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Afterward Raven began mourning for him. Now he met the old 

 woman who controls the tide, and forced her to let the tide fall and 

 rise as it does to-day. At the same time he told Mink to live on sea 

 urchins. Then he went on crying, "My Avife, my wife," and, when 

 he saw some gam on a tree, thought that the tree also was mourning. 

 Coming to Petrel again, he contended with him as to which was the 

 older, but finally Petrel put on his fog-hat so that Raven was unable 

 to find his way out and had to admit Petrel was older than he. He 

 induced Petrel to let his hat '""go into the world," so that when people 

 see fog coming out of an opening in the woods and going right back, 

 they know it will be good weather. He obtained fire with the help of 

 a chicken hawk whose bill was burned off in getting it, and he put the 

 tire into red cedar and some white stones. Coming to the great house 

 containing all fish, he brought it ashore by means of a cane carved to 

 resemble the tentacle of a devilfish, and gave a feast for his dead 

 mother out of part of its contents. The other fish spread throughout 

 the world. He invited the killer whales, pretended that he was going to 

 show them how to stick canes into their necks, and stuck sharp pointed 

 sticks in instead, thus killing all ])ut one. (When Raven and another 

 person were boiling down the grease from these killer whales, he stole 

 all from the otlier man. Then this man shut him up in a grease-box 

 and kicked it off a high cliff, but Raven had induced him to fasten 

 it with a piece of straw instead of rope, and immediately fiew out.") 

 He flew inside of a whale, and lived on what it swallowed and its 

 insides. At last he cut out its heart and killed it. After he had 

 floated ashore the people cut a hole through and he fiew away. 

 Returning to the same place, he persuaded them that this was a bad 

 portent, so the}' left the town, and Raven consumed what they had 

 abandoned. Once Raven went to a calm place just outside of Sitka and 

 made many waves b}^ rocking his canoe, since which time it has 

 always been very rough there. Next he set the heron and sea gull to 

 quarreling in order to obtain a herring which the former had swal- 

 lowed. Having stolen a salmon from some people when they were 

 asleep, they in turn discovered him asleep and Avrenched off his giz- 

 zard. He went after it, found them using it as a polo ball, and recov- 

 ered it, but ever since the Raven's gizzard has been big and dirty. 

 Next he married the daughter of Fog-on- the-salmon, and they put up 

 many salmon eggs and dried salmon. When it became stormy the 

 salmon eggs helped him paddle. Afterward he carried up the dried 

 salmon and dumped the salmon eggs overboard, so that people do not 

 care much for salmon eggs nowadays. He met a man whose club 

 would go out to sea and kill seal of itself, stole this club, and tried to 

 make it do the same thing for him, but it would not, and he broke it 



a An episode which is perhaps misplaced. See p. 418. 

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