***COM-001*** CO001 THE LEGEND OF KUMSNOOTL. CO00100010 KUMSNOOTL (OUR ELDER BROTHER) DESCENDED FROM HEAVEN AND CO00100020 WANDERED ALL OVER THE EARTH, ACCOMPANIED BY PA (THE RAVEN), KAIQ, CO00100030 (THE MINK), AND TSECELETL, (A SMALL BIRD). ONCE UPON A TIME THEY CO00100040 MET A MAN CALLED KOALAWAISIT. HE KNEW THAT KUMSNOOTL WOULD COME TO CO00100050 HIS HOUSE AND WANTED TO KILL HIM. FOR THAT PURPOSE HE MADE A LARGE CO00100060 PILE OF WOOD IN HIS HOUSE AND INVITED KUMSNOOTL AND PA FOR DINNER. CO00100070 WHEN THEY HAD ENTERED THE HOUSE HE LIGHTED THE FIRE AND THREW BOTH CO00100080 HIS GUESTS INTO THE ROARING FLAMES. KUMSNOOTL, HOWEVER, SLIPPED CO00100090 INTO A LOG AND PREVENTED ITS CATCHING FIRE, ALTHOUGH THE WOOD WAS CO00100100 ABLAZE ALL AROUND IT; THE RAVEN MADE HIS ESCAPE THROUGH THE SMOKE CO00100110 HOLE. AFTER THE FIRE HAD BURNT DOWN, KUMSNOOTL LEFT THE LOG IN CO00100120 WHICH HE HAD BEEN HIDDEN; HE THREW A MAGIC HERB UPON KOALAWAISIT, CO00100130 WHO WAS TRANSFORMED INTO STONE. CO00100140 AND KUMSNOOTL PURSUED HIS WAY. AT QUSAM (SALMON RIVER) HE MET CO00100150 COCENEUS, WHO WAS COVERED ALL OVER WITH MOUTHS, AND LAUGHING CO00100160 INCESSANTLY, MADE AS MUCH NOISE AS THOUGH HUNDREDS OF MEN WERE CO00100170 TALKING AND LAUGHING. WHEN KUMSNOOTL SAW HIM HE SAID: "IT IS NOT CO00100180 GOOD THAT YOU MAKE SO MUCH NOISE," AND TRANSFORMED HIM INTO A CO00100190 STONE, WHICH MAY BE SEEN AT QUSAM UP TO THIS DAY. CO00100200 HE PURSUED HIS WAY. AFTER A SHORT WHILE HE MET A MAN CALLED CO00100210 KOMA (GADUS SP.), WHO WAS A MIGHTY SORCERER. KUMSNOOTL SAID UNTO CO00100220 HIS COMPANION: "DON'T LET US APPROACH HIM; I AM AFRAID OF HIM." CO00100230 THEN KOMA LAUGHED AND SAID: "WHY ARE YOU AFRAID OF ME? IS IT CO00100240 BECAUSE I AM A MIGHTY SORCERER? I DO NOT HURT ANYBODY, I ONLY CO00100250 ENJOY THE FINE WEATHER." KUMSNOOTL, HOWEVER, WHO FEARED SOME CO00100260 MISCHIEF, FLUNG HIM INTO THE SEA. HE TRANSFORMED HIM INTO A FAT CO00100270 FISH WITH A SHORT TAIL, AND SAID: "AS YOU HAVE BEEN A MIGHTY CO00100280 SORCERER MAN SHALL USE YOU FOR CURING THE SICK." THEREFORE THE FAT CO00100290 OF THE FISH IS BOILED OUT AND USED FOR MEDICINE. CO00100300 AND KUMSNOOTL WENT TO KODJOMEN. THERE HE MET A WOMAN WHO SANG CO00100301 TO THE MOUNTAIN KOKUANAN, WHICH IS NEAR BY: "OH, MOVE ASIDE THAT I CO00100310 MAY LOOK PAST YOU. MY CHEEKS ARE SORE WITH THE TEARS THAT HAVE RUN CO00100320 DOWN THEM, FOR SORROW THAT I CANNOT LOOK PAST YOU." WHEN KUMSNOOTL CO00100330 ARRIVED THE MOUNTAIN KOKUANAN WAS ASHAMED OF ITS UNKINDNESS AND CO00100340 MOVED ASIDE. CO00100350 AFTER HAVING TRAVELLED A WHILE KUMSNOOTL REACHED A PLACE WHERE CO00100360 A MONSTER OF THE SHAPE OF A HUGE SQUID LIVED IN A LAKE. IT CO00100370 DEVOURED EVERY PERSON WHO DARED TO FETCH WATER FROM THE LAKE. ALL CO00100380 THE PEOPLE HAD DIED OF THIRST. AN OLD MAN AND HIS GRANDSON WERE CO00100390 THE ONLY SURVIVORS. EVERY DAY THE OLD MAN WENT TO THE ISLAND OF CO00100400 MITLNATC AND CAUGHT A SUPPLY OF RED COD. HE BOILED OUT THE FAT AND CO00100410 THEY USED IT INSTEAD OF WATER. WHEN KUMSNOOTL HEARD OF THESE CO00100420 EVENTS HE RESOLVED TO KILL THE MONSTER. HE ORDERED HIS COMPANIONS CO00100430 TO START A FIRE AND TO THROW FLAT STONES INTO IT. AFTER THEY HAD CO00100440 BECOME RED-HOT HE PUT ONE UPON HIS HEAD FOR A HAT AND COVERED HIS CO00100450 WHOLE BODY WITH THE OTHERS. THEN HE TOOK A BUCKET, DESCENDED TO CO00100460 THE LAKE AND PLAYED IN THE WATER TO ATTRACT THE MONSTER'S CO00100470 ATTENTION. IT ROSE AT ONCE TO THE SURFACE AND STRETCHED OUT ITS CO00100480 LONG ARMS INTENDING TO DRAG KUMSNOOTL INTO THE DEPTHS, BUT AS SOON CO00100490 AS ITS SUCKERS TOUCHED THE RED-HOT STONES THEY FELL OFF. WHEN THE CO00100500 SQUID DISCOVERED THAT IT COULD NOT OVERCOME KUMSNOOTL IT JUMPED CO00100510 UPON HIS HEAD AND IT HAD ALMOST CONQUERED HIM. THE HOT STONE, CO00100520 HOWEVER, WHICH KUMSNOOTL WORE ON HIS HEAD, SAVED HIM AND KILLED CO00100530 THE MONSTER. KUMSNOOTL CUT IT TO PIECES AND THREW THE LATTER INTO CO00100540 THE SEA SPEAKING: "AS YOU HAVE EATEN MEN, HENCEFORTH MEN SHALL EAT CO00100550 OF YOU." THEY WERE TRANSFORMED INTO SQUIDS. HE FLUNG THE STOMACH CO00100560 UPON THE LAND WHERE IT WAS TRANSFORMED INTO A LARGE BOULDER; THE CO00100570 HEAD HE SUNK INTO THE SEA NEAR CAPE MUDGE, WHERE IT STILL PRODUCES CO00100580 DANGEROUS WHIRLPOOLS AND RAPIDS. CO00100590 AND KUMSNOOTL TOOK HIS PAINT POT AND PAINTED ALL MEN WITH GAY CO00100600 COLORS AND TRANSFORMED THEM INTO BIRDS. WHILE HE WAS THUS OCCUPIED CO00100610 PA CRIED: "OH, THAT IS NICE, PAINT ME TOO, BUT I WANT TO LOOK GAY CO00100620 AND PRETTY." KUMSNOOTL GOT ANGRY AND PAINTED HIM ALL BLACK. CO00100630 THEREFORE THE RAVEN IS BLACK. CO00100640 AT THAT TIME THE TIDE FLOWED ALWAYS IN THE SAME DIRECTION CO00100650 THROUGH SEYMOUR NARROWS. KUMSNOOTL MADE IT TURN TWICE EVERY DAY. CO00100660 ***COM-002*** CO002 THE GUM AND THE SUN. CO00200010 A LONG TIME AGO THE GUM WAS A BLIND MAN CALLED MOMHANATC. AS CO00200020 HE COULD NOT ENDURE THE HEAT OF THE SUN HE FISHED AT NIGHT. EARLY CO00200030 IN THE MORNING, WHEN THE DAY BEGAN TO DAWN, HIS WIFE CALLED HIM CO00200040 SAYING: "COME HOME, THE SUN IS GOING TO RISE." THUS HE RETURNED CO00200050 BEFORE IT GREW WARM. ONCE UPON A TIME HIS WIFE SLEPT TOO LONG, AND CO00200060 WHEN SHE AWOKE SHE SAW THAT IT WAS DAYLIGHT. SHE RAN TO THE BEACH CO00200070 AND CRIED: "OH MOMHANATC] COME HOME, THE SUN IS HIGH UP IN THE CO00200080 SKY." MOMHANATC HASTENED TO REACH HOME BUT IT WAS TOO LATE. THE CO00200090 HOT RAYS OF THE SUN MADE HIM MELT ERE HE WAS ABLE TO REACH THE CO00200100 SHORE. THEN HIS TWO SONS WERE SAD AND THEY SAID UNTO ONE ANOTHER: CO00200110 "WHAT SHALL WE DO? WE WILL AVENGE THE DEATH OF OUR FATHER." AND CO00200120 THEY RESOLVED TO CLIMB UP INTO THE SKY AND TO KILL THE SUN. THEY CO00200130 WENT TO THE PLACE WHERE THE SUN RISES AND BEGAN TO SHOOT THEIR CO00200140 ARROWS TOWARD THE SKY. THE FIRST ARROW STUCK IN THE SKY. THE CO00200150 SECOND ARROW HIT THE NOTCH OF THE FIRST ONE AND STUCK IN IT. THUS CO00200160 THEY CONTINUED UNTIL A LONG CHAIN WAS FORMED REACHING FROM HEAVEN CO00200170 TO EARTH. THE ELDER BROTHER SHOOK IT TO TEST ITS STRENGTH. WHEN CO00200180 HE FOUND IT SAFE AND SOUND THEY CLIMBED UP TO HEAVEN. AFTER HAVING CO00200190 REACHED THE SKY THEY KILLED THE SUN WITH THEIR ARROWS. THEN THEY CO00200200 THOUGHT: WHAT SHALL WE DO NEXT? AND THE ELDER BROTHER SAID, "LET CO00200210 US BECOME THE SUN," AND HE ASKED THE YOUNGER ONE. "WHERE DO YOU CO00200220 INTEND TO GO?" THE LATTER RESPONDED: "I WILL GO TO THE NIGHT, CO00200230 GO YOU TO THE DAY]" AND THE YOUNGER ONE BECAME THE MOON, THE ELDER CO00200231 ONE THE SUN. CO00200240 ***COM-003*** CO003 TLAIK. CO00300010 THERE WAS A MIGHTY CHIEF IN HEAVEN NAMED TLAIK. HE HAD TWO CO00300020 BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTERS AND MANY YOUTHS CAME TO WOO THEM. TLAIK, CO00300030 HOWEVER, KILLED ALL THEIR SUERS. AT THE SAME TIME THERE LIVED A CO00300040 MIGHTY CHIEF ON EARTH, CALLED AIELEN (FAIR WEATHER), WHO HAD TWO CO00300050 SONS. EARLY IN THE MORNING THE YOUTHS USED TO GO INTO THE WOODS, CO00300060 AND WHEN THEIR FATHER ASKED THEM WHAT THEY WERE GOING TO DO THERE, CO00300070 THEY SAID THAT THEY WANTED TO LIGHT A LARGE FIRE. BUT THEY DID NOT CO00300080 SPEAK THE TRUTH. IN REALITY THEY DUG OUT FERN ROOTS AND ATE THEM. CO00300090 AT LAST THEY HAD EATEN SO MUCH THAT THE FINE ROOTS BEGAN TO GROW CO00300100 OUT OF THE INTERSTICES BETWEEN THEIR FINGERS. WHEN AIELEN SAW THIS CO00300110 HE GOT ANGRY AND