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Haida texts and myths

Note 1 — STORIES ACCOMPANIED BY TEXTS

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Master-carpenter at a steep place at one end of the town of Sqa-i began making a canoe in which to war with Southeast.1 The first one that he finished at the edge of the steep place he threw down into the water. It split. After that he made another. He made the measurement of thickness of this one greater than for the one he had made before. And when he finished it he threw it into the water. That, too, split apart. After that he made another one and had it thick. When he threw that in it also split apart. After that he made still another and had that also very thick. When he threw that in it broke also.

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