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tended to mourn over his bod}^ while in reality eating him. Raven pre- 

 tended he was going- to make allot' the killer whales white, but instead 

 of doing so killed and ate them. Then he came to the lishhawk and 

 began living upon its food, saying that he was going to bring it food 

 in return later on. He tri(>d to live with another l)ird, also, but the 

 bird left him. He married among the goose people, but they discov- 

 ered him eating a goose, so they left him. After this Raven Avas in- 

 vited to a feast, but did not come at once, and they went on w ithout 

 him. When he did come they paid him no attention, and he had 

 nothing but leavings. Then Raven gave a feast himself, and instituted 

 the feast customs. 



Now Raven returned to the house of his grandfather, Nas-cA'ki-j^el, 

 and liberated the tlickers which had been kept under his mother's arms. 

 For this his grandfather tried to kill him by having a tree fall upon him, 

 and a canoe close in on him, and b}^ putting him into a kettle full of water 

 over the tire, successively, but in vain, so finally he raised a great flood. 

 Raven and his mother climbed from one retaining timber to another in 

 Nas-cA'ki-yers house, which was really the world itself, and finally flew 

 to the highest cloud in the sky and hung there, while his mother floated 

 on the water in the skin of a diver. Then he let go and fell upon a 

 kelp. Next he obtained sea urchins from the bottom of the sea and 

 deceived the woman who controls the tide, so as to make it go down. 

 He and another person tried out grease, and the other for a deceit Raven 

 practised put him inside of a box of grease and kicked him off of a 

 clirt'. 



All of the people of a Nass town named Git!i'kc were killed except 

 a chief, his sister, and his sister's daughter. Then the chief got Old- 

 man- who-foresees-all-troubles-in-the-world to help him. This old man 

 gave him an arrow which enabled him to kill many of his enemies, but 

 finally he disobeyed instructions and was himself killed, while his 

 sister and her daughter fled to the woods. Having ofl'ered her daughter 

 in marriage and refused all of the animals, this woman finall}^ accepted 

 the sun's son. Then he put his mother-in-law into a tree where she 

 became the echo, and took his wife up to the sky. There she had eight 

 children, who were let down to earth on the town site of Git!i'kc and 

 were helped by the sun to destroy all of their enemies. 



One time a woman of the same town stepped upon some grizzly- 

 bear excrement and was carried away by the bear people. Finall}' she 

 was helped by an old woman, and ran away. As she went she threw 

 various articles behind her which obstructed her pursuers, and at last 

 she was taken into the canoe of a man named GiuAxcAmge'tk who 

 married her and took her home. Her husband had also for wife a 

 big clam, which killed the new wife, but was in turn destroyed by her 

 husband, who also restored her to life. Finally she went back to her 

 father, but she had really been living under ground all this time and 



