292 BUKEAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 29 



He who makhip:i) the dauohtkk of the devilfish chief 



[Tokl by Walter McGregor of the Sea-lion-towii iieople] 



He was going along in his canoe with his two children and his wife. 

 It was low tide. After he had gone along for a while [he came to a 

 place] where devilfish stones lay. A great quantit}^ of leavings from 

 its (the devilfish's) food were piled up there. He got off to kill it. 

 Then, while he was punching it with a stick the devilfish came out. 

 Immediately it wound itself around him and pulled him into its hole. 



And, after his wife and children had remained there for a while, the 

 rocks were covered with water, and they went away from him. Then 

 the woman went home. She expected never to get him back. 



The [devilfish] woman took him to her father's town. At that time 

 he heard them use bad words ^ to the hair seals. When day l)roke he 

 hunted about for food among the waves below the capes, the}^ used to 

 say. He remained with her in her father's town. 



After many years had passed he remained in bed two mornings. At 

 that time the chief asked his daughter: " Why does your husband feel 

 badly?" Then she said to her father: "He says he is homesick for 

 his mother and his sister." Then he was going to let him go home 

 with his daughter. 



Now he said: "Two canoes are lying at the end of the town. Have 

 them launched for yourselves." At once they launched two canoes in 

 front of the house, and the}' began to put things, \vith which the inside 

 of the house was full, into them. Before they" had taken even a little 

 the canoes were filled. Then she went in one and her husband in 

 the other. Although there were no paddlers the canoes went along. 



He came to his father's town long after they had ceased to think of 

 him. Hu hu hu hu hu, his father's town moved at once. Then they 

 carried the things up into his father's house. And then they sliced up 

 the things he brought in sacks. He traded with this property. He 

 became a great chief. It consisted in food of all kinds such as is 

 found at low tide. 



At that time his children, who had grown large, came in to him. 

 Then he took a slice of food, cut it in two. and handed it to them, and 

 they went out with it, the Avoman also. Her husband lived more 

 years among human beings than he had among the devilfish people. 

 With what he got b}" trading with the food her husband potlatched 

 five times. 



