280 BUKKAIT OF AMKRTOAN KTHN(>L()(}Y [biti.l.29 



jige]. She flew down. She was unable to fly in a straight line. She 

 flew hither and thither. When about five were left she got there, 

 and, when those wei'c nearly covered, she seized them with her claws. 

 After she had flapped her wings for a while, tugging at them, she drew 

 one of them to the surface. She was at the end of them. Something 

 cracked at the bottom where the thing was. She pulled it out. 



Then they said: "Put it far from the place where human l)eings 

 are going to get food."" And they dropped it far out at sea. Then 

 he seized the jaw of a whale and a spring salmon. He flew home with 

 them. He killed the thing the}' were afraid of. That was Super- 

 natural-clam," they say. 



And. after he had lived with his wife for some time, he went to see 

 his uncle's town. He flew to the town wearing his eagle skin. And, 

 after he had sat at the end of the town for a while, he saw his uncle 

 come out. Then he flew away. 



And early next day he flew seaward, picked up a whale, and dropped 

 ii in front of his uncle's house while they slept. Then he sat on a dead 

 tree that stood at one end of the town. After he had sat there for a 

 while some one came out. He called them to the whale, and they went 

 to it. His uncle said he would keep it for himself. He stood on top 

 of the whale. 



Then he flew. He flew about above the place where his uncle was 

 walking about. And they laughed at him. They said "He wants 

 the whale meat." And again he sat on the tree. After he had sat 

 there for a while his uncle said he wanted all of the whale for him- 

 self. He said that as he stood around. Presently he flew over to 

 him. He seized him by the knot in his hair and flew away with him. 



After he had flown along for a while he discovered that it was his 

 nephew, and he said: "Nephew, carry me back. You shall marry my 

 wife. I will give the town to you." After he had flown on with him 

 a while longer he said the same thing to his nephew again. After he 

 had flown on still farther with him he dropped him in the open sea.' 



Then he flew landward, reached his uncle's village, married his 

 uncle's wife, and came to own the town. His uncle became a super- 

 natural being in the open sea. 



' Ancientlj'^ a man's nephews, or at any rate the one who was to succeed him, Hved 

 on terms of complete famiharity with his wife. 



^ The word is said to mean "growing alone," and is ai)plied to a very large variety 

 of mussel which grows by itself. 



•' The word used here is XA^fie, " eyes," the ligaments wliicii liold the shell together 

 being supposed to perform tliat function. 



* Comioare name of Cloud-watcher in story bearing that title. 



^ A horizontal or slanting beam of some sort is supposed to stand at the end of an 

 eagle town. The birds sit upon this before starting out for food. 



^ This bivalve (sqao) is identified by Doctor Newcombe as Glycimeris generosa, 

 (ionld. 



' Sis or sFga-i means the broad expanse (jf ocean away from inlets and bays. 



