***BEL-001*** BC001 THE SNENE'IQ BC00100010 A MAN AND HIS WIFE WERE IN THEIR HOUSE. THEIR CHILD WAS BC00100020 CRYING. THEN A SNENE'IQ CAME AND WANTED TO SHOOT THE CHILD. THEN BC00100030 THE MAN (WHOSE NAME WAS IA'LIT) SHOT THE SNENE'IQ AND KILLED HIM. BC00100040 HE DUG A HOLE IN THE GROUND AND BURIED HIM. WHEN THE YOUNG BC00100050 SNENE'IQ DID NOT RETURN HIS FATHER WENT DOWN THE RIVER AND CRIED. BC00100060 HE SAT DOWN AND CRIED. THE PEOPLE WHO WENT UP THE RIVER SAW HIM. BC00100070 THEY BECAME AFRAID AND RETURNED HOME. THEN IA'LIT WENT UP THE BC00100080 RIVER AND SAT DOWN WITH THE SNENE'IQ AND BEWAILED WITH HIM HIS LOST BC00100090 CHILD. WHEN THEY STOPPED THE SNENE'IQ SAID TO IA'LIT: "MY DEAR, BC00100100 I DESIRED TO CRY WITH YOU. I DO NOT KNOW WHERE MY CHILD IS. IT BC00100110 MAY BE IT IS DEAD. I WILL GIVE YOU MY CHILD'S COPPER AND YOU SHALL BC00100120 BE A CHIEF IN HIS PLACE. DO YOU SEE MY SON'S HOUSE. THERE IT IS." BC00100130 IA'LIT REPLIED: "I DO NOT SEE IT." "I WILL RUB OVER YOUR EYES, BC00100140 THEN YOU WILL SEE MY SON'S HOUSE." "NOW I SEE YOUR SON'S HOUSE." BC00100150 "I WILL GIVE YOU MY SON'S HOUSE, AND YOU WILL BE A CHIEF. FOUR BC00100160 TIMES YOU SHALL BUILD A HOUSE. NOW I WILL LEAVE THIS COUNTRY AND BC00100170 GO TO NAUS." IA'LIT FOUND SNENE'IQ'S HOUSE AND CARRIED IT DOWN THE BC00100180 RIVER. THE HOUSE WAS ON TOP OF THE MOUNTAIN. BC00100190 ***BEL-002*** BC002 WA'WALIS BC00200010 THE WIFE OF WA'WALIS AND HER CHILD WERE STAYING IN THE HOUSE. BC00200020 SHE DESIRED TO HAVE SEAL FLIPPERS TO EAT. ONE OF WA'WALIS' MEN WAS BC00200030 HER LOVER. WA'WALIS WENT HUNTING AND HIS YOUNG SLAVE STEERED HIS BC00200040 CANOE. HE WENT TO SHOOT MANY SEALS. HE SHOT A YOUNG SEAL, WHICH BC00200050 HE CUT UP AND BOILED AND COVERED WITH A MAT. WHEN IT WAS DARK HE BC00200060 LANDED NEAR HIS HOUSE. HE PUSHED HIS CANOE INTO THE WATER. HE BC00200070 WANTED TO WATCH HIS WIFE AND HER LOVER. AT MIDNIGHT HE ARRIVED BC00200080 AT THE BEACH IN FRONT OF THE TOWN. HE POINTED HIS BATON TOWARDS BC00200090 THE TOWN. THEN THE PEOPLE FELL ASLEEP. WA'WALIS' MAN SLEPT WITH BC00200100 HER IN THE HOUSE OF HER FATHER. WA'WALIS WENT TO THE HEAD PART OF BC00200110 HER BED AND SCRATCHED AT THE WALL. HIS WIFE SAID: "I WISH (THAT BC00200120 MOUSE) WOULD GNAW WA'WALIS' STOMACH." WA'WALIS GREW ANGRY. HE BC00200130 STRETCHED OUT HIS BATON AND THE WOMAN FELL ASLEEP. SHE SLEPT WITH BC00200140 HER LOVER. THEN WA'WALIS CAME AND ENTERED THE HOUSE. HE CUT OFF BC00200150 THE HEAD OF THE MAN. THEN HE WENT OUT OF THE HOUSE AND TOOK THE BC00200160 HEAD OF THE MAN ALONG. HE WENT FAR AWAY AND PUT THE HEAD INTO A BC00200170 BASKET. HE COVERED IT WITH SEAL