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Next (lay he took the l)iisk('t and went inland. Aftor lie had i»-one 

 up tor a wliilc. he caiiM* upon a hike in an open spae(\ In the middle 

 of this was a shoal. Now he swaui ov<m- to it and put crahs into the 

 hasket. When his basket was full he went away. His wife was very 

 olad to see him. because his l)asket was full. 1 le lived with her a while. 

 All that time he continued hunting- in the same way. 



By and by she became pregnant. She »;ave birth to a boy. She 

 became pregnant again and })ore another boy. She had two. Now 

 he worked harder. By and ])y he stopped getting crabs and hunted 

 hair seal. 



One time he gathered them for four nights so that there were many 

 and pi'epared to go away. Then she gave him the following directions: 

 '•AMien you hunt, leave some for my children. I will sit waiting at 

 the upper end of the inlet.'' And she said to him: ''Do not talk with 

 another woman." She gave him a small water-tight basket in which 

 was some water. A bawk feather also floated in it. Then she said to 

 him: "Do not trifle with other women. In this I shall see it. When 

 3-ou have tinished eating, drink from it." So she directed him.^® 



Then he went away from her and came to his father's town. And, 

 after he had sat near a water hole behind it for a while, his mother 

 came thither. Then he told her who he was. His mother went home 

 crying. Then his father spread out a (Tl'na-g.a'da-skin"" he owned for 

 him, and he walked [into the house] upon it. 



Then they made a bed for him and he lay down there. The}' kept 

 trying to get him to eat something. He did not eat. B}' and b}- two 

 went with him, and he hunted. He speared hair seal. When the 

 canoe was full he started for the inlet. Instead of objecting, those 

 with him looked on in silence. 



When he came to the end of the inlet there sat a grizzly bear. 

 Then those who were with him turned their backs to the bear (pad- 

 dling in the opposite direction), t)ut, after he had paddled for a while 

 facing her, he got oti'. Then he went to the grizzly bear and sat down 

 netir her. The two young grizzly bears were glad to see him. They 

 licked him. 



He W'Cnt down to the canoe and threw otf a hair seal. Then he 

 went away. And after many nights had passed he went hunting 

 again. The same ones were with him who had been with him before. 

 And he speared hair seal. When the canoe was full- they made a 

 camp tire, and he steamed the hair seal there. Then they put it into 

 the canoe and went into the inlet again. When the}' had almost come 

 to land those with him again paddled in the opposite direction. 



Again he got otf and sat upar the grizzly bear. The young ones 

 licked him. Their mother, however, did not look toward him. After 

 he had sat near her for a while, he stood up, threw off a hair seal, and 

 went off V>v canoe. 



