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too, was drawn under, and anotlier seized his wing. As soon as the}' 

 saw him they Hew toward him from the south end of the island and 

 from the north end of the ishind. All fiew about above him. They 

 also saw him from the town. The tirst were drawn in. They were nearly 

 all pulled in one after the other, holding- each other's wings, when the 

 town people, too, came fl^'ing thither. Those, too, were at once 

 drawn in. 



Then his father-in-law and his wife dressed themselves. And, when 

 those also w^ere almost drawn under, and his wife was nearly drawn 

 under with them, his wife's grandmother also dressed herself. She 

 sharpened her claws which w^ere dull. At the same time she said: 

 "'Ha-i ha-i, what things happen by means of the claws of my child's 

 husband, ha-i ha-i." She was ver}^ old, they sa3^ 



B3' and by she flew out and seized her. After she had flapped 

 her wings for a while she saw one coming up. As she saw another 

 one come up something cracked at the bottom of the island. Then 

 she pulled them out. The thing came up with them. That was 

 Greatest-clam (stAn)," the}' say. 



Then the town was restored. And he again began getting food for 

 his father-in-law as formerly. But Skedans continued to lie empty. 

 That is why the same thing keeps happening to it, they say.* 



[Another vtT.xioii of this story, obtained by Prof. Franz Boas fnim Charlie Eldenshaw, chief of the 

 StA'stas, a prominent Masset family.] 



At Lrdtg'iwas,' near Skida'ns, lived a chief and his sister, who had 

 a son. This young man loved the chief's wife. When the chief dis- 

 covered this he l)ecame jealous and thought of killing his nephew. 

 He sent his slaves to fetch gum. The slaves w^ent and bought a canoe 

 load of gum, which the chief ])oiled. Then he covered the board 

 which covers the bow of the canoe with the gum. After this was 

 done he sent his slaves to shoot eagles, and he spread the down over 

 the gum so as to make it invisible. After he had thus prepared his 

 canoe he called his nephew. His slaves went into his house to call 

 him. He obeyed their sunmions, and went to his uncle's house, wdio 

 re((uest(Hl him to go out to sea, hunting. The young man took his 

 ([uiver, which contained two bows and many arrows. The young 

 man asked his uncle: "What kind of a blanket shall I wear when I go 

 hunting?" Then the chief gave him two marten Idankets. He con- 

 timied: **Whatkindof ear ornament shall I wear when I go hunt- 

 ing!'" His uncle gave him ear ornaments made of caribou skin 

 (ts"KnL(ial = caribou). 



^^'hen the weather was clear and calm he started hunting seals (xot). 

 Before they started the chief said to his slaves: "When he harpoons 

 a seal push him so that he will fall on the board in the bow of the 

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