By and by, when day began to break, they were looking on. Presently the Raven called. It was daylight. But then they discovered him enter and lie down under it.[19] Then he came to have his place under it (the island).

Then they went for Fast-rainbow-trout[20] and Marten. And they put a string on him (Fast-rainbow-trout) and sent him up with it. Then it was not long enough. He spliced hemlock roots to it. Marten went down with the lower end.[21]

Now the supernatural beings separated, leaving the town of X̣ᴀ′i­na[22] for the various places they had already talked about settling in.

Now Stone-ribs traveled about upon this island. After he had traveled for some time he entered the house and said to his mother: “Mother, toward Cape G̣ᴀ′ñxet[23] some one calls for me, weeping.” And next day he went about upon this island hunting birds. He went about upon it as one does upon something small.

And again he said to his mother: “Mother, she calls, wailing for me as if she would never cease.” Then he said to her: “I will go and help her.” And she said to her son: “Don’t, chief, don’t; they might call you skᴀ′mdal.”[24] “That is all right, mother; I am going to help her.”[25]

Then, very early next day, he started off again, passed Qꜝā′dᴀsg̣o,[26] went around Skedans point, and came to Broken-shells-of-the-supernatural-beings. At that time he took quicker steps. Then he ran over to Village-that-stretches-itself-out. And he went along down the inlet. Then he came near some white shells. Seaward, to his surprise, an eagle was trying to catch something and almost succeeded several times.

Then he looked at it. Again it almost caught it in its flight. And after he had thought about it he went down to it. And, when he got there, a halibut was swimming about in the standing water. There were stripes of copper along its edges. Out of its nose hung a weasel. Now he caught the halibut in his hands. He was very glad to have it. And when he was going to split it around the edges with his finger nails it thundered; and when he was about to do the same thing along [[196]]the under side it again thundered; and when he was about to split it along its upper surface it again thundered and lightning shot about. Then he [split] it along its tail; and when he had finished skinning it he put it on.

Then he went into the pond before him. Bullheads shot away from him. When he opened his mouth, lo! the bullheads all went into it. And he opened his mouth. From his mouth they came strongly and quickly. They floated about dead. He got out of it and put it in his armpit.

He had two coats. He had a copper coat and he had a marten-skin coat. Before he started off, he practiced before his mother with them on, and, when he nearly burst his mother’s house by swelling up, she cried to him to stop.