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liesli to eat. When he refused it she threw a mussel shell at him to 

 kill him, but he jumped aside, threw the shell back, and destroyed 

 her. He put licr body into the lire and the ashes became mosquitoes. 

 Then he met and killed lier cannibal husband. 



92. Mountain Dwellek, 



Another version of stor}- 65. 



9o. Kaha'sIi, the Strong Man 



In a certain town two persons were bathing- for strength in order to 

 kill sea lions. One of these, the town chief, bathed in public accom- 

 panied by all of the town people, while his nephew bathed during the 

 night only, and lay in bed all day, pretending that he was a weakling. 

 Finalty a being called Strength came to the latter and made him so 

 powerful that he was able to accomplish the feats the chief had set 

 himself, namely, to pull the stump of a l)ranch out of a tree and twist 

 another tree down to the base. Having done so, however, he put 

 them into their original positions, and when the chief tried them next 

 he thought that he had become strong. When they started out for 

 the sea-lion islands, they let Kahri'sli go along also, and, while the 

 chief was killed, Ktlha'sli destro3'ed two big sea lions, one with each 

 hand. 



94. The lIe'naxxI'daq 



A man saw a woman and two children iloating" in Auk lake, and he 

 captured one of the children and ))rought it home. During the night 

 the cliild gouged out the C3n\s of all the people living in the village 

 except one woman, and ate them. This woman killed the child, and 

 taking on her back her own child, to which she had just given ])irth, 

 she went up into the woods and ])t'came the Lle'nAxxI'dAq. As she 

 went along she ate mussels and fitted the shells together. 



95. Orkun oe the Frog Crest amoncj the Kiksa'di 

 Another version of story GO. 



96. How the Kiksa'di Came to Sitka 



When the KiksA'di first reached Sitka some people, called Sky people, 

 killed all of them except one w^oman who concealed herself in a cave. 

 She called for some one to marry her, and, after having refused all 

 the animals, married the sun's son. By him she had four boys and a 

 girl, and their grandfather placed them inside of a fort which he let 

 down on the site of their former village. Then the enemy came upon 

 them, and when they were in danger, their grandfather heated the 

 land so hot that the enemy ran down into the seu. They found that 

 boiling hot also and were destroyed. 