MEAT. BC00200180 WA'WALIS' CHILD CRIED. THE BED OF THE CHILD WAS FULL OF THE BC00200190 BLOOD OF THE BEHEADED LOVER OF WA'WALIS' WIFE. SHE WASHED THE BC00200200 CHILD AND THE BED AND THE CHILD WENT TO SLEEP AGAIN. THEN SHE BC00200210 WRAPPED UP HER LOVER AND CARRIED HIM OUT OF HER BED AND OUT OF THE BC00200220 HOUSE. SHE COVERED HIM. BC00200230 (ON THE NEXT MORNING) THE MOTHER OF THE YOUNG MAN AROSE (AND BC00200240 TOLD) HIS YOUNGER BROTHERS TO WAKE HIM. (THEY CALLED HIM, BUT HE BC00200250 DID NOT STIR.) "WHY DON'T YOU UNCOVER HIM?" THE OLDEST ONE WENT BC00200260 AND UNCOVERED HIM. HE CRIED: "O, MY DEAR, HE HAS NO HEAD]" THE BC00200270 YOUTH CRIED AND THE PEOPLE ASSEMBLED. "OH, WA'WALIS' MAN HAS NO BC00200280 HEAD." NOW ALL THE PEOPLE OF THE TOWN HAD ASSEMBLED. THEN BC00200290 WA'WALIS CAME PADDLING. (THEY CRIED:) "PUT YOUR PADDLES DOWN, BC00200300 WA'WALIS] ONE OF YOUR MEN WAS (FOUND) WITHOUT HEAD WHEN THE SUN BC00200310 ROSE THIS MORNING." WA'WALIS ARRIVED, CARRYING THE BASKET, IN BC00200320 WHICH HE BROUGHT FOOD FOR HIS WIFE. "COME] TAKE THE BASKET AND BC00200330 FEED OUR PEOPLE" (HE SAID). SHE TOOK THE BASKET: "IS IT THIS BC00200340 (WHAT YOU WANT TO GIVE ME?" SHE ASKED). "NO, WHAT YOU LIKE TO HAVE BC00200350 IS BELOW." THEN SHE SAW THE HEAD OF HER LOVER. "WHY DO YOU CRY BC00200360 ON SEEING THIS?" WA'WALIS TOOK HIS CHILD. HE TOOK HIS COPPER AND BC00200370 HIS BATON AND WENT INTO HIS CANOE. THE PEOPLE OF THE TOWN PURSUED BC00200380 HIM. THEY WANTED TO KILL HIM. THEY CAME NEARER. WHEN THEY WERE BC00200390 NEAR HIM HE POINTED HIS BATON AT THEM AND HIS PURSUERS WERE DEAD. BC00200400 HE PADDLED ON THE FJORD TOWARDS THE SEA. THEY DID NOT REACH BC00200410 WA'WALIS. BC00200420 (SOON) WA'WALIS DISCOVERED A TOWN. SMOKE WAS RISING FROM ONE BC00200430 OF THE HOUSES ONLY. NOBODY WAS TO BE SEEN. HE SAW A MAN. BC00200440 WA'WALIS WISHED TO MARRY THE DAUGHTER OF THIS OLD, BLIND MAN. HE BC00200450 TOOK THE BOILED DRIED SALMON OF THE OLD MAN. THE LATTER COULD NOT BC00200460 FIND HIS SALMON AND SAID TO HIS DAUGHTER: "LOOK BACK, MY DEAR, BC00200470 SOMEBODY MUST BE IN THE TOWN AND IS PLAYING WITH MY FOOD." HE BC00200480 ALWAYS SAID SO, AND SHE REPLIED: "STOP] DO NOT TALK, MY DEAR]" BC00200490 BUT THEN SHE LOOKED BACK TOWARDS THE OLD MAN. (SHE SAW THE BC00200500 STRANGER AND SAID:) "YOU SPOKE THE TRUTH; A MAN IS NEAR YOU." BC00200510 WA'WALIS SAID TO THE OLD MAN: "I WISH TO MARRY YOUR DAUGHTER." "I BC00200520 WILL GIVE HER TO HIM WHO RESTORES MY EYESIGHT." "I WANT TO MARRY BC00200530 HER" (REPLIED WA'WALIS). "WHERE ARE ALL THE PEOPLE OF YOUR TOWN, BC00200540 MY DEAR?" "WHEN THEY WENT TO FETCH WATER, THAT BEING IN THE WATER BC00200550 