And again he called to his sister: “Sister, pour some water into another of your mother’s boxes.” Then she again poured some into one. He got into it and stretched his knees out in it. He broke that, too, at the joints.
And again he called to his sister: “Sister, pour some water into another.” Then he broke that also at the joints. He did the same thing to another one. He broke four with his knees.
Then he went into the sea. After he had remained there for a while something just touched him. He reached for it. He seized the tail of a flounder. Now he called to his sister: “Sister, roast and eat this.”
And after he had been in the water a while longer something again touched him. He reached for it. He seized half a halibut and threw it over to his sister. Then he said to his sister: “Roast that. Do not steam it.” [[191]]
He seized a porpoise tail and a white porpoise[2] tail. After he had taken all kinds of sea animals he also threw up a whale’s tail. And he said to his sister: “Steam that one however.”
After he had been in the water a while longer something touched him. He reached for it. He felt nothing. And, when the same thing happened again, he grasped farther away. Then his hand nearly slipped off from [the something], and he seized it in both hands. When the something had pulled him out of Skidegate inlet he tried to stop at Łg̣a′-ixa,[3] but then something cracked at the bottom of the island. He held something nice which was almost transparent, and put it around his head. That was Łg̣o′tg̣o-g̣ao[4] (the hair of him who tries the supernatural powers of men).
After he had put it around his head he swam up the inlet. He swam in front of Gū′łga[5] and passed over to Xā′na.[6] The water was shallow and broad like a lake, and he traced a channel in it with his hand and remained at its mouth.
After he had remained in the water for a while something came walking toward him, making a booming sound as it advanced. Some one stood on the shore opposite him. On the right side he held a knot and a branch of g̣ōdañxō′sgî.[7] On the other side he carried a piece of common seaweed and some kwē′aogia′g̣adañ.[8]
“Come hither, grandson.” At once he went to him. Then he said to him: “Now, grandson, turn your breast (or ‘face’) to me.” Immediately he turned his breast to him. He struck him with the knot. It was as when something is rubbed into fine pieces. And he struck him with the g̣ōdañxō′sgî. It became like the other. Then he said to him: “Now, grandson, turn your back to me.” And so he did. He struck him with the kwē′aogia′g̣adañ. He did not feel it. Then he struck him with the seaweed. He nearly knocked him over. Far off he recovered his balance.
“Wait a while, grandson. We will wrestle with (lit., “feel”) each other,” he said to him. “Now, grandson, let us try each other.” And they laid hold of each other. After he (the man) had shoved him about he almost threw him down. Then he turned away smiling. “Grandson, yours has more strength. Swim down the inlet.”