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Note 4 — The one they abandoned because he was the first to spear sea lions

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In the night he put on the wā′sg̣o skin. He swam seaward. He killed a whale. A spear stuck out of the nostrils of the wā′sg̣o.4 He killed the whale with that. Then he put it between his ears and swam landward with it. And he laid it in front of the house, because she said a whale would float ashore.

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