DEVOURED THEM, MY DEAR. ARE YOU A SHAMAN?" "YES, I AM A SHAMAN." BC00200560 "THEN RESTORE MY EYESIGHT." "I SHALL RESTORE YOUR EYESIGHT." HE BC00200570 DID SO. THEN WA'WALIS' CHILD WISHED TO HAVE WATER. HE SENT HIS BC00200580 SLAVE AFTER WATER. THEN (THE MONSTER) SKYAMSKY DEVOURED HIM. BC00200590 WA'WALIS WENT OUT, POINTED HIS BATON AT IT, AND SKYAMSKY DIED. HE BC00200600 OPENED ITS BELLY (AND SAID): "COME, MY DEAR, AND LOOK AT YOUR BC00200610 PEOPLE. I WISH TO RESUSCITATE THEM." (THE OLD MAN SAID:) "THEY BC00200620 ARE NOT MY PEOPLE. DON'T SAY ANYTHING, THEY WILL BE YOUR SLAVES. BC00200630 THEY WILL BE YOUR SERVANTS." WA'WALIS WASHED THEM AND HEALED THEM. BC00200640 ONE OF THEM LIMPED (BECAUSE ONE OF HIS BONES WAS LOST). WA'WALIS BC00200650 FIRST WASHED HIS SLAVE AND HEALED HIM. THEN HE WASHED THOSE WHO BC00200660 HAD BEEN DEAD LONG AGO. THEY BECAME SLAVES OF WA'WALIS' WIFE. BC00200670 AFTER HE HAD FINISHED, WA'WALIS BUILT FOUR TIMES LARGE HOUSES, AND BC00200680 HE BECAME A GREAT CHIEF. BC00200690 ONCE UPON A TIME WA'WALIS' WIFE WENT TO WASH THE INTESTINES OF BC00200700 A SEAL. SHE LIKED ONLY ONE KIND OF FOOD. THEN THE KILLER WHALE BC00200710 CAME PADDLING AND TOOK HER IN HIS CANOE. "WA'WALIS] THE KILLER BC00200720 WHALE TOOK YOUR WIFE IN HIS CANOE." THEN WA'WALIS SAID TO HIS BC00200730 SLAVE: "COME, WE WILL FOLLOW HIM AND RECOVER MY WIFE." WA'WALIS BC00200740 WENT IN HIS CANOE AND PURSUED THE KILLER WHALE. HE STOPPED. THEN BC00200750 HE TOOK A ROPE AND THE SLAVE LET HIM DOWN. WA'WALIS JUMPED INTO BC00200760 THE WATER AND FOLLOWED HIS WIFE. WHEN HE ALMOST REACHED THE BOTTOM BC00200770 OF THE SEA IT GREW LIGHT, AND THE SUN WAS SHINING. WA'WALIS BC00200780 ARRIVED IN A COUNTRY AND SAW A STOUT OLD MAN WHO CHOPPED A TREE FOR BC00200790 FUEL. WA'WALIS HID IN THE TREE AND BROKE OFF THE POINT OF THE BC00200800 (SLAVE'S) WEDGE. THE OLD MAN CRIED: ANANAH. HE BECAME ANGRY ON BC00200810 ACCOUNT OF HIS WEDGE. (WA'WALIS SAID:) "OLD MAN, STOP CRYING. BC00200820 IF YOU SO DESIRE, I WILL REPAIR YOUR WEDGE. DON'T YOU KNOW ABOUT A BC00200830 WOMAN WHOM A MAN CARRIED AWAY IN HIS CANOE, MY DEAR?" "HE CARRIED BC00200840 HER INTO THE HOUSE, WHERE SHE IS SITTING NEAR THE FIRE IN THE BC00200850 HOUSE OF THE CHIEF. I AM GOING TO CARRY FUEL AND WATER INTO THE BC00200860 HOUSE. I SHALL MAKE A FIRE. YOU STAY BEHIND THE POST OF THE HOUSE BC00200870 AND WAIT. SHE WILL BE RIGHT THERE. THEN I SHALL POUR THE WATER BC00200880 INTO THE FIRE. AT THAT TIME YOU MUST GO AND TAKE YOUR WIFE." BC00200890 WA'WALIS WENT AND TOOK THE WOMAN. "COME, RISE. I AM WA'WALIS." BC00200900 SHE AROSE (AND THEY WENT OUT). THE STOUT MAN LAY DOWN ON THE BC00200910 