SAID: "DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME WITH USELESS CO00300120 OCCUPATIONS. YOU HAD BETTER GO AND MARRY TLAIK'S DAUGHTERS. DON'T CO00300130 YOU KNOW THAT ALL YOUTHS WOO THEM?" THEN THE BROTHERS TOOK THEIR CO00300140 BOWS AND FLEW ARROWS AGAINST THE SKY. THUS THEY MADE A CHAIN CO00300150 REACHING FROM THE SKY TO THE EARTH. THE ELDER BROTHER SHOOK IT IN CO00300160 ORDER TO TRY ITS STRENGTH. WHEN HE FOUND THAT IT WAS FIRM AND CO00300170 STRONG THE YOUTHS CLIMBED UP AND HAVING CREPT THROUGH A HOLE IN THE CO00300180 HEAVENLY VAULT, FOUND THEMSELVES IN TLAIK'S LAND. THEY FOUND A CO00300190 TRAIL WHICH THEY FOLLOWED, AND WHILE WANDERING THEY SPOKE UNTO ONE CO00300200 ANOTHER: "WE WILL MARRY TLAIK'S DAUGHTERS AND MAKE HIM ASHAMED OF CO00300210 HIMSELF." AIELEN THOUGHT HIS SONS WERE DEAD, AND HE CRIED WITH CO00300220 GRIEF. CO00300230 AFTER THE YOUNG MEN HAD GONE A SHORT WHILE THEY MET A NUMBER CO00300240 OF BLIND WOMEN WHO SAT AROUND A FIRE AND COOKED A MEAL OF YOUNG CO00300250 SPROUTS (PEKCIN). WHEN THE MEAL WAS READY ONE OF THEM DISTRIBUTED CO00300260 IT AMONG THE REST. THE ELDER BROTHER STEPPED UPON HER BLANKET CO00300270 WHILE THE YOUNGER TOOK THE FULL DISHES FROM HER HANDS AND PUT THEM CO00300280 IN THE FOLD OF HIS BLANKET. WHEN THE WOMAN HAD DISTRIBUTED ALL THE CO00300290 FOOD SHE ASKED HER COMPANIONS: "HAVE YOU ALL HAD YOUR SHARE?" CO00300300 THEY REPLIED: "NO, YOU DID NOT GIVE US ANYTHING." THEN SHE KNEW CO00300310 THAT SOMEBODY HAD TAKEN THE DISHES FROM HER AND SHE SAID: "A CO00300320 STRANGER MUST BE HERE WHO TOOK THE DISHES OUT OF MY HAND," AND ALL CO00300330 THE WOMEN SAID: "OH STRANGER, HAVE MERCY UPON US, TAKE THE CO00300340 BLINDNESS FROM OUR EYES." THE BROTHERS CHEWED CERTAIN ROOTS AND CO00300350 SPIT INTO THE EYES OF THE WOMEN. THEN THEIR EYESIGHT WAS RESTORED; CO00300360 THEY WERE TRANSFORMED INTO DUCKS AND FLEW AWAY. THE ONE ALONE, CO00300370 UPON WHOSE BLANKET THE YOUNG MAN HAD STEPPED, WAS UNABLE TO FLY CO00300380 AWAY. HE ASKED HER: "WHERE IS TLAIK'S HOME? WE WANT TO MARRY HIS CO00300390 DAUGHTERS." THE DUCK REPLIED: "TLAIK IS A BAD MAN; HE KILLS ALL CO00300400 THE SUERS OF HIS DAUGHTERS. IF YOU REALLY INTEND TO MARRY THEM YOU CO00300410 HAD BETTER SEE YOUR GRANDFATHER FIRST. HE WILL GIVE YOU MEDICINE CO00300420 THAT YOU MAY NOT BE CONQUERED BY TLAIK." CO00300430 THE YOUTHS FOLLOWED THE DUCK'S ADVICE. THEY WENT ON AND CO00300440 ARRIVED AT THE HOUSE OF THEIR GRANDFATHER PACIN (ONELEG, THE CO00300450 CRANE). AS HE WAS NOT IN THEY WENT IN SEARCH OF HIM. ON THEIR WAY CO00300460 THEY MET THE SNAKE AND TOOK ITS BLANKET. WHEN THEY DESCRIBED THEIR CO00300470 GRANDFATHER STANDING AT A BROOK, WHERE HE WAS FISHING, THEY ASSUMED CO00300480 THE SHAPE OF SALMON BY PUTTING ON THE BLANKET OF THE SNAKE. THEY CO00300490 SWAM TO THE PLACE WHERE THEIR GRANDFATHER STOOD HOLDING HIS HARPOON CO00300500 READY FOR FLINGING IT. WHEN THEY CAME NEAR HIM THEY STOPPED CO00300510 SWIMMING. AS SOON AS HE SAW THE TWO SALMON HE FLUNG HIS HARPOON AT CO00300520 THEM, HIT BOTH WITH A SINGLE STROKE AND PULLED THEM ON SHORE. CO00300530 WHILE HE TURNED AROUND TO GET HIS FISH CLUB, INTENDING TO KILL THE CO00300540 FISH, THEY TRANSFORMED THEMSELVES INTO HIS GRANDSONS AND LAUGHED CO00300550 HEARTILY AS THEY HAD THUS DECEIVED THEIR GRANDFATHER. "OH, MY CO00300560 GRANDSONS" SAID PACIN, "WHERE DO YOU COME FROM, WHERE ARE YOU CO00300570 GOING?" "WE WANT TO MARRY TLAIK'S DAUGHTERS, " REPLIED THE YOUTHS. CO00300580 "THEN ACCOMPANY ME TO MY HOME, THAT I MAY MAKE YOU STRONG," SAID CO00300590 ONELEG. HE LED THE WAY AND THE YOUNG MEN FOLLOWED HIM. WHEN THEY CO00300600 ARRIVED HE SAID: "FIRST, TLAIK WILL OFFER YOU A PORCUPINE FOR A CO00300610 SEAT. SIT DOWN ON THIS STONE THAT YOU MAY BE ABLE TO STAND THE CO00300620 TEST." THUS SPEAKING HE LET THEM SIT DOWN ON A SLAB OF SLATE, AND CO00300630 THEIR SEATS WERE TRANSFORMED INTO STONE. HE ANOINTED THEIR BODIES CO00300640 WITH THE JUICE OF A MAGIC HERB, AND THREW A BLACK STONE (MESAIS, CO00300650 BASALT) INTO THE FIRE, AND WHEN IT HAD BECOME RED HOT HE PULLED IT CO00300660 OUT WITH A PAIR OF TONGS AND PLACED IT INTO THE MOUTHS OF THE CO00300670 YOUTHS. BEFORE DOING SO HE HAD ORDERED THEM TO MAKE A QUICK JUMP CO00300680 AS SOON AS HE WOULD LET GO THE STONE. THEY OBEYED, AND THE STONE CO00300690 FELL THROUGH THEM WITHOUT DOING ANY HARM. HE SHOWED THEM THE WAY CO00300700 TO TLAIK'S WELL AND TOLD THEM THAT THEY WOULD FIND THE GIRLS THERE. CO00300710 HERE THEY CLIMBED A TREE AND SAT WAITING ON THE BRANCHES. CO00300720 AFTER A SHORT WHILE THE GIRLS CAME OUT OF THE HOUSE SINGING: "NOT CO00300730 TLEQELEN'S (BAD WEATHER) SONS SHALL BE OUR HUSBANDS, AIELEN'S SONS CO00300740 SHALL COME AND MARRY US." THE YOUNG MEN WERE VERY GLAD WHEN THEY CO00300750 HEARD THIS SONG. ON THE FOLLOWING MORNING THE GIRLS AGAIN CAME TO CO00300760 THE WELL TO FETCH WATER. WHEN THEY STOOPED THEY SAW THE IMAGES OF CO00300770 THE YOUTHS IN THE WATER AND THEY BEGAN TO CRY, AS THEY BELIEVED CO00300780 THEY WERE DEAD AND LAY ON THE BOTTOM OF THE WELL. ONE OF THE CO00300790 YOUTHS SPIT INTO THE WATER TO ATTRACT THEIR ATTENTION, AND NOW THEY CO00300800 SAW THE TWO YOUNG MEN SITTING ON THE BRANCHES OF THE TREE AND THEIR CO00300810 HEARTS WERE GLAD. THE YOUTHS JUMPED DOWN; THE ELDER ONE TOOK THE CO00300820 ELDER OF THE SISTERS, THE YOUNGER THE YOUNGER, AND THEY WENT CO00300830 TOGETHER INTO THE HOUSE. CO00300840 THEY REACHED THE HOUSE AND TLAIK OFFERED THEM A PORCUPINE FOR CO00300850 A SEAT. AS THEIR SEATS WERE OF STONE THEY WERE NOT HURT. THEN HE CO00300860 PUT SOME RED-HOT STONES INTO THEIR MOUTHS. THEY GAVE A HIGH JUMP CO00300870 AS THEIR GRANDFATHER HAD TAUGHT THEM, AND THEY WERE NOT HURT. THE CO00300880 HEARTS OF THE GIRLS WERE GLAD WHEN THEY SAW THAT AIELEN'S SONS HAD CO00300890 STOOD THE TEST. IN THE NIGHT THE YOUNG MEN MADE THE GIRLS BITE THE CO00300900 WEDGES AND THEN TURNED OUT THEIR TEETH. WHEN, ON THE NEXT MORNING, CO00300910 TLAIK FOUND THAT THE YOUTHS WERE STILL ALIVE, HE GOT VERY ANGRY AND CO00300920 RESOLVED TO DO AWAY WITH THEM IN SOME OTHER WAY. CO00300930 HE HAD HEWN DOWN A TREE AND WAS ENGAGED IN CUTTING IT INTO CO00300940 BOARDS. ONE DAY HE ASKED HIS SONS-IN-LAW TO HELP HIM. THEY, CO00300950 HOWEVER, SUSPECTED HIS BAD INTENTS AND WENT FIRST INTO THE WOODS TO CO00300960 THEIR GRANDFATHER, TAMTAM (A BIRD), AND ASKED HIM FOR HIS BLANKET. CO00300970 HE GAVE IT TO THEM. THIS AND WHITE AND RED PAINT THEY TOOK ALONG CO00300980 TO THE TREE. WHEN THEY ARRIVED THEY SAW THAT TLAIK WAS ABOUT TO CO00300990 SPLIT THE TREE BY MEANS OF WEDGES. HE BEGAN TO RAM IN A NEW WEDGE CO00301000 AND SUDDENLY HE LET GO HIS STONE HAMMER WHICH FELL RIGHT INTO THE CO00301010 OPEN CRACK. HE ASKED THE YOUTHS: "OH, CRAWL IN THERE AND GET MY CO00301020 HAMMER." THEY DID AS THEY WERE BIDDEN. AS SOON AS THEY HAD CO00301030 ENTERED THE CRACK TLAIK PUSHED OUT THE WEDGE, AND THE TREE SNAPPED CO00301040 TOGETHER WITH GREAT FORCE. THE YOUTHS, HOWEVER, PUT ON TAMTAM'S CO00301050 BLANKET AND FLEW AWAY IN THE SHAPE OF BIRDS, WHILE THEY LEFT THE CO00301060 PAINT IN THE TREE. THE LATTER OOZED OUT OF THE CRACK, AND TLAIK CO00301070 BELIEVED IT TO BE THE BRAINS AND THE BLOOD OF THE YOUTHS. HE CO00301080 RETURNED HOME FULL OF JOY THAT HE HAD KILLED HIS SONS-IN-LAW. WHAT CO00301090 WAS HIS SURPRISE WHEN HE FOUND THEM SITTING SAFE AND SOUND BY THE CO00301100 SIDE OF THE FIRE. HE WAS DEEPLY ASHAMED. CO00301110 AND HE THOUGHT AGAIN AND AGAIN, HOW HE MIGHT BE ABLE TO KILL CO00301120 HIS SONS-IN-LAW. EARLY