swANTON] HAIDA TEXTS AND MYTHS 343 



After that she again a.sked for her daughter: " Who will marry my 

 daughter?"" Then a handsome man came and stood near her. " Wh}" 

 not I?" "What can you dof "I will help you. I hear that they 

 burned your uncle's town." Then she thought he was good. 



Immediatel\' he took them up on either side. He said: "Let neither 

 of you look out." Then he tried to climb a lofty mountain with them. 

 After he had climbed for a while with them, the mother looked out. 

 She made him slide back. Again they stood below. 



Aftei- that he again told them not to look out. And again he started 

 up with them. Again the mother looked out, and they stood below. 

 Every time he went up she looked out and made him slide back. 

 After he had tried many times, he pulled a limb out of a tree and 

 pushed her in in its place. "Future people will hear your voice" [he 

 said], and he left her, whereupon her voice sounded behind him. She 

 is the creaking caused by limbs rubbing together, they say. 



Then he went otf with her (the daughter). And he brought her to 

 his father's house. She had married the son of Supernatural-being- 

 of-the-shining-heavens.^ When he came in to his father with her, his 

 father was very glad to see his wife. 



After he had lived with her for a while, she had a child by him. 

 Again she brought forth. Now she began to have children by him. 

 She bore live boys and she bore one girl. 



After she had reared them for a while, and they got to be of some 

 height, their grandfather taught them to gamble. After they had 

 gambled for a while, they fought together, and their sister put a belt 

 on and tried to stop them by seizing their weapons. He kept making 

 them tight together all the time the}' were growing up. 



After they had been there for a while, their grandfather let them 

 return home. Then their grandfather brought out a box, and, after 

 he had opened a nest of five boxes, he gave them the innermost one. 

 He directed them: ''When you come to the place where your uncle's 

 town used to stand, cover up your faces and pull otf the cover from 

 this box. Even if you hear a great noise near you w^hile you lie with 

 your faces covered over, do not look out. After the noise has ceased, 

 look in that direction. And, when a tight becomes too hard for you, 

 pull off the box cover," he said to them. 



Anew they started down. The five and their sister went down. But 

 their mother still remained with her husband. Then they came to 

 the place where the town had been. Then they lay under something, 

 and they pulled the cover from the box. Although something sounded 

 near them they did not look out. When the noise ceased, they looked 

 in the direction w^hence it had proceeded. Six houses stood in a line. 



Then they started fires in all of these and began to live there. And 

 those who had burned the town saw people. Then they said: "In the 

 place on the other side where you l)urned up the town there is another 



