358 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 29 



Qo'r.KlE 



[Told by Jimmy SturliiiK of the StAstas.] 



He used to say that he would not let himself become a gfi'gix.it as 

 others had done. One time he went to get firewood. He went alone. 

 Only a dog that he owned was with him. After cutting firewood for 

 a while he filled his canoe and went away. While he was on the way 

 a strong wind came upon him. He then upset. 



Then he and his dog got safely ashore. He had cut the firewood 

 with a stone ax. As he swam he held it in his mouth. As soon as he 

 reached safety he began to cut firewood. He was handling heavy 

 things and warmed himself by doing so. He also cut hendock limbs 

 and made a house. 



After he had been busy at this for a while, and had finished it, he 

 started to make fire with a drill. When it burned he built a lai'ge 

 fire in front of himself. At the time when he reached safety he found 

 a flat stone, and, whenever he would sit down, he sat upon it. When 

 evening came he sat on it near the fire. 



When he first saved himself he saw a large fire at some distance, 

 and near it a crowd of people talking. He longed to go to it, but he 

 steadfastly set his mind against it. He had heard that when one goes 

 to it the fire goes before him, and he goes on forever. That was why 

 he did not go to it. 



In the evening, when his fire and his house were ready, he killed his 

 dog, and he skinned it. He cut it open along the breast. He then 

 left its skull there. And he rubbed its blood upon his face, head, and 

 body. He pulled out an ulna and ground it on a stone. After it had 

 become sharp he constantly kept it in his hand. Evening now came 

 upon him. 



After he had sat near the fire, for a while something came and 

 rapped on the place where he was sitting. The creature that makes 

 people ga'gix. Its ' came and rapped in order to go into his anus. When 

 it could not get in it kept saying to him: " Ho Qo'lkle's anus is closed 

 tight." He did not see it; he only heard its voice. 



At the time when he upset it turned dry and cold. It mis north 

 weather. During the whole time he remained awake all night long. 

 He was afraid to sleep. When day came he stopped up the chinks in 

 his house. He then cut a block of wood and hollowed it. He wanted 

 to urinate in that only, and in that he did urinate. Again he stopped 

 up all the crannies in the house ver}' tight. Again night came u})on 

 him. 



Durino- all that time wherever he sat down he had the stone with 



