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himself up into the tree. It staggered around underneath. At da}-- 

 l)reak, when the raven called, it fell as if thrown down.'" 



Then he pushed it about [preparing to skin itj and was going to cut 

 it open. I^ut it thundered and lightened. Then he skinned it and 

 cut it open. He caused his younger brothers' bones to burst out and 

 spit medicine upon them. They rose, and he said: "(to to the place 

 where you used to sit." The next da\' one was again missing ttnd the 

 day after another. It went on in this way until all seven were again 

 gone. 



And, after he had -sat around for a while, he started off aimlessly. 

 After he had gone along for a while he heard something in the middle 

 of the island which sounded like a drum. Then he went to it. Lo! 

 he came to a trail. It had been recently trodden upon. After he had 

 traveled on this for a while he came to a house. The door was on 

 one side of the front. Inside of the house something made a noise like 

 a drum. 



Then he looked in. A woman, wearing a brownish red cedar-bark 

 l)lanket, twisted threads. The doing of that caused the noise like a 

 drum. He sat outside of the door which was much trodden about. 

 Then he went along and looked down. There was a salmon-berry bush 

 newly broken off. And he took it up. He punched her buttocks 

 with it as she sat working turned toward the wall. Then she turned 

 round and smiled upon him, and he talked with her for a while. 



^^ hile he was still talking he heard a voice [sayingj: " Huk, huk, 

 huk, huk, huk, huk, huk, huk." Then he looked toward it. Lo! his 

 younger brothers were trjdng to run apart from each other. Then he 

 went to them and spit medicine upon them. He put some on himself 

 as well and tried to pull them away. He was unable to do it. Then 

 he tried it again. Again he was unable to do it. That was Ga'gix. it- 

 woman, they say.'' 



Being unsuccessful he went home. Then he came to Gu'lg.a. He 

 was going to enter his mother's house, yet in spite of himself he 

 passed by in front. Then he turned toward it again and, when he was 

 near the door, he seized a pole which was in front of the house. But 

 it came away in his hand. 



When he could not succeed in entering he wandered off aimlessly. 

 Soon he arrived at the middle of the top of the island. After he had 

 traveled about a while he came to an open space. Then he sat down 

 there. After he had sat there for a while he looked at himself. Lo! 

 he sat there naked, deprived of both his blankets. Some thick bushes 

 were there. 



Then he turned his back to the sunshine. He held his head down 

 with his forehead in his hands. While he was sitting thus something 

 touched him. He looked for it but saw nothing. Then he got read}' 

 for it, and, when this happened again, he grasped in front of it. 



