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an eagle. Then he gave him one among them in wliieh tine black 

 feathers were mixed with white. 



Then he went outside, put it on (lit., went into it), and flew up to a 

 high frame in front of the house. He flew easily. Then he flew down. 

 Soon he looked down upon his uncle's town. Then he sat at Skedans 

 point. He looked from where he sat at his uncle's town. 



By and b}' some children came to him. And the children shot up at 

 him with blunt arrows. But every time they shot at him he sat lower 

 down. In the inside of [the skin] he made himself small. He changed 

 himself many times in a way his father-in-law had given him direc- 

 tions.^ For that purpose he had given him one all of fine feathers. 



Presently the boys were forbidden to shoot, and the grown people 

 began shooting at him. Ever}" time they shot at him he came lower. 

 When a big crowd was about him, he seized one person by the top of 

 his head. And, when he flew up with him, some one else seized his 

 feet. When he also went up another seized his feet. In the same 

 way they all seized one another's feet until he flew up with the whole 

 town. Then he flew seaward with them and let them fall there. They 

 became islands.^ The town of Skedans became empt3^ Then he 

 flew up. 



And all the time he was at this town they entered their feather 

 clothing just before daybreak and sat in line upon a kind of pole, 

 which was in front of the town. After they had discussed the place 

 they should go to they flew awav. In the evening they flew back. 

 They returned with all kinds of things. They took whale tails, white 

 porpoises, porpoises; and halibut, red cod, spring salmon — everything 

 one can think of. 



One time he told his wife he wanted to go. out for food with them. 

 He wanted to go for the things they brought in. Then his father-in- 

 law again gave him a [skin]. He gave him one that belonged to a 

 young person. Then he put it on, flew seaward with them, and 

 caught spring salmon. His father-in-law was pleased with him. 



And at daybreak his father-in-law warned him. He told him not 

 to touch a thing which stuck out of the water at Skedans point. And 

 one da}^, when he flew out with them, he looked at a whale, thought 

 it easy, and seized it in his talons. He did not feel it. At that time 

 his father-in-law was still more pleased with him. 



And when day broke he told him all the places upon this island 

 where the}" get things. Then he sat with them in front of the house, 

 and even to the south end of the island the things under the waters, 

 fish and sea mammals,* were plainly visible to Him. 



One day he fl(>\v downwai'd and nearly touched the thing sti<'king 

 out. And, when he did the sann^ thing again, he siezcdit. IIefl:i[)p(Hl 

 his wings to pull it up. It acted like a solid object and nearlv carried 

 him under the water. Another took hold of the end of his wing. He, 



