They went, went, went for a while, after which they came in sight of something white in the ocean like a mountain, and he let him look out at it. He said to him: “Big-tail, there is the house of my elder brother,” whereupon a strong wind arose, and they returned. They barely got home safe.
Then they dried themselves around the fire in the house of Supernatural-being-people-always-go-to. They talked with one another about it. He was among them. Then he said to him: “Big-tail, when another good day comes, come to go with me again.” [[301]]
Some time afterward he went to his town again. And, when he entered, he asked him: “Big-tail, will you go with me again?” “Yes,” he said to him. At once they started off again. After they had paddled seaward for a while he said his house had again come in sight. He let him look out. In truth his great white house appeared at intervals over the waves. And again a strong wind arose from the house. It drove them back again.
And, when they again got into the house, he called to him: “Big-tail, do not go with me again. My elder brother refuses to let you see the inside of his house. That is why the wind is high for us. Do not go with me again.” That was the only one among the supernatural beings whose house he was unable to see. His name was “Chief.”[24]
Some time after he got back Yä′yū[25] spoke through him. He made things happen by speaking through him. Four whales floated about. He did the same thing to him as the neighboring supernatural being had done. “Let me go, for I want to see why a drum sounds in the house of Supernatural-being-looking-landward (another name for Yä′yū).”
Then he lay down. He lay there for a while and entered his house. Then some persons, with their fins together, stirred up soapberries in something made of great boards painted on the outside, they used to say.[25] They looked like Peninsula-point[26] soapberries, yet they were different. Now he came home.
He spoke through him for a while longer. Then he became lame. And, after he had sat in the house for a while, he said: “Let me go down to see why a drum is sounding in the house of Supernatural-being-looking-landward.” Then he chewed tobacco, lay down, and continued there for a while.
Now, when he entered his house, Supernatural-being-looking-landward said to him: “I am glad to see you, Big-tail.” In those words he said he was glad to see him. At this time they raised up the stuff they were stirring up with a stick, and it stuck to it. Before he had eaten of that he went up, and, when he awoke, he said: “Why did I come away so soon? I ought to have eaten whale tongue with them.”
After he had sat there for another space of time, he said: “I wonder why a drum has been sounding in the house of Supernatural-being-looking-landward. Let me go down again.”
Then he chewed tobacco, and, while he lay there, he got into his house. Even while he was in the doorway he called to him: “Wait, Big-tail, you better not go up from me. I will invite the supernatural beings.”