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Some time afterward a man died, and Raven, coming into the house, 

 saw him tliere with his wife and children weeping around him. So he 

 raised the dead man's blanket with both hands, held it over the body, 

 and brought him back to life. 



After that both Raven and her husband told this woman that there 

 was no death, but she disbelieved them. Then Raven said to her, 

 "Lie down and go to sleep." And, as she slept, she thought she saw 

 a wide trail with many people upon it antl all kinds of fierce animals 

 around. Good ])eople had to pass along this trail in order to live 

 again. When she came to the end of the trail there was a great river 

 there, and a canoe came across to her from the other side of it. She 

 entered this and crossed. There some people came to her and said, 

 "You better go back. We are not in a good place. There is starva- 

 tion here, we are cold, and we get no water to drink." 



This is why people burn the bodies of the dead and ])ut food into the 

 fire for them to eat. Burning tlieir bodies makes the dead comfortable. 

 If they were not })urned their spirits would be cold. This is why they 

 invite all those of the opposite clan as well as the nearest rela- 

 tions of the dead man's wife, seating them together in one place, and 

 burn food in front of them. It is because they think that the dead 

 person gets all of the property destroyed at the feast and all of the 

 food then burned up. It is on account of what Raven showed them 

 that they do so. 



Because Nas-cA'ki-yel got it into his mind to wish for daylight in the 

 world, he had wished for a grandchild through whom it might come. 

 Now, therefore, although he knew what answer he would receive, he 

 sent for Liu'wAt-uwadji'gi-can and questioned him to see whether he 

 would answer right: "Where did this child come from? Whose is it? 

 Can you tell?" And the other said, "His eyes look like the eyes of 

 Raven." That is how he came to get the name Raven. 



After a while the baby began to crawl about. His grandfather 

 thought a great deal of him and let him play with everything in the 

 house. Ever^^thing in the house was his. The Raven began crying 

 for the moon, until finally they handed it to him and quick as a wink 

 he let it go up into the sky. After he had obtained everything else, 

 he began to cry for the box in which daylight was stored. He cried, 

 cried, cried for a very long time, until he looked as though he were 

 getting very sick, and finall}" his grandfather said, "Bring my child 

 here." So they handed Raven to his grandfather. Then his grand- 

 father said to him, "My grandchild, I am giving you the last thing I 

 have in the world." So he gave it to him. 



Then Raven, who was already quite large, walked down along the 

 bank of Nass river until he heard the noise people were making as 

 they fished along the shore for eulachon in the darkness. All the peo- 

 ple in the world then lived at one place at the mouth of the Nass. 



