After that his sister Siwa′s planted Indian tobacco in front of White inlet. And, while it was yet in the garden, he calcined shells. But before he pulled the tobacco out he became angry with the calcined [[138]]shells and threw them away. Where the calcined shells were the surface of the rocks is white.
There he went out fishing for his sister. He threw the halibut ashore. There is high, level land there called “Halibut’s place.” He named places, too, as he went along. “Your name will be like this; you will be called so-and-so,” he said as he went. Then he passed over one place, and it called after him: “What shall my name be?” Then he said to it in the Ninstints dialect: “Your name will be ‘Salt Stone,’ you common object.”
Then he set out to spear Bad Weather (Tcꜝī′g̣a). He made a spear with a detachable point. He used strong gut for cord. And he saw its head pass. Then he speared it. And it tugged him about in a sitting posture. He kept hold of the cord and was pulled out to a reef lying in front. After he had been pulled about there a while the spear point broke. [The string] struck on the face of a declivity. There the rocks show a white streak.
When he went away he stuck an eagle’s tail feather [into a certain place]. That is called “Eagle’s-tail-feather-stuck-in.”
After that he was love-sick for his uncle’s wife. Then he sat there singing a song, at the same time striking his head upon the rocks for a drum. There he made a hole. That place is called “Moving-the-back-part-of-the-head-about-while-singing.”
[Told by Abraham of Those-born-at-Qꜝā′dᴀsg̣o]
One time, when he was going along with his cousin, he came to an island of ʟꜝkꜝia′o.[86] At once he went out and ate them. After he got through eating, he went back toward shore with his cousin. And when they became thirsty he said to his cousin: “Take one stroke in the water, cousin.” As soon as he did so they came to Standing-water creek, which was very far away. Where he drank there, there is a water hole of the shape of his bill.
This is why, when people travel by canoe on the west coast, the country is easy for them (i.e., they travel about easily). The place where he and his cousin ate ʟꜝkꜝia′o is called “Pulled-off-with-the-teeth.”[87]
[Told by Tom Stevens, chief of Those-born-at-House-point]
When he (Raven) first started traveling about, numbers of persons lay along the ground, acting as if ashamed. Then he pulled them upright as he ran along. These were the mountains.