoke hole, and, havino" y)ulled one box 

 out of another four times, they gave it a round thin*^'. There came 

 light throughout the house. After it had played with this for a while 

 it let it go and again started to cry. "Boo hoo, smoke hole," it cried. 

 They then opened the smoke hole, and it cried again and said: "Boo 

 hoo, more." And they made the space larger. Then he flew away 

 with it. Marten^" pursued him l)elow. Ta'LAtg.a'dAla,'' too, chased 

 him above. They gave it up and ri^turned. 



He then put the moon into his :irmpit. And, after he had traveled 

 about for a while, he came to where Sea-gull and Cormorant sat. 

 lie made them ([uarrel with each other. And he said to Cormorant: 

 "People tell me to brace myself on the ground with my tongue this 

 wa}' [when fighting].'"' \lo then did it, and [Raven] went quickly to him. 

 He bit ott' his tongue. 



Then he made it into an (uilacbon. And he put on his cape and 

 rubbed this all over it, and he rubbed it on the inside of the canoe 

 as well. Then he also put rocks in and went in front of Qadadja'n.^^ 

 And he entered his house. " Hi, 1, too, have become cold." 

 Qadadja'n was lying with his back to the tire and, looking toward 

 him, sav>^ his canoe, covered with slime, lying on the water as if full. 

 He then became angry and pulled the screen dow^n toward the fire. 

 Eulachon immediately i)oured forth. He then threw the stones out 

 out of the canoe and put them into it. When it was full, he went 

 off with them. 



After he had distributed the eulachon along the mainland in the 

 places where they now are and had put some in Nass inlet, he left a 

 few in the canoe. 



He then placed ten paddles under these, of which the bottom one 

 had a knot hole running througli it. And he shouted landward to 

 where a certain person lived. She then brought out a basket^^ on her 

 back, and he said to her: "Help yourself, chief tainess." After she 

 had put them into [the basket] a while, and her basket was nearly full, 

 he stepped upon a stalk of }qea'ma~* w^hich he had provided and said: 

 "A-fi-a, I feel my canoe cracking." He then pushed it from the land, 

 and when she stretched out her arm for more [eulachon] he pulled out 

 the hairs under her armpit. 



Fern-woman (SuAndja'n-djat) at once called for her sons. Both her 

 sons knew how to throw objects by means of a stick, they sa}'.^'^ He 

 immediately fled. And one of them shot at him and broke his paddle. 

 And after they had broken ten he i)addled with the one that had a 

 knot hole. When they shot after him again he said "Through the 

 knot hole," and through the knot hole w ent the stone. Thus he was 

 saved. He had dexterously got her armpit hair. 



He then left the canoe. He caine to a shore opposite some people 

 who were fishing with fish rakes in Nass. And he said: " Hallo, 



