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18. Various Adventures near Cross Sound 



A man collecting cedar bark slipped from his tree climber and was 

 strangled by it. Afterward the board he had .slipped from was always 

 exhibited at potlatches. Two men belonging to the same place had 

 their canoe swallowed by a devilfish, and the people of the town sank 

 a great piece of half-burned wood in the sea over the devilfish hole. 

 It was never seen afterward [and probably killed the devilfish]. 



Some hunters killed a land otter, cooked and ate it. They were fol- 

 lowed home by a land-otter-man, who began throwing rocks at them 

 from a tree. After they said something to it, it threw cones instead. 

 Toward morning they lighted a fire under the tree and made the land- 

 otter-man fall into it. 



A woman had disappeared from the town these men came from, so 

 everj'body hunted for her. At last they came upon the house of 

 those who had killed her, which they overthrew and set on fire over 

 the heads of its occupants. A shaman who belonged to the people 

 they had destroj^ed learned from his spirits where there was flint and 

 broke some otf by their help. 



lit. Kats! 



A Sitka man named Kats! hunted l)ear, was taken into a bear's den, 

 and married a female grizzly bear Iw which he had several children. 

 When he went back to his own people his l)ear wife told him to have 

 nothing to do with his human wife and children. He went hunting 

 every day, but took everything to his bear wnfe and children. One 

 time, however, he disobeyed her injunctions and was killed by his 

 bear famil3\ Kiitsl's bear children afterward spread over the world 

 and were killed in various places, the last by the Sitka people in 

 White Stone Narrows. Before they killed iiitn the bear destro3^ed an 

 entire camp in which a girl had said something bad to him. 



20. The Unsuccessful Hunters 



A sea-lion hunter speared the sea-lion chiefs son and was drowned, 

 but his companion reached a rock in safety. He was taken into the 

 sea-lion chief's house, cured the chief's son by pulling out the spear 

 point, and was sent home inside of a sea-lion stomach. 



Tavo other hunters, along with their canoe, were taken into the 

 house of the GonaciAde't because one of them had struck his slave, 

 the skate. When he learned that they were KAtAgwA'di, however, 

 he sent them home, and told them to use his emblem, Rock House. 



21. Origin of IcEBER(i House 



A man whoso friends had all died took some pieces of ice up into 

 the house and treated them as if he were feasting them, in order to 

 show respect to his dead friends. Since that time the Grass people 