ONE MORNING HE FLUNG HIS DOG INTO THE SEA CO00300130 AND TRANSFORMED IT INTO A DIVER. THEN HE CALLED THE YOUNG MEN WHO CO00301140 WERE STILL ASLEEP, AND SAID: "COME HERE AND CATCH YON BIRD." THE CO00301150 BROTHERS TOOK BOW AND ARROWS, RAN TO THE BEACH AND SHOT THE DIVER. CO00301160 BUT, ALTHOUGH THEY HIT HIM AGAIN AND AGAIN, THEY WERE UNABLE TO CO00301170 KILL HIM, AND HE GRADUALLY SWAM AWAY FROM THE BEACH. TLAIK SAID: CO00301180 "LAUNCH YOUR LITTLE BOAT AND PURSUE HIM. YOU WILL EASILY GET HOLD CO00301190 OF HIM." THEY OBEYED HIM AND PURSUED THE BIRD, WHICH LED THEM FAR CO00301200 INTO THE SEA. THEN TLAIK SUMMONED THE WIND AND A HEAVY GALE AROSE CO00301210 WHICH THREATENED TO DESTROY THE BOAT. THE YOUTHS, HOWEVER, BEGAN CO00301220 TO SING AND BEAT THE TIME ON THE GUNWALE. AT ONCE IT WAS CALM AND CO00301230 FAIR ALL AROUND THE BOAT; FOR THEY WERE AIELEN'S (FAIR WEATHER) CO00301240 SONS. THEY RETURNED HOME AND, ALTHOUGH THE GALE WAS RAGING CO00301250 FURIOUSLY, CALMS PREVAILED WHEREVER THEIR BOAT WENT. CO00301260 THE YOUTHS RESOLVED TO TAKE REVENGE UPON TLAIK IF HE SHOULD CO00301270 ATTEMPT AGAIN TO HARM THEM. THE NEXT MORNING TLAIK CALLED THEM: CO00301280 "COME ALONG, WE WILL GO RED COD FISHING." THE YOUNG MEN FIRST CO00301290 CALLED UPON THEIR GRANDFATHER, KULSKULS, (A DIVER), AND BORROWED CO00301300 HIS BLANKET. BESIDES THIS THEY TOOK ALONG SOME GUM WHICH THEY CO00301310 MOULDED INTO WHALES, SHARKS AND SEA-LIONS. WHEN THEY HAD ARRIVED CO00301320 ON THE FISH-BANK TLAIK WAS THE FIRST TO THROW HIS HOOK. THE YOUNG CO00301330 MEN THOUGHT: "OH, MIGHT THE HOOK CATCH THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA." CO00301340 THEY HAD HARDLY THOUGHT SO WHEN TLAIK'S HOOK BECAME ENTANGLED CO00301350 AMONG THE SEAWEED AND BOULDERS OF THE GROUND. NOW THEY THREW THEIR CO00301360 GUM INTO THE SEA AND THE LITTLE FIGURES WERE TRANSFORMED INTO CO00301370 WHALES, SHARKS AND SEA-LIONS, WHICH PLAYED ALL AROUND TLAIK'S BOAT. CO00301380 THE YOUNG MEN ASSUMED THE SHAPE OF DIVERS AND RETURNED HOME. CO00301390 TLAIK WAS SO MUCH FRIGHTENED WHEN HE SAW ALL THIS, THAT HE CO00301400 FELT VERY SICK. HE LAY IN THE HOUSE NEAR HIS FIRE THAT WAS BURNING CO00301410 LOW, AS HIS SUPPLY OF WOOD WAS WELL NIGH EXHAUSTED. HE SENT HIS CO00301420 SONS-IN-LAWS INTO THE WOODS TO FETCH FUEL. THEY OBEYED AND CO00301430 WENT TO SEE THEIR GRANDFATHER, THE WOODPECKER. THEY ASKED HIM: CO00301440 "LET THE BARK OF THE TREE FALL DOWN." THE WOODPECKER COMPLIED WITH CO00301450 THEIR REQUEST AND A LARGE PIECE OF BARK FELL DOWN. THEY CARRIED IT CO00301460 HOME AND BROKE IT INTO MANY PIECES. THEY GAVE A SMALL FRAGMENT TO CO00301470 TLAIK'S YOUNGEST SON AND BID HIM TAKE IT TO HIS FATHER. THE BOY CO00301480 OBEYED. WHEN TLAIK SAW HOW LITTLE IT WAS THEY HAD GIVEN HIM HE GOT CO00301490 VERY ANGRY, FOR HE WANTED TO HAVE AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE FOR MAKING A CO00301500 LARGE FIRE. WHEN HIS SON, HOWEVER, BEGAN TO BREAK UP THE BARK, IT CO00301510 RAPIDLY INCREASED AND FINALLY FILLED THE WHOLE HOUSE. CO00301520 ONE DAY TLAIK LONGED TO HAVE CRANBERRIES, ALTHOUGH IT WAS CO00301530 MIDWINTER. THE YOUNG MEN WENT TO SEE THEIR GRANDFATHER (ANOTHER CO00301540 WATER-FOWL) AND ASKED HIM TO WHISTLE. HE COMPLIED WITH THEIR CO00301550 REQUEST, AND WHEN HE WHISTLED THE SHRUBS BEGAN TO SPROUT. WHEN HE CO00301560 CONTINUED WHISTLING THEY BEGAN TO BLOSSOM, AND AT LAST THEY BORE CO00301570 FRUIT. THE YOUNG MEN GATHERED A SMALL BUCKETFUL AND CARRIED IT CO00301580 HOME. THEN THEY ATE AWAY AS THEIR HEARTS DESIRED. WHEN TLAIK SAW CO00301590 THIS HE ASKED FOR SOME BERRIES. HIS SONS-IN-LAW GAVE HIM A SMALL CO00301600 DISH FULL--BUT WHEN HE BEGAN TO EAT HE FOUND THAT THE DISH NEVER CO00301610 BECAME EMPTY. AT LAST HE GOT IMPATIENT AND FLUNG THE DISH TO THE CO00301620 GROUND. AT ONCE A CRANBERRY-BUSH GREW OUT OF HIS NAVEL. CO00301630 ANOTHER DAY TLAIK ASKED THE YOUNG MEN TO CATCH THE WOODPECKER. CO00301640 THEY WENT TO THEIR GRANDFATHER, THE WOODPECKER, AND WHEN THEY CO00301650 CARRIED HIM HOME THEY WHISPERED IN HIS EAR: "PICK OUT TLAIK'S CO00301660 EYES, BUT TORMENT HIM FIRST." WHEN THEY ARRIVED IN THE HOUSE THE CO00301670 WOODPECKER HOPPED UPON TLAIK'S STOMACH AND BEGAN PICKING. CO00301680 GRADUALLY HE PROCEEDED TOWARD HIS HEAD CONTINUALLY PICKING HIM. AT CO00301690 LAST HE ARRIVED AT HIS HEAD AND ALTHOUGH TLAIK TURNED HIS HEAD TO CO00301700 THE RIGHT AND TO THE LEFT TO ESCAPE THE WOODPECKER THE LATTER CO00301710 PICKED OUT HIS EYES. CO00301720 FINALLY TLAIK WANTED TO HAVE THE AIHOS (THE DOUBLE-HEADED CO00301730 SNAKE), WHICH WAS TO KILL THE BROTHERS. THE YOUNGER ONE CAUGHT IT CO00301740 AND WHILE CARRYING IT HOME WHISPERED IN ITS EAR: "KILL TLAIK." CO00301750 THE AIHOS OBEYED. ONE OF ITS HEADS DEVOURED HIM, BEGINNING AT THE CO00301760 HEAD, THE OTHER BEGINNING AT THE SEAT. THUS HE DIED. THE BROTHERS CO00301770 THREW HIS CORPSE DOWN UPON THE EARTH. CO00301780 ***COM-004*** CO004 TLAIK. (ANOTHER VERSION OF THE TRADITION.) CO00400010 TWO YOUNG MEN, THE SONS OF AIELEN, (AIELEN IS THE NAME OF THE CO00400020 SUN WHEN SPOKEN OF AS A HUMAN BEING), WENT IN THEIR BOAT TO CATCH CO00400030 BIRDS. WHEN THEY HAD LEFT THE LAND FAR BEHIND THEY COMMENCED CO00400040 FLYING THEIR ARROWS TOWARD THE SKY AND CONTINUED TO DO SO UNTIL A CO00400050 CHAIN OF ARROWS WAS FORMED REACHING FROM THE SKY TO THE EARTH. THE CO00400060 ELDER BROTHER ROSE AND SHOOK THE CHAIN. WHEN HE FOUND IT FIRM AND CO00400070 STRONG HE SAID TO HIS BROTHER: "I SHALL CLIMB UP INTO THE SKY. CO00400080 STAY YOU HERE. DO NOT MOURN FOR ME, BUT GO HOME, CLIMB UPON THE CO00400090 ROOF OF THE HOUSE AND PLAY AND BE JOYFUL." THEN HE BEGAN TO CLIMB CO00400100 UP AND ERE LONG HE HAD DISAPPEARED FROM HIS BROTHER'S VIEW. THE CO00400110 LATTER RETURNED HOME AND SPOKE TO AIELEN: "I HAVE LOST MY ELDER CO00400120 BROTHER. I DO NOT KNOW WHAT HAS BECOME OF HIM, AND I FEAR HE IS CO00400130 DEAD," AND ALL THE PEOPLE WHO HEARD THIS CRIED WITH SORROW. HE, CO00400140 HOWEVER, CLIMBED UPON THE ROOF OF THE HOUSE AND PLAYED AND WAS CO00400150 JOYFUL, FOR HE KNEW THAT HIS BROTHER WAS IN THE SKY. CO00400160 WHEN THE ELDER BROTHER HAD ARRIVED THERE HE FOUND A ROAD CO00400170 LEADING THROUGH A BEAUTIFUL LEVEL COUNTRY. FAR AWAY HE SAW SMOKE CO00400180 RISING. WHEN HE CAME NEAR HE SAW THE SQUID, WHICH LAY COMFORTABLY CO00400190 NEAR THE FIRE AND CHEWED GUM. THE YOUTH ASKED HIM, "OH, GIVE ME CO00400200 SOME GUM?" THE SQUID ANSWERED: "WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO WITH IT? CO00400210 YOU CANNOT USE THE GUM FOR YOUR TEETH." THE YOUTH, HOWEVER, SAID CO00400220 AGAIN: "OH, GIVE ME SOME GUM AND YOUR BLANKET." THEN THE SQUID CO00400230 GAVE HIM BOTH. CO00400240 THE YOUTH WENT ON. SOON HE SAW SMOKE RISING AT A DISTANT CO00400250 PLACE. WHEN HE CAME NEAR HE FOUND A NUMBER OF BLIND WOMEN SITTING CO00400260 AROUND A FIRE. HE ASKED THE DUCK THAT WAS UNABLE TO MAKE HER CO00400270 ESCAPE, "WHERE IS TLAIK'S HOUSE? I WANT TO MARRY HIS DAUGHTER." CO00400280 THE DUCK REPLIED: "FOLLOW THIS ROAD; THEN YOU WILL FIND A LAKE IN CO00400290 WHICH THE GIRLS USE TO SWIM. TLAIK HAS FOUR DAUGHTERS. MIND THAT CO00400300 YOU DO NOT MARRY ANY OF THE ELDER ONES. MARRY THE YOUNGEST ONE." CO00400310 THE YOUTH WAS GLAD WHEN HE HEARD THIS NEWS AND STROLLED ON. AFTER CO00400320 AWHILE HE MET THE WOODPECKER, WHO GAVE HIM THE SAME INFORMATION. CO00400330 FINALLY HE REACHED A LAKE. HERE HE PUT ON THE BLANKET OF THE CO00400340 SQUID AND THUS ASSUMED THE SHAPE OF THAT ANIMAL. SOON HE HEARD