[13] The supernatural beings had old shells only. [↑]
[14] This exclamation indicates the length of time he had been absent. [↑]
[15] That is, all ten canoes were lashed together by means of two long poles placed one from bow to bow, another amidships. [↑]
[16] The wife of the younger son was so powerful that he could not injure them. [↑]
[17] They came out alternately from either half of him. [↑]
[18] Gada′-i, the word used here, is one often employed in addressing a woman of the upper classes. [↑]
[19] The Haida supposed that supernatural beings called human beings “human servants” (xa′-idᴀ gī′djats), “human slaves” (xa′-idᴀ xᴀldā′ñg̣ats), or “common surface birds” (xa′-iʟa xetî′t gī′da-i). When he appears upon the ocean clothed in cumulus clouds people may go out fishing because it will then be calm. [↑]
[20] Urine was formerly used for washing. [↑]
[22] My interpreter added the bracketed section to complete the story. Just such a shoal is marked upon the Admiralty charts, and perhaps it is the one here referred to. [↑]