[1] Sqa-i and Stasqa′os are town sites lying very near to each other and close to Cape St. James. ↑ [a] [b]
[2] See the story succeeding. It is said that this has now become a high place from the amount of earth thrown into it. [↑]
[3] Nor that killer whales are always in love with common whales. [↑]
[4] According to the shamans this was because the supernatural beings did not want anything dirty, like human beings, upon them. The man who told this story asserted that he had felt a reef shake under him, as here described. [↑]
He who was abandoned by his uncles
[Told by Abraham, of Those-born-at-Qꜝā′dᴀsg̣o, to whom it was related by an old Ninstints man.]
A man, along with his sister, was abandoned by his nine uncles. They built a small house under a tree. He lived in this with his sister. After they had lived there for a while two ravens came flying from the west coast. Then they sat on a branch of the tree below which they lived and wiped their bills. Afterward they flew back in the direction from which they had come. They disappeared over the mountain.
After this had happened many times while they were living there they began to be suspicious. Then they conferred with each other. He asked his sister to go with him in the direction the ravens always took when they flew over. Immediately they started up in the bed of Stasqa′os creek.