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And, iifter they had been o()ne a while, they returned to that place. 

 And Ji>j;ain he said to the dog: "'(io and say, 'NAilki'isLas-lina'-i says 

 he wishes his parents to leave something for him.' " He then went out 

 quickly and said so. Something black was sent to one end of the town. 

 He went thither. A whale Hoated there. 



After he had made a house of hemlock boughs he shot all kinds of 

 birds there. By and by a bufflehead came and ate of the whale. He 

 then wanted it. And he aimed just above the top of its head. When it 

 flew it struck its head. He then skinned it and entered [the skin]. 

 And he washed for a heavy swell, and it became rough, and he walked 

 toward the water. And when a wave came toward him he quickly 

 dived under it. After he had done the same thing repeatedly he flopped 

 up from the water, took the skin off, and dried it in his branch house. 

 He thus came to own it, the}' say. He kept it in the fork of a tree. 



After he had shot there all kinds of birds something blue and slen- 

 der came and ate of it. It flew down from above. It ate sitting upon 

 it. He then shot it. He shot [only] through its wings. He (Raven) 

 was sad. And on the next day, early in the morning, he entered his 

 branch house. After he had sat there for a while it again came down 

 from above, making a noise as it came. And after it stood upon it and 

 had begun to eat he shot it. The arrow again passed quickly through 

 its wings. His mind was sad. 



And on the next day, verj'^ early in the morning, he again went into 

 the l>ranch house. It came by and by and ate. And he now shot over it. 

 As it started to fly it was struck in the head. He then went down to 

 get it. He brought it into the l)ranch house. 



AYhen he had skinned it, he entered it. He then flew up. After 

 he had flown for a while he turned quickl}' and came down. He 

 then ran his beak into a rocky point at the end of the town. At the 

 same time he cried out: " G.ao" (Raven's croak). Though the rock 

 was strong, he split it ])v his voice. After he had dried it in the 

 branch house he put it where he kept the buflHehead. 



He then started oft', they say. He went in and sat down by the side 

 of his mother. By and b}' his aunt said to her husband: " Why do 

 you remain seated so long^ (io and hunt," she said to him. And 

 they brought out a war spear and a })ox of arrows, and thej'^ put pitch 

 on [the cord wound round the arrow point] for him. And at midnight 

 he w^ent ofl' in a canoe, and his place was vacant in the morning. 



He (Raven) then went out and stood up out of himself (i. e., changed 

 himself). He put on two sky blankets and painted his face. And, as 

 soon as he entered, his uncle's wife turned her head. He went around 

 behind the screens. And, after some time had passed, it thundered 

 on the underground side of the island. 



And her husband came back and asked his wife: " My child's mother, 

 what noise was that, sounding like the one that is heard when I go to 



