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out of his buttofks, another out of his trunk. All ten whom he had 

 eaten he restored.'' That was why he danced. On account of the 

 hat he had dev^oured the servants. He had put o-roase, too, into the 

 mind of the chief's daughter by thinking. On jiccount of the hat they 

 put her in the cave. By and by he came together. He stopped 

 dancing. He sat down. 



Now they put more wood on the tire, made them sit down in a circle, 

 and began to give them something to eat. The feast went on even 

 until midnight, when they stopped. They stopped. They went 

 to bed. 



When day began to break the young hair seals cried in the very 

 place where the}' had cried before. Then they prepared to start from 

 the top of the retaining timbers, where their canoes were lying. 



Then her father-in-law called her. "Noble woman,'^ wait until I 

 give you directions." And he whispered to her. He gave her direc- 

 tions as she sat near him. "Chief-woman, 1 will come forth from 

 your womb. Do not l)e afraid of me." And to her he gave a round 

 plate of copper, to which some strings and a chain were fastened. 

 It was named X.ilutlfi'hi (Property chain (^)). "Have Master Car- 

 penter make my cradle, chief's daughter. Let lofty cumulus clouds 

 be around the upper edges, chief-woman, and around its lower edges 

 short ones. In those da3'S human servants (i. e., human beings) will 

 gather food through me. When they see me sitting in the morning 

 the surface birds will gather food while I am governing the weather 

 (i, e., while I am in sight)."" 



Her parents ("fathers") were waiting for her on top of the retaining 

 timbers, but, below, her father-in-law was giving her directions, to 

 which she was listening. After he had ceased talking, she got into 

 the canoe with her father. They fastened the canoes to each other; 

 they all fastened themselves. After the chief's child got in, all forgot 

 themselves. When they came to, they were afloat upon the ocean. 



At once they started off. In a short time he came to his village. 

 After it had lain still for a long time the chief's daughter became 

 pregnant. When she began to labor they made a house for her out- 

 side. They drove in a stake, had her take hold of it, and went in. 

 Now he came forth, and, when she looked at him, she saw something- 

 wonderful. Something flat stuck out from his eyelids. She rose 

 quickl}^ and ran awa}^ from him in fright. "Awaiyil'," she said, and 

 the town was nearl}^ overturned. 



Then she quickly turned back toward him, laid her hands upon him, 

 and exclaimed as she picked him up: "Oh ! my grandfather, it is 1." 

 The town was as still as when something is suddenly thrown down. 

 She brought him to the house. Her father put hot stones into a 

 urinal he owned, and the}- washed him."" 



