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.she «4<)t 14) toward tho niountiiiii, she ag'ain recalh^d her husband's 

 words. 



Now she sat on top of the nioimtaiii, and she again remembered 

 what lier husband had said. And, while sitting- there, she became 

 ashamed. Then she phiyed in the earth with the tip of her tinger. 

 She made a hole with her finger far into the island. She did not feel 

 how she did it. When she stood up she picked up some dirt and 

 threw it into it. "All future people will do this way to you."" 



Then she went awa}- and came to the west coast. And she went 

 out on one side of Elderberry point. Then she jumped into the water 

 in front of her. He did not know that he had married a female killer 

 whale that had been born of a woman.* Then she settled herself 

 down l)efore him. She became a reef. It is called " Woman." When 

 people get oti' from a canoe upon it, it shakes with them, they say.* 



And there she again recalled her hus})and''s words, and she went 

 away from there also. Where she again settled down on the west 

 coast as a reef, the}- also call it ''Woman." 



Stories of this type are told throughout the Haida country. 



' 8qa-i ami Sta8qa''os are town sites lying very near to each other and close to 

 Cape St. James. 



■■'See the story succeeding. It is sai<l that this has now become a high place from 

 tlie amount of earth thrown into it. 



•* Nor that killer whales are always in love with common whales. 



* According to the shamans this was because the supernatural beings did not want 

 anything dirty, like human beings, upon them. The man who told this story 

 asserted tliat he had felt a reef shake under him, as here described. 



