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since the young sea lion belonged to high-caste people, they said to 

 him, "Anything that you want among us you can have." So he 

 asked for a box that always hung overhead. This box was a kind of 

 medicine to bring any kind of wind wanted. The sea lions would 

 push the box up and down on the water, calling the wind to it like a 

 dog, whistling and saying, ''Come to this box. Come to this box." 

 So the natives now whistle for the winds and call them. Then the 

 sea-lion people told Black-skin to get into it, and, as soon as he did 

 so, he saw that he was very far out at sea. He began to call for the 

 wind that blows shoreward, and it carried him ashore. Then he got 

 out of the box and hung it out on the limb of a tree in a sheltered 

 place. He did this because the sea-lion people had told him to take 

 very good care of that box and not go near anything unclean with it. 

 Black-skin had now landed only a short distance from his own 

 town, so he walked home, and his uncle's wife was very glad to see 

 him, feeling as if his uncle had come back. The dried sea-lion entrails 

 he wore around his head. Then he asked all of the town people to 

 come together, and the people who had been cruel to him were very 

 much ashamed, for they thought that he had gone for good. He, 

 however, looked very fme. He eyed his enemies angrily but thought 

 thus, ''If I had not made myself so humble, they might not have 

 treated me that way." So he overlooked it. Some of the people that 

 had left him on the sea-lion island were so frightened that they ran 

 away into the woods. Some of the old people and the good-hearted 

 people were very glad that he was back, but he could see that others 

 hung their heads as if they were ashamed. Then he said, "Some of 

 you know how cruel you were to me. You know well that you are 

 ashamed of yourselves. But I can see that some of you feel good 

 because you know that you felt kindly toward me. It will always be 

 the case that people who are cruel to poor people will be ashamed of 

 it afterward." They had thought that he would avenge himself on 

 them, but he talked to them in a very kindly manner saying, "Do not 

 make fun of poor people as you did when my imcle was alive."" 



After this the people went out hunting and encamped in a place 

 called Tayu'klnAxe. A man went out from here with his brother and 

 little son one day, and, when they returned, saw that every one had 

 disappeared. They felt very badly and said, "What is wrong with 

 our village?" Then they saw that the whole town was covered with 

 devilfish slime and said, "It is that monster devilfish that has done all 

 this." People say that he had seen the red glow of the salmon on the 

 drying frames outside. Then the two men said to the boy with them, 



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