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He now started off. l\v and b}^ he came [back] and sat behind his 

 father's house. '' Father, please let me in." The}' did not want him. 

 " Father, please let me in. I will put grizzly bears upon you. 1 will 

 put mountain goats upon you." *'' He offered him all the mainland 

 animals. ''No, chief, my son, they might wake me up by walking 

 over me." 



He then began to sing a certain song. He beat time ])y striking his 

 head against the house. The house began to fall over. And at tliat 

 time he nearly let him in, they say. And when he went away they 

 snatched off from him the black bear and marten [skins] he wore. 



That time he went away for a long period. By and by they saw 

 him floating on the sea in front of the town in a hair-seal canoe.*" 

 He wore his uncle's hat. On top of it the foam was swirling around 

 as he floated. As soon as the}^ saw he had become changed in some 

 unknown manner the town people all entered Qiiigi's house. And 

 after they had talked over what they should do for a while he dressed 

 himself up. The town people put themselves between the joints of 

 his tall hat. After Nanki'lsLas had remained there a while the sea 

 water continued to increase. And Qiiigi, too, grew up. Then he 

 became angry and broke the hat by pulling it downward. Half the 

 people of his town were lost. 



After he had been gone for a while he came and stopped in front of 

 the town. " NAfiki'lsLas is in front on a canoe." And his father 

 said: " Go and get him that I may see his face." They then spread 

 out mats, and his comrades came in and sat there. His father con- 

 tinually gave him food. His father was glad to see him. 



After food had been given out for a long time and evening was 

 come, his father sat down near the door. By and by he said: " My 

 son, chief's child, let one of your companions tell me a story." He 

 then asked the one who sat next to him: " Don't you know a story?"*' 

 "No," they all said, and he turned in the other direction also. "Don't 

 you know one story?" "No; we do not." He then said to his 

 father: "They do not know any stories." And his father, Qingi, 

 said, " It!e'i, let one of your companions relate to me ' Raven travel- 

 ing,'" by which he made NAfiki'lsLas so ashamed that he hung his head. 



By and by, lo, a small, dark person, who sat on the right side, threw 

 himself backward where he sat. " Ya-yii'-o-o-o-o-o, the village of the 

 master of stories. Qingi." When he said this the people in the house 

 were [startled], as if something were thrown down violently. "Ya- 

 ya'-o-o-o-6-o, the supernatural beings came to look at a ten-jointed 

 iqea'ma *^ growing in front of the village of the master of stories, 

 Qifigi. There they were destroyed." " Ya-ya'-o-6-o-6-o, the supernat- 

 ural beings came and looked at a rainbow *^ (a story name) moving up 

 and down in front of the village of the master of stories, Qifigi. There 

 they were destroyed [said the next]." " Ya-yii'-o-o-o-o-o, the super- 



