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The story of one who saw an eagle town 



[Tdlil by Al)rftliani, (if Those-bdiii-iit-Qiri'dAsK^.o, to wIkiiii it was ri4ati'<l l)y im old man of Ninstints.] 



He began gaiiiblino-. After ho had k)st for some time he lost all of 

 his property. Then he began to bid the property of his clansmen/ 

 \\'heii h(> had lost a great deal of that as well he was ashamed to enter 

 the house. 



By and by he went to the end of the toAvn. It occurred to him to 

 go into the woods. Then he did so. Then he thouoht of climbino" a 

 mountain. At once he went thither. Before him eagles wheeled 

 about upon the mountain. Presentl}' he came to a big town. 



lie saw eagles sitting upon something like a pole in front of the 

 town. The}' were looking into the sea for something,^ Then he 

 began to live with them. With the feather on the very tip of his wing- 

 one of them wiped something common out of his cacs. And in the 

 evening they said they were going lishing. Then the}' killed a whale. 

 Every evening they killed one whale. 



By and b}' he started out fishing with a net. Then they told him 

 not to put the whole net into the sea. And, when he hshed with them, 

 he let out two meshes. When he got something in it that time, it 

 carried it away. He did not worr}" about it. Some time after this he 

 descended to his home. Then he again began gambling. At that 

 time he won. At once he paid all his debts. 



Originally this story must have been considerably longer. 



*0r "friends;" Haida, Jta^'x.ulAn. 



^The story-teller also said that there was a great pile of bones here from the ani- 

 mals the eagles had killed and eaten. 



