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about in the forest, destroying all he met. At last an uncle of his 

 killed him and burned his body, the ashes of which became minute 

 gnats. 



5!». (tamna'tc^kIi 



A somewhat extreme variant of part of story 4. The hero obtains 

 the favor of the red-cod people by painting them red and of the shark 

 people by painting them black. 



Co. The IIiN-TAYrci 



A shaman took his friends to a place near Sitka and seated them 

 there facing the sea. Then a large numl)er of killer whales came near 

 and fought a flat fish with sharp edges, called hln-tayl'ci, which killed 

 all of them except three. Some time later the shaman took them out 

 again and the same thing recurred. The killer whales got devilfishes 

 and a big halil)ut to assist them successively with like result, but 

 finally they ])rought a big crab ])y which the hln-tayrci was destroyed. 



01. The East and Nohth Winds 



A man married the daughttir of fLast Wind, and afterward he mar- 

 ried the daughter of North Wind. Everyone thought the latter was 

 very pretty on account of her sparkling clothing, but when the east 

 wind began to blow it disappeared, for it was only frost and icicles. 



('»2. The P)i(i Heaveh 



Some people drained a beaver lake antl killed all of the beaver there 

 except one veiy large one. Some time afterward they went up to that 

 place and heard a woman singing, and on their way down they were 

 all di'owned. Most of them were taken captive by the big beaver. 



<iH. Bkaveu and Porc^upine 



A short version of story 1.5. 



()4. The Man who Entertained the Bears 



A man who had lost all of his friends did not care to live, so he lay 

 down across a grizzly-bear trail. When the bears came down, how- 

 ever, he invited them to his house to a feast, upon which they went 

 straight back into the forest. Early next day they came down, and 

 ho fed them, after which they licked the paint from his breast and 

 arm. Next day the smallest liear came back, told their host that he 

 was a human being who had been carried off l)y the l)ears, and inter- 

 preted Avhat the bear chief had said in his speech the day before. 