THRESHOLD OF THE HOUSE (AND MADE HIMSELF SO BIG THAT THE KILLER BC00200920 WHALE COULD NOT LEAVE THE HOUSE). WA'WALIS TOOK HIS WIFE ALONG AND BC00200930 THEY RETURNED TO THEIR COUNTRY. WA'WALIS WAS THE FIRST TO CLIMB UP BC00200940 THE ROPE. HE SHOOK IT AND THEN THE WOMAN CLIMBED INTO THE CANOE. BC00200950 ONLY THE BONES OF THE SLAVE (WHOM WA'WALIS HAD LEFT IN THE CANOE) BC00200960 REMAINED. WA'WALIS HEALED HIM AND REVIVED HIM. THEN WA'WALIS BC00200970 PADDLED TO THEIR COUNTRY. THEY HAD BEEN AWAY ONE WINTER AND ONE BC00200980 SUMMER. THE PEOPLE ASSEMBLED AND HE BECAME A GREAT CHIEF IN THE BC00200990 COUNTRY OF HIS WIFE. BC00201000 ***BEL-003*** BC003 THE CREATION OF THE SALMON BC00300010 YULA'TIMOT AND MASMASALA'NIX COULD NOT FIND THE REAL SALMON. BC00300020 THEN THE RAVEN WENT TO FETCH THE SOUL OF THE SALMON. HIS YOUNGER BC00300030 SISTERS TSUASTE'LQS, STSUAK.TE'LAQS, X.ILX., AND ASKA.NIQS BC00300040 ACCOMPANIED HIM. THEY WENT PADDLING IN THEIR CANOE AND REACHED THE BC00300050 HOUSE OF THE SALMON. THE RAVEN HID HIS YOUNGER SISTERS BEHIND A BC00300060 POINT OF LAND. WHEN IT WAS DARK THEY WENT AND GNAWED HOLES THROUGH BC00300070 THE BOTTOMS OF THE CANOES OF THE SALMON. THE RAVEN WENT AND (THE BC00300080 SALMON) FED HIM. HE WANTED TO STEAL THE DAUGHTER OF THE SALMON. BC00300090 THE RAVEN LAY DOWN. WHEN IT GOT DAY HE AROSE. THEN THEY FED HIM BC00300100 AGAIN. WHEN THEY HAD FINISHED HE LOADED HIS CANOE. THE CHIEF GAVE BC00300110 HIM TRAVELING PROVISIONS. THE RAVEN SPOKE: "LET YOUR DAUGHTER PUT BC00300120 THEM INTO MY CANOE." THE RAVEN WENT INTO HIS CANOE. THE CHIEF'S BC00300130 DAUGHTER BROUGHT THE LOAD INTO THE CANOE. THEN HE TOOK HER (INTO BC00300140 THE CANOE) AND PADDLED AWAY. THEY ARRIVED AT (THE PLACE WHERE HE BC00300150 HAD LEFT) HIS YOUNGER SISTERS. THE GIRL'S FATHER CAME AND PURSUED BC00300160 THE RAVEN, BUT HIS CANOE FOUNDERED. THE RAVEN'S SISTERS HAD GNAWED BC00300170 IT THROUGH. THE RAVEN CAME TO NUXA'LK.. THEN HE THREW THE BC00300180 SALMON'S DAUGHTER INTO THE WATER, (AND SINCE THAT TIME) THERE ARE BC00300190 MANY SALMON IN THE RIVER. BC00300200 ***BEL-004*** BC004 THE DEER AND THE RAVEN BC00400010 A LONG TIME AGO THE CHILD OF THE DEER DIED. HE ALWAYS WAILED BC00400020 FOR HIS DEAD CHILD. "OH, MY CHILD IS DEAD. I WAIL FOR MY CHILD." BC00400030 THE RAVEN CAME, SAT DOWN BY HIS SIDE, AND CRIED: "LET US WAIL BC00400040 TOGETHER FOR YOUR CHILD, MY DEAR." THEN THE RAVEN BEGAN TO SING BC00400050 HIS WAILING SONG AND SAID: "YOUR LEGS ARE THIN." THE DEER SANG: BC00400060 "YOUR LEGS ARE LEAN." THE RAVEN WISHED TO HAVE THE DEER FOR FOOD. BC00400070 (HE SAID: "DON'T SCOLD ME," AND PUSHED HIM SO THAT THE DEER FELL