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Note 3 — The man who married a killer-whale woman

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Then she went away and came to the west coast. And she went out on one side of Elderberry point. Then she jumped into the water in front of her. He did not know that he had married a female killer whale that had been born of a woman.3 Then she settled herself down before him. She became a reef. It is called “Woman.” When people get off from a canoe upon it, it shakes with them, they say.4

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