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place, and the ground hogs then threw all of their green herbs, roots, 

 etc., outside to him. 



[Postea corvus in litus descendit cum quidam eum certiorem 

 faceret de quattuor mulieribus, quae essent in insula, maturitatem 

 adipiscentes. Deinde conatus est muliebria genitalia conficere e 

 cortice lini arboris, et cum adveniret mediam in viam, quae in insulam 

 perducebat, simile nomine eam nuncupavit; sed res male proces- 

 serunt. Cortex edidit vocem argutam at ille, ira incensus, in undas 

 eum proiecit. Eodem modo tentavit tabaci folia et alias res, sed 

 inutile erat. Postremo processit in insulam, cui nomen erat mulie- 

 bribus genitalibus (Ganqla'te). Eius comes vir quidem nomine 

 Tgnavus (Q'.Atxa'n) erat. Corvus autem aiebat ignavo, "Etiam si 

 aliquid minime pavorem tibi iniicit, percute scapham." Mox igna- 

 vus scapham quassabat atque exclamavit, "lam luna adest." 

 Paene corvum in undas proiecit, qui, etsi ipse hortatus cum erat ut 

 id faceret, aegre tulit. Corvus omnia genitalia, quae in insula erant, 

 colligens, complevit scapham. Disponens ea locis in acquis, prae- 

 parvit dare propter ea convivium escis porci.] 



After this he said to the people, "Make ear pendants because I am 

 going to invite the whole world." He Axas going to invite everyone 

 because he had heard that the GonaqAde't had a Chilkat blanket and a 

 hat, and he wanted to see them. First he invited the GonaqAde't and 

 afterwards the other chiefs of all the tribes in the world. At the 

 ap])ointed time they began to come in. Wlien the GonaqAde't came 

 in he had on his hat with many crowns and his blanket but was sur- 

 rounded by a fog. Inside of the house, however, he appeared in his 

 true form. It is from this feast of Raven's that people now like to 

 attend feasts. It is also from this that, when a man is going to have a 

 feast, he has a many-crowned hat carved on top of the dead man's 

 grave post (kuti 'yA). 



Raven made a woman under the earth to have charge of the rise and 

 fall of the tides.'* One time he wanted to learn about everything under 

 the ocean and had this woman raise the water so that he could go 

 there. He had it rise very slowly so that the people had time to load 

 their canoes and get into them. When the tide had lifted them up 

 between the mountains they could see bears and other wild animals 

 walking around on the still unsubmerged tops. ]\Iany of the bears swam 

 out to them, and at that time those who had their dogs had good prc^- 

 tection. Some people walled the tops of the mountains about and 

 tied tlieu" canoes inside. They could not take much wood up with 

 them. Sometimes hunters see the rocks they piled up there, and at 

 such times it begins to grow foggy. That was a very dangerous time. 

 The people who survived could see trees swept up roots and all by 



a This appears to be retrospective. Cf. p. 9. 



