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stern aloiiy' towiird the shore. Near Ta'og.al he threw [the other] up 

 from his mouth. He was changed into a rock there. 



Then he went away. He stood up at Skedans ba}^, and inland, near 

 the trees, he turned his baclv to the siuisliine. Lo! he felt sleepy 

 and lost consciousness. While he was in that condition [he heard] a 

 noise like x.u. He looked toward it. Lo! he (an eagle) had his skin 

 in his claws. Then he put on his copper coat and went after it. 



The eagle flew inland and perched there. [A supernatural being] 

 stood waiting for him. He had a war spear. He had a war helmet. 

 Then he (Stone-ribs) passed behind him on the run. When he was at 

 some distance he grasped him. His head was in his hand. Then he 

 threw it toward the head of the creek.''* 



There lay the town of Skedans.^"* And the town chief there owned 

 Sand-reef. ^•'^ One day he went thither for hair seal and called the 

 people in [to eat them]. They kept taking them over b}^ canoe. All 

 that time they called in the people for them. The town chief was 

 named Upward. ^"^ 



One day he went thither. At the landward end of Gwai-djatc''^ in 

 front of Qi'ngilu some people in a canoe sang something. They used 

 the edges of their canoe as a drum. He went to them. He [arrived] 

 there, and lo! the song was about him. The song they composed was: 

 "Upward's wife is always fooling with somebody.'"' ^^ 



Then he pulled them in. He asked them why they clubbed seals on 

 his reef. Hair seals were in their canoe. Then he fastened them to 

 two canoe seats. And he started homeward with them. When they 

 got even w^ith Mallard-grease-in-hand on the north side of Island-that- 

 wheels-around-with-the-current^'^ one said to his younger brother: 

 "Younger brother, take him, take him.'- Then both seized him at 

 once. They fastened him to the canoe. Then they took in his hair 

 seal and went back. 



Now they took him into their father's house. Those that he pulled 

 in were Farthest-one-out's sons.^*^ They laid him down in the middle 

 of the side of their father's house ^^ and told their adventures to their 

 father. And they said: "Father, he spoke to us about what you gave 

 to us as a chief's children. He pulled us into his canoe. He fastened 

 us in the canoe." And their father said: "My child, chief, my son, 

 it is not as j'our slave father has said, but as common surface birds 

 shall say."^* He spoke like this, as if speaking to a slave. 



Then they brought him in. And the}' brought in a large, water- 

 tight basket, put stones into the fire, and, when the}- became red hot, 

 put them into the water in the basket with tongs. When it boiled, 

 they put him in, canoe and all. Then they shook up the basket with 

 him in it, and, when it began to swell up, he held fast to the cross-seats. 

 Then they went to him. They laughed at him because he was afraid. 



