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paddling canoe, and cover your face, that you may not see the trail 

 that leads to the upper world." Then Ex'sokwi^lak" pulled his 

 blanket over his face. The Sea-Lion jumped into the canoe, and 

 said, "Paddle!" At once Ex'sokwi^lak" heard the sound of pad- 

 dhng on the sides of his canoe. Soon the noise stopped. Then the 

 Sea-Lion said, "Shaman, look up!" for that was now the name of 

 Ex'sokwi^lak". Then he looked up to see where he was, and he 

 found himself close to the village of his enemy. He resolved to try 

 his baton to see if it would set fire to the village. He extended it 

 towards the village, and in a short time all the houses were on fire. 

 When the people tried to run away, he extended the death-bringer 

 baton towards them, and they were transformed into rocks. After 

 all had been killed, he asked the Sea-Lion to show him how to use his 

 canoe. The Sea-Lion said, "Just say 'Go ahead!' Then all the 

 paddles will obey you. When you want to stop, only say, 'Stop!' 

 then they will stop." After the Sea-Lion had spoken, he jumped 

 overboard and went home. Ex' sokwi^lak" went to the village. 

 Then he saw some of his friends and his wife turned into rocks. 

 This made him feel sorry. Therefore he tried his water of life. He 

 took it out of the bladder of hair-seal in which it was, and sprinkled 

 it on his wife, who rubbed her eyes and said that she had been sleep- 

 ing. Afterwards she saw that her husband was bringing his friends 

 back to life. Then she knew that she had been dead and had been 

 resuscitated. Her husband brought most of her friends back to life, 

 except those that had left him on the island. After he had done so, 

 he took the house out of the canoe and put it down in the middle of 

 the village, where it grew up to its full size. Now he was the head 

 chief of the tribe. On the fourth day after his return he went aboard 

 his self-paddling canoe. He told the great canoe to go ahead towards 

 an island where hair-seals go to take a rest. As soon as he approached 

 the island, his spear went overboard, turned into a serpent, and swam 

 ashore to where the hair-seals lay. The serpent went from seal to seal, 

 kiUing them. After it had killed all the seals, it swam back towards 

 the great canoe. The owner took it aboard and put it down in the 

 bow of the canoe. Then Ex'sokwi^lak" went ashore and took all 

 the seals aboard his canoe, and they were enough to fill it. He went 

 home and gave a seal feast to his people. Now his people treated him 

 as a chief, and he went hunting sea-otters, which he gave to his 

 people. Therefore he was well liked. 



