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closer they found that it was only a wliite rock which hatl that 

 appearance. 



After they had reached home and had reported what had hap- 

 pened, all the people began to chop at a log. Then they started a 

 big fire and began to burn it. But, when it was half ])urned, they 

 put out the fire by throwing hot water upon it. They were going 

 to take it to the devilfish hole and drowTi it there. .So they took 

 it over to that place and let it down, but never saw it again. 



Later four other men went hunting by canoe one autumn to a 

 place called WAtAs!a'x, where the}^ encamped. By and by one of 

 the party, on going to liis traps, found a big land otter in one of 

 them. He took the bough of a tree, twisted it around the land 

 otter's neck, and carried it home. He did not know what it was. 

 As he dragged it home it went bouncing along behind him and at 

 every bounce sometliing wliistled beliind liim. Arrived at camp he 

 began to skin it. Then he said to his brothers, ''Go and get your 

 pot ready to cook it," but, when they began to cut it up to put it in, 

 sometliing whistled. "That is just what I heard on the way," he 

 said. 



After the pot had boiled and they had begun eating, sometliing 

 began to whistle in a tree near by and threw a rock down. They 

 threw one back and soon rocks were flying back and forth. It was 

 a great thing to fool with. By and by the men said, "You might 

 cut our faces," so, instead of throwing rocks, they seized long cones 

 ami threw these back and forth all night. Toward morning the 

 being in the tree, which was a lond-otter-man, began to lut people, 

 ami they on their part had become very tiretl. Finally they tried 

 to get him down by lighting a fire under the tree where he was sit- 

 ting. When it was burning well, all suddenly shouted, and he fell 

 into it. Then they threw the fire over liim, and he burned up. But 

 when they started for the beach to go home, all wriggled from side 

 to side and acted as if they were crazy; and when anyone went to 

 that place afterward he would act in the same manner. 



These men lived at a place called Person-petrified (CAkdaliAna'), 

 and when the}^ came home, it was told them, "A woman and her 

 child have been lost from tliis place." Tliis woman had been at- 

 tacked by some strange man, whom she also l-dlled with the pole 

 wliicli was used to take off cedar bark. At that time many per- 

 sons had disappeared, and the })eoi)le were wearied out looldng for 

 them. Now, however, they were determined to find the murderers, 

 so all got into one canoe and started along the coast. After a time 

 the high waves compelled them to encamp, and all went up into the 

 woods to hunt through them for a beach. Then they came to a 

 house made of driftwood, where the murderers lived. They" went 

 to each end where the main stringer protruded, lifted it off of its 



