SWAN-TON] HAIDA TEXTS AND MYTHS 261 



He vanw in luid took him oil. lli.s elder brothers were cut up and 

 hun«i' in the rear of the house. 



Wlien the.v were in Ix'd he outhered together his elder brothers and 

 went awa}- with them. After lie had traveled on for a while he did 

 not see a sign of them. He had forgotten the medicine he had in his 

 mouth. Then he went l)ack and spit medicine upon them, and the}^ 

 became alive and sbirted home with him. And next d'dj they came to 

 their town. 



Then they again started off. After the}^ had traveled for a wdiile 

 they disappeared from the one who had medicine in his mouth. And, 

 after he had hunted for them a while, he came to some one who was 

 using his head as a drum. Then he asked him: "Did my elder 

 brothers pass by here? " " Did my elder brothers pass here? " he also 

 said. "I have a notion to kill you." He, too, said the same thing. 

 "I have a notion to cut otf your head.'' He, also, said the same 

 thing. That was Greatest Echo, they sa3\ 



In whatever way he spoke he could get no answer. By and by, 

 when he said he would break wind at him, he became afraid. "Don't 

 do it, chief; don't do it." When he broke wind at him he disappeared. 

 He killed him, they sa.y. 



After that, when he hunted for his elder brothers again, [he came 

 toj a large, round stone with a slippery top on which a feather was 

 stuck, and on the side of which lay the bones of his elder brothers. 

 They died while tliey were trying to pull off the feather. Then he 

 again spit medicine upon his elder brothers, and they got up. Then 

 they went awa}'^ with him. 



After they had gone along for a w^ hile they came to where a woman 

 lived, ^he gave them all kinds of good food in the usual way. Her 

 dish had the figure of a mouse upon it. Then they went to bed in 

 her liouse. There were scratchings in her house all night. They 

 could not sleep. And, while it was still night, they went away. They 

 came to the house where their mother and their sister alwfws sta3'ed. 



Then they started off again, and the}- gave their mother directions. 

 "Settle yourself in this house. We shall see you no more." And 

 they took their sister away with them. 



Then they went toward the head of the Stikine river. And, when 

 they started to swim across, although ten years had passed since their 

 sister had begun to menstruate, they told her not to look at them. 

 TIkmi they took each other by the arm and swam across. He who had 

 medicine in his mouth was the last to enter the water. At that time 

 their sister looked toward them and all [except the eldest] became rocks. 



And their elder ])rother sang some songs and looked at them. He 

 put the following words into the song: "Even La'ga-na'qati did not 

 swim across."^" They settled in this place.'^^ 