THE CO00400350 GIRLS COMING AND SINGING: "OH, I WISH THE SUN'S SON MIGHT COME AND CO00400360 TAKE ME FOR HIS WIFE." THEY ARRIVED AT THE POND WHERE THE YOUTH CO00400370 LAY WAITING IN THE SHAPE OF A SQUID. THE FIRST TO SEE HIM WAS THE CO00400380 ELDEST OF THE SISTERS, YINISAK (DERIVED FROM YINIS, TOOTH). SHE CO00400390 BECAME FRIGHTENED AND CRIED: "HA] WHO IS THIS HERE? THE OTHER CO00400400 SISTERS, ON SEEING HIM, SPOKE TO ONE ANOTHER: "LET US TAKE HIM CO00400410 HOME. HE SHALL BE OUR SLAVE. WHEN FATHER GOES DEER-HUNTING, HE CO00400420 SHALL ASSIST HIM." YINISAK TRIED TO LIFT HIM, BUT THE SQUID HELD CO00400430 FIRM TO THE GROUND BY MEANS OF HIS SUCKERS, SO THAT SHE WAS UNABLE CO00400440 TO MOVE HIM. THE SECOND SISTER AND THE THIRD ALSO TRIED TO LIFT CO00400450 HIM, BUT THEY COULD NOT MOVE HIM. AT LAST THE YOUNGEST MADE AN CO00400460 ATTEMPT AND THE SQUID LET GO HIS HOLD. SO SHE CARRIED HIM TO THE CO00400470 HOUSE AND DEPOSITED HIM IN FRONT OF THE DOOR. CO00400480 THE GIRLS ENTERED THE HOUSE AND SAID TO THEIR FATHER: "WE CO00400490 HAVE FOUND A SLAVE FOR YOU IN THE WOODS." TLAIK ASKED: "WHERE IS CO00400500 HE?" "WE LEFT HIM IN FRONT OF THE HOUSE," REPLIED THE DAUGHTERS. CO00400510 THEN TLAIK ASKED THEM TO BRING THE SLAVE IN. YINISAK WAS THE FIRST CO00400520 TO GO BUT SHE WAS UNABLE TO TO LIFT HIM. HE ALSO RESISTED THE CO00400530 SECOND AND THE THIRD, BUT HE FOLLOWED THE YOUNGEST. SHE PLACED HIM CO00400540 NEAR THE FIRE. WHEN TLAIK AND HIS DAUGHTERS WERE EATING SALMON THE CO00400550 GIRLS THREW THE BONES AT HIM, BUT HE ACCEPTED ONLY THOSE WHICH THE CO00400560 YOUNGEST OFFERED HIM. AT NIGHT TIME HE STEALTHILY SLIPPED INTO THE CO00400570 YOUNGEST GIRL'S ROOM; HE THREW OFF THE SQUID'S BLANKET, AND NOW SHE CO00400580 SAW THAT HE WAS THE SHINING SUN. HE SAID: "I AM AIELEN'S SON. I CO00400590 KNOW YOU ARE BETTER THAN YOUR SISTERS, THEREFORE I WANT TO HAVE YOU CO00400600 FOR MY WIFE. BUT YOU SHALL NOT THROW FOOD AT ME AS AT A DOG; GIVE CO00400610 IT TO ME IN A DISH." WHEN DAYLIGHT CAME ON, HE AGAIN PUT ON THE CO00400620 BLANKET OF THE SQUID AND LAY DOWN NEAR THE FIRE. AGAIN YINISAK AND CO00400630 HER SISTERS FLUNG FISH-BONES AT HIM. HE, HOWEVER, DID NOT MIND CO00400640 THEM, BUT TURNED TO THE YOUNGEST AMONG THE SISTERS, WHO OFFERED HIM CO00400650 FOOD IN A DISH, AS HE HAD ASKED HER. AT NIGHT TIME HE WENT AGAIN CO00400660 TO HER ROOM, WHERE HE TOOK OFF HIS BLANKET. CO00400670 THE NEXT MORNING THE MEN WERE GOING DEER-HUNTING, AND SAID TO CO00400680 ONE ANOTHER: "WE WILL PLACE THE SQUID IN THE STERN OF THE BOAT. CO00400690 HE SHALL BE OUR STEERSMAN." THEY ASKED YINISAK TO CARRY HIM INTO CO00400700 THE BOAT, BUT SHE AND THE TWO OTHER SISTERS WERE UNABLE TO LIFT CO00400710 HIM, WHILE THE YOUNGEST CARRIED HIM READILY INTO THE BOAT. WHEN CO00400720 THEY HAD ARRIVED AT THE PLACE WHERE THEY INTENDED TO START HUNTING, CO00400730 TLAIK ORDERED THE SQUID TO WATCH THE BOAT AND PARTICULARLY THE ROPE CO00400740 BY WHICH IT WAS TIED TO THE SHORE. THEN THEY WENT HUNTING, AND THE CO00400750 SQUID REMAINED ALONE IN THE BOAT. HE HAD THE WOODPECKER HIDDEN IN CO00400760 HIS BLANKET, AND WHISPERED TO HIM: "FLY TO THE TOPS OF THE TREES CO00400770 AND GIVE THE DEER A WARNING THAT THEY MAY RUN AWAY." THE CO00400780 WOODPECKER OBEYED, THE DEER ESCAPED AND THE HUNTERS RETURNED EMPTY- CO00400790 HANDED. THEY WENT HOME. WHEN THE GIRLS TRIED TO CARRY THE SQUID CO00400800 BACK TO THE HOUSE, ONLY THE YOUNGEST WAS ABLE TO LIFT HIM. HE CO00400810 SPENT THE NIGHT WITH HER. CO00400820 THE NEXT DAY THE MEN WENT DEER-HUNTING AND TOOK THE SQUID CO00400830 ALONG AS STEERSMAN. THEN LEFT HIM IN CHARGE OF THE BOAT, AND AGAIN CO00400840 HE SENT OUT THE WOODPECKER TO WARN THE DEER. THEN HE THREW OFF CO00400850 THE BLANKET AND SAT UPRIGHT IN THE STERN OF THE BOAT. HE SHONE CO00400860 BRIGHT AS THE SUN. TLAIK AND THE OTHER HUNTERS RETURNED EMPTY- CO00400870 HANDED. WHEN TLAIK SAW THE SUN IN HIS BOAT HE BECAME FRIGHTENED. CO00400880 HE CRIED: "I WILL GIVE YOU MY ELDEST DAUGHTER FOR WIFE." THE CO00400890 YOUNG MAN SHOOK HIS SHOULDERS AND THE BOAT MOVED FAR OFF FROM THE CO00400900 SHORE. TLAIK CRIED: "I WILL GIVE YOU MY SECOND DAUGHTER." AGAIN CO00400910 THE YOUTH SHOOK HIS SHOULDERS AND THE BOAT MOVED STILL FARTHER OFF CO00400920 FROM THE SHORE. HE ALSO DECLINED THE THIRD DAUGHTER, BUT WHEN CO00400930 TLAIK OFFERED HIS YOUNGEST DAUGHTER HE SHOOK HIS SHOULDERS AND THE CO00400940 BOAT RETURNED TO THE SHORE. THE NEXT TIME WHEN THEY WENT DEER- CO00400950 HUNTING HE WHISPERED TO THE WOODPECKER: "CALL ALL DEER HITHER TO CO00400960 THE SEA." THE WOODPECKER OBEYED; THE DEER CAME AND TUMBLED DOWN CO00400970 THE STEEP ROCKS AND LAY DEAD ON THE BEACH. WHILE ALL THE OTHER CO00400980 HUNTERS HAD NOT GOT A SINGLE DEER, THE YOUNG MAN HAD A FULL BOAT- CO00400990 LOAD, AND WHEN THE OTHERS RETURNED HE HAD FINISHED DISSECTING HIS CO00401000 SPOILS. CO00401010 WHEN YINISAK SAW HIM SHE WANTED TO HAVE HIM FOR HER HUSBAND. CO00401020 SHE SAID: "OH, LOOK, MOTHER, DOESN'T HE LOOK JUST LIKE THE SUN?" CO00401030 AND SHE CAREFULLY ARRANGED HER BED IN ORDER TO ATTRACT HIM. THE CO00401040 SECOND AND THE THIRD SISTER DID THE SAME THING. THE YOUNGEST, CO00401050 HOWEVER, DID NOT MIND HIM AT ALL. THEN YINISAK AND HER TWO SISTERS CO00401060 INVITED HIM TO COME INTO THE HOUSE. HE, HOWEVER, REMAINED IN THE CO00401070 BOAT UNTIL THE YOUNGEST CALLED HIM. THEN HE TOOK HER PUBLICLY FOR CO00401080 HIS WIFE. CO00401090 TLAIK, HOWEVER, INTENDED TO KILL HIS SON-IN-LAW. HE WENT INTO CO00401100 THE WOODS TO SPLIT A TREE. A WOODPECKER FLIES OUT OF THE CRACK AND CO00401110 PASSES CLOSE BY TLAIK'S EYES. HE WAS THE YOUNG MAN. THE YOUTH CO00401120 RESOLVED TO TAKE REVENGE UPON TLAIK, AND ASKED HIS WIFE: "DO YOU CO00401130 KNOW WHAT TLAIK IS AFRAID OF?" SHE REPLIED: "HE IS AFRAID OF CO00401140 WHALES AND OTHER LARGE SEA ANIMALS." ON THE NEXT DAY, TLAIK AND CO00401150 HIS SON-IN-LAW WENT RED COD FISHING. THE YOUNG MAN CHEWED THE GUM CO00401160 THAT THE SQUID HAD GIVEN TO HIM AND PUT IT INTO THE SEA. IT WAS AT CO00401170 ONCE TRANSFORMED INTO WHALES AND SEA-LIONS. CO00401180 ***COM-005*** CO005 THE MINK LEGENDS. CO00500010 KAIQ, THE MINK, WANTED TO TAKE A WIFE. HE WENT TO THE FOG CO00500020 THAT SHROUDED THE TOPS OF THE MOUNTAIN AND SAID: "COME HERE, MY CO00500030 DEAR, I WANT TO MARRY YOU." THE FOG ANSWERED: YOU CAN NOT BECOME CO00500040 MY HUSBAND. WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO WHEN I PLAY WITH MY SISTERS, CO00500050 DANCING AROUND YON MOUNTAIN?" "OH," SAID THE MINK, "I WILL JOIN CO00500060 YOUR PLAYS AND DANCES." THEN THE FOG CONSENTED, AND THEY BECAME CO00500070 HUSBAND AND WIFE. ONE DAY THE FOG BEGAN PLAYING WITH HER SISTERS, CO00500080 AND THEY DANCED AROUND THE MOUNTAIN. THE MINK, JOINING THEM, TOOK CO00500090 THE HANDS OF HIS WIFE AND OF ONE OF HIS SISTERS-IN-LAW. BUT, ALAS] CO00500100 HE WAS NOT ABLE TO FOLLOW THEIR RAPID MOVEMENTS; THEY TORE OUT HIS CO00500110 HANDS AND HE FELL TO THE GROUND AND LAY AS THOUGH HE WAS DEAD. CO00500120 KAIQ NEXT WENT TO THE EAGLE AND SAID: "COME HERE, MY DEAR, I CO00500130 WANT TO MARRY YOU." THE EAGLE ANSWERED: "YOU CAN NOT BECOME MY CO00500140 HUSBAND. WHAT WILL YOU DO WHEN I CATCH SALMON IN THE SEA?" "OH," CO00500150 SAID THE MINK, "I SHALL ALSO CATCH SALMON." THEN THE EAGLE CO00500160 CONSENTED AND THEY BECAME HUSBAND AND WIFE. ONE DAY THEY SAT ON CO00500170 THE BRANCHES OF A TREE AND LOOKED DOWN INTO THE WATER, WAITING FOR CO00500180 THE SALMON TO COME. KAIQ HAD PUT ON THE EAGLE'S BLANKET, WHICH