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hurniiit;-, his .sistei" <>Toas(Hl [his skinj with the duck gTcase. His 

 mother put feathers upon it. 



B\' iuid by one uijiht was counted for him. Tiieu the supernatural 

 bein<4s fastened their i^yes upon him. Lo, another nij^ht was about 

 to be counted for him. .Vt tiiis time the supernatural beings talked 

 about the pUices wiiere tiiev were <4{)in<»' to setth>. Thev divided them- 

 selves up. At that time one among them stood up. He said: ''Where 

 is the sister of the supernatural beings, VVoman-people-want-todiave, 

 going to have her place f "I do not know. I do not know. I shall 

 have ui}- place with ni}' children a little way behind the chiefs among 

 the trees.'"'" 



By and t)y, when day began to break, they were looiving on. Pres- 

 ently the Raven called. It was daylight. But then they discovered 

 him enter and lie down under it.'" Then he came to have his place 

 under it (the ishmd). 



Then they went for Fast-rainbow-trout~" and Marten, And the}' put 

 a sti'ing on him (Fast- rainbow-trout) and sent him up with it. Then it 

 was not long enough. He spliced heudock roots to it. Marten went 

 down with the lower end.~' 



Now the supernatural beings separated, leaving the town of X.A'i- 

 na'" for tiie various places the}' had already talked about settling in. 



Now Stone-ribs traveled about upon this island. After he had trav- 

 eled for some time he entered the house and said to his mother: 

 "Mother, toward Cape G.A'iixet'^'' some one calls for me, weeping." 

 And next day he went al)out upon this island hunting birds. He went 

 about upon it as one does upon something small. 



And again he said to his mother: "Mother, she calls, wailing for 

 me as if she would never cease." Then he said to her: '" 1 will go and 

 help lier." And she said to her son: '" Don't, chief, don't; they might 

 call \'ou skA'mdal."'"' "That is all right, mother; I am going to help 

 her."^-^ 



Then, very early next day, he started off again, passed Qla'dASg.o,^® 

 went around Skedans point, and came to Broken-shells-of-the-super- 

 natural-lxungs. At that time he took (juicker steps. Then he ran over 

 to \'illage-that-stretches-itself-out. And he went along down the inlet. 

 Then he came near some Avhite shells. Seaward, to his surprise, an eagle 

 was trying to catch something and almost succeeded several times. 



TluMi he looked at it. Again it almost caught it in its tiight. And 

 aftei- h(> had thought about it he went down to it. And, when he got 

 there, a halibut was swinnning about in the standing water. There 

 w«>re stripes of copper along its edges. Out of its nose hung a weasel. 

 Now he caught the halibut in his hands. He was ver}^ glad to have 

 it. And when he was going to split it around the edg(\s with his linger 

 nails it thundered; and when he was about to do the same thing along 



