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with 3'our husl)and. Just outside is a canoe." Then her husband 

 went out. There lay an old canoe out from between the cracks of 

 which g-rass was g*rowing. 



Then he went in and told his wife, and she said to her father: 

 "Father, he hunted in vain for the canoe. He says there is only an 

 old one there."' "That is it." Then she went to it with her husband. 

 She kicked it on the edges and [said]: "Go seaward, father's canoe." 

 At once it was floating there. It went of itself either way. The 

 carving on the bow paddled. Then he told it to come near. It came 

 before him. 



And he had his daughter take along all kinds of food. There was 

 a great quantity of it. He sent live slaves to take care of the canoe. 

 He had live boxes of berries and grease put in for the canoe. And he 

 said to his daughter: "M}^ child, when it is hungry it will point its 

 bow backward. Then let your husband throw one box at its face." 



Then they started. He sat high in the ])Ow with his wife, and the 

 bow carving paddled the canoe. After it had gone along for some 

 time the canoe turned its bow l)ack. Then they pulled out one of the 

 boxes of grease and berries, and he threw it at its face. Again it went 

 on. After it had gone along for a while the canoe turned its bow 

 back again, and again he threw the grease and berries at its face with 

 a spoon. Then the canoe again went on.^' 



After they had gone on a while longer they saw the town. The 

 whole town was alight with fires. They wanted to see the daughter 

 of Many -ledges. They asked: "Who is it?" "It is He-who-got- 

 supernatural-power-from-his-little-finger coming with his wife." 



And they came down in a great crowd to the shore opposite. He 

 came ashore, and they took the food ofl". Then the five canoe slaves 

 went back. They took along the three boxes of berries and gTease 

 which were left for the canoe. 



Then his wife sat among the things, and he went up to the house 

 and told his mother to call her up. Immediately his mother went 

 down. She saw nothing there. There was only a cloud among the 

 boxes. Then she went up and said to her son: "I saw nothing there. 

 Only a cloud was there resting upon the things." He said to his 

 mother: "That is she." 



Again she went down, and she called her up. The cloud came up 

 after her. The cloud went near the place where her husband sat. 

 They wanted to see her. A great crowd awaited her. By and b}- he 

 said to his wife: "Take ofl' your hat." Then she told her husband to 

 take it o-ff, and he took it off. He put it behind himself. There the 

 cloud lay. A wonderful creature sat where it had been. She was 

 pretty, like a daughter of the supernatural beings. The ones thc}^ 

 had wanted him to marry looked in at her and wept as the}" did so. 



And, after he had liad his wife for a while, a whitish sea otter came 



