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Haida texts and myths

Note 1 — The one they abandoned because he was the first to spear sea lions

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Then he cried for his children on top of the island. After he had cried for a time he lay down near the pond. As he slept there something said to him: “The chief asks you to come in.” He looked for the cause of it. He saw not a sign of a thing. He saw something dive into the lake. And, after he had lain a while longer, something spoke to him as before. Then he looked through the eyeholes in his marten-skin blanket. He saw a grebe1 come to the surface of the pond. After it had swum about for a while it said: “The chief asks you to come in.” Then it dove.

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