^WANTON] HAIDA TKXTS AND MYTHb 27 1 



How somiothinm; itllei) a row of ea^lks into thk water 



[Tolrl !)>• Ilif cliiff of Kloi), of Thosc-lx.rii-iit-Skfdaiis] 



There lay the town of Skedaiis. The nephew of the town chief 

 there sat around whittlino'. He came to have many boxes of arrows. 

 And one day he put sha\ int>s into the tire in front of his uncle's wife. 

 Then h(^ saw her genitals. 



Then he looked on as they were j>amblinu-. His luicle also sat 

 there. By and by a flicker came flyiny al)()nt. It showed red when 

 it spread its winos. Tiien he said ''Just now I saw something in the 

 house exactly like that." whereupon his uncle became ashamed. 



Then his uncle had a block of cedar cut out. and they shaped it like 

 a caiioc. Then they sci'aped off some pitch, put it into the cedar, 

 warmed it. and made him sit on it. Then they went out with him to 

 the open sea and put him in it. He was crjnng. He cried himself to 

 sleep. 



By and by the wind blew from the ocean. After he had floated 

 for a time he floated ashore at Broken-shells-of-the-supernatural- 

 beings.* Then he put his back to the sunshine, and the heat melted 

 him oft'. 



Now he rose and came to a town. And at evening he peered into 

 the houses. After he had looked about for a Avhile he looked into the 

 chief's house and [saw] a woman sitting between the screens which 

 pointed toward each other. She was pretty. He looked in at her. 



And. when the}' all were gone to bed, he went in to her. And the 

 woman asked him: "Who are you? M}- father keeps me for him 

 alone whom his uncle had taken toward the open sea.'' xA^nd he said 

 to her: '" I am he." Then she let him lie with her. While he was 

 lying with her her father overheard. 



Next da3' her father said: ^' Come! let us see who was talking with 

 my child.*" Then he said: '* I wonder what supernatural being got in 

 that way. I was keeping my daughter for him whom the}' said his 

 uncU' had carried toward the open sea." "It is he, father, he sa3's." 

 ''Come down to the fire with your husband, child." Then she went 

 down with him, and his father-in-law gave him food. 



And, after he had stayed with her for a while, he told his wife that 

 he wanted to see his uncle's town. Then his wife told her father. 

 And he told his son-in-law to bring him a l)ox Avhich was neaf" the 

 wall. And, when he brought it over to him, he took four out of it in 

 succession, and began pulling from the inmost the feather clothing of 



