*^Bor°^] ANEKTCXO'lEMIX myth TRANSLATION. 59 



After a while a person shouted: " Yiiyayuya, a flatfish whale comes.'" 

 [The chief did uot stir. ] After a while a person shouted : " Yuya- 

 yuya, au albatross whale comes; raise your harpoons." Blue- Jay tried 

 to look [from under the arms of the woman]. At once her torch 

 began to flicker, and she pressed Blue- Jay, saying: "Do not look!" 

 Then again a i^erson shouted: " Yuyayuya, an elk whale comes; raise 

 your harpoons." [The chief did not stir.] jS"ext a person shouted: 

 "Yuyayuya, a sperm-whale comes; raise your harpoons." Then the 

 sister said to him: "Now, lookout; now the real whale will come," 

 Then a person shouted: " Yuyayuya, the whale of the supernatural 

 people comes." Blue-Jay tried to look [from his hiding place]. Then 

 the torch of the young woman began to flicker and was almost extin- 

 guished. The people said : " Why does AnektcXo'lEmiX's torch always 

 flicker"?" The person shouted once more: " Yuyayuya, the whale of 

 the supernatural people comes." Then AnektcXo'lEmiX said to her 

 brother: "Now the real whale will come." The chief harpooned it and 

 threw it ashore. "Ehehiu! How they threw ashore the whale of the 

 supernatural people." Blue- Jay replied: "Ehehiu," and at once the 

 torch was extinguished, and Blue- Jay [fell down from the armpit of the 

 woman and] was drowned. He drifted away. Thus they won again. 

 Their chief won again. Then they went home. AnektcXo'lEmiX said : 

 "Coil up this rope in your canoe; when you get across tie Robin's 

 blanket to it." [Then they started. When they were in the middle of 

 the ocean the supernatural people] created a strong gale against those 

 going home. Now they tied [Mink] on to the gunwale of their canoe 

 [thus making it higher and preventing its being swamped]. They 

 almost perished; finally they reached their home [safely. Then they 

 tied Eobin's blanket to the rope. AnetcXo'lEmiX pulled it back, and 

 when she found the blanket at the end of the rojDe she knew that her 

 brother had reached home safely]. 



