258 BiiKp:Ar of amekkan ethnoloc^y [wli. j-j 



hiid ooiu' on for a while he calUnl to the oiic who was luischii'vous 

 ''8awaJrhu'+." ''Here/' And where it .sounded he went. Their 

 bones hiy there all together. Then lie spit medicine upon them. They 

 got up. Each said: " I guess I must have slept a lono-itime." Then 

 they went seaward toward the open ground again. 



And they rebuilt their house, which was all ))urned. They restored 

 their mother and their sister, and again ^liey began living there. 



One time [they heard] some one talking to their sister. He was 

 lying with her in the morning. That was North, they say. When 

 he warmed himself before the lire he warmed only his side. And the 

 one who was full of mischief was surprised at it and began making 

 shavings. He dried them. He wdiittled up pitchwood among them. 

 He put it with the rest. 



One day, very early, his })rother-in-law warmed himself. He stretched 

 his blanket over the lire. Then he also reached over the tire and 

 threw the shavings into it. When it blazed up, he threw himself 

 backward. Lo! his penis struck upon his belly. Then they laughed 

 at him. And he said to them: ''You are laughing at me. You will 

 indeed stand against me."" And next day he went off. 



Then he hung blackly about the head of the Stikine river. Snow fell 

 from him. Then one went out to look. He was lost. Then another 

 went to look, and he, too, was lost. It went on in this way until all 

 of them had disappeared. Only he who had medicine in his mouth 

 was saved. Then he also went to look. 



As he went he saw that his elder brothers had been frozen to death. 

 He, too, got stuck on freezing ice but spit medicine upon himself, 

 and the ice fell from him. He made straight for the black place in 

 the sky. And he arrived. Out of his (North's) anus ice hung. He 

 wet the points of his arrows with medicine and shot the ice. He ran 

 away, and ice fell in the place where he had been. He did the same 

 thing again. Then he went awa^^ 



As he went along he spit medicine upon his elder brothers who 

 had been frozen in their tracks. At once they walked along with 

 him. All went along together. 



And, after they had gone along for a while, they came to where a 

 certain person lived. He gave them food, as was usual, and they slept 

 there that night. Then Sawall'xa remained awake. The one to whom 

 they had come in lay in a corner. He got up, tied fine cedar bark 

 upon the end of a stick which hung above him, and let them breathe 

 on it. Then he went out with it, and Sawall'xa went out after him. 

 Near a rill of water was a piece of cedar full of holes, out of one of 

 whi(^h he pulled a plug. Into it he pushed the cedar bark. Sawall'xa 

 was looking at him. And before him he came in, and he pretended 

 to be asleep. Presently he also came in. 



