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to her. After the}' had gone on for a while -longer, they came to a 

 hair seal floating about. His mother-in-law also wanted that. He 

 paid no attention to her. 



After they had gone on for a while from there, they came to pieces 

 bitten out of a whale floating about. Those his mother-in-law also 

 wanted, and he said: "Nasty! that is ni}^ dogs' manure." And after 

 they had gone on for another space of time, the}^ came to a jaw good 

 on both sides. Then he cut ofl' two pieces from it and took them in. 



Now he landed at Djilu', and he would let his mother-in-law eat 

 nothing but fat food. When his mother-in-law went down to get sea 

 eggs he spilt Avhale grease around before her upon the sea eggs. He 

 also spilt whale grease around in the water. He was killing his 

 mother-in-law with mental weariness.'^ 



Then the dogs brought in two whales apiece. He (each) had one 

 laid between his ears and one laid near his tail. 



His wife became two-faced (i. e., treacherous) to him. She discov- 

 ered that the dogs always went out at da3"break. Then she allowed 

 urine and blue hellebore to rot together. 



One day, when the dogs were coming in together, she put hot stones 

 into this mixture. And, when it was boiling, she poured it into 

 the ocean. At once the wind raised big waves. There was no place 

 where the dogs could come ashore. The dogs carried some islands 

 out to sea in trying to scramble up them. One is called Sea-eggs, 

 the other G.agu'n. 



Then they swam southward. He watched them from the shore. 

 They tried to climb ashore on the south side of the entrance of Skide- 

 gate channel.* But they only made marks with their claws on the 

 rocks instead. They could not do it. Then they swam away. On 

 that account they call this place " Where-dogs-tried-to-crawl-up-and- 

 slid-back.'' Then they swam together to the channel.* They lie in 

 front of Da'x.ua.'^ They call them "The Dogs.''" 



He had many whales. He filled up "Whale-creek." He bent 

 boxes for them, and he put the whale grease into them. By selling 

 these he became a chief.' 



Compare " The story of those who were abandoned at Stasqa'os." 



^And he was a member of the above family, an Eagle family on the west coast. 



^In this case "brothers-in-law" is synonymous with the entire family of his wife. 



^ According to the stories a jjerson who lived entirely upon greasy food came to be 

 afflicted with mental lassitude; see the story of A-slender-one-who-was-given-away. 



* First the western entrance of Skidegate channel (G.a'oia) is referred to, then the 

 channel proper which was called Kle^djis, a word applied to the stomach and intes- 

 tines of an animal or man. 



^ Close to Lawn hill. 



•^ These are two rocks near the steamer entrance to Skidegate inlet. 



"The word used here, I^Llxagidas, "is applied to a house chief and is almost syn- 

 onymous with "rich man," there being no caste limitations to prevent one from 

 becoming a house chief. 



