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bed with 3'ou?'' And she hiut»-hed and said: ''"Why. I gue.ss I am the 

 .same with NAnki'lsLas-liiia'-i, your nephew/' 



On the next day, early in the morning", Great-breakers sat in the 

 place where the tire was. On the top of the chief's hat (dadji'n skil) 

 that he wore a roand fleck of foam swirled rapidly. NAfiki'lsLas- 

 }ina'-i began to look around. And he went out, got his two skins, 

 put on his two sky blankets, and caiue in. His uncle had his hair tied 

 in two braids. Something on his head began turning around very 

 rapidly. 



Then a strong current of sea water poured from the corner of the 

 house. And he put his mother in his armpit, quickly entered his 

 bufflehead skin, and swam about in the current. He dived many 

 times and again swam about. And when the sea water came up to the 

 roof of the liouse he floated out with it through the smoke hole. 



He then quickly entered the raven's skin. He at once flew up. 

 He then ran his beak into the sk3^ And his tail was afloat on the 

 water. Then he kicked ag-ainst the water. "Enough. You, too, 

 belong to me." There it stopped (lit., "came to a point"). It began 

 to melt downward. 



And he looked down. The smoke of his uncle's house looked pleas- 

 ing. He then became ang-ry with him, at the sight, and started to 

 fly down. After he had flown for a while he ran his beak into it from 

 above, cr3nng as he did so, "(x.ao.'' "Oh, yo\; shall own the title of 

 Chief -of -chiefs (Ki'lsLekun)" [said his uncle]. 



He then became what he had been before. He entered with his 

 mother. From that time he often set out to hunt birds. W^hen he 

 came in one daj^ he said to his mother: "Mother, Qi'ngi^'' says he is 

 coming to adopt me.'' And his uncle said to her: "QIa'la idjsVxAn,''* 

 Flood-tide-woman, stop that child from talking. We are, indeed, fit 

 to be adopted." 



After this had happened many times they saw something wonderful, 

 they say. Poeple came dancing on ten canoes. He then went out, put 

 on two sky blankets, and walked around on the retaining- planks. 

 Said bis uncle: " What he brought on by his talking has happened. 

 I wonder how we are going to supply people and food." 



And, after he had walked about for a while, he kicked upon the 

 ground in the front part of the house on the right side. There the 

 ground cracked open. Out of it one threw up a drum from his 

 shoulder. They came pouring out. He went to the other side as 

 well. There he also kicked. "Earth, even, become people" [he said]. 

 Thence, too, one threw up a drum froju his shoulder. And he did the 

 same thing to the ground in one of the rear corners. Out of that, 

 too, some one threw up a drum from his shoulder. He did as before 

 on the other side. And they danced in four lines toward the beach. 

 Out of his uncle's house Tsimsliian, llaida, Kwakiutl, Tlingit [came] 



