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water. Go to the creek and tell him wliat to do when he comes in. 

 Teh him to bring the water in and hand it to the chief over the fire. 

 As he does so he must drop it, and, while the house is full of steam, 

 pick up your wife and run out with her. The chief has married her. 

 Then come over here with her. They will run after you, but, if you 

 can get away, come right across." The shark people had always 

 been jealous of the killer whales because they had this woman. 



Wliile the shark people were telling him what to do, a strange, bony- 

 looking person ke]')t jumping up from behiml the boxes. He won- 

 dered what made him act so queerly and began to feel uneas}^ about 

 it, but, when the bony person saw him looking at him in a strange 

 manner, he said, "Why! don't you know me. I am that halibut 

 hook (uAx") that the sharks once took away from you. My name is 

 Lgudji' (the name of an island)." 



Just after that the man started for the killer-whale town and sat 

 down l:)y the creek. When the slave came out after water, he asked 

 him to help him, saying, "I hear that my wife is with this chief." 

 "Yes," the slave answered, "if she were a man, they would have 

 kept her for a slave like myself. Since she is a woman, the chief has 

 married her, and she is living very well. I will help you as much as 

 I can. She wants to return to you. Now watch and I will do what 

 you tell me to do. I will spill this water on the fire." 



After that he took GAmna'tck!! to the door and showed him where 

 his wife sat. Then the slave walked in with the water while he stood 

 outside watching. He watched his wife through a crack and saw 

 that she appeared very much cast down. As soon as the fire was ])ut 

 out and the house filled with steam he ran in, seized his wife, and 

 started off with her. 



Then, when the slave thought that he had gotten a long distance 

 away, he shouted, "Some one has taken the woman away." The 

 chief looked around, and siu"e enough his wife was gone. Going out- 

 side, they saw that this man had almost reached the shark fort, and 

 they saw him enter it. 



As soon as he got there, the shark people began to dress themselves 

 for ^\'ar. They were noisy and acted as though they were very 

 hungry, so that GAmna'tck!! became frightened. The halibut hook 

 came to him, however, and told him not to be frightened, because 

 the killer whales were coming over. All at once the fort began 

 moving up and tlown. Whenever the killer whales tried to enter, 

 the fort killed them liy moving up and down and cutting off their 

 heads. The slaughter was so great that the few survivors were 

 frightened and went back. Two or three days later the killer whales 

 came again with like result. 



After this the shark people said to GAmna'tck!!, "You better not 

 start out right away. Stay here a while with up. They niight be 