CO00500190 ENABLED HIM TO FLY. HIS WIFE SAID: "WHEN YOU SEE THE SALMON CO00500200 COMING, DO NOT JUMP DOWN TOO HURRIEDLY, BUT USE YOUR WINGS CO00500210 DELIBERATELY, ELSE YOU WILL FALL INTO THE SEA." THE MINK PROMISED CO00500220 TO OBEY; BUT AS SOON AS HE SAW THE FIRST SALMON COMING HE FORGOT CO00500230 HIS WIFE'S ADVICE AND JUMPED DOWN GREEDILY. HE FELL TO THE GROUND CO00500240 AND LAY THERE AS THOUGH HE WAS DEAD. CO00500250 KAIQ NEXT WENT TO THE GUM AND SAID: "COME HERE, MY DEAR, I CO00500260 WANT TO MARRY YOU." THE GUM ANSWERED: "YOU CAN NOT BECOME MY CO00500270 HUSBAND. WHAT WILL YOU DO WHEN THE SUN SHINES HOT UPON ME AND I CO00500280 MELT?" "OH," SAID THE MINK, "THEN I WILL JUMP TO AND FRO, THAT I CO00500290 MAY NOT STICK TO YOU." THEN THE GUM CONSENTED AND THEY BECAME CO00500300 HUSBAND AND WIFE. THEY LAY DOWN UPON A BOARD, AND AT FIRST THE CO00500310 MINK JUMPED TO AND FRO, BUT AT LAST HE BECAME TIRED AND FELL CO00500320 ASLEEP. THEN THE SUN BEGAN TO SHINE UPON THEM, THE GUM MELTED AND CO00500330 THE MINK WAS GLUED WITH HIS BACK TO THE BOARD. HE WAS ASHAMED AND CO00500340 RAN INTO THE WOODS, AND TRIED TO STRIP OFF THE BOARD BY RUBBING HIS CO00500350 BACK AGAINST THE TREES; BUT HIS ENDEAVORS WERE IN VAIN. AT LAST AN CO00500360 OLD MAN SAW HIM, WHO ASKED HIM WHAT HE WAS DOING THERE. WHEN THE CO00500370 MINK HAD TOLD OF HIS MISFORTUNE, THE OLD MAN HELPED HIM TO GET RID CO00500380 OF THE BOARD. CO00500390 KAIQ NEXT WENT TO THE KELP AND SAID: "COME HERE, MY DEAR, I CO00500400 WANT TO MARRY YOU." THE KELP ANSWERED: "YOU CAN NOT BECOME MY CO00500410 HUSBAND. WHAT WILL YOU DO WHEN MY HAIR DRIFTS TO AND FRO WITH THE CO00500420 TIDE?" "OH," SAID THE MINK, "THEN I WILL TAKE A FIRM HOLD OF IT." CO00500430 THEN THE KELP CONSENTED, AND THEY BECAME HUSBAND AND WIFE. WHEN CO00500440 THE TIDE BEGAN TO FLOW STRONGLY, THE MINK TOOK HOLD OF HIS WIFE'S CO00500450 HAIR; BUT IT WAS MOVED UP AND DOWN WITH GREAT FORCE, AND THE MINK, CO00500460 WHO HELD ON TO IT, WAS DRAWN INTO THE WATER. THUS HE WAS ALMOST CO00500470 DROWNED. CO00500480 KAIQ NEXT WENT TO THE SHARP-EDGED SHELLS ON THE BEACH ( CO00500490 SAXIDROMUS SQUALIDUS). HE SAID: "COME HERE, MY DEAR, I WANT TO CO00500500 MARRY YOU." THEY BECAME HUSBAND AND WIFE; BUT AFTER AWHILE THE CO00500510 MINK WAS DISCONTENTED WITH HER AND STRUCK HER IN THE FACE. CO00500520 HOWEVER, HE HURT HIS FINGERS, AND BLOOD DRIPPED FROM HIS HAND. CO00500530 "NOW, LOOK HERE," HE SAID TO HIS WIFE, "THAT SERVES YOU RIGHT; YOUR CO00500540 FACE IS BLEEDING." THE WOMAN REPLIED: "NO, IT IS YOUR HAND THAT CO00500550 BLEEDS." "WHERE DOES MY HAND BLEED?" SAID THE MINK; "I DON'T SEE CO00500560 ANY BLOOD," AND SO SAYING HE TURNED HIS LEFT HAND ROUND AND ROUND CO00500570 AND CRIED: "IT IS YOUR FACE THAT BLEEDS; THERE IS NO BLOOD ON MY CO00500580 HAND." CO00500590 KAIQ NEXT MARRIED THE GRIZZLY BEAR. HE HIMSELF AND HIS CO00500600 BROTHER USED TO LIE LAZILY NEAR THE FIRE WHILE HIS WIFE WENT OUT CO00500610 FISHING FOR SALMON AND GATHERING ROE. THEREFORE WHEN WINTER CAME CO00500620 HIS WIFE DID NOT GIVE HIM ANYTHING TO EAT EXCEPT ROOTS. KAIQ, CO00500630 HOWEVER, STOLE DRIED ROE FROM THE BOX IN WHICH HIS WIFE KEPT IT AND CO00500640 TIED IT TO HIS ARM. WHEN THE BEAR SAW HIS ARMS SHE ASKED: "WHAT CO00500650 HAVE YOU GOT THERE?" "WHEN I WENT TO FETCH WOOD I HURT MY ARM." CO00500660 THE BEAR GAVE HIM ROOTS FOR HIS SUPPER, BUT, WHEN EATING, MINK TOOK CO00500670 SOME OF THE ROE FROM HIS ARM. HIS WIFE HEARD THE EGGS CRACKLING CO00500680 BETWEEN HIS TEETH, AND ASKED: "WHAT HAVE YOU GOT THERE?" MINK CO00500690 FEIGNED NOT TO HEAR HER QUESTION AND SAID: "OH, THESE ROOTS ARE CO00500700 SPLENDID." IN MID-WINTER HIS WIFE CEASED TO SUPPLY HIM EVEN WITH CO00500710 ROOTS, AND MINK, AS WELL AS HIS BROTHER, WERE STARVING. ONE DAY HE CO00500720 SAID TO HIS WIFE: "OUR ENEMIES ARE COMING HERE AND THEY WILL CO00500730 UNDOUBTEDLY ATTACK US. LET US CARRY AWAY OUR PROVISIONS." THE CO00500740 BEAR BELIEVED WHAT HER HUSBAND SAID, AND THEY LOADED THEIR BOAT CO00500750 WITH SALMON, FISH-ROE AND DRIED BERRIES. THEN KAIQ AND HIS BROTHER CO00500760 WENT ABOARD WHILE THE BEAR REMAINED BEHIND TO COLLECT SOME FUEL. CO00500770 SHE FOLLOWED HER HUSBAND AND HER BROTHER-IN-LAW, BUT SHE HAD NOT CO00500780 GONE FAR BEFORE SHE FOUND FISH-SKINS AND THE STICKS, ON WHICH THE CO00500790 FISH-ROE HAD BEEN DRIED, ON THE BEACH. THEN SHE DISCOVERED THAT CO00500800 HER HUSBAND HAD DECEIVED HER AND SHE BECAME FURIOUS. SHE PURSUED CO00500810 THE FUGITIVES AND IN MANY PLACES FOUND THE REMAINS OF THEIR MEALS. CO00500820 AT LAST SHE ARRIVED AT TAUSEMAN (NEAR THE PRESENT INDIAN VILLAGE OF CO00500830 COMOX). THERE SHE DISCOVERED A GREAT FIRE AND SAW MINK AND HIS CO00500840 BROTHER SLEEPING BY IT. MINK SAW HER IN TIME AND SUCCEEDED IN CO00500850 MAKING HIS ESCAPE; HIS BROTHER, HOWEVER, WAS CAUGHT BY THE BEAR AND CO00500860 KILLED. THEN SHE CONTINUED TO PURSUE KAIQ. HE, HOWEVER, CREATED A CO00500870 WIDE RIVER BETWEEN HIMSELF AND THE BEAR, THUS PREVENTING HER FROM CO00500880 PURSUING HIM ANY FURTHER. HE SAT DOWN AND CRIED BITTERLY, AS HE CO00500890 HAD LOST HIS BROTHER. HE SPOKE TO A TREE: "OH, FALL DOWN AND KILL CO00500900 ME; I WANT TO BE WITH MY BROTHER." IMMEDIATELY THE TREE FELL RIGHT CO00500910 UPON THE MINK'S FACE, BUT IT WAS UNABLE TO KILL HIM. THEN HE ASKED CO00500920 ANOTHER TREE TO KILL HIM, AND IT ALSO FELL RIGHT UPON HIM, BUT DID CO00500930 NOT HURT HIM; AND HOWEVER MANY TREES HE ASKED TO KILL HIM, NONE WAS CO00500940 ABLE TO HURT HIM. CO00500950 KAIQ FEIGNED TO BE SICK AND FINALLY TO DIE. THEN THE PEOPLE CO00500960 SAID TO ONE ANOTHER: "COME, WE WILL DIG A GRAVE AND BURY HIM." CO00500970 "NO," CRIED THE DEAD ONE, "I DO NOT WANT TO LIE IN THE GROUND AND CO00500980 HAVE THE CHILDREN JUMP OVER ME." THEN THE PEOPLE SAID TO ONE CO00500990 ANOTHER: "COME, WE WILL HANG HIM ON TO A TREE." "NO," CRIED THE CO00501000 DEAD, "I DO NOT WANT TO HANG ON A TREE AND HAVE THE CHILDREN THROW CO00501010 STONES AT ME." HE CONTINUED: "CARRY ME TO THE ISLAND OF CO00501020 KUEMKUMEM AND LEAVE ME THERE." THE PEOPLE OBEYED. WHEN THEY HAD CO00501030 ARRIVED AT KUEMKUMEM THEY BUILT A FUNERAL PILE AND PUT STONES ON CO00501040 TOP OF IT. KAIQ'S WIFE WASHED THE CORPSE (AS IT IS THE HABIT OF CO00501050 THE CATLOLTQ TO DO), PUT IT INTO A BOX WHICH WAS PLACED ON TOP OF CO00501060 THE PILE, AND WENT INTO THE HOUSE OF THE RACCOON. THEN THE DEAD CO00501070 ONE CRIED: "MY WIFE] WHERE HAVE YOU GONE?" WHEN HE PERCEIVED THAT CO00501080 THE RACCOON INTENDED TO TAKE POSSESSION OF HIS WIFE HE BECAME CO00501090 JEALOUS, SENT A BOY TO HER AND ORDERED HER TO CLEAN HIS HOUSE, AS CO00501100 HE INTENDED TO RETURN. SHE OBEYED; HE AROSE AND CONTINUED TO LIVE CO00501110 WITH HIS WIFE. CO00501120 ONE DAY KAIQ SWAM IN A RIVER. HE SAW A SALMON WHICH HE WISHED CO00501130 TO CATCH, BUT IT WAS TOO SWIFT. THEN HE SAT DOWN ON THE BANK OF CO00501140 THE RIVER AND SAID: "COME HERE, SALMON, I WANT TO PLAY WITH YOU." CO00501150 THE SALMON APPROACHED HIM A LITTLE--KAIQ SAID: "NO, COME NEARER. CO00501160 COME CLOSE BY ME. I WANT TO PLAY WITH YOU." AT LAST, AFTER HE HAD CO00501170 CALLED HIM FOUR TIMES, THE SALMON CAME CLOSE TO THE BANK OF THE CO00501180 RIVER AND KAIQ KILLED HIM. HE CARRIED HIM HOME AND FRIED HIM BY CO00501190 THE FIRE. WHILE WATCHING THE SALMON HE SANG: "WHO WILL EAT ITS CO00501200 EYES? KAIQ WILL EAT THEM. WHO WILL EAT ITS HEAD? KAIQ WILL EAT CO00501210 IT. WHO WILL EAT ITS ROE? KAIQ WILL EAT IT." AT LAST HE LAY DOWN CO00501220 TO SLEEP. THEN THE