86 IGUA'nAT his myth. [™olog? 



awoke lie lifted his blauket aud saw no laud. Then he covered his 

 face again. He slept for two days. Then he awoke; he felt as though 

 the canoe was rocking. He took off his blanket and saw that he was 

 on the beach of an island. He went ashore. He hauled his canoe uj), 

 turned it over, and lay down beneath it. In the morning he heard the 

 noise of steps on the beach, and he saw a woman coming. She stepped 

 right up to where he lay and said : " Rise ! Let us go home." He arose. 

 They hauled up his canoe and she broke it to pieces. Now they went 

 home. They reached a house which was full of sea-otters. She hid 

 him. After awhile [another woman] her elder sister entered the house. 

 She carried two sea-otters on her back. Early the following morning 

 they went again and the youngest one came home before the other. 

 She carried one sea-otter only. Then the elder one said to her : " Lo ! 

 You are home already!" [The younger one replied:] "Yes I came 

 home because I did not find anything." Then the elder sister thought: 

 " What is the matter with her? She says that she does not find any- 

 thing." On the following morning they went the second time. They 

 always searched on the beach going around the island. The one always 

 went on one side of the island, the other on the other. At the farther 

 end of the island they used to meet. Now the younger one returned 

 long before she reached the place where they always met. The elder 

 one observed her. Again she came home first. Early the next morn- 

 ing they went again. When the elder one got to the place where tliey 

 always met, she found no tracks of her younger sister. [She went on 

 and saw) she had turned back long ago. Then she observed her more 

 closely. She came home; she had found three sea-otters. She saw 

 their smoke. Now her younger sister's smoke did not arise straight, 

 while her own smoke arose straight. Then she noticed that something 

 had happened. On the fourth morning the two sisters started again. 

 The youngest went a short distance and returned. The eldest went 

 around the island and saw that her sister had turned back far from 

 where they used to meet. Again she saw their smoke, aud saw that her 

 sister's did not rise straight. Then she went home. The younger sister 

 was already there. She said: '' You are at home already." '' Yes," she 

 replied, " I did not find anything and turned back." On the fifth morn- 

 ing they started again. Now the eldest one went first. She hid herself 

 and watched her younger sister who went later. [When she had left] 

 she returned and searched in her sister's bed. She found a man lying 

 down, and said: "Arise! indeed, you two are foolish. Why did she 

 hide you ? " Soon her sister returned home and saw that her [sister had 

 found her] husband. Then the elder sister said : " Indeed, you are 

 foolish, you have no sense. Why did you always hide our husband? 

 If I had found him I should not have hid him." Then he married both 

 the sisters. 



He stayed there a long time; then he said: "I am homesick." Then 

 his wives made him ready. They each gave him five baskets. Then 



