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After this was over he thought up a plot agamst the killer whales 

 and sent an invitation to them. Then he told each of his people 

 to make a cane that woidd reach very much above his head. So, 

 when the killer whales came in and inquired, "What do the people 

 use those canes for that extend up over their heads?", he replied, 

 "They stick them down into their heads." They asked him several 

 times, and he replied each time in the same way. After a while 

 one of the whales said, "Suppose we try it." Raven was glad to 

 hear that and said, " ^Ul right, we will try it with you people, but 

 the people I have invited must not look when I put a cane into 

 anyone's head." Then he went away and whittled a number of 

 sticks until they were very sharp. After that he laid all of the killer 

 whales on the beach at sliort distances apart, and again he told them 

 not to look up while he was showing one how it was done. Then he 

 took a hammer or maid and drove his sticks into the necks of these 

 whales one after the other so that they died. But the last one 

 happened to look up, saw what was being done, and jumped into the 

 ocean. 



"[Now Raven and another person started to boil out the killer- 

 whales' grease, and the other man had more than he. So Raven 

 dreamed a dream which informed him that a lot of people were 

 coming to fight with him, and, when such people really did make their 

 appearance, he told his companion to run out. After he had done so. 

 Raven quickly drank all the latter' s grease. By and b}^, however, 

 the man returned, threw Raven into a grease box, and shut him in, 

 and started to tie it up with a strong rope. Then Raven called 

 out, " My brother, do not tie the box up very strongly. Tie it with a 

 piece of straw such as our forefathers used to use." The man did 

 so, after which he took the box up on a high cliff and kicked it over. 

 Then Raven, breaking the straw, flew out, crying " Ga." When he got 

 to the other side of the point, he alighted and began wiping himself.] 



Next he came to a large whale blowing along out at sea, and noticed 

 that every time it came up, its mouth was wide open. Then Raven 

 took a knife and somethmg with which to make fire. When the 

 whale came up again he flew into its mouth and sat down at the 

 farther end of its stomach. Near the place where he had entered he 

 saw something that looked like an old woman. It was the whale's 

 uvula (Anu'tlayi). When the whale came up, it made a big noise, the 

 uvula went to one side and the herring and other fish it lived on 

 poured right in. Then Raven began eating all these things that the 

 whale had swallowed, and, presently, he made a fire to cook the fat 

 of the whale itself that hung inside. Last of all he ate the heart. 

 As soon as he cut out this, the whale threw itself about in the water 

 and soon floated up dead. Raven felt this and said, "I wish it 



oThis paragraph is perhaps misplaced, the incident being confounded with another on page 17. 



