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A\"hen they wore out tishino-, he entered his skin. Ho opened his 

 mouth for two [ canoes J and spit them out shoreward. 



And again ho went away, and, after he had sat in the house for a 

 whiU^, evening- came, and he wont down to lier. And ho lay with [the 

 chief's] daughter. 



He (the chief) was preparing to go out tishing with the others. 

 They brought out liis skin clothing, and they ])rought out his war 

 spear and his arrow box. They put pitch on the points of those 

 [arrows] in case he (Stone-ribs) had too much power for him. And 

 he heard him say he was going to break his liead \vith his teeth. 



Presently day came, and ho hoard the sound they made as they went 

 out fishing. When it stopped, he arose, swam off again, and came out 

 on the surface near two canoes at one end. Then one waved a paddle. 

 They did this for Qla'g.awa-i. He had not let out tishing lines. 

 Instead his canoe floated quieth' among them. 



He went thither, and those who were there pointed into the water 

 with their paddles. " It is lying right there,'' the}' said to him. Then 

 he seized his spear. He looked at it. It was too small, however, and 

 he picked up an arrow instead. Then he speared it. He struck it in 

 the side and pulled it up. Then he said: "Is this the thing that 

 destroyed 3'ou?" and they said to him: "Do not speak like that. 

 That is it."' 



Now he told them to begin tishing, and they pulled halibut in and 

 clubbed them. He was lying in the canoe. The skin of the Q!a'g.awa-i 

 had already been lying there for some time. After he had swelled up 

 so as to till this, the}" found it out. Then [Q!a'g.awa-i] took his spear 

 and speared him. Instead of being harmed he stretched it more and the 

 canoe became covered with water. Inmiodiately tiie salt water l)oiled. 

 He captured his skin. He opened his mouth for them. As many as 

 were tishing came fast into his mouth, but for some purpose he let 

 two persons go home. Then he came away with the rest. He let 

 them out toward the shore at a bay at one end of the town. From 

 the very shore they fell over landward like a pile of wood. They lay 

 near the shore without skins. Fins were on them.~" Then he went 

 in to his mother. 



Next day he said to his mother: "Mother, I intend to go away from 

 you. I am not really your son. I came and helped you because you 

 called for me as you wept. My mother's ]ilace is in the middle of this 

 island." 



At once his mother sang crying songs. And on account of her cry- 

 ing he thought he would stay a day more, and he stayed near her 

 one night, ])ut next day he went awa}'. 



As soon as lie went out he put on his copper coat. Over this he 

 put his marten-skin coat. Over both he put his Q!a'g.awa-i skin 

 and started around the west coast wearing thiMu. The supernatural 



