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killinj]^ many people. Finally they set out to see it, anchored off the 

 mouth of the bay, and killed it with spears and arrows. They took 

 the skin from its head. Then they went throno;hout Alaska, killing 

 off the monsters of the sea and land that had troidiled people and 

 making others less harmfid. The natives say, if it had not been for 

 those boys, they would be there yet. They made some of these mon- 

 sters promise that they would not kill people. The wolves, which 

 were very destructive in those days, became less harmful through 

 them. Although people in Alaska are afraid of wolves, you have not 

 heard of anyone being killed by them. 



There was one person called Teak! i's! resembling an eagle, who flew 

 around and was very powerful. He would say to the bears and (ither 

 game animals, "You are going to be killed." Because he kept warning 

 the animals,, human beings were starving, so the brothers came to 

 him and made him promise not to injure people or forewarn the 

 other animals. 



Afterward the brothers left their mother at that place and went up 

 to Laxayi'k, where they had heard of a bad person called One-legged- 

 man (Le-laq!oci'). His proper name, however, is Man-that-dries-fish- 

 for-the-eagle (Teak !-q!e'di-At-q!An-qa), and he is very fond of spear- 

 ing salmon. First the boys came to the prints of his one foot going 

 up beside the river, and after a while they saw him coming down 

 toward them spearing salmon. His shirt was the skin of a brown 

 bear and had strength as well as he. 



Afterward Lqlaya'k! caught a salmon, took all of the meat out, and 

 got into its skin. Next day, at the time when they knew One-legged- 

 man was about to come up, Lq! aya'k! put it on again and laid himself 

 in a salmon hole in the creek. The big man, who was just coming 

 along, saw a fine salmon go into the hole and said, "What a fine look- 

 ing salmon." He thought that he could not get it, but, after he had 

 stood watching it for a while, it swam up toward him, and he speared 

 it. Just as he was dragging it ashore, however, Lq! aya'k! cut the 

 cord to his spear point with a knife he had taken along and swam 

 back into the water hole. Then the big man looked at his spear and 

 said to himself, "My fine spear is gone;" but after he had observed 

 closer he said, "This is not broken. It is cut. I suppose it is 

 Lq! aya'k !'s doing." After that he went on up the stream while the 

 brothers cooked salmon for their meal. 



By a by they saw One-legged-man coming down again carrying a 

 feather tied on the end of a long stick. He would point this feather 

 at different trees and then smell of it. Finally he pointed it at the 

 tree in which Lc|! aya'k! and his brothers were then sitting and said, 

 "Lq! aya'k! is in that tree." Then he spoke out saying, "Give me 

 my spear." Lq! aya'k! kept saying to his brothers, "Shall I go out 

 and fight him?" But they answered, "No, no, don't go 3^et." He 



