300 BITRKAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 29 



After sonic time had passed Supeniatural-being"-at-whose-voice-tlic- 

 raveiis-8it-on-the-sea also began to dance. Then he made a good 

 speech to the supei'natnral behigs, after which he also sang. When 

 he had got through singing he, too, came out wearing a })ig mask. 

 He also wore a big tin. When they put words into the power song 

 his mask also split. Out of that, too, something* white fell. Some 

 fell first by the vacant seat. Then they stopped singing the power 

 song. 



There was a great pile of property for those in tlie house. Before 

 they entered their provisions came rolling in before thenj through the 

 door. They had two [boxes] or, if chiefs, four. Now they began to 

 eat. It was a whale. And they cut it around and around right from 

 its head and stretched it around in front of the supernatural beings. 

 They spliced another to that also, and then thev all ])egan to eat.'~" 

 After all had eaten for some time they stopped. All the big beings 

 went oti". 



Then Big-tail also went to Skidegate. After he had performed for a 

 time in the same way as formerly, and, when they were starving, all 

 began givdng him the food the}' had saved up. Cranberries, wild 

 crabapples, sig.a'n,^^ roots put up in cakes,^^ berries put up in cakes, 

 and grease, the}' gave him. They gave these quietly to him while he 

 slept. There was also a quantity of Indian tobacco with them. 



And, after he had slept for a while, he spoke again in the same way 

 as formerly, ''Tcoxo'." Then he got up carefully and gave away all 

 off of the top into the fire.^^ Then he also spilled out fresh water 

 around the fire. He gave these to Supernatural-being-at-whose-voice- 

 the-ravens-sit-on-the-sea. After that he ate all of it. That night he 

 performed. 



And next day he said: "Go out to hunt." Then they found a 

 whale floated ashore near by. And on account of that the Skidegate 

 people ceased being hungry. 



Some time later Supernatural-being-people-always-go-to l)egged 

 him to accompany him. "Big-tail, go with me to see my elder 

 brother.'' And he did not know where he wanted him to go. Then 

 he went with him as he requested. Then he launched a square canoe, 

 he put Big-tail inside of his clothing, and they started ofi'. 



They went, went, went for a while, after which they came in sight 

 of something white in the ocean like a mountain, and he let him look 

 out at it. He said to him: "Big-tail, there is the house of my eider 

 brother," whereupon a strong wind arose, and they returned. They 

 barely got home safe. 



Then they dried themselves around the fire in the house of Super- 

 natural-being-people-always-go-to. lliey talked with one another 

 about it. He was among them. Then he said to him: "Big-tail, 

 when anothei' good dav comes, come to go witli me again." 



