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told the people where they were, and they bui'ned out the dens, kill- 

 ing nian}'^ otters, but TutsIIdigu'L escaped with the boys. Now the 

 land otters made war on human beings, and the bodies of the latter 

 broke out in pimples and sores which were really caused ])y the spider- 

 crab-shell arrows. At last some people came upon two white land 

 otters, which they carried home and treated as if they were deer 

 (peace aml)assadors). Then the land otters came to the town and 

 danced to make peace. 



The Y)et)ple of that place were now very happy, ])ut ])efore they 

 could leave it Raven came to them and told them not to go away. 

 When four boys were at last sent, a man came down from the woods 

 and told them that three would die successively, while the fourth 

 would reach home, announce that the shaman was to die, and then 

 perish. Everything happened as he foretold, so that the people were 

 very much frightened and no longer dared to leave town. A child 

 which cried very much was carried awa}' by Man-with-a-lnirning- 

 hand. and when its parents found it, was lying in a hole in the clitf, 

 and ants were crawling out of its nose, oye^^ and cars. Now follows 

 a much longer version of story 93, below. Instead of being Itrought 

 home at once from the sea-lion rock, according to this version the hero 

 was al)andoned there and taken into the house of the sea lions, where 

 he cured a wounded sea lion and received a box in return which con- 

 trolled the winds. Inside of this he drifted ashore. Next follows the 

 story of the monster devilfish (story 11). At Tuxican a girl began to 

 nurse a woodworm, which grew so large that the people became afraid, 

 induced her to come away from it, and killed it. Since then her peo- 

 ple, the GanAxte'di, have used it as a crest. A shaman there named 

 S!awA'n was sent for by the land otters to cure one of their number, 

 who Avas carried along concealed under a mat. When they reached 

 their town they tried to make him think that the sick person was in 

 another house, but his rattle and belt ran ashore ahead of him to the 

 right place. Then he cured the sick otter by drawing an arrow point 

 out of its side; soon afterward the shaman was found hnng upon a 

 sandy beach not far from his own town with gulls Hying about him. 



32. IVAKK'gl'TE 



This story is partially identical with stor}' 1(»4. A man named Kake'- 

 q!"te went up among the Athapascans and taught them all sorts of 

 way^s of collecting and preserving food. Then he brought them down 

 to the Grass people, who sent them away, so they came to the 

 LlCdcInAXA'di. After that the L!ilk!nAXA'di settled along the coast 

 above Cross sound. One time the GanAxte'di of Chilkat gave a feast 

 and made a raven hat. The L!ilk!nAXA'di also made a raven out of 

 coppers, and took it to the Ka'gwAntan when they went to feast them. 



