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was so determined, however, that he finally went out and was killed. Then the other brothers and the dog fell upon this man. After they had set their dog on him, they killed him. They took his bear-skin shirt off and burned his body. Lq laya k ! had been torn all to pieces, but KAcklA i.k! put the pieces together, acted around him like a shaman, and brought him back to life.

Then Lqlaya/k! went along up to the head of that stream dressed in One-legged-man s shirt and acting like him. When he got there he found the largest two bears that ever lived. These were the wife and father-in-law of the man they had killed. Lqlaya k! threw down one salmon before the woman and another very bright one before her father just as One-legged-man had been in the habit of doing. The woman found out right away that Lq laya k! was not her husband, but she made love to him and he took her as his wife. His father-in-law also thought a great deal of him. Every morning Lq laya k! would go off down stream after salmon just as One-legged-man .had done. On these expeditions he was always accompanied by his dog, which kept chewing on something continually. He was really chewing those wild peoples minds away to make them tame so that they would not hurt Lq!aya k! s brothers. His brothers all came to him.

After that they began pursuing Dry-cloud like Fire-drill's son. Like him they chased it from one kind of animal to another. They chased it for months and months until they had followed it far up into the sky where you can see the tracks of Lq!aya k! to this very day (the milky way). Finally they reached a very cold region in the sky and wanted to get back, but the clouds gathered so thickly about them that they could not pass through. KAck U/Lk !, therefore, called his spirits to open a passage. After they had done so his brothers fell through and were smashed to pieces on the earth. KAck ! A Lk !, how ever, had his spirits make him enter a ptarmigan (q!es!awa ), and reached the earth in safety. Then he shook his rattle over his brothers and brought them to life.

Before they ascended into the sky the brothers had killed all of the monsters on Prince of Wales island and elsewhere in Alaska except one at Wrangell called KAxqoye nduA. When they heard about this one, they went to He-who-knows-everything-that-happens (Liu wAt-uwadji gi-canA k u ) and said to him, " Grand father, we want your canoe. Will you lend it to us?" Its name was Arrow-canoe (Tcu net-yak u ). Then the old man said, "What do 3^011 want the canoe for, grandchildren?" So they told him, and he said, "There is a very bad thing living there. No one can get to him. Several different kinds of spirits are to be met before you reach him. They are very dangerous." Then he gave them directions, saying, "When the monster is sleeping, he has his eyes open, but when he is awake he has his eyes closed, and he is then watching everything. When you