BC00400080 DOWN THE PRECIPICE NEAR WHICH HE WAS SITTING.) HE BEGAN TO EAT HIM BC00400090 AT HIS ANUS. HE OPENED HIM AND SKINNED HIM. THEN HIS SISTERS CAME BC00400100 AND CARRIED THE DEER HOME. THEY CUT IT, BOILED IT AND IT SERVED AS BC00400110 THEIR FOOD. BC00400120 ***BEL-005*** BC005 THE ORIGIN OF THE MINK BC00500010 A LONG TIME AGO THE SUN BURNT EVERYTHING. T'OTQOA'YA BC00500020 (MYTHICAL NAME OF MINK) BURNT EVERYTHING. HE AROSE IN THE MORNING BC00500030 AND WENT TO GET FUEL. AT NOON THE SUN BURNT EVERYTHING AND MANY BC00500040 PEOPLE DIED. MANY PEOPLE (JUMPED INTO THE WATER AND) SWAM. THEN BC00500050 SNX BROKE THE BONES OF HIS SON, HE THREW HIM DOWN (FROM THE SKY) BC00500060 AND HE BECAME A MINK. BC00500070 NOTE.--THIS REFERS TO THE TRADITION OF MINK OR T'OTQOA'YA, WHO BC00500080 WAS THE SON OF THE SUN GOD (SNX) AND OF A WOMAN. HE WAS MALTREATED BC00500090 BY MEN AND VISITED HIS FATHER IN THE SKY, ASCENDING TO HEAVEN IN BC00500100 ONE VERSION ON THE RAYS OF THE SUN, SNX'S EYELASHES; IN ANOTHER BC00500110 VERSION ALONG A CHAIN OF ARROWS WHICH HE HAD MADE. HE CARRIED THE BC00500120 SUN IN HIS FATHER'S PLACE, BUT DISOBEYED THE INSTRUCTIONS OF THE BC00500130 LATTER, APPROACHING TOO NEAR THE EARTH. THEN THE WOODS BEGAN TO BC00500140 BURN, THE ROCKS TO CRACK AND THE WATER TO BOIL. SNX CAUGHT HIS BC00500150 SON, FLUNG HIM DOWN AND TRANSFORMED HIM INTO THE MINK. BC00500160 ***BEL-006*** BC006 THE CREATION OF THE SUN BC00600010 SNX HAD FOUR DAUGHTERS. THE RAVEN WENT. (HE TRANSFORMED BC00600020 HIMSELF INTO A) SPIKE, WHICH DROPPED INTO THE WATER, (FROM WHICH) BC00600030 THE ELDEST DAUGHTER OF SNX USED TO FETCH WATER. SHE DRANK THE BC00600040 WATER AND SWALLOWED THE SPIKE. SHE BECAME PREGNANT AND AFTER FOUR BC00600050 DAYS SHE GAVE BIRTH TO THE YOUNG RAVEN. THE LITTLE RAVEN WISHED BC00600060 FOR THE BOX IN WHICH THEY KEPT THE DAYLIGHT. (IT WAS DARK IN THE BC00600070 PAST. THERE WAS NO SUN AND IT GREW DAYLIGHT WHEN THE RAVEN WENT BC00600080 UP. HE WANTED TO HAVE EVERYTHING IN THE PAST.) HE WISHED TO PLAY BC00600090 WITH THE LITTLE BOX OF THE FATHER. THEN SNX SAID TO HIS CHILD: BC00600100 "HE WISHES TO PLAY WITH THE BOX." (SHE GAVE IT TO HIM) AND HE BC00600110 PLAYED WITH THE BOX. THEN THE RAVEN STOPPED CRYING AND PLAYED WITH BC00600120 THE BOX. (HE FINALLY TOOK IT OUT OF THE HOUSE AND BROKE THE BOX. BC00600130 THUS THE SUN WAS LIBERATED.) BC00600140 ***BEL-007*** BC007 THE BOY AND THE SALMON BC00700010 THE FATHER (OF A YOUTH) BROUGHT HIM ALWAYS FOOD. THEN HIS BC00700020 STEPMOTHER GREW ANGRY. WHEN (THE FATHER) GAVE HER TO EAT SHE THREW BC00700030 THE FOOD WHICH HE HAD PRESENTED TO HER DOWN. SHE SCOLDED HIS SON. BC00700040 