Ted soon tired of watching the many things done with the whale, but there
was plenty to do and see in the village. The village houses were all
alike. There was one large room in which the people cooked, ate, and
slept. The girls had blankets strung across one corner, behind which were
their beds. Teddy was given one also for his corner of the great room in
the Tyee's house.

He learned to eat the food and to like it very much. There was dried
fish, herons' eggs, berries, or those put up in seal oil, which is
obtained by frying the fat out of the blubber of the seal. The Alaskans
use this oil in nearly all their cooking, and are very fond of it. Ted
ate also dried seaweed, chopped and boiled in seal oil, which tasted very
much like boiled and salted leather, but he liked it very well. Indeed he
grew so strong and well, out-of-doors all day in the clear air and bright
sunshine of the Alaskan June, that he could eat anything and tramp all
day without being too tired to sleep like a top all night, and wake ready
for a new day with a zest he never felt at home.

Fresh fish were plentiful. The boys caught salmon, smelts, and whitefish,
and many were dried for the coming winter, while clams, gum-boots,
sea-cucumbers, and devil-fish, found on the rocks of the shore, were
every-day diet.

Kalitan's sister and Ted became great friends. She was older than
Kalitan, and, though only fifteen, was soon to be married to Tah-ge-ah, a
fine young Indian who was ready to pay high for her, which was not
strange, for she was both pretty and sweet.

"At the next full moon," said Kalitan, "there will be a potlatch, and