Then he took his arrows. His father-in-law said that they pushed the eagle down with a pole. Then he went thither. After its eye mucus had dropped four times he shot it up through the belly. He went to the other side also and shot it from that side as well. But it did not do anything, they say.
Then he scattered half of it around. “All future people will make use of you.” And he carried half of it off on his shoulders. The bones of two persons came out. Then he threw it into the house. His father-in-law said: “Alas! he has killed my supernatural helper.” And again he lay with his wife.
Next day he said to his daughter as before: “Come! my child, let your husband go and get my little clam on the point.” And again she went to her husband. Still he started thither. And she gave her husband directions: “Go to it after it has spit out water four times.” And his father-in-law said: “They get it by means of a stick.”
Then he gave him a digging stick, and he went thither. After it had spit up water four times, he went to it and started to get it with a stick; he suddenly found himself in its mouth.
When he thought of his father’s supernatural helpers, they came to him holding flat, broad clubs. They struck on its ligaments (lit., “eyes”),[14] and they pulled him out. Then he scattered half of it around. “All future people will make use of these,” he said. He took half of it, went home with it, and threw it down in the house. “Alas! he has killed my supernatural helper.” Again he lay with his wife.
The day after that he had a fire lighted. They rubbed hard, white stones together, and it burned.[15] He told them to put stones into it. At once they did so. When they became hot they put them into a stone box lying near the door. Then his father-in-law told him to get in. At once he stood up and, after he had spit medicine upon himself four times, he sat in it. It was cold.
Then they put the box cover over it. After he had sat there for a while he tapped upon the side of it. Then he (his father-in-law) made a noise at him with his lips. He said: “I guess I have killed him.”
By and by he stood up, throwing his hair back out of it. And he kicked the box to pieces and threw the pieces around the side of the house toward the door. His father-in-law became ashamed. He had destroyed his ten supernatural helpers. After that his mind became good toward him.[16]
The devilfish he killed was in the cave at Skedans point, they say. And his father-in-law, Many-ledges, was a cliff behind the town of Skedans.
His mind had become changed toward him. After he had stayed with his wife for a while he told his wife he wanted to return home. Then she told her father, and her father said: “Now, my child, go [[244]]with your husband. Just outside is a canoe.” Then her husband went out. There lay an old canoe out from between the cracks of which grass was growing.