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he had (h'ossed, lie tiirnecl himself around three or four times, as the 

 shamans used to do when they were dying. Afterwartl blood began 

 to flow from his mouth, and he died. 



Now the people of that town were very much frightened, and none 

 of them went away. They had heard before that the land otters have 

 death and all kinds of sickness for their bows antl arrows, but until 

 then they had not believed it. ^ifterward the peo])le began to starve, 

 and the children especially suffered very much. One child, who must 

 have been very poor, woidd cry at night with hunger. After he had 

 been crying for several nights in this manner the ]ieople saw a torch 

 coming toward the house and heard the bearer of it say, ''Come here, 

 grandchild, and I will feed you on ([lolkAtlAke/x." The child did so. 

 This man was named Man-with-a-l)urning-hand (DjinakaxA'dza), be- 

 cause his hand was always on flre and what he called q!olkAdAke'x 

 were ants (wAUAtu'x). This happened at TA'qdjik-an, the old town 

 of the Klawak peo])le. 



Now the father and mother of this child looked about for it, weep- 

 ing continually. As they were passing a certain cliff, they heard a 

 child crying there, and, raising a flat rock which appeared to cover 

 an opening, they saw it lying inside. Then they saw that ants were 

 crawling out of its nose, eyes, and ears. After that many other chil- 

 dren were brought thither, and their parents said to them, "Look at 

 this. Man-with a-burning-hand did this because the child cried so 

 much. You are always crying too. This will happen to you some 

 tlay if you do not stop." Back of the site of TA'qdjik-sin there is a 

 clift" still called Man-with-a-burning-hand. This story was mostly for 

 children, and, when a child cried too much, they would say, "Do not 

 cry so much or j\Ian-with-a-burning-hand will get you." The story 

 was known all over Alaska, and the children were very much afraid 

 of Maii-with-a-burnino:-hand." 



In the same town, TA'qdjik-an, lived a chief named GrAhve't! belong- 

 ing to the Tak^ane'di family. He was bathing in the sea for strength 

 every day, and the people of his village bathed with him. In the cold 

 mornings he would rise, run down to the sea, and rush in. Then he 

 would run up to a good-sized tree and try to pull a limb (mt of it. He 

 would afterward go to another and try to twist it from top to bottom. 

 He wanted to do these things because he was trying to become a 

 killer of sea lions. 



The same chief had a nephew who was thought to be very weak and 

 a great coward. He would not go into the water, and the people 



"See story 11. 

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