WOLF CAME AND STOLE THE SALMON. BEFORE RUNNING CO00501230 AWAY, HOWEVER, HE RUBBED ITS EYES, ITS HEAD AND ITS ROE OVER THE CO00501240 SLEEPING KAIQ'S TEETH. WHEN HE AWOKE AND FOUND THE SALMON GONE, HE CO00501250 CRIED: "WHO HAS STOLEN MY SALMON?" BUT UPON PICKING HIS TEETH AND CO00501260 FINDING SOME ROE, HE SAID: "WELL, KAIQ MUST HAVE EATEN IT CO00501270 HIMSELF." CO00501280 AFTER A SHORT WHILE A NUMBER OF WOMEN PASSED THE PLACE WHERE CO00501290 KAIQ LIVED, IN THEIR BOAT. KAIQ CALLED THEM AND ASKED: "DON'T YOU CO00501300 KNOW WHO HAS STOLEN KAIQ'S SALMON?" THEY DID NOT KNOW, BUT CO00501310 NEVERTHELESS HE WENT INTO THEIR BOAT AND ACCOMPANIED THEM. AFTER A CO00501320 LITTLE WHILE THE WOMEN WANTED TO LAND, BUT KAIQ ASKED THEM TO CO00501330 CONTINUE THEIR JOURNEY TO THE NEXT POINT. WHEN THEY ARRIVED THERE, CO00501340 HOWEVER, HE WANTED TO GO STILL FURTHER, AND THUS HE FOUR TIMES CO00501350 PREVENTED THEIR LANDING. THEN THEY HAD ARRIVED AT THE COUNTRY OF CO00501360 THE WOLVES. HE GUESSED THAT THEY HAD STOLEN HIS SALMON, AND CO00501370 THEREUPON HE WANTED TO VISIT THEM. WHEN HE ARRIVED AT THEIR CO00501380 VILLAGE THEY TOOK HOLD OF HIM AND BEGAN TO PLAY AT BALL WITH HIS CO00501390 ANUS. EVERY TIME HE TRIED TO CATCH IT THE WOLVES KICKED IT AWAY. CO00501400 AT LAST, HOWEVER, HE SUCCEEDED IN GETTING HOLD OF IT AND RAN AS CO00501410 FAST AS HIS LEGS WOULD CARRY HIM. THE WOLVES PURSUED HIM, BUT KAIQ CO00501420 SAID TO A TRUNK THAT LAY BEHIND HIM: "WHEN THE WOLVES ATTEMPT TO CO00501430 RUN AROUND YOU, LIE IN THEIR WAY, WHEN THEY WANT TO JUMP OVER YOU, CO00501440 RISE." THUS IT HAPPENED THAT THE WOLVES WERE UNABLE TO CONTINUE CO00501450 IN THE PURSUIT. CO00501460 ONE DAY KAIQ AND HIS BROTHER ALAS (SEA SNAIL) WENT TO FETCH CO00501470 FUEL. AFTER A LITTLE WHILE THEY SAW A LOG DRIFTING IN THE WATER. CO00501480 KAIQ SAID TO HIS BROTHER: "TRANSFORM YOURSELF INTO A FISH AND LIFT CO00501490 THE LOG FROM BELOW." ALAS DID NOT REPLY, BUT WITHOUT HESITATION CO00501500 JUMPED INTO THE WATER; THEN KAIQ KILLED HIM WITH HIS CLUB AND CO00501510 CARRIED HIM HOME TO HIS GRANDMOTHER, WHO WAS TO BOIL HIM. WHEN THE CO00501520 FISH WAS READY, HE SAID TO HIS GRANDMOTHER: "WHEN YOU EAT THE FISH CO00501530 DO NOT THROW AWAY THE BONES, BUT GATHER THEM IN A DISH." THE CO00501540 GRANDMOTHER OBEYED. AFTER A SHORT WHILE SHE ASKED KAIQ: "WHERE IS CO00501550 YOUR BROTHER ALAS?" KAIQ REPLIED: "I THINK HE IS WITH HIS CO00501560 SWEETHEART, THE GUM." AFTER THEY HAD DONE EATING HE TOOK THE DISH CO00501570 IN WHICH THEY HAD GATHERED THE BONES, CARRIED IT OUT OF THE HOUSE, CO00501580 SINGING: "GRANDMOTHER DOES NOT KNOW THAT SHE HAS EATEN HER CO00501590 GRANDSON." HE CARRIED THE BONES TO THE PITCH-WOOD, COVERED THEM CO00501600 WITH PITCH, INTO WHICH HE INSERTED MANY COLORED SPLINTERS, THEN HE CO00501610 THREW THEM INTO THE WATER AND THEY WERE TRANSFORMED INTO THE SEA CO00501620 SNAIL. HE CARRIED THE LATTER TO HIS GRANDMOTHER SAYING: "LOOK CO00501630 HERE, THUS YOUR GRANDSON RETURNS TO YOU." CO00501640 ONE DAY KAIQ SAW PEOPLE FISHING AND THEY WERE VERY SUCCESSFUL. CO00501650 HE WANTED TO JOIN THEM, BUT HE HAD NO BAIT. SO HE WENT TO HIS CO00501660 GRANDMOTHER AND SAID: "PLEASE LOUSE ME." SHE REPLIED: "COME, PUT CO00501670 YOUR HEAD INTO MY LAP]" KAIQ OBEYED, BUT WHILE HIS GRANDMOTHER CO00501680 LOUSED HIM HE CUT OFF A PIECE FROM HER BELLY. THEN THE GRANDMOTHER CO00501690 ASSUMED THE SHAPE OF A BIRD AND FLEW AWAY. KAIQ, HOWEVER, WAS VERY CO00501700 GLAD, AS HE HAD OBTAINED SOME BAIT. HE TIED THE FLESH TO HIS HOOK CO00501710 AND BEGAN FISHING, BUT HE DID NOT OBTAIN A SINGLE BITE, ALTHOUGH CO00501730 ALL THE OTHER FISHERMAN HAD PLENTY OF FISH. THEN HE BECAME VERY CO00501740 ANGRY, AND WHEN A WHALE PASSED BY HIS BOAT HE CRIED: "AS NO FISH CO00501750 IS COMING, COME YOU, THEN, AND TAKE A BITE." THE WHALE DID NOT CO00501760 COME, BUT WHEN KAIQ HAD CALLED HIM FOUR TIMES HE BIT AT THE HOOK. CO00501770 KAIQ ATTEMPTED TO HAUL IN THE LINE, BUT THE WHALE PROVED TO BE SO CO00501780 HEAVY THAT THE BOAT SANK. THEN THE WHALE SWALLOWED BOAT AND MINK. CO00501790 KAIQ TOOK AN IMMENSE HERRING RAKE AND WENT FISHING FOR CO00501800 HERRING. AT THE SAME TIME THE WHALE HAD GONE ON THE SAME PURPOSE CO00501810 AND DROVE ALL THE FISH AWAY FROM KAIQ'S BOAT. THEN THE LATTER CO00501820 BECAME ANGRY, AND WHEN THE WHALE AGAIN ROSE TO BLOW, HE CRIED: CO00501830 "OH, HOW BAD IS YOUR SMELL, WHALE]" WHEN HE HAD DONE SO FOUR CO00501840 TIMES, THE WHALE RESENTED THIS OFFENSIVE SPEECH AND SWALLOWED KAIQ CO00501850 AND HIS BOAT. EVERY TIME THE WHALE ROSE, KAIQ CRIED IN THE CO00501860 STOMACH: "BE IT KNOWN TO YOU, PEOPLE, THAT THE WHALE HAS SWALLOWED CO00501870 ME." THE FISHERMEN HEARD HIM AND TOLD ONE ANOTHER THAT THE WHALE CO00501880 HAD SWALLOWED THE MINK. THE WHALE CONTINUED TO CATCH HERRING. CO00501890 THEN MINK MADE A SMALL FIRE IN ITS STOMACH AND BEGAN DRYING THE CO00501900 FISH ON A FRAME. EVERY TIME THE WHALE ROSE, THE FISH DROPPED FROM CO00501910 THE FRAME, AND KAIQ WAS GREATLY ANNOYED. BESIDES THIS IT WAS VERY CO00501920 HOT IN THE STOMACH. KAIQ FELT VERY UNCOMFORTABLE AND THOUGHT OF CO00501930 THE BEST WAY OF MAKING HIS ESCAPE. HE RESOLVED TO KILL THE WHALE CO00501940 AND CUT HIS THROAT. THE WHALE DIED AND SOON STRANDED NEAR A CO00501950 VILLAGE. WHEN THE PEOPLE DISCOVERED IT THEY BEGAN TO CARVE IT, AND CO00501960 WHEN THEY OPENED THE STOMACH, BEHOLD] MINK JUMPED OUT OF IT. HE CO00501970 HAD LOST ALL HIS HAIR IN THE WHALE'S STOMACH. CO00501980 A'C'ICIN, THE WOLF'S SON, WENT INTO THE WOODS DEER- CO00501990 HUNTING. HE HURT HIS FOOT BY STEPPING UPON A SHARP STICK. WITH CO00502000 GREAT DIFFICULTY HE HOBBLED DOWN TO THE BEACH, WHERE HE SAT DOWN TO CO00502010 WAIT FOR A BOAT TO CARRY HIM HOME. FAR OUT INTO THE SEA HE SAW CO00502020 KAIQ ENGAGED IN SPEARING FISH. A'C'ICIN CRIED: "OH, KAIQ, COME CO00502030 HERE] TAKE ME HOME IN YOUR BOAT]" KAIQ HEARD HIM, BUT HE FEIGNED CO00502040 NOT TO HEAR ANYTHING AND CONTINUED FISHING. IT WAS NOT UNTIL CO00502050 A'C'ICIN HAD CALLED FOUR TIMES THAT HE LOOKED UP AND SAID: "DID CO00502060 YOU CALL FOR ME? WAIT A MOMENT, I SHALL BE THERE RIGHT AWAY AND CO00502070 TAKE YOU INTO MY BOAT." HE PADDLED TOWARD THE BEACH AND PREPARED CO00502080 A SOFT BED IN THE BOW OF THE BOAT. HE PUT A STICK ACROSS THE CO00502090 GUNWALE WHICH WAS TO SERVE HIM AS A PILLOW. THEN HE CARRIED CO00502100 A'C'ICIN INTO THE BOAT AND DEPOSITED HIM ON THE BED HE HAD PREPARED CO00502110 FOR HIM, BEING CAREFUL TO HAVE HIS NECK REST EXACTLY ON THE PILLOW. CO00502120 THEN HE SPOKE TO HIM VERY KINDLY, SAYING: "NOW TRY TO SLEEP, I CO00502130 SHALL CARRY YOU HOME," COVERED HIM WITH SKINS AND PADDLED AWAY. CO00502140 KAIQ, HOWEVER, INTENDED TO KILL HIM. HE HAD PLACED HIS NECK SO CO00502150 CAREFULLY ON THE PILLOW, AS HE WANTED HIS THROAT TO BE EXPOSED. CO00502160 WHEN A'C'ICIN WAS FAST ASLEEP, KAIQ MADE THE SHORE, CAREFULLY HE CO00502170 TOOK THE COVER FROM THE WOLF'S FACE AND THEN CUT HIS THROAT. WHEN CO00502180 THE WOLF WAS DEAD, HE TOOK HIS BLANKET AND RETURNED HOME. THEN HE CO00502190 HUNG IT OVER THE FIRE IN ORDER TO DRY IT. CO00502200 AFTER A FEW DAYS AN OLD WOMAN CAME INTO KAIQ'S HOUSE, CO00502210 INTENDING TO SELL SOMETHING TO HIM. HE ASKED HER TO SIT DOWN BY CO00502220 THE FIRE AND SANG: "LOOK UP AND SEE WHAT IS HANGING THERE." AT CO00502230 FIRST THE WOMAN DID NOT UNDERSTAND HIM, BUT AT LAST SHE LOOKED UP, CO00502240 SAW THE SKIN, AND KNEW THAT KAIQ HAD KILLED A'C'ICIN. SHE WENT TO CO00502250 THE OLD WOLF AND TOLD HIM WHAT SHE HAD