Note 15 — The one abandoned for eating the flipper of a hair seal

Then they paddled off and landed bow first [in their haste].15 The chief’s son whom they had abandoned had become a sea-gull. He had flown about among them. This is what they said. Then his father and his mother turned around from the fire, and, when they had stopped crying, he (the father) said to the slaves: “To-morrow go to dig for the bones of my child.”