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over to him tli(> hoy's woids. He sat around with charcoal vipoii his 

 lips.'"' 



Aftm- that tlu' town people went to (^la'o.awa-i to get shell-fish, and 

 his mother was with them. Then he cried after them. He was faint 

 from crying. Now he told them plainly that he was going to kill 

 QIa'g.awa-i. Then th(\v took him with them. They fastened a weasel 

 skin in his hair, and he took his copper bow and arrows. 



After they had gathered mussels at the island for a while, they went 

 off home from him. In that place he sang songs, and he beat upon 

 the edges of his canoe with his l)ow, in lieu of a drum. They were 

 unable to stop him. And when the^' went off from him he again sang 

 the song. 



At that time Qlfi'g.awa-i came after them. Then the canoe went 

 into its mouth. And he came to himself in its belly, put on his hali- 

 but skin, and swelled up in its stomach. He killed it. 



All of its five fins bad the figures of human beings at the base. At 

 that time he showed himself to be Stone-ribs. He told them that he 

 was the son of Djila'qons. At that time he told them the crests they 

 would use. 



Then he traveled around the west coast, wearing the halibut skin. 

 Now a l)ig mountain called "' Looking-at-his-own-shadow " called him 

 in. He entered his house, and he was glad to meet him. After he 

 had given him some dried food he gave him half of a whale to eat. 

 When he had finished eating and was about to go out Looking-at-his- 

 own-shadow laughed at him. Then he said: "Door, shut yourself." 

 And the stone hanging door fell. Now there was no wa}^ for him to 

 go out. 



Then, right in the house, he put on his halibut skin. And, after he 

 had flopped around for a while, he got his fins under the edges of the 

 hanging door and threw it up with his tail. When it fell back it broke. 

 He shut all sorts of supernatural beings in, and they were entirel}^ 

 unal)le to get out. Only he (Stone-ribs) did it. 



After that he entered the house of '' Sunshine-on-his-breast." He, 

 however, treated him well. After he had been given something to 

 eat, he went out of his house. 



After that he entered Tcli'da's house." He, too, was good to him. 

 Then he had on the Q!a'g.awa-i skin and let himself be seen by the 

 town people. That is why those born at Kaisun wear the Q!a'g.awa-i 

 as a crest. 



When he started to leave that place, they told him that Greatest- 

 crab lived in the channel between the two islands. Still he went 

 thitli(>r. Just as he had heard, it opened its claws for him. And, when 

 he passed over it, it cut through the fins along the edges of his hali- 

 but skin with its teeth. Then Stone-ribs was sorry for this and went 

 •l)ack to it. He swallowed the crab. 



