swASTDN] HAIDA TEXTS AND MYTHS 179 



They laiuU'd and pullod up the canoe. Then ho and his wife went 

 up and, wdien they saw him, the crowd of spectators standing in front 

 of the liouse })efore the door opc^ned up a passage for him, and he and 

 his wife looked in. 



To his surprise the one he had shot sat doubled up over wooden 

 bars w^hich were fastened between ropes hung from the ridge-pole, 

 touching the lower one w^ith his feet and holding the upper one in his 

 hands. ^^ The arrows stuck out of him all over. He was suffering 

 greatly. 



After he had looked at him for a while, he thought: "1 wonder why 

 the shaman does not see what is sticking out of him." Then one 

 standing near him looked at his face and said: "I wish you could hear 

 what the person standing here says, '1 wonder why the shaman trying 

 to cure him does not see what is sticking out of him.'" The one who 

 announced his thought was mind-reader among the Land-otter people. 

 And a shaman from among the Land-otter people was trxnng to cure 

 him. He did not see what was sticking out of him. 



By and by some one rose and spoke to him who offered the blankets 

 in return for the cure. Then he went awa}' with his wife, came home, 

 and told her to ask something of her mother. "Mother, have you 

 an\' cedar-bark?" "Yes, chief-woman, m}^ daughter." Then she 

 gave him some. They dried it around the fire, went to work upon 

 it, and pounded it up for cedar-bark rings. These were finished. 



Then they intended to bring him over. While yet in the house he 

 bound himself [with the bark]. He bound his arms, the front of his 

 body and his legs. Then they came and offered him ten moose-skins. 

 Then they had him brought over. When he entered, th(^ sick man 

 was still hanging in the rear of the house. 



And, after he had gone around him for a while, he pulled the arrows 

 out of his buttocks. As soon as he had done so he stuck them into 

 the bands around his own arms. He suffered ceaselessly where he 

 hung. Then he pulled them out from the other side of him and from 

 his legs. He stuck them into the rings around his body and back. 

 Then he picked him up and seated him on the floor-planks. So he who 

 had been unable to sit up now did sit up. Then he asked for a pillow 

 and laid him on it. Ah! he lay there comfortably. 



But, when he looked up, he beheld his (Ga'ogila's) daughter, who w^as 

 wonderful to look upon. He beheld her. Then, picking the sick man 

 up again, he made him la}' his feet upon the lower cross stick and 

 seize the upper one with both hands. Then he put the arrows back 

 into his buttocks and his side, so that he again suffered severely. 

 Then he started away. He ceased looking at him, and they took him 

 away on the canoe. 



After he came in and sat down two more persons came in and 

 stood there. They offered him twenty moose-skins and two coppers. 

 He refused them. Then thev came to offer him all the things in the 



