See [notes] to [preceding story]. [[290]]
[1] Compare [preceding story]. [↑]
[2] On the west coast of Prevost island. It was owned by the G̣ᴀ′ñxet-qē′g̣awa-i, and this is the story of its foundation. [↑]
[3] The Haida word is ʟ̣a (see the story of [The one abandoned for eating the flipper of a hair seal], note [8]). [↑]
The story of those who were abandoned at Stasqa′os
[Told by Abraham of Those-born-at-Qꜝā′dᴀsgo, to whom it was related by an old Ninstints man]
Some people were abandoned at Stasqa′os, including a man, his wife, and his mother-in-law. The latter owned some salmon eggs. When it became cold and he was very hungry he wished his mother-in-law would cut them open, and he brought in firewood. After he had built a large fire he thought he would get something from his mother-in-law. He was unsuccessful. He was hungry many mornings and brought firewood to his mother-in-law, all the time expecting to get the salmon eggs.
By and by, when the snow was gone, he sent his wife out to get spruce roots for himself. While his wife was digging spruce roots she heard a puppy bark within the earth. Then she started to dig it out. She dug out a little puppy. And she went home with it. Then they reared it. It grew up very fast.