SEEN. HE RESOLVED TO TAKE CO00502260 REVENGE UPON KAIQ. HE INVITED ALL HIS NEIGHBORS, AMONG THEM KAIQ, CO00502270 INTENDING TO SLAY THE LATTER WHEN HE SHOULD COME. HE, HOWEVER, CO00502280 GUESSED THE BAD INTENTIONS OF THE WOLF. THEREFORE HE CALLED HIS CO00502290 GRANDMOTHER, THE COCKLE-SHELL, THE CLAMS AND THE SAXIDROMUS AND CO00503300 REQUESTED THEM TO HIDE IN THE ASHES OF THE FIRE IN THE WOLF'S CO00503310 HOUSE, AND TO THROW WATER INTO THE FIRE WHILE HE WAS DANCING. HE CO00503320 INTENDED TO ESCAPE UNNOTICED IN THE SHELTER OF THE VAPOR THUS CO00503330 ORIGINATING. AND HE CALLED HIS GRANDMOTHER, THE SNAIL, AND SAID: CO00503340 "LIE DOWN IN FRONT OF THE DOOR OF THE HOUSE, THAT EVERY ONE WHO CO00503350 LEAVES THE HOUSE TO PURSUE ME MAY FALL." AND HE CALLED HIS CO00503360 GRANDMOTHER, THE MOUSE, AND SAID: "GNAW THROUGH THE PADDLES OF THE CO00503370 WOLF'S CANOE, THAT HE MAY BE UNABLE TO PURSUE ME." THEY ALL OBEYED CO00503380 HIS REQUEST. CO00503390 WHEN THE WATCHMEN WHO STOOD AT THE DOOR OF THE WOLF'S HOUSE, CO00503400 SAW KAIQ COMING, THEY CRIED: "BEGIN TO BEAT TIME, THE CHIEF IS CO00503410 COMING." THE SINGERS WHO WERE ASSEMBLED IN THE HOUSE BEGAN TO BEAT CO00503420 TIME WITH THEIR BATONS; KAIQ ENTERED AND AFTER HAVING GONE AROUND CO00503430 THE FIRE BEGAN TO DANCE. WHEN THE WOLF SAW HIM HE SHOWED HIS CO00503440 TEETH. KAIQ NOW BEGAN TO SING: "IT IS I, WHO HAS KILLED CO00503450 A'C'ICIN." THEN THE WOLF MADE A JUMP AT HIM, INTENDING TO TEAR HIM CO00503460 TO PIECES. AT THIS MOMENT THE SHELL-FISH THREW WATER UPON THE FIRE CO00503470 AND KAIQ ESCAPED. HIS PURSUERS FELL WHEN STEPPING ON THE SNAIL, CO00503480 AND WHEN AT LAST THEY HAD REACHED THE BOAT AND BEGAN PADDLING, THE CO00503490 PADDLES BROKE, AS THE MOUSE HAD MADE THEM USELESS. THUS KAIQ CO00503500 ESCAPED AND HE SANG: "I HAVE KILLED THE SON OF THE WOLF." CO00503510 ***COM-006*** CO006 THE DEER AND THE WOLVES CO00600010 THE DEER HAD KILLED THE CHIEF OF THE WOLVES AND ENSLAVED HIS CO00600020 SON. HE TIED TWO BOATS LARGE TOGETHER AND COVERED THEM WITH CO00600030 PLANKS, THUS FORMING A PLATFORM. THEN HE SANG AND DANCED WITH HIS CO00600040 CHILD AND WITH HIS SLAVE. HE SANG: "I HAVE KILLED THE CHIEF OF CO00600050 THE WOLVES." HE TORMENTED HIS SLAVE, PUSHED HIM INTO THE WATER AND CO00600060 BADE HIM SWIM. AT LAST THE LATTER GOT FURIOUS AND STRUCK THE CO00600070 DEER'S SON. WHEN HE CRIED THE DEER SAID: "I WILL MAKE MY SON'S CO00600080 HEART GLAD. I SHALL CUT OFF MY SLAVE'S HEAD." AND HE DID AS HE C-00 000 HAD SAID. THE WOLVES HEARD HIS SONG AND RESOLVED TO AVENGE THE DEATH OF CO00600110 THEIR CHIEF AND OF HIS SON. THEY WENT OUT TO CATCH THE DEER. HE CO00600120 ESCAPED, BUT THEY OVERTOOK HIS SON AND KILLED HIM. FINALLY THE CO00600130 DEER CLIMBED A HIGH TREE TO ESCAPE HIS PURSUERS. THE WOLVES FORMED CO00600140 A WIDE CIRCLE AROUND THE TREE. THEY SAW THE DEER'S IMAGE IN A CO00600150 PUDDLE AT THE FOOT OF THE TREE AND BELIEVED HIM TO BE UNDERGROUND. CO00600160 THEY ALL COMMENCED DIGGING AS HARD AS POSSIBLE, IN ORDER TO REACH CO00600170 HIM. A MAN WHO HAPPENED TO PASS BY, WHEN HEARING WHAT THEY WERE CO00600180 DOING, SHOWED THEM THAT THE DEER WAS ON TOP OF THE TREE. THEN THE CO00600190 WOLVES STOPPED DIGGING. THEY COMMENCED TO BEAT TIME AND TO SING. CO00600200 THEY FIRST SANG; "I SHALL EAT YOUR EARS." THE DEER ON THE TREE CO00600210 SHOOK HIS HEAD AND SANG: "YES, YOU WILL EAT THEM." THE SECOND CO00600220 SANG: "I SHALL EAT YOUR NOSE." THE DEER: "YES, YOU WILL EAT IT." CO00600230 THE THIRD, "I SHALL EAT YOUR TONGUE"; THE FOURTH, "THE SHOULDERS"; CO00600240 THE FIFTH, "THE RIBS"; THE SIXTH, "THE BREAST-BONE"; THE SEVENTH, CO00600250 "THE LOINS"; THE EIGHTH, "THE HOOFS"; THE NINTH, "THE STOMACH." CO00600260 AT LAST THE DEER BECAME SO ANGRY THAT IT LOST ITS HOLD, FELL FROM CO00600270 THE TREE AND WAS DEVOURED BY THE WOLVES. CO00600280 ***COM-007 CO007 THE GRIZZLY BEAR AND THE BLACK BEAR. CO00700010 ONE DAY THE SHE GRIZZLY BEAR SAID TO THE SHE BLACK BEAR: CO00700020 "COME HERE AND LOUSE ME]" THE BLACK BEAR OBEYED AND SAW THAT THE CO00700030 LICE OF THE GRIZZLY BEAR WERE TOADS. SHE CAUGHT THEM, THREW THEM CO00700040 TO THE GROUND, AND THEY CRAWLED AWAY. THE GRIZZLY BEAR HEARD THIS, CO00700050 AND ASKED: "WHAT IS THAT FALLING TO THE GROUND THERE?" THE BLACK CO00700060 BEAR REPLIED: "SMALL TWIGS FALL FROM THE TREES." BUT THE GRIZZLY CO00700070 BEAR DISCOVERED THE TOADS, GOT ANGRY AND KILLED THE BLACK BEAR. CO00700080 SHE CUT OFF HER BREASTS, BOILED THEM AND GAVE THEM TO THE BLACK CO00700090 BEAR'S CHILDREN. THEY KNEW AT ONCE WHAT THE GRIZZLY BEAR HAD DONE, CO00700100 BUT THEY DID NOT SAY ANYTHING. THEY MERELY ASKED: "WHERE IS OUR CO00700110 MOTHER?" THE OLD GRIZZLY BEAR REPLIED: "SHE HAS GONE INTO THE CO00700120 WOODS AND WILL BE BACK TO-MORROW." AFTER A SHORT WHILE SHE LEFT, CO00700130 THEN THE BLACK BEAR'S CHILDREN KILLED THE YOUNG GRIZZLY BEARS AND CO00700140 PLACED THEM SO THAT THEIR HEADS AND FORE PAWS WERE IN THE FOOD CO00700150 BOXES, AND IT SEEMED AS IF THEY WERE STEALING FOOD. THEN THEY RAN CO00700160 AWAY INTO THE WOOD. WHEN THE GRIZZLY BEAR RETURNED AND SAW HER CO00700170 CHILDREN AT THE BOXES, SHE RESOLVED TO PUNISH THEM; BUT SOON SHE CO00700180 DISCOVERED THAT THEY WERE DEAD. SHE GOT FURIOUS AND RAN INTO THE CO00700190 WOOD TO FIND THE YOUNG BEARS. SOON SHE SAW THEM SITTING ON A TREE. CO00700200 SHE SAID KINDLY: "COME HOME, MY DEAR CHILDREN. YOUR MOTHER HAS CO00700210 RETURNED." THE CHILDREN REPLIED: "YES, WE WILL COME; BUT FIRST CO00700220 LIE DOWN ON THE GROUND, OPEN YOUR EYES, YOUR NOSE, AND YOUR MOUTH, CO00700230 AND STRETCH YOUR LIMBS. WE WANT TO GIVE YOU SOMETHING." THE OLD CO00700240 BEAR DID AS SHE WAS BIDDEN TO DO. THEN THE CHILDREN THREW WOOD- CO00700250 DUST UPON HER THAT FELL INTO HER MOUTH, EYES, NOSE, AND OTHER CO00700260 OPENINGS OF HER BODY. SHE CRIED WITH PAIN, RAN AWAY AND FELLED THE CO00700270 TREES WITH HER PAWS. CO00700280 ***COM-008*** CO008 DRUMMER'S MOON CO00800010 BEFORE THE WHITE MAN CAME (ACCORDING TO KWA-KWA-LA JOE) THE CO00800020 PEOPLE LIVED IN COMOX VALLEY NEAR THE MOUTH OF THE TSOLUM, "THE CO00800030 RIVER WHERE FISH COME." CO00800040 THERE WAS MUCH GAME IN THE FOREST, BERRIES GREW ON EVERY CO00800050 LITTLE HILL, THERE WERE MANY SKINS FOR CLOTHING AND EACH YEAR WHEN CO00800060 THE AUTUMN MOON WAS FULL IT GUIDED GREAT HORDES OF SILVER-SIDED CO00800070 SALMON INTO THE MOUTH OF THE RIVER.THE PEOPLE WERE HAPPY FOR DIDN'T CO00800080 THEY LIVE IN COMOX, THE VALLEY OF PLENTY? CO00800090 RED PINE SANG AS HE LEASHED ANOTHER POLE ON THE DRYING-RACK. CO00800100 THE WILLOW WITHES WERE AS THREAD IN HIS FINGERS.HIS HEART WAS GAY CO00800110 FOR HIS THOUGHTS WERE OF THE LOVELY NEETA, WHO HAD REACHED CO00800120 SEVENTEEN SUMMERS AND HAD PROMISED TO BE HIS BRIDE. CO00800130 IT DID NOT TROUBLE HIM THAT SHE WAS THE ONLY DAUGHTER OF THE CO00800140 GREAT CLOUD MAN, CHIEF OF ALL THE COMOX TRIBES, OR THAT BEFORE SHE CO00800150 COULD BECOME HIS BRIDE HE WOULD HAVE TO PAY FOR A GREAT FEAST, OR CO00800160 "POTLATCH". RED PINE KNEW THIS WAS THE "FOURTH YEAR" WITH THE CO00800170 SALMON, THIS WOULD BE THEIR BIG-RUN. HIS TRAPS WERE BUILT, HIS CO00800180 RACKS WERE NEARLY READY, HE HAD REASON TO BE GLAD. CO00800190 BY DAY HE LABORED ON HIS DRYING RACKS; BY NIGHT HE PLAYED HIS CO00800200 SILVER DRUM AND SANG SONGS TO THE MOON. CO00800210 LIFE WAS BEAUTIFUL. THE ONLY WEEDS TO CLOG THE STREAM OF HIS CO00800220 HAPPINESS WAS THE INSANE JEALOUSY OF SERPENT-BREATH, THE MEDICINE- CO00800230 MAN. CO00800240 RED