swANTo.N] HAIDA TEXTS AND MYTHS 131 



liis club. Then he threw him down into the hitrine. And after he had 

 Iain there a while he spoke up out of it/''' Th;Mi he took liiin out and 

 pounded hini up again. He even pounded up his bones. And he went 

 down to the beach at low tide and rolled a big- rock over upon him. 



[End of so-called "old man's story" and bcg-inning of " young man's" parf^"] 



Then he was nearly covered by the tide. And he changed himself 

 in dirterent ways. By and l)y, when only his beak showed a])ove 

 water, his ten supernatural helpers came to him. Then they rolled the 

 rock off from him, and he drifted away. The first to smell him among 

 his supernatural helpers was a Tlingit, who Avore a bone in his nose 

 [like the shamans. J 



After he had drifted awa}' for a while, some people came along in 

 a canoe. " Wh}' does the chief float about upon the water?" And 

 when they got Avithin a short distance he said: '' He has a hard time 

 for going after a woman." 



And after he had drifted about a while longer, a black whale came 

 along blowing. And he thought, *' 1 wish it would swallow me." 

 And, as he wished, it swallowed him. Then he ate up its insides. 

 After he had eaten all he thought: "" I wish it would drift ashore 

 with me in front of a town." And in front of a town it drifted ashore 

 with him. 



After they had spent some time in cutting it up, they cut a hole 

 through right where he was, and he flew out. Then he Hew straight up. 

 And he turned down at the end of the town, pulled off the skin of an 

 old man living there, threw away his bones, went into his skin, and 

 lived in his place instead of him. By and b}^ they asked him about the 

 something that came out of the whale's belly. Then he said: " When 

 something similar happened a long time ago the}" fled from each other 

 in fear." At once the}" fled from each other in fear. And afterward 

 he ate the whale they Avere bringing up. This was Avhy he had 

 changed himself. 



[Told by Tom Stevens, chief of Those-born-at-House-Point.] 



And one time he had Hair-seal as his wife. Then they had a 

 child. And one day he went after firewood with him. His son Avas 

 fat, and. pleased at the sight of him, he Avanted to eat him. Then he 

 said to him: "1 am within a little of eating you." And after they 

 had come home, and had got through eating, he said to his mother: 

 '• Ha ha+, mama, my father said to me: ' I am within a little of eat- 

 ing you.'" And Raven said: "Stop the child." He made him 

 ashamed. After that he devoured him. "* 



[Continued by the Chief of Kloo.] 



And after he had traveled about a while from that place he came to 

 another toAvn. And he AA^as eating the leavings cut off' of the salmon 

 they brought in. By and by some of the milt"^ hung out of his 



