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they started oif at once, after loading the canoe down with food, for 

 this being was rich and had all kinds of things. His canoe was a 

 brown bear, which trav^eled of itself but had to be fed at short inter- 

 vals.'* Just before they reached her father's town, they landed, 

 carried their canoe up and placed all of the food under a large tree 

 where it would keep dr}'. Then the man stayed with it and told 

 his wife to go over to her father's house. Her father and mother 

 had thought that sho was dead, so they were very happy to see her. 

 She said to her father, "There is a lot of food close by here. I have 

 brought it to you." At that time she looked very filthy to them 

 and her clothing ragged, though to herself she appeared beautiful. 

 So her father was very much ashamed of her and gave her some good 

 clothing. She also smelt to them very strongly of the beach. Then 

 they went over and brought in all the food, but her husband did not 

 come w ith them.'' 



At that time the woman was pregnant, and jiresently she gave 

 birth to a boy. He was very smart like his father, though they did 

 not let him know who his father was. When he grew larger, he was 

 a fine shot with bow and arrows, bi'inging in all sorts of small ani- 

 mals, and the other boys were jealous of him. 



One time, when he was out in a canoe with other boys, huntmg, he 

 began shooting at a cormorant (yuq), which kept going farther and 

 farther out. All of a sudden it became foggy and they could not see 

 their way, so they fastened their canoe to the end of a drifting log 

 which was sticking out of the water, and waited. Then some one 

 came to them and said to the boy, ''I am after you. Your father 

 wants you." At once the boy lost consciousness, and, when he 

 came to, found himself in a very fine house on the mainland. The 

 chief living there said, "Do you know that you are my son?" He 

 also gave him a name, CAmgige'tk, and he thought a great deal of 

 him, but the boy thought it strange that he never incjuired for his 

 mother. Then he gave his son abalone shells and sharks' teeth 

 (cAxdA'q) as presents. He also made him a club and said to him, 

 "Whenever you are among wild animals and find there are too 

 many, put this club down and it will fight for you. When you see 

 seals or sea lions sitting on the rocks, put it down and it will kill 



1 " I have always wondered what this part of the story means but was never told. It must have been 

 because we were going to have steamboats. Every now and then at the present time something hap- 

 pens Hke things in the stories. The poor people always had luck in those days, and I have always 

 wondered what it meant. Years ago, too, we used to hear the old people say, ' There will be no slaves. 

 Those that have been slaves are going to feel themselves above the real high-caste Indians. ' And sure 

 enough nowadays the people that have come from slaves are very proud, while the race of nobies is 

 dyingout. They are protected by law and know that nothing harmful can be said to them. Wehearci 

 of this years ago. " (From the writer's informant.) 



6 " Some people are li'ke this nowadays. They are very poor but are so used to the life that they can 

 uot seeit, and sOused to filththat they do not notice it." (From the writer's informant.) 



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