PINE WAS FIRST AWARE OF THE OTHER'S FEELINGS WHEN HE CO00800250 SURPRIZED THE GAZE OF THE SHAMAN AS HIS EVIL EYE LINGERED TOO LONG CO00800260 AND TOO GREEDILY ON THE FAIR FORM OF THE GENTLE NEETA. CO00800270 THE MOON GREW IN SIZE. AND FOR MANY DAYS RED PINE DID NOT SEE CO00800280 SERPENT'S BREATH. DAY AND NIGHT THE SHAMAN KEPT TO THE DARKNESS OF CO00800290 HIS MEDICINE-LODGE. RED PINE WAS GLAD. THIS WAS NO TIME FOR CO00800300 QUARRELING. SOON THE MOON WOULD BE FULL AND THE SILVER-SIDED FISH CO00800310 WOULD FOLLOW IT UP THE RIVER. CO00800320 THREE NIGHTS BEFORE THE FULL OF THE MOON RED PINE SAW SERPENT- CO00800330 BREATH SLIP FROM THE MEDICINE-LODGE, AND SILENTLY SLINK INTO THE CO00800340 FOREST. CO00800350 IN SPITE OF HIMSELF RED PINE FELT SHUDDERS GO UP HIS SPINE, CO00800360 FOR THE SHAMAN CARRIED HIS BLACK MEDICINE-BOW AND A QUIVER OF CO00800370 ARROWS, DARK AND MYSTERIOUS. EVIL WAS SURE TO FOLLOW. CO00800380 RED PINE TOOK HIS SILVER DRUM FROM ITS PEG,AND SAT LOOKING AT CO00800390 THE MOON AS IT CLIMBED UP THE EASTERN SKY. HE TRIED TO SING BUT HIS CO00800400 SONGS WOULD NOT COME. CO00800410 HE KEPT SEEING THE MEDICINE-MAN AND HIS BOW OF DARK MAGIC. CO00800420 WHEN THE MOON WAS EXACTLY OVERHEAD THERE WAS A WHISTLING CO00800430 SOUND AND RED PINE CAUGHT A GLIMPSE OF A BLACK ARROW FLYING CO00800440 STRAIGHT TOWARD THE MOON. HE HEARD THE ARROW STRIKE AND WITH HORROR CO00800450 , HE WATCHED THE WOUNDED MOON FALL INTO THE MOUNTAINS TO THE WEST CO00800460 OTHERS OF THE TRIBE WITNESSED THE TERRIBLE THING. CHIEF CLOUD- CO00800470 MAN CALLED THE WISE MAN INTO COUNCIL. CO00800480 "WITHOUT A MOON TO GUIDE THEM,"HE SAID,"THE FISH CANNOT FIND CO00800490 THEIR WAY UP THE RIVER, THE PEOPLE WILL STARVE." CO00800500 "OH] UNHAPPY TIME] UNHAPPY TIME]" CRIED THE PEOPLE. CO00800510 THE WISE MEN TALKED MUCH, BUT EACH WAS AFRAID TO GO INTO THE CO00800520 FORBIDDEN MOUNTAINS TO SEARCH FOR THE WOUNDED MOON. CO00800530 THE HEART OF RED PINE WAS HEAVY WITH DESPAIR.WITHOUT THE SALMON CO00800540 HARVEST HE WOULD BE TOO POOR TO PAY FOR A WEDDING FEAST, AND MAKE A CO00800550 POTLATCH WORTHY OF ONE WHO WOULD MARRY THE DAUGHTER OF THE CHIEF. CO00800560 TAKING HIS BOW FOR PROTECTION AGAINST THINGS OF FLESH AND CO00800570 BLOOD, AND HIS DRUM TO FRIGHTEN AWAY EVIL SPIRITS, HE WENT QUIETLY CO00800580 UP THE PUNTLEDGE TRAIL. HE MADE HIS UNWILLING FEET CARRY HIM CO00800590 STRAIGHT TO THE THE PLATEAU, THE FORBIDDEN LAND, WHICH FOR CO00800600 GENERATIONS HAD BEEN TABOO TO HIS PEOPLE. CO00800610 ATOP "THE-TALL-MOUNTAIN" HE MADE HIS SUPPER FIRE. HE WAS CO00800620 ROASTING VENISON WHEN THERE CAME FROM THE DARKNESS A SOUND WHICH CO00800630 RAISED THE HAIR ON THE BACK OF HIS NECK. CO00800640 RED PINE KNEW OF THE HAIRY WHITE GIANTS WHICH INHABITED THE CO00800650 FORBIDDEN PLATEAU. THOSE IMMENSE BEINGS WHO HURLED THEIR VICTIMS CO00800660 FROM THE RIM OF CRUIKSHANK CANYON TO THE ROCKS 1200 FEET BELOW. HE CO00800670 HAD HEARD HOW THEY SOMETIMES TORE THEIR CAPTIVES TO PIECES, AND CO00800680 WHILE IT STILL QUIVERED BETWEEN THEIR TEETH, THEY DEVOURED THE CO00800690 LIVING FLESH. CO00800700 HOLDING HIS BREATH IN TERROR HE LISTENED. IT CAME AGAIN, THE CO00800710 SOBBING AS OF A SOUL IN GREAT TORMENT. CO00800720 HE GRABBED HIS DRUM, AND FUMBLING SEARCHED FOR THE DRUMSTICK. CO00800730 IN THE DARKNESS IT ELUDED HIM. HE SEIZED A HALF-BURNED STICK FROM CO00800740 THE FIRE AND BEGAN WILDLY BEATING THE DRUM. CO00800750 "BEAT NOT THY DRUM, OH RED PINE", THERE WAS GREAT PAIN IN THE CO00800760 SILVERY VOICE WHICH CAME FROM THE DARKNESS,"BUT THROW IT HIGH INTO CO00800770 THE AIR, I HAVE NEED OF IT." CO00800780 WITH ALL HIS MIGHT, RED PINE THREW THE DRUM. HE SAW A FLASH AS CO00800790 THE SPIRIT OF THE OLD MOON CAUGHT THE DRUM AND RODE OFF THROUGH THE CO00800800 NIGHT. CO00800810 THE FOLLOWING NIGHT THE PEOPLE REJOICED, FOR A SILVERY HORDE CO00800820 OF SALMON WAS LED UP THE RIVER BY A BRIGHT FULL MOON. CO00800830 EACH YEAR, FOR GENERATIONS AFTER, THE BRAVEST YOUNG MAN OF THE CO00800840 TRIBE WAS CHOSEN, AND FROM THE SUMMIT OF THE MOUNTAIN, HE HURLED CO00800850 HIS DRUM HIGH INTO THE AIR, AND TO THIS DAY YOU CAN SEE A DARKENED CO00800860 AREA ON THE SIDE OF THE MOON, AS IF SOMEONE HAD BEATEN A DRUM WITH CO00800870 A CHARRED STICK. CO00800880 ***COM-009*** CO009 THE SNOW WAS RED IN JUNE. CO00900010 ACCORDING TO KWA-KWA-LA JOE: THE PLATEAU HAS NOT ALWAYS BEEN CO00900020 "FORBIDDEN", NOR HAS THE SNOW ALWAYS TURNED RED AT A CERTAIN TIME CO00900030 OF THE YEAR. CO00900040 IN THE DAYS BEFORE THE WHITE MAN CAME THE COMOX PEOPLE LIVED CO00900050 IN THE DELTA OF THE COURTENAY RIVER. THE WATERS WERE FULL OF FISH CO00900060 AND THERE WAS MUCH GAME IN THE FOREST; THERE WERE WILD BERRIES ON CO00900070 ON THE HILL BY THE BIG BURN, AND EDIBLE ROOTS TO BE HAD FOR THE CO00900080 DIGGING. THE SKINS OF ANIMALS WERE CLOTHING IN WINTER, AND THE CO00900090 SPLIT CEDAR LODGE WAS SHELTER AGAINST THE STORM. IT WAS A GOOD LAND CO00900100 TO LIVE IN; LIFE WAS FULL AND THE PEOPLE WERE HAPPY. CO00900110 HE WHO WOULD DWELL AMIDST PLENTY IN SECURITY MUST BE STRONG, CO00900120 BUT THE PEOPLE HAD NEGLECTED THEIR DEFENCES. CO00900130 THERE WERE OTHERS WHO CAME SECRETLY, WHO LOOKED AT THE LAND, CO00900140 AND SAW THAT IT WAS A PLEASANT LAND, AND IT LAY LIKE A FAT DEER CO00900150 WAITING FOR THE HUNTER'S ARROW. CO00900160 THERE WERE THOSE AMONG THE COMOX PEOPLE WHO HAD NOT PERMITTED CO00900170 THEMSELVES TO BECOME SOFT. THEY WERE THE "HAMATSA". EACH OF THEM, CO00900180 BY LIVING IN THE FOREST FOR A WHOLE MONTH IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CO00900190 WINTER, WITHOUT CLOTHES, FIRE OR WEAPONS, HAD PROVEN HIS RIGHT TO CO00900200 THE TITLE OF "WILD MAN". THEY, IT WAS, WHO DISCOVERED THE INTRUDER. CO00900210 A GREAT FEAR FELL UPON THE COMOX PEOPLE WHEN THEY LEARNED WHO CO00900220 CAME. THEY KNEW THIS FOE WHO TRIED TO CAPTURE RATHER THAN KILL; CO00900230 AND HAPPY WAS THE MAN, WOMAN, OR CHILD WHO WAS DEAD BEFORE FALLING CO00900240 INTO HIS HANDS. CO00900250 IN TERROR THEY GATHERED THE WOMEN AND THE LITTLE ONES, THE OLD CO00900260 AND THE WEAK; AND IN MUCH HASTE THEY SENT THEM UP THE PUNTLEDGE CO00900270 TRAIL TO THE PLATEAU IN THE MOUNTAINS. CO00900280 OF COURSE, THEY HAD HEARD FROM THE OLD PEOPLE THE STORIES OF CO00900290 THE HAIRY WHITE GIANTS WHO LIVED ON THE PLATEAU; THOSE WHO CAME OUT CO00900300 OF THE HOLES IN THE ROCKS, WHO THREW THEIR VICTIMS FROM THE RIM OF CO00900310 CRUIKSHANK CANYON ONTO THE ROCKS A THOUSAND FEET BELOW. BUT THOSE CO00900320 WERE ONLY STORIES. NO ONE HAD SEEN THE HAIRY WHITE GIANTS. THERE CO00900330 WAS NO PROOF OF THEIR EXISTENCE, AND EVERYONE KNEW THOSE WHO CAME. CO00900340 THE WARRIORS WHO TOOK THE WOMEN AND CHILDREN TO THE PLATEAU CO00900350 HAD RETURNED TO THE VILLAGE WHEN THE ENEMY STRUCK. THE BATTLE WAS CO00900360 LONG AND THE FIGHTING WAS BITTER. MUCH OF THE VILLAGE WAS BURNED, CO00900370 AND MANY WARRIORS WERE LOST. BUT IN THE END THE INTRUDER WAS PUT TO CO00900380 ROUTE. CO00900390 THE LAST ENEMY WARRIOR HAD BEEN DRIVEN OUT, THE LAST CAPTIVE CO00900400 HAD BEEN CARED FOR ACCORDING TO CUSTOM; AGAIN THE LAND WAS FREE. CO00900410 THE THOUGHTS OF THE COMOX PEOPLE TURNED TO THEIR WOMEN. CO00900420 WHEN THE WARRIORS ARRIVED AT THE PLATEAU THEY FOUND ONLY CO00900430 BLOOD-STAINED SNOW. THEIR WOMEN AND LITTLE ONES HAD DISAPPEARED CO00900440 FROM THE EARTH. CO00900450 FROM THAT DAY TO THIS THE PLATEAU HAS BEEN FORBIDDEN TO THE CO00900460 PEOPLE, AND AT THE SAME TIME EACH YEAR THE SNOW TURNS RED. CO00900470