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the water. But they only blew ))ul)])les close to the kelps. Then he 

 said: "(lO where you are to be .settled."' Those were the porpoises, 

 they say. And ho also worked hemlock into killer whales. When ten 

 of those were also tinished he kicked them into water. After they 

 had ))een gone for some time bubbles like steam arose seaward. And 

 he thought they were unable to do anything. And he said: ''Go 

 where your place is to be." Those were the white pori)oises,^ 

 they say. 



Fine weather continued. All that time the people were fi.shing. 



And the next day, after he had thought what he would use, he made 

 ten killer whales out of yew wood. The surfaces were yariegated, 

 striped with white. Their bellies were white. The corners of their 

 mouths were also striped with white. The tin of one of them had a 

 hole in it, and one lin was bent over toward the tail. While he was 

 making them they moved. For them he laid a log down [hori- 

 zontally]. There he placed them, and he kicked them about. Pres- 

 ently bubbles of air rose far out at sea. Then he told them to come 

 in, and he pulled them up again. They had red cod, spring salmon, 

 and halibut in their mouths. 



And in the eyening he went to his wife. He looked in again. He 

 tapped opposite his wife, and his wife came out to him. And he said 

 to her: " When they go out fishing again to-morrow tell your young- 

 est brother to fasten a feather in his hair.'" 



The next day they went fishing, and he gaye directions to the killer 

 whales. " Destroy all the people out fishing. Break up their canoes 

 with your tins. Save only the one who has a feather in his hair." 

 Then he kicked them off. After they had been gone for a Avhile 

 bubbles rose beyond the place where the canoes were anchored. 

 Then the killer whales came back to the canoes. Bubbles of air rose 

 among them. The killer whales broke up the canoes with their tins. 

 They chewed up the bodies of the people. Only the one who had a 

 feather in his hair was left swimming about. And, when they were 

 destroyed, he got into the broken canoe, and the killer whales came 

 landward with him in a school. Then he got off in front of the town. 



And he again called the killer whales. Then he gave them direc- 

 tions. And he said to the one that had a hole in its fin: " You shall 

 be called: 'Hole-in-his-tin.'" And he said to the one with the tin 

 bent back: " You shall be called: ' Fin-turned-back.'" Then he said: 

 " Go to Na-iku'n. Settle down there. That land is good. You shall 

 be called ' Strait people." "" '' 



And he went to his wife with the things the killer whales had caught 

 in their mouths. His two children Avere glad to see him. 



And, after he had stayed at the town for a while, he ^vent out while 

 they slept and put on his wa'sg.o skin. Then with his hands he merely 

 reached for something at the end of the town. He got half a spring 

 salmon. 



