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his iaiaginatioii, yet he examined it every day, for he thought that 

 at some time it woiikl come to hfe. Wlieu he ate he always had the 

 image close to him. 



After a while the whole village learned that he hatl this image and 

 all came in to see it. Many could not believe that it was not the 

 woman herself until they had examined it closely. 



One day, after the chief had had it for a long, long time, he exam- 

 ined the body and found it just like that of a human being. Still, 

 although it was alive, it covdd not move or speak. Some time later, 

 however, the image gave forth a sound from its chest like that of 

 crackling wood, and the man knew that it was ill. When he had 

 some one move it away from the place where it had been sitting the}' 

 found a small red-cedar tree growing there on top of the flooring. 

 They left it until it grew to be very large, and it is because of this that 

 cedars on the Queen Charlotte islands are so good. When people up 

 this way look for red cedars and find a good one they say, ''This 

 looks like the baby of the chief's wife." 



Every day the image of the young woman grew more like a human 

 being, and, when they heard the story, people from villages far and 

 near came in to look at it and at the young cedar tree growing there, 

 at which they were very much astonished. The woman moved around 

 very little and never got to talk, but her husband dreamed what she 

 wanted to tell him. It was through his dreams that he knew she was 

 talking to him. 



42. DJIYrN« 



While the Tlingit were still living at Klinlvwan (Linq"^-an) a famine 

 broke out. There was an orphan girl there named Djiyl'n who was 

 taking care of herself. Once in a while her father's sister would help 

 her, but all were starving, her father's sister also being poor. 



One da}" some women were going off to dig ts!et roots, and this 

 orphan very much wished to accompany them, but they would not 

 take her. They said she was dirty and would bring them bad luck. 

 When she laid hold of the canoe they struck her fingers to make her 

 let go, but she was very hungry and very persistent, so that her 

 father's sister finally took her in. When they encamped that night 

 she did not come back, and they did not know what she was living on. 

 The women who were angry with her saitl, "Wliat is the matter with 

 her'^ Why doesn't she come back to eat?" When they got ready 

 to start home the orphan had not returned, and they left her there 

 alone. They also threw water on the fire. 



Tlie girl's aunt, however, procured a coal and threw it into the 

 brush house where they had camped, along with a piece of dried sal- 



1 Or better Djun. Haida versions of the same will be found in Memoirs Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., viii, 

 226, 247. Aqa'niqles is said to be in all probability Kaya'niq!es (For-the-leaves). 



