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Throw the thinj>- ho wants out aloiit>' with irim." Then he again lost 

 consciousness. When he came to himself he was lying near the ocean. 

 A whale lav near him. 



Then he cut it open, twisted a young tree, and fastened it to it. And 

 he dragged it along and brought it before his grandmother's house, 

 and his gi-an(hn<)tli(M' cut it up. After she had cut it all up she steamed 

 it. After siie had got through hanging it u]) lie had his granchuother 

 make a big basket. She finished it. 



Then she put the food into it. She put in all kinds of berries, sal- 

 mon, roots,' and kinnikinic berries. And it Avas finished. Then he 

 and his grandmother went up the inlet. And lie hid the basket near 

 the town. Then he entered his luicles' house. 



And, after his uncles had fished for herring for some time, they 

 killed another porpoise. Then a slave again came in and commanded 

 that thev sliould spill none of the ])lood. Then [the chief] came in 

 and seized it, and he carried it ofi'. As he was going out with it, he 

 took it awa3\ He became so angry where he sat in the rear of the house 

 that the floor planks were as if split into slivers by the finger nails. 



Then he pulled it away from him again. And, when he picked it up 

 again, he let him go outside with it. Then he twisted [the chief's] 

 neck round outside. And he said: '* Wfi-fi-ri, wfi-a-a." When he came 

 near the end of the town [he said]: " Wri-a-a, he has killed me.'' Then 

 his voice was lost in the woods. 



Now he had a crowd of people go over for the basket. And they 

 could not lift it. Then he went to get it. And he brought it in. 

 Then he began to call the people. Next day he called the people again, 

 and the day after. 



And he became town mother [instead of the old chief]. The one 

 he sent off killed is He-who-travels-behind-us.** 



[Sequel to the above, told by Edward of tlu^ Food-Kivinjj-town people] 



Her brother (i. e., the old town-chief) was killed. Then she started 

 from the town. And she put the two bracelets she wore into the mid- 

 dle of Lgido'^. And she said: "Through you future people shall see 

 a portent." When something terrible was going to happen, they saw 

 them. Broad seaweeds lay upon them. They paddled oft' in terror. 

 Although the}^ (the people) had before been living quietly, the>' moved 

 from that place at once. And she went up into the woods opposite. 

 She became a mountain there. They call it Sea-otter-woman. 



This is also one of tiie most esteemed Haida myths. The version here presented 

 was ol)tained from tlie present chief of Kloo with the exception of tlie portion abf)ut 

 8ea-otter-\voman, which was contributed b\' an oi<l man of tlie nearly extinct Daiyii'- 

 al-liVnas or People of Skidegate creek. Qonfi'ts, the hero of the story, was one of 

 the Sea-otters (Qoga'fias), and, were any of those people still living, a much longer 

 version might perhaps liave been secured. 



^Lg.a''xet is a word applied to round stones lying on the beach. " Pebble" seems to 

 be the nearest English equivalent, although the Haida word perliaps denotes a some- 



