40 * BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 39 



Always-crying-aroimd-[the-ba3'^] (YlkAgfi'xp). You can hear them 

 cryincT almost any time when you are in camp. Tliey never o;ot])ack 

 to their friends. 



11. STORIES OF THE MONSTER DEVILFISH" AND 

 THE CRY-BABY" 



Many people once went to a certain camp to dry salmon. They 

 did not know that a hig- devilfish lived under a steep cliiT not very 

 far from this place. In olden times, besides using hooks, they caught 

 salmon by means of traps (caI), and when the trap was fidl, they 

 would take out the fish and hang them on drying frames. When 

 these peo])le had many fish on the frames, they took off their covers 

 so that the red color shone out on the ocean very distinctly. 



A man and his two brothers living at this camp wei^e fond of hunt- 

 ing, and one day, when very many salmon were on the frames, they 

 started out. While they were gone the deviHish saw the glow on 

 the water from the red salmon, threw his tentacles around the camp 

 and swept every vestige of it into the sea. In those times a hunter 

 washed in urine ])efore going out hunting and was then sure to kill 

 something, but on that day everything the hunters speared got 

 away. When they returned to the camp, they saw many pieces of 

 canoes drifting about the bay. Then they were very sad on account 

 of the loss of their friends, l)ut they did not know what had destroyed 

 them. 



After they had remained there for four days, they told the youngest 

 to climb to the top of a high hill and watch them. Then the eldest 

 told his other brother to cut four young spruce trees, and he sharp- 

 ened these, making two for himself and two for his brother. Early 

 in the morning they loaded their canoe with rocks and prepared to 

 meet the dangerous animal. They went ou.t in front of the high 

 cliff and began throwing rocks down there, the elder saying to his 

 youngest brother, "Look down." 



After a while they saw the large devilfish coming up right under 

 tliem. Then they took the sharpened sticks and began to pierce its 

 flesh. The j^oungest watched all that happened. When their canoe 

 was broken up, they climbed on top- of tlie devilfish and continued 

 running the sticks into it until it died. When that happened it 

 carried them down along with it. 



Then the youngest brother started off to find some settlement, and 

 when he came to one, the people set out at once to look for his 

 brothers. Finally they discovered the place to which the devilfish 

 had floated, along with the hunters and their canoe. But it did 

 not get the salmon it had destroyed so many people for. Then the 

 people gave a death feast and all cut their hair off short. 



a See pp. l.SO-151, story 31. b See p. 145, story 31. 



