He pulled it apart and tore half of it in pieces and threw them around. “These will be useful to all future people.” And he carried half of it off with a stick. He threw it in on the side toward the door. Then his father-in-law said: “Alas! he has killed my supernatural helper.” Then he entered and lay behind the screens with his wife.
Next day he again said to his daughter: “Come! my child, let your husband go after my little sea lion yonder.” At once he got up. Again she clung to her husband while she cried. “He always lets them marry the sons of the supernatural beings who think they are strong. [[242]]By and by he begins to do this way.” Then he again said to his wife: “Let me go. I will see the thing with which he is going to do [harm] to me.” And his wife gave him directions. “After it has looked at you and growled four times go to it.”
Then he started for it. He was going to kill it with a club which his father-in-law gave him. After he had gone toward it for a while he saw it lying there. After it had looked at him and growled four times he went to it. When he came near it it breathed in. He went into its mouth.
And again he thought of his father’s supernatural helpers. Again they came to him bearing bone clubs. They clubbed the sea lion on the head. They killed it. When he (the youth) was almost dead they pulled him out of its mouth. Then he put medicine upon himself and was restored.
Then he pulled the sea lion apart. The bones of three persons fell out of it. Then he tore half of it in pieces and threw them around. “You will be useful to all future people.” And he carried off half of the sea lion and threw it in through the doorway. His father-in-law said: “Alas! he has killed my supernatural helper.” Then he lay behind the screen again with his wife.
Next day he again said to his daughter: “Come! my child, let your husband go for my little hair seal yonder.” And at once he arose. Again his wife clung weeping to him. “He always lets me marry the sons of the supernatural beings who think themselves powerful. By and by he begins to treat them this way.” And he said to his wife: “Let me go. I will see the thing with which he does it.” “After it growls and looks toward you four times go to it,” she said to him.
Then his father-in-law gave him a bone club, and he set out to it. After he reached it, and the hair seal had looked at him and growled four times he went thither, and it breathed in. He was in its mouth.
Again he thought of his father’s supernatural helpers, and again they came to him bearing bone clubs. They struck the hair seal on the head and killed it. Then they pulled him out, and he rubbed medicine upon himself.
Then he pulled the hair seal apart. Half of the hair seal he pulled in pieces and scattered around. “This will be useful to all future people.” Out of this, also, poured the bones of two persons. Then he carried off half of the hair seal upon his shoulder and threw it down in the house. His father-in-law said: “Alas! he has killed my supernatural helper.” Again he lay with his wife behind the screens.
The day after that he said to his daughter: “Come! let your husband go and get my little eagle sitting yonder.” Again she did not want her husband to go, and he said to his wife: “Let me go as before. I will see the thing with which he is going to do it to me.” Then she said to her husband: “Go to it after its eye mucus has dropped four times.” [[243]]