And she said to her husband: “Do not let them go. He will take them out from inside your clothing so that you will not feel it.” And she asked him many times: “Have you the heads still?” “Yes, here they are.” Next day they started off. Again she asked her husband: “Have you the heads?” “Yes, here they are.” “Have you the black-cod heads?” “Yes, here they are.” “Have you the black-cod heads?” “No-o-o I wonder why He-who-has-spines-for-earrings turned round smiling.”[32]
Hu hu hu hu hu, great quantities of black cod were put into the canoe. Then they landed and unloaded the black cod. And it was evening, and they went to bed.
After many nights had passed, the something which had spoken [[222]]under his pillow before he again heard going along and saying: “Supernatural-being-who-went-naked, does the black cod stick you here? Because you made Nᴀñkî′lsʟas’ town alive, he restored your younger brothers to life by letting himself be born from your mother. He sat early in the morning between rocks with white and black bands.[33] Being in love with part of you, he has also come to you.” And he looked out. Lo! he saw the tail of a marten pass in through the star.[34]
Then he went thither. To his surprise there lay a woman asleep with Nᴀñkî′lsʟas with the upper part of her blanket fallen away leaving her uncovered. Then he pressed upon her with his hands and she said to him: “I used to want you, but lo! you got around late.”
And after that he sat down near the fire feeling unhappy. Then his wife asked him: “Why are you so sad?” “I am sad because I left my mother not far from here,” he said, deceiving her. Then he started. He put black cod into his canoe and started off. Then he came into Skidegate channel and reached his [younger] brothers’ town. Lo! his eight younger brothers came down to meet him.
Then they went in. And his younger brothers only cared to have Nᴀñkî′lsʟas for an elder brother. They did not care about Supernatural-being-who-went-naked. Before they even gave food, Supernatural-being-who-went-naked began to give them something to eat.
Nᴀñkî′lsʟas had a bedstead in the rear of the house. Clouds were over his head. They could not see his face. She (the wife of Supernatural-being-who-went-naked) cut the black cod crosswise and steamed them. Then they told Nᴀñkî′lsʟas to sit near the fire and put down a wash basin for him. And the cloud upon his face crossed [the room]. He sat there washing his hands. Then they set black cod before him. They saw only his hands.
His younger brothers ate with him, but Supernatural-being-who-went-naked sat with his wife on the side of the house toward the door. Nᴀñkî′lsʟas did not walk down. The clouds rose. He was fastened to them. Then the clouds rested with him behind the place where the wash basin was.
Now, when they were through, the cloud rose with him, and his body was again to be seen on the bedstead. Then he (Nᴀñkî′lsʟas) called to his sister. After she had gone to him and he had talked with her for a while, she went out. She brought in cranberries. The tray had the figure of a gā′gix̣īt upon it. After he had sat eating for a while he stopped, and his younger brothers ate the rest.
Then she again put stones into the fire. Then they laid the wash basin down again, and the clouds again rose with him. Again he came down there and sat down, and they put black cod in front of him. Then he ate with his younger brothers. At that time they did not see his face. Then the wife of Supernatural-being-who-went-naked was sad. [[223]]