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shells and threw them away. Wh(n-e the calcined shells were the 

 surface of the rocks is white. 



There he went out tishinjj;' for his sister. He threw the halibut 

 ashore. There is hig-h, level land there called " Halibut's place." He 

 named places, too, as he went along". " Your name will ])e like this; 

 )^()u wull be called so-and-so/' he said as he went. Then he passed 

 over one place, and it called after him: '* What shall my naiue bef 

 Then he said to it in the Ninstints dialect: "' Your name will be ' Salt 

 Stone,' you conunon object." 



Then he set out to spear Bad Weather (Tcll'g.a). He made a spear 

 with a detachable point. He used strong gut for cord. And he saw 

 its head pass. Then he speared it. And it tugged him about in a 

 sitting posture. He kept hold of the cord asid was pulled out to a 

 reef lying in front. After he had been pulled about there a while 

 the spear point broke. [The string] struck on the face of a declivity. 

 There the rocks show a white streak. 



When he went awa}^ he stuck an eagle's tail feather [into a certain 

 place]. That is called '" Eagle's-tail-feather-stuck-in." 



After that he was love-sick for his uncle's wife. Then he sat there 

 singing a song, at the same time striking his head upon the rocks for 

 a drum. There he made a hole. That place is called " Moving-the- 

 back-part-of-the-head-about-while-singing.'' 



[Told by "Abraham" of Those-born-at-Q!a'dAsg.o] 



One time, when he was going along \\ ith his cousin, he came to an 

 island of Llklia'o.'*'' At once he went out and ate them. After he got 

 through eating, he went back toward shore with his cousin. And when 

 they became thirsty he said to his cousin: ""Take one stroke in the 

 water, cousin"." As soon as he did so they came to Standing- water 

 creek, which was very far awa3^ Where he drank there, there is a 

 water hole of the shape of his bill. 



This is why, when people travel b}^ canoe on the west coast, the 

 country is easy for them (i. e., the}^ travel about easil}-). The place 

 where he and his cousin ate Liklia'o is called " Pulled-otf-with-the- 

 teeth."'" 



[Told by Tom Stevens, chief of Those-b(jrii-at-House-point] 



When he (Raven) first started traveling about, numbers of persons 

 lay along the ground, acting as if ashamed. Then he pulled them up- 

 right as he ran along. • These were the mountains. 



Another version 

 [Told to Pnif. Franz Boas by Charlie Edenshaw, cliief of the StA'stas] 



Nenk'ilsLasLingai's'*' mother was GeLik'Edza't ("Flood-tide 

 woman''). His father was Lg.ang.ag'in ("■ Dorsal-fin"),*"* whose sister's 

 son was called Lg.anxe'la ("Hole-in-dorsal fin"). He was born in 



