He also made the dog. It was at first a human being and did everything Raven wanted done, but he was too quick with everything, so Raven took him by the neck and pushed him down, saying, "You are nothing but a dog. You shall have four legs."
One time Raven came to a certain thing called fat-on-the-sea (yīkatāỵî′), which stuck out of the ocean. He kept saying to it, "Get down a little," so it kept going under the surface. But every time it came up he took his paddle and cut part off. It did this seven times, but, when he spoke to it the eighth time, it went down out of sight, and he never saw it again.
As he was traveling along in another place, a wild celery came out, became angry with Raven, and said, "You are always wandering around for things to eat." Then he named it wild celery (yā′naet) and said to it, "You shall stay there, and people shall eat you.
Once he passed a large tree and saw something up in it called cAxdA q. Raven called out "Caxda′q," and it shouted back, "You Raven." They called back and forth to each other for some time.
[Advenit in alium locum et alligavit aliquid circum caput ostrei, quod protrudebat ex arena. Appellavit idem Ldas-qe t (viri pudenda).]
SUPPLEMENTARY TO STORY 1
Near a bay not far from KotsIe L! there used to be a sea-water pond in which lived a beaver. Raven very much wanted to get at this beaver and kill it, so he dug two trenches in order to drain the lake at low tide. After the water had run out through them, and the beaver had become visible at the bottom, he let down a kind of hook and pulled it up.
Raven had tried every sort of thing as a post under this earth. Last of all he caught this beaver and made the post out of the bone of its foreleg [which is very solid]. That is why the world is now stand ing. Old-woman-underneath (Hayica/nak! u ) attends to this post, but, when she is hungry, the earth shakes. Then people put grease into the fire and it goes to her.
After he had killed the beaver Raven killed also a big whale and got his people to tow it to the place where the beaver had formerly lived. He got four large canoes full of people to tow it up the rapids in one of the canals he had then made. After they had labored for many days, they became tired, and he said to them, "Take it easy .". Finally he himself became tired and said, "Turn into stone." All did so, and to this day you can see a large island there shaped like a whale and a string of four smaller islands extending out from one end of it.
Raven named several places in this neighborhood. One was Qag u Antoqa ; (A-hidden-person) ; another Tsetk! (Little Ladder),
