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50. The Mucus Child 



All of the people of a certain village disappeared except a woman 

 and her daughter. The latter swallowed some mucus and gave birth 

 to a boy who grew rapidly. B}^ and ])v he met a being called Strength, 

 who made him bathe every day, pull up trees, and break rocks, till he 

 was very strong. After that he climbed to the top of a mountain, f oiuid 

 a town occupied by wolves, and killed all. He came to another wolf 

 town and obtained the box of his uncles' lives. After he had left this 

 in each house for four days, his people all came to life again. 



51. The Sal^jox ('hief 



A man came upon a salmon l3Mng on the beach and was about to take 

 it home, when the salmon spoke to him, telling him to put it into the 

 sea. He did so and afterward caught many salmon. Another time 

 he met a salmon in the same place, which told him to eat it and put 

 the bones of its head under his pillow. In the morning be saw two 

 fine baby boys there. One always stayed at home, but the other was 

 very energetic and started away. He came to an old woman who told 

 him about a seven-headed monster to which they were about to give 

 the chiefs daughter. The boy killed this monster and married the girl. 



52. The flEALOus Uncle 



A man was so jealous of his wife that he killed all of his nephews 

 but one by pushing them inside of the shell of a big clam or into the 

 hole of a devilfish. The last of the nephews obtained an eagle-down 

 bracch^t which enabled him to turn into a ball of feathers, and with its 

 assistance destroyed both of the creatures. He also escaped in this 

 manner when his uncle pushed him off a high tree. Finally his uncle 

 fastened him on a plank, which he set adrift, but the plank went 

 ashore where two girls lived, and he married them. One of these had 

 been in love with the first boy that was killed. By and by the man 

 returned to his uncle and killed hiuL 



53. The Man avho Married the Eagle 



The wife of a Haida 3"0uth went with the son of the town chief, and 

 when her husband discovered it he shot him. The slayer, escaping by 

 canoe, was abandoned by his slave on a small reef. He got inside of 

 a sea-lion skin, floated ashore, and was found by a girl among the eagle 

 people, whom he married. All his brothers-in-law gave him eagle 

 skins, in which he went hunting. After a while he learned that his 

 mother had been driven out of town, so he carried all kinds of animals 

 to her. One time he killed a whale and left it in front of her house. 

 The people of the town he had come from found this and began 



