suANTON] HAIUA TEXTS AND MYTHS V25 



natural hoings once came to look at (Treatest-.sea-t>ull and Greatest- 

 wiiite-crested-conuorant throw a whalc'.s tail back and forth on. a 

 reef that tirst came up in front of Qing-i's town. There they were 

 destrov(^d." "■ Ya-N'a'-o-o-o-o-o, the supernatural beings came to see 

 llarle(|uin-duck and Blue-jay run a race with each other on the prop- 

 erty of the master of stories, Qiiigi. There they were destroyed."'' 

 " Ya-ya'-6-o-o-o-o, the supernatural beinj^s once came to look at the 

 lower section of a wooden rattle lyincr around which used to sing of 

 itself." There they were lost." " Ya-ya'-o-o-o-o-o, the supernatural 

 l)eino-s once came to look at an inlet, w^hich broke suddenly through 

 white rocks at the end of Qingi's town, out of which Djila'qons came 

 knitting. There they were destroyed." " Ya-ya'-o o-o-o-o, the super- 

 natural beings once came to see Ta'dAlAt-g.a'dAla and Marten run a 

 race with each other in front of the village of the master of stories, 

 Qingi. There thej' were destroyed." [What the other three said 

 has been forgotten.*^] 



Then NAnki'lsLas started off afoot. After he had traveled for a 

 while he came to the town of Ku'ndji. In front of it many canoes 

 floated. They were fishing for flounders." They used for bait sal- 

 mon roe that had been put up in boxes. He then desired some, and 

 changed himself into a flounder. And he went out. After he had 

 ])een stealing the salmon roe for a while they pulled out his beak. 



Those people, who then sat gambling in rows in the town, looked at 

 the l»eak one after another. They handed it back and forth for the 

 purpose. NAnki'lsLas looked at it, and said: '*It is made of salmon 

 roe." He then went toward the woods and called Screech-owl. And 

 he pulled its beak out, put it upon himself, and put some common thing 

 into [the owl] in its stead. 



By and b}' they went out again to fish and again he went out. And 

 after he had jerked off many pieces of salmon roe a hook entered one 

 of his lips. They then pulled him to the surface and came ashore, and 

 [the owner] gave it to his child, and they ran a stick through it [to put 

 it over the fire]. And when his back became too warm he thought: 

 '"I wish something would make them run over toward the end of the 

 town." After some time had passed the whole town (i. e., the people 

 of the town) suddenly moved. And right before the child, who sat 

 alone near by, he put on his feather clothing and flew out through 

 the smoke hole. The child then called to its mother: ''My food flew 

 away, mother." 



He did not go away from the town, they say. On another day 

 the}' prepared vsonie food in the morning. Crow invited the people to 

 a feast of cakes made of the inner bark of the hemlock and cranberries 

 mixed together. Among them they called him (Ra^'en). And he 

 refused. ''No; you only call each other for nuissels." Afterward he 

 sent Eagle out to see what they did call each other for. And after 



