awANToN] HAIBA TEXTS AND MYTHS 318 



Thon he wanted Hre drills. Now all the town people gave fire drills 

 to him. When they came in with them he let them all drill togethei*. 

 Then he lookinl on. After all had done the same thing they put them 

 into the tire. That was why he had them give them to himself. 



When they stopped dancing the}^ waved their hats. He sang a 

 song. When all st()i)ped ho whistled. Then they stopped singing his 

 [song, which sounded like thisj: "Tco'loho'ldldolgits.""'^" 



Afterward SAqaiyu'l again spoke through him. And, after the 

 dancing had gone on a while longer, he wanted to sleep. At that time 

 the Sea-grass town chiefs would not let him. By and })v, since the}^ 

 feared the supernatural beings might say something- different from 

 what they w^anted if they refused, they let him sleep. 



When they agreed they made a sail house''* for him in the corner. 

 And just at evening he went in and lay down. Next da^^ very early, 

 before the raven cried he awoke (lit., departed). After that they 

 ag'ain came in dancing*. W^hen they stopped dancing he had me sit 

 near him. Then he began to tell me quietly [what had happened]. 



At that time he (SAqaiyu'l) stood on top of the mountain on QlA'iiga 

 with him. Then he took a handkerchief '•' out of his pocket, put it 

 over his face, and wept. His clothes were all white. But he had no coat. 

 Something with wheels^" stood near him, and present!}^ he put him 

 into his pocket on the right side. Then he got into this, and he struck 

 it. It went right along. After he had gone along slowly he came to 

 a cit}' with him and took him out of his pocket. And he stood up. 



A big being with a black skin stood there. He also had a big gun. 

 He stood pointing it downward at the earth. SAqaiyu'l handed some- 

 thing to him out of his pocket. After a while he took it without look- 

 ing at him and put it into his mouth. He did not know what it was. 

 He thought it was Indian tobacco. 



Then SAqaiyu'l said to him: "Do not be afraid, master. Even the 

 supernatural beings die. W^here my three sets of clothing hang up, 

 I have lived along time. I died three times, but my body never dies." 



When he went thither with him, he saw a large kettle boiling out of 

 doors. He said he did not see what made it boil. Near it was a long 

 thing, the lower end of which was square, on which the Kwakiutl who 

 had killed a certain one along with a Haida were nailed."' The}^ had 

 put them into the kettle. There they remained. 



There he saw his uncle. Then his uncle asked him: " Did 3'ou see 

 the one standing there with a black skin? He shoots down on those 

 people below who treat each other badly. Then the land below is also 

 full of smoke, and there is sickness everywhere." 



Then his uncle ^^ spoke to him through the doorway. "Why are 

 vou here?" "•SAqaiyu'l brought me around in that thing." "Be 

 watchful. If one always watches, he, too, will live here. The black 

 man always keeps watch on those who are foolish." 



