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for a while he came to where Sea-lioii lived. And after he had given 

 him some food he roasted his hand, out of which grease dropped. 

 That he gave him to eat. He started off, and when he had traveled a 

 while came to where Hair-seal lived. Then he, too, roasted his hand 

 in the tire, and grease came out. He gave it to him to eat. 



Then he went away and lixcd in one place for a while. After he 

 had lived there for a time Water-ousel came in to him. Then he 

 drove something- into his leg, but only made himself faint awa3^ And 

 he (the bird) was ashamed. While he was in the faint he went off. 

 Then he came to himself. And after he had continued living there 

 for a while Sea-lion and Hair-seal came in.'^ Then he roasted his 

 hand, but it was l)urned. And they left him. Afterward he came to 

 life again. 



[Parts of the young man's story told by Walter McGregor of the QsV-i-al-lfi'nas] 



He l)egan to offer his sister in marriage, and when any creature 

 came in to him he looked at its buttocks. When they were lean he 

 refused it. After he had done [lit., said] this for awhile Sea-lion 

 wanted to marry his sister. Then he looked at his buttocks. They 

 were fat, and he let him marry his sister. They had two children. 

 Ci.e'noa'* was the elder. Iwa'ldjida was the younger. Once Raven 

 went out fishing with his brother-in-law and thought: "I wish hal- 

 il)ut would come to me only." Then he only caught halibut. And 

 his brother-in-law, Sea-lion, asked him: "Sa}", why do the}^ come 

 to youT' "That is something people are not brave enough to ask 

 for." Then he again asked him, and he said to him: ''Well, thev like 

 me, because I use a piece of skin cut from my testes for bait.'' And 

 he told him to do the same to his. When he just touched them 

 with a knife, '" W^i-wa-wa-wa', it hurts," he said to him. "Don't you 

 see you are not brave enough for it?" Then he told him to do as 

 before. Then he cut off the whole of his testes and ate the fat part 

 of his brother-in-law. After he had consumed it he put stones in him 

 in its place, and came to his sister singing a crying song: "Siwa's's 

 husband, my sister's husband. Si wa's's husband, my sister's husband." 

 Then his sister asked him: "What has happened, brother?"' He paid 

 no attention to her. He sang the crying song. "W^hat is it?" she 

 kept saying. By and by she asked her brother: "What has happened, 

 my l)rother Raven ? " And he said to her: " Where they always do so, 

 [the enemy] stood at House-point. With my great brother-in-law I 

 met them. My great brother-in-law fell without speaking a word. 

 I, however, went around and around them calling." Then his sister, 

 too, sang a crying song. She had G.e'noa on her back and held 

 Iwa'ldjida in her hands. Then she sang the crving song: "G.e'noa's 

 father, Iwa'ldjida's father. (J.c'noa's father, Iwa'ldjida's father." At 

 once they carried him up in :i mat. And Siwa's said: ''Sa}', chief, 



