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as tliG older brother understood this lie began to cry |froin jealousyj. 

 At the same time day broke. 



At daybreak he l)ef,''aii to ^et ready to ^o somewhere without kiiow- 

 injt;- whither. Then she n)ade him sit down. '\Stop! let me tell you 

 something."' She l)rought her box out to the tire, took something 

 blue out of it, and bit off part for him. " Now, my grandson, if any- 

 thing has too much power for you, swallow this and spit it upon your- 

 self.'' Then she said to him: "Right down the inlet lives the one 

 whom you came to see, the one for whose daughter you came. Hut 

 your younger brother shall remain with me, and after a while 1 will 

 marr}' him." 



Then he went down with the current alone^ He was expecting to 

 meet Sqa'g.aFs daughter. There lay the large town in which lived 

 the woman he came to marry. After he had walked about in the 

 town for a while it became dark. Then he entered Sqa'g.aFs house. 

 He went in and sat down close to the door. The chief's child sat 

 between the screens at the rear of the house. Around her walked 

 some women with their liair stuck together in ])unches. Her father 

 set them to watch her so that she might do nothing foolish. When 

 day began to break, instead of going in to her, he went outside. 



He went round the front of the house and followed a narrow trail. 

 At an open place near water holes human bones were piled up, and a 

 bull pine stood there. In the branches of this he sat doAvn. After 

 he had been sitting there for some time red spots from the rising sun 

 appeared on the open ground. Then the chiefs child came thither. 

 The servant who came in advance had a ])one stuck in her nose.'"* 

 She had a crooked war club. The one who came behind was dressed 

 in the same way. The leader had a human scalp in her hands. Their 

 hair was stuck together in bunches. She was a Tlingit woman. The 

 one behind was a Bellabella.''^ 



She sat down, untied her blanket, and was naked. Then she went 

 into the water, turned round four times, and came out. Then the 

 Tlingit woman rul)bed her back. The Bellabella woman, too, rub])ed 

 her breast. After they had finished rul)bing her she went into the 

 water a second time. After she had turned round to the right she 

 sat down on dry ground and turned her })ack to the sunshine. 



When her skin had liegun to dry he came out and seized her. The 

 moment that he seized her he quickly touched noses. ^'^ One servant 

 picked up her weapons with the scalp, ready to strike him, and the 

 other one, too, was ready to strike him with the bone clul). But she 

 stopped them. '' Do not kill him. 1 will marry him." The human 

 bones lying around belonged to those who, having become fascinated 

 at the sight of her, had seized her, and had presently been killed l)y 

 the servants. 



