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oo with your }nif^))iui<l to the, comnioii canoo 1 own over thorc In the 

 woods/' 



And they went thither. To their surprise they did not find the 

 eanoe. Only th(^ hones of a whaU^day there anion^" the sahnon -berry 

 bushes. Its tail bones lay | with the rest|. Then they returned and she 

 said to her father: ''Father, we could not tind it. Only a whale's 

 head lies there.'' Then he said to her: "Chief- woman, my dauiihtei', 

 that was it. Say to it 'Go seaward, father's canoe.' " 



When she Avent back to it with her husband she kicked it. " Go 

 seaward, father's canoe," she said to it. Now a whale canoe floated 

 upon the water. The lines cut on the edges ^^ were pictures of geese, 

 Avhich almost moved their wings. And they carried their stuff down 

 to it. The canoe was all tilled with good food, with ci'anberries, ber- 

 ries in cakes, soapberries, and the fat of all kinds of animals, grizzly- 

 bear fat, mountain-goat fat, deer fat, ground-hog fat, beaver fat — the 

 fat parts of all mainland animals; and he got into the canoe and 

 pressed it down with his feet toward the bow. When the canoe was 

 nearly full those who were loading it went up to the house and laid 

 pieces of whafe meat, with most of the grease taken out, in a basket. 

 When it was full they took it down. And they laid it on the top. 



When they were ready to start, her father came out; [he said]: 

 "My child, when >the creatures seated on both sides call throw cran- 

 berries into their mouths. When they become hungry they keep 

 calling."' 



As soon as they moved their wings the canoe started. While they 

 did so the canoe went along. B\' and by, when his brother's wife's 

 house came in sight, they shoved off' Mouse-woman's canoe also. They 

 also loaded her's with good food. W^hen it was tilled they pressed it 

 toward the bow with their feet. By and l)y it was tilled, and they 

 started off* together. 



As soon as the geese along the edges of the elder brother's canoe 

 began to call he took out cranberries and put them into their mouths. 

 Along the edges of the younger one's canoe sat tows of small human 

 figures. All had small painted paddles in their hands. With these 

 they paddled. As soon as the}" l)egan to move their lips as i^" hungry 

 lie fed them. 



When they came near to the place where they had gone to get cedar 

 bark, the 3'ounger brother's wife and the elder brother's wife sat up- 

 right. And they said: "Move shoreward." Now they got off there. 

 They had sticks in their hands, and they hunted in the sand with them 

 from the sea inland. By and by they dug out the bones of a human 

 being in front of a tre(» at the edges of the grass. The canoes floated 

 on the water in Front of them. Their husbands were looking at them. 



Mouse-woman took out her t)ox. S([ag.ars daughter, too, took out 

 her box. Sq^g.ai's daughter brought out of her box a mat with edges 



