SWANTON] HAIDA TEXTS AND MYTHS 335 



Thou he oavc other directions to his father. ''You will travel four 

 nights. When 3'^ou camp for the night stick the cane into the ground 

 and in the morning go in the direction toward which it points. Stick 

 the cane into the ground where jou come out. After you have taken 

 those things out of the sack, take that over also and lay it near the 

 cane. Those things are only lent you." 



At once he set out. And, when evening came, he stuck the cane 

 into the ground. But the cane pointed in the direction from which he 

 had come, and he went toward it. And, when evening again came, he 

 stuck the cane in, and in the morning the cane was again pointing 

 backward ; and again he followed it. 



After he had camped four nights he came out. And he stuck in 

 the cane at the edge of the woods. And, while they were again in a 

 starving condition, he came home. They were unable to bring out 

 his sack. And, when a crowd took hold of it, they got it off [the 

 canoe], and, after they had taken the best parts of all kinds of animals 

 out of it, he took the sack back to the cane and laid it near by. 



Then they also began to buy that. With what he got in exchange 

 he became a chief.' With what he got in exchange he also pot- 

 latched. After two nights had passed he went to see the place where 

 he had left the sack. He saw that they had taken it away. 



Since wolvea are not found upon the Queen Charlotte islands, this is necessarily a 

 mainland story, probably Tsiinshian. 



' I am not quite certain of the correctness of this translation of sqena^wasLia. 

 ^The word indicates a rich man or house chief. 



