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NiU'ku'n. Now, Nenk'tlsLiisLifi^ai was oryin"" nil the time. The 

 people tried to quiet liiui, and they J4"avo him various thiut^s to play 

 with, hut he was not satisfied. There was a youuij;" g"irl, Qalg"aitsadas 

 ("Ice-woman"),*" She also tried to quiet him. She took him in her 

 arms, and he at once ceased cryino". He touched her breasts and was 

 (|ui('t. After a littl(> while she returned him to his mother. At once 

 he !)(\<;an to cry ayain, hut when she took him a^'ain he cjuieted down 

 when he touched her breast. 



The l)oy was _i;rowinu' u[) very rapidly. Now he was able to walk. 

 Lo'.anxc'la was his mother's lover. When his father, Lg.ang.ag'in, 

 found this out he ])ecame jealous, and he sent his wife back to her 

 uncle, Neidc'ilsLas. Then she took her boy on h(n" back and went to 

 her uncle's house. About noon she felt hungiy. She was going- to 

 start a tire, but she did not succeed. She turned the tire drill until 

 her hands were sore, but she did not succeed in making a tire. Then 

 Neidv'jlsLasLingai went into the woods, where he took two large sticks. 

 He struck the ends together, and at once there was a great tire. His 

 mother was surprised to see it, ])ut she did not make an}' remark. 



In the evening they lay down and slept. Early the next morning 

 the\' proceeded on their journey. In the evening the mother tried 

 again to start a tire, but she did not succeed. Then the bo}' went to the 

 woods and started the fire in the same manner as on the preceding da3\ 



Finally they reached the house of Nenk'ilsLas, which was located 

 in Lg.ae'xa."" A large pole was standing' in front of his house. 

 Nenk'ilsLas's slaves were outside the house when GcLik'Edza't was 

 approaching', carrying' her child. They entered the house and told 

 Nenk'ilsLas that she was approaching. He remarked: "She is always 

 acting- foolishly, therefore she has been sent back." He told his 

 slaves to call her into the house. She entered and remained sitting 

 near the doorway. She did not go to the rear of the house. Her 

 uncle gave her food. The boy was defecating in the house all the 

 tinu\ His excrements were ver}^ thin and spread ovei the floor, so 

 that the house smelled verj" })adh^ 



The boy was staying with his mother. In the night, when ever}^- 

 body was asleep, he arose from the side of his mother, left the house, 

 taking ])ow and arrows, and shot woodpeckers (sLo'ts'ada). He gave 

 them to his mother and asked her to make a blanket of their skins. 

 His mother dried these skins and -sewed them up. Then he began to 

 shoot whales, which he took to a little river near Lgae'xa, named 

 Xagusiua's.-'^ Then Raven came right down from the sky, intending 

 to eat the whales. The boy tried to shoot it, but he was unable to 

 kill it. Kaven flew away, but soon returned. Again the boy tried 

 to shoot it, but did not hit it. Finally, however, he succeeded in 

 killing Kaven. He hid its skin between the branches of a large tree. 



One da}' the boy said to his uncle: "My fathers are going to come 