THEN THE YOUTH GREW ANGRY AND LEFT. HE (WENT INTO THE WOODS) BC00700050 WITHOUT KNOWING WHERE HE WENT. HE WENT ON AND HE TRIED TO SHOOT A BC00700060 BIRD. HIS (ARROW) HIT A SALMON. HE HEARD THE SALMON CRY. WHEN BC00700070 THE YOUTH CAME TO THE SALMON THE LATTER SAID: "THROW ME INTO THE BC00700080 WATER." THE YOUTH TOOK HIM AND THREW HIM INTO THE WATER. THE BC00700090 SALMON JUMPED (BUT DID NOT SWIM RIGHT). THEN THE SALMON TOLD THE BC00700100 YOUTH TO LOOK FOR ONE OF HIS BONES (WHICH WAS MISSING). AT FIRST BC00700110 THE YOUTH DID NOT FIND THE BONE OF THE NAPE OF THE SALMON, BUT THEN BC00700120 HE FOUND IT. HE GAVE IT TO HIM AND THREW HIM (AGAIN) INTO THE BC00700130 WATER. NOW HE WAS PERFECT. THEN THE SALMON CAME ASHORE IN HIS BC00700140 CANOE. HE WENT DOWN TO THE CANOE. THE SALMON TOLD THE YOUTH TO BC00700150 LIE DOWN AND TO PULL HIS BLANKET OVER HIS HEAD. "DON'T UNCOVER BC00700160 YOUR HEAD," SAID THE SALMON "I SHALL AWAKE YOU WHEN WE COME TO A BC00700170 TOWN." THEY WENT AND ARRIVED AT THE TOWN OF THE BIRDS BC00700180 T'EX.LALA'TX. THEY WENT ON AND ARRIVED AT THE TOWN OF THE BIRDS BC00700190 T'EX.LALA'TX. THEY WERE SINGING ALL THE TIME. THE SALMON SAID: BC00700200 "WHEN YOU LIKE A COUNTRY YOU MUST TELL ME." NOW HE LIKED THIS ONE. BC00700210 THEY LANDED AND WENT TO THE HOUSE OF THE BIRD. THEN THEY WENT ON BC00700220 AND PADDLED. THEY ARRIVED AT THE HOUSE OF THE BIRD QULEXLELE'TS, BC00700230 AND SHE WAS A PRETTY WOMAN. THEY LEFT AND WENT ON. THEY ARRIVED BC00700240 AT A TOWN (WHERE THERE WAS) THE HOUSE OF THE BIRD QOAQOA'OS. THEY BC00700250 WENT ASHORE AND THE YOUTH WENT INTO HER HOUSE. HE SAID: "SHE IS BC00700260 PRETTY," AND HE MARRIED HER. THE SALMON FORBADE IT AND SAID: BC00700270 "NOBODY SURVIVES WHO MARRIES THE BIRD QOAQOA'OS." THE YOUTH, BC00700280 HOWEVER, WENT TO HER AND LAY DOWN. IT GOT DAY AND HE AROSE. HE BC00700290 WAS NOT DEAD. THEY DEPARTED FOR THE HOUSE OF THE SQAPTS. THE BC00700300 LATTER SAID: "A STRANGER LANDED." THEN THEY WENT ON AND CAME TO BC00700310 THE FISH SAML. THEY LANDED AND THE YOUTH SAID: "THIS IS A GOOD BC00700320 COUNTRY. HERE ARE PRETTY GIRLS." THEY AVOIDED THE HOUSE OF THE BC00700330 FISH T'LI. THEY LEFT HER AND SHE LAUGHED. THEN THE YOUTH AND THE BC00700340 SALMON SAID: "THEY ARE GLAD AND MAKE MERRY IN THIS TOWN. THEY ARE BC00700350 LAUGHING." THEY WENT ON AND REACHED THE HOUSE OF THE K.'APAI' BC00700360 SALMON. HER TOWN WAS BAD. THEY WENT ON TO THE HOUSE OF THE SILVER BC00700370 SALMON AND LANDED. THEY LOOKED ABOUT AND THE YOUTH AND THE SALMON BC00700380 SAW THE PLACE WHERE THE WOMEN WENT BATHING. A MAN WAS SITTING AT BC00700390 AT THE BANK OF THE POND. THE YOUTH EXCHANGED