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Then he went up to the camp with his wife, and they sav\^ all kinds 

 of food there. His wife said, "It is lucky that we came across this;" 

 and after a while the man said, ''Let us cook some, my wife." Then 

 the woman took lier cooking basket and put some water into it. 

 Presently she said, "Way out there is a canoe conaing." It was a 

 black canoe. She said, "We better leave this alone until the canoe 

 comes so that we can invite them to eat with us." Her husband 

 said, "All right." By and by his wife said, "Wliat is the matter? 

 To my eyes it does not appear like a canoe. It is too black." It 

 was really a young killer whale, under which the other killer whales 

 were swimming to make it appear like a canoe. When, the supposed 

 canoe reached land, the whales rushed ashore, seized the woman, 

 who had concealed herself behind her husband, and carried her down 

 to the sea. They took her away because her husband had taken tlieir 

 provisions. This time, when the killer whales rose again, instead of 

 appearing like onh" one canoe, they came up out of the water thick 

 everywhere and began to swim down the bay very fast. Meanwhile 

 tlie husband went down to his canoe, got in, and paddled after them 

 along the shore. But, when they came to a high cliff where the water 

 went down deep, all the whales suddeidy dived out of sight. 



Now the man climbed to the top of this cliff", fastened a bough to 

 his liead and another slim spruce bough around his waist, filled the 

 space inside of his shirt with rocks, and jumped into the ocean at 

 the spot where his wife had disappeared, falling upon a smooth, 

 mossy place on the bottom. When he awoke, he arose, looked about, 

 and saw a long town near by. He entered the last house, which 

 proved to belong to tlie chief of the shark people. 



In this house he saw a man with a crooked mouth peeping out at 

 him from behind a post. A long time before, when he had been fish- 

 ing, a shark had cut his line and carried off the hook, and it was this 

 hook that now peeped out at him. It said, "Master, it is I. When 

 your line broke, they took me down here and have made me a slave." 



Then he said to the shark chief, "Is there any news in this town?" 

 and he replied, "Nothing es])ecial in our town, but right across 

 from us is the killer- whales' town, and recently we heard that a 

 woman had been captured there and is now married to the killer- 

 whale chief." Then the shark chief continued: "The killer- whale 

 chief has a slave who is alw^ays chopping wood back in the forest 

 with a stone ax. When you come to him, say within yourself, ' I 

 wish your stone ax would break.' Wish it continually." So the 

 shark instructed him. 



Then he went over to the killer-whale town, and, when the slave's 

 ax did break, he went up to him and said, "I will help you to fix 

 that stone ax if you will tell me where my wife is." So he began to 

 fix it in jilace for him. It was the only stone ax in the killer- whale 



