[53] Certain rocks at this place are said to be the bundles of cedar bark which the birds left there. [↑]
[54] This sentence was contributed by an old woman of the Stᴀ′stas family living at Skidegate. She said that the meaning of qᴀlaastī′s had been forgotten, but thought that Raven used it because he was hungry. [↑]
[55] Or Master Canoe-builder, a favorite Haida deity. [↑]
[56] Here Raven is called Wī′gît, a name by which he is sometimes known, especially when he is identified with the being who determines the length of a child’s life when it is born. [↑]
[57] I do not know the English equivalent. They are described as birds like ducks and as having white spots. [↑]
[58] Therefore it is always roily about the places where herring are spawning. [↑]
[59] The beginning of this episode seems to have been omitted. Eagle caught a black cod, which is full of grease, while Raven caught a red cod, which has firmer, drier flesh. [↑]
[60] The old man first started the story at this point, but next morning he said that he had been talking over the proper place to begin with an old woman, and at once recommenced as in this text. Perhaps the real reason was that he disliked to start in immediately with a stranger at the beginning of the “old man’s story,” which is the most venerated part of the whole. [↑]
[61] An exclamation indicating that great crowds turned out. [↑]