52 ANEKTCXO'lEMIX her myth. [Sology 



built a small house. There they lived for a long time. One clay a sea 

 breeze arose. Early in the morning the man rose and went down to 

 the beach. There he found ten cedar planks, each ten fathoms long, 

 which had drifted ashore. He went up to the house and said to his 

 sister: " I have found ten planks, each ten fathoms long." They went 

 to the beach, hauled them up to their house, and the brother made a 

 large house. Then the brother said: "What kind of a blanket will 

 you make for your sonf In the morning he went down to the beach 

 and there he found two small sea-otters. He said: "Oh, my poor 

 nephew, this will be your blanket." He took them up to the house 

 and said to his sister: " I found these sea-otters." Then she was very 

 glad. The brother said: " What soup are you going to make for your 

 son?" In the morning he arose and went down to the beach. There 

 he found a sea-lion. He skinned it and cut it, and then they boiled it. 

 Every day he went down to the beach, and every time he found two 

 sea-otters. And their house was full of sea-otter skins. One morning 

 he went to the beach; there was a whale. Then he ran back to his 

 sister and cried: "A whale is on the beach!" His sister said in reply: 

 " Every night the people on the other side of the ocean send us food. 

 Those supernatural people love me. My boy's father came. Now cut 

 the whale." Then he skinned it and cut it and they carried up the 

 meat. 



Now the Crow made herself ready to look for her nephew and her 

 niece. She launched her canoe and paddled across, wailing all the 

 time. When she had almost crossed the bay she discovered a house 

 and saw smoke rising. She went on. When she was near the shore 

 she saw a chief sitting on the roof of the house. [The latter said to his 

 sister, when he saw the Crow coming:] "Our aunt who pitied us is 

 coming there." She arrived and saw the whale on the beach. She 

 [was very hungry,] went to the whale and pulled at the meat. Then 

 her nephew said: "Come up to the house; why do you touch that 

 rotten meat ?" She replied : " Oh, I only looked at it," and went up to 

 the house. She entered and saw that it was full of whale meat. She 

 went right up to the child [and wanted to take it in her arms], but the 

 child began to cry. The sister said : "Oh, he is afraid of your tears." 

 They gave her water and she washed her face. Then she tried again 

 to take him, but still he cried. The sister said : "He is afraid of your 

 breath." Then she took water, cleaned her mouth and took him again, 

 but still he cried. Then the sister said to her aunt : " Do you think 

 he is a human being "? Look here, he is the son of a supernatural being. 

 They gave us that whale to eat." " Oh," said the Crow. They boiled 

 whale meat for her and she ate it. After she had finished eating she 

 went home. They gave her two pieces of blubber which she put into 

 her mat. 



The Crow went across the bay ; and when she approached the town 

 she cried : "O, my sister's children, my sister's children, birds flew up 



