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Note 3 — The one they abandoned because he was the first to spear sea lions

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And he again called the killer whales. Then he gave them directions. And he said to the one that had a hole in its fin: “You shall be called: ‘Hole-in-his-fin.’ ” And he said to the one with the fin bent back: “You shall be called: ‘Fin-turned-back.’ ” Then he said: “Go to Na-iku′n. Settle down there. That land is good. You shall be called ‘Strait people.’ ”3

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