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and they will not take me in if I leave here." Then her husband 

 said, "Do not feel badly if you should happen to hear of me," and he 

 went away. 



This man had seven sisters, all of them very well off, but they 

 would not have anything to do with him. Very early in the morning 

 he went to their houses and awakened the boys. Without askmg 

 the permission of their mothers he told them to get their bows and 

 arrows quickly and come along with him. Next morning, after he 

 had walked with them for some distance, they found a canoe, and he 

 had them all get into it. In the evening, when their uncle camped 

 with them, the children began to feel that something was wrong, and 

 some cried, saying that they wanted to get back to their fathers and 

 mothers. Then he told them that they would soon come to a fine 

 town, and kept on going farther and farther away until they reached 

 a place called Sea-lion's-face (Tan-yeda') where Tongass now stands. 

 They kept on beyond this until they came to a large rock some dis- 

 tance out at sea on which were sea otters; these they clubbed. 



Some of the boys were now quite large. Later they came to a long 

 sandv beach, and their uncle made a house there out of driftwood. 

 He dried the skins and made that place his permanent residence. 



During the second night they spent there, Dancer heard the two 

 dogs he had brought along, barking. He told his sisters' children to 

 get out of bed to see what was the matter. They did so, and, on 

 running out, discovered a large animal coming along, as big as a black 

 bear. At first they thought that it was a bear, but it was of a differ- 

 ent color, so they concluded that it was medicine. His nephews 

 shot at it, and the man picked up their arrows and- noticed that 

 there was something like clay upon them. Everyone pursued the 

 animal and at last they saw it disappear into a hole in a mountain. 

 Meanwhile Dancer took the clayey substance from all of the arrows, 

 wrapped it in leaves, and put it into the bosom of his shirt, giving 

 the arrows back to the boys. 



Now, Dancer made the place his town, and continued to hve tliere 

 with his nephews who were grown up. The stuff he had taken from 

 their arrows he put behind the barbs of others so that they could use 

 them in hunting. He also put some of it on their eyebrows, their 

 hair, and around their mouths. He said it was to make the hair 

 thick in those places, and sure enough they came to have fine eye- 

 l)rows, hair, and mustaches. They became fine-looking men. 



When they went out hunting with the medicine arrows he had 

 made, and sliot at a seal, even if the arrow merely came close to the 

 seal witliout touching it, the seal would die. That was also a great 

 place for sea lions, and whenever they saw one of those animals, their 

 uncle would go out witli a fan made from the tail of an eagle, anointed 

 w itli this iue(hcine, and wave it toward the sea lion. Then the animal 



