_Haida_
Crow made a great feast. He invited all the people, and he invited
Raven. But Raven refused. Raven wanted all the feast of hemlock-bark
cakes and cranberries.
Before they began eating, Raven ran into the woods. He made rotten
trees into ten canoes. Then he put in spruce cones, standing them up
along the middle of the canoes. Raven put grass tops into their
hands for spears. Raven walked near them, with his blanket wrapped
tightly around him. The canoes came around the point, terrible to
behold! Men were standing in lines along the middle of the canoes.
The people fled at once. They left their feast. Then Raven went into
the house and ate the cakes of hemlock bark and cranberries. He ate
and he ate! When the canoes landed they were washed about by the
waves.