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12 After this was over he thought up a plot against the killer whales and sent an invitation to them. Then he told each of his people to make a cane that would reach very much above his head. So, when the killer whales came in and inquired, &quot;What do the people use those canes for that extend up over their heads?&quot;, he replied, &quot;They stick them down into their heads.&quot; They asked him several times, and he replied each time in the same way. After a while one of the whales said, &quot;Suppose we try it.&quot; Raven was glad to hear that and said, &quot;All right, we will try it with you people, but the people I have invited must not look when I put a cane into anyone's head.&quot; Then he went away and whittled a number of sticks until they were very sharp. After that he laid all of the killer whales on the beach at short distances apart, and again he told them not to look up while he was showing one how it was done. Then he took a hammer or maul and drove his sticks into the necks of these whales one after the other so that they died. But the last one happened to look up, saw what was being done, and jumped into the ocean.

[Now Raven and another person started to boil out the killer- whales grease, and the other man had more than he. So Raven dreamed a dream which informed him that a lot of people were coming to fight with him, and, when such people really did make their appearance, he told his companion to run out. After he had done so,- Raven quickly drank all the latter s grease. By and by, however, the man returned, threw Raven into a grease box, and shut him in, and started to tie it up with a strong rope. Then Raven called out, &quot; My brother, do not tie the box up very strongly. Tie it with a piece of straw such as our forefathers used to use.&quot; The man did so, after which he took the box up on a high cliff and kicked it over. Then Raven, breaking the straw, flew out, crying Ga.&quot; When he got to the other side of the point, he alighted and began wiping himself.]

Next he came to a large whale blowing along out at sea, and noticed that every time it came up, its mouth was wide open. Then Raven took a knife and something with which to make fire. When the whale came up again he flew into its mouth and sat down at the farther end of its stomach. Near the place where he had entered he saw something that looked like an old woman. It was the whale s uvula (Anu t!ayi). When the whale came up, it made a big noise, the uvula went to one side and the herring and other fish it lived on poured right in. Then Raven began eating all these things that the whale had swallowed, and, presently, he made a fire to cook the fat of the whale itself that hung inside. Last of all he ate the heart. As soon as he cut out this, the whale threw itself about in the water and soon floated up dead. Raven felt this and said, &quot;I wish it