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After tluit he let himself he seen upon this ishuid. The supermituriil 

 beiii*is were ylad to see him hcciiuse he siived the people from tlie 

 thiiiji' that made the south end of the island empty. Only two treated 

 him ditferently. 



He went into Nasto'^s house,''' also. After tlie latter had jiiven him 

 food, he let him i>o feeliiin' happy. After that he l(>t out the oral) in 

 Naden harl)or. That is why there are so many crabs there. 



After that Na-iku'n let himself dry up before him.^^ Then lie 

 entered his halibut skin and Hopped his way across overland. That is 

 the inside passage used ])y canoes. And, after he had gone on far- 

 ther, Spit-point also dried itself up in front of him. Then he entered 

 his halibut skin and jiassed it in the same way. That is the place 

 through which they pass by canoe. 



Then he entered the house of Man3^-ledges. After he, too, had 

 given him something to eat, he went on. [Many-ledges] was pleased to 

 see him. Afterward Qt'figi ''^ asked him to come in. The supernat- 

 ural beings invited him in because they wanted to see Q!a'g.awa-i's 

 skin. All that time he let them see his skin. 



After that he went inland and sat down at point Skwai. After he 

 had sat there for some time something occurred like the quick passage 

 of a strong wind. When he looked toward it an eagle had his halibut 

 skin. But when he said "Alas!" all the forest beings told him not to 

 go after it. ""It was not yours\ Your mighty grandfather, ' Chief,' ^" 

 let you have his skin. It was he w'ho took his own back." It was an 

 islet lying in front of point Skwai that lent him his clothing so that 

 he might use it to kill Qla'g.awa-i. 



And after that he again arrived at the town of Lg.adA'n. Now he 

 left his QIa'g.awa-i skin there. He took his copper bow and four 

 arrows, but the weasel skin he tied in his hair. He wanted to show 

 them to his mother so that she would be pleased. [Because lui wore 

 them] Those-boru-at-Skedans have them as crests. 



Then he went to his mother. And his mother was pleased with 

 him. Now he showed the copper arrows and the [skin of] Q!a'g.awa-i 

 he had killed to his mother and said that future generations coming- 

 out from her should wear them as crests, besides possessing the songs. 



And his mother asked him: "Did they call you lakli'l? "*' And he 

 said they did. Then he explained to her. "When 1 was of some 

 height, and had l)een killing all sorts of birds, I said I would kill 

 Q!ri'g.awa-i,'' whereupon they used to say of me: '' Put coals on the lips 

 of that common person.'' Instead [of being angry | liis mother laughed 

 at him. His mother foretold what they would say to him wdien he 

 set out to help them. 



This story, which pnictioiiUy inchules three, is one of the most important and 

 interesting of all Haida stories, for, while two of the precediiig are largely Tsinishian 

 and the Raven story is by no means confined to the Queen Charlotte islands, here wa 