CLOTHS WITH HIM. BC00700400 THEN THE GIRLS CAME AND BATHED. THEY WENT INTO THE WATER AND THE BC00700410 YOUTH WASHED THEM, BUT THEY RECOGNIZED HIM. THEY RAN AWAY AND BC00700420 CRIED. THEY WERE AFRAID. THEN THEY RETURNED TO THE HOUSE OF THE FISH BC00700430 SAML. THE YOUTH MARRIED HER. HE THOUGHT HE HAD STAYED AWAY ONE BC00700440 NIGHT, BUT IT WAS TWO SEASONS. THE YOUTH HAD TWO CHILDREN. NOW BC00700450 THE SALMON MADE HIS CANOE READY AND THEY WENT TO VISIT THE HOUSE OF BC00700460 THE YOUTH'S FATHER. THEY ARRIVED THERE AND FOUND THE YOUTH'S BC00700480 FATHER SITTING AT HIS SALMON WEIR CRYING. THEN THE YOUTH PULLED BC00700490 THE ROPE AND LIFTED THE NET. THE FATHER RECOGNIZED HIS SON. HE BC00700500 SAW HIM AT THE SALMON WEIR. THEN ALL THE PEOPLE CAME TO THE HOUSE BC00700510 OF THE OLD MAN. THE YOUTH TOLD HIM TO CLEAN IT. THEN HE ENTERED BC00700520 THE HOUSE OF HIS FATHER, AND HE RELATED TO ALL OF THEM: "THE BC00700530 SALMON DESIRES TO HAVE CEDARBARK." IT IS SAID THAT THE SALMON EAT BC00700540 IT. (HE STAYED THERE WITH HIS WIFE AND HIS CHILDREN.) THEN THE BC00700550 (OTHER) CHILDREN QUARRELED AND FOUGHT WITH THEM. THEN SHE GREW BC00700560 ANGRY AND DESERTED HER HUSBAND. BC00700570 ***BEL-008*** BC008 THE ASCENT TO HEAVEN BC00800010 (TWO BROTHERS BUILT) A HUT FOR HUNTING (BIRDS) ON A RIVER. BC00800020 THEY SHOT BIRDS. ONE OF THEM WISHED TO GO UP TO SEE THE SUN. BC00800030 (WHEN HE REACHED THE SKY) HE SAW DUCKS. HE FOUND SOMETHING BC00800040 SUPERNATURAL. (THE DUCKS WERE BLIND.) HE CURED THEM BY SPITTING BC00800050 ON THEIR EYES. THEN THEY REGAINED THEIR EYESIGHT. THEY CALLED HIM BC00800060 SMOQ'OA'NS. HE RETURNED AND HIS YOUNGER BROTHER SAW HIM. HE WENT BC00800070 AND TOLD THEIR FATHER: "I SAW MY ELDER BROTHER." "WHY DO YOU TELL BC00800080 SUCH LIES," REPLIED THE FATHER. "I SPEAK THE TRUTH." "THEN CALL BC00800090 HIM." "HE SAYS HE WILL NOT COME. HE DOES NOT WANT TO ENTER A BC00800100 DIRTY ROOM. HE WILL COME AND ENTER WHEN IT IS CLEAN." THE FATHER BC00800110 INVITED THE PEOPLE AND THEY CLEANED THE HOUSE. THE PEOPLE WASHED BC00800120 THEMSELVES. WHEN THEY WERE READY HE CAME. HE ENTERED. HE BC00800130 INFORMED THEM HOW HE HAD FOUND A SUPERNATURAL HELPER. HE WISHED TO BC00800140 SHOW HIS POWER TO THEM AND KILLED MANY DUCKS BY THE AID OF HIS BC00800150 SUPERNATURAL HELPER, AND HE GAVE THE MEAT TO THE PEOPLE OF HIS BC00800160 TOWN. THAT IS ALL. THEN HE WISHED TO RETURN TO THE SUN. HIS BC00800170 YOUNGER BROTHER CRIED AND WISHED TO ACCOMPANY HIM, BUT HE DID NOT BC00800180 WANT HIM TO GO. HE LEFT HIM AND DID NOT RETURN. HE BECAME A BC00800190 SUPERNATURAL BEING. HE THREW DOWN BIRDS AND MADE US INDIANS HAPPY. BC00800200