After he was able to fly to some height he said: “I am going to kill Qꜝā′g̣awa-i.” Then his uncle said to his mother: “Put charcoal on the lips of that boy who is talking.” At once his mother did so to him. They were afraid to mention the name of Qꜝā′g̣awa-i near the fire. They were afraid that “Woman-under-the-fire” would take [[205]]over to him the boy’s words. He sat around with charcoal upon his lips.[50]
After that the town people went to Qꜝā′g̣awa-i to get shell-fish, and his mother was with them. Then he cried after them. He was faint from crying. Now he told them plainly that he was going to kill Qꜝā′g̣awa-i. Then they took him with them. They fastened a weasel skin in his hair, and he took his copper bow and arrows.
After they had gathered mussels at the island for a while, they went off home from him. In that place he sang songs, and he beat upon the edges of his canoe with his bow, in lieu of a drum. They were unable to stop him. And when they went off from him he again sang the song.
At that time Qꜝā′g̣awa-i came after them. Then the canoe went into its mouth. And he came to himself in its belly, put on his halibut skin, and swelled up in its stomach. He killed it.
All of its five fins had the figures of human beings at the base. At that time he showed himself to be Stone-ribs. He told them that he was the son of Djila′qons. At that time he told them the crests they would use.
Then he traveled around the west coast, wearing the halibut skin. Now a big mountain called “Looking-at-his-own-shadow” called him in. He entered his house, and he was glad to meet him. After he had given him some dried food he gave him half of a whale to eat. When he had finished eating and was about to go out Looking-at-his-own-shadow laughed at him. Then he said: “Door, shut yourself.” And the stone hanging door fell. Now there was no way for him to go out.
Then, right in the house, he put on his halibut skin. And, after he had flopped around for a while, he got his fins under the edges of the hanging door and threw it up with his tail. When it fell back it broke. He shut all sorts of supernatural beings in, and they were entirely unable to get out. Only he (Stone-ribs) did it.
After that he entered the house of “Sunshine-on-his-breast.” He, however, treated him well. After he had been given something to eat, he went out of his house.
After that he entered Tcꜝī′da’s house.[51] He, too, was good to him. Then he had on the Qꜝā′g̣awa-i skin and let himself be seen by the town people. That is why those born at Kaisun wear the Qꜝā′g̣awa-i as a crest.
When he started to leave that place, they told him that Greatest-crab lived in the channel between the two islands. Still he went thither. Just as he had heard, it opened its claws for him. And, when he passed over it, it cut through the fins along the edges of his halibut skin with its teeth. Then Stone-ribs was sorry for this and went back to it. He swallowed the crab. [[206]]