The Journal of American Folk-lore Vol.XXV.-October-December
1912 - no. XCVIII.
Traditions of the Lillooet Indians of British Columbia.
by James Teit



CONTENTS

I. Traditions of the "real Lillooet" (the Liluet-o'l)

1. A'tse'mel; or, the story of the transformers
2. The boy and the sun
3. The frog sisters
4. Beaver and eagle
5. The fire people;or, the man who introduced fire
6. Origin of light and fire
7. The salmon men; or, the origin of salmon
8. Coyote
9. The man who had a branch for a wife
10. Glacier and chinook-wind
11. Wren; or, the chain of arrows
12. The mosquitoes and thunder
13. Wren
14. Owl
15. The girl and the dog
16. Raven
17. Bald-headed eagle
18. The slave who married bald-head's daughter
19. The grizzly-bears and the black-bears
20. The male grizzly-bear
21. Fawn
22. The lad who killed his cousin
23. Nkimtcamu'l
24. The man who got four wives
25. The ghost-mother
26. Story of the sisters
27. The medicine-man and his sweetheart
28. Tcimtcimi'kin
29. The loon and the woman
30. The faithless wife
31. The squint-eyed woman;or, the man who obtained a new head
32. The gambler
33. The woman who was impaled on a tree-top
34. Brother and sister
35. The flood, and distribution of people
36. The poor man; or, the origin of copper
37. The S'a'innux
38. The Haitlo'laux and wolf people, ancestors of the Liluet'o'l

II. Traditions of the Lillooet of the lakes

39. Coyote
40. The black-bear brothers
41. Tsu'ntia
42. (a) Nk'e'olstem (first version)
    (b) Nk'e'olstem, or Nqe'qaumstem myth (second version)
43. (a) Raven; or, how death came into the world
    (b) Raven and old-one, or chief
44. Origin of bands of northern Shuswap living next to the Lilloet of Fraser Riv
45. Porcupine; or, the story of deer
46. The man who lived with the bear
47. Origin of the Lillooet and bridge river people
48. Origin of the Skimqai'n people
49. Origin of the fountain people
50. Komaksti'mut



THE FOLLOWING COLLECTION OF TRADITIONS WAS MADE BY MR. JAMES
TEIT DURING HIS RESEARCHES ON THE ETHNOLOGY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA.
AFTER MR. TEIT HAD CLOSED HIS WORK FOR THE JESUP NORTH PACIFIC
EXPEDITION OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY AND SOME OTHER
INCIDENTAL WORK, MR HOMER E. SARGENT OF CHICAGO BECAME INTERESTED
IN MR. TEIT'S VALUABLE INVESTIGATIONS, WHICH HE HAS LIBERALLY
SUPPORTED DURING THE LAST SIX YEARS.  THE PRESENT PAPER IS ONE OF THE
RESULTS OF THE RESEARCHES THUS CONDUCTED.
    THE COMPARATIVE NOTES WHICH WILL BE FOUND IN THE PAPER HAVE BEEN
ADDED BY THE EDITOR.  ONLY THE MATERIAL RELATING DIRECTLY TO SALISH
MYTHOLOGY HAS BEEN INCLUDED IN THESE.  A FULLER DISCUSSION DOES NOT
SEEM ADVISABLE UNTIL ALL THE COLLECTED MATERIAL RELATING TO THE
FOLK-LORE OF THE NORTHWESTERN PLATEAUS AND OF THE NORTH PACIFIC COAST
HAS BEEN PUBLISHED.
    THE PRINCIPAL INTEREST OF THE LILLOOET FOLK-LORE, ASIDE FROM THE
PSYCHOLOGICAL CHARACTER OF THE TRADITIONS, IS FOUND IN THE LIGHT WHICH
IT THROWS UPON THE PROCESS OF DISSEMINATION OF TALES.  WHILE THE FOLK
TALES AND MYTHS OF THE THOMPSON INDIANS, WHO WITH THE LILLOOET BELONG
TO THE INLAND BRANCHES OF THE SALISH FAMILY, ARE NOT VERY DEEPLY
AFFECTED BY THE TRADITIONS OF THE COAST INDIANS, AND WHILE THEY RATHER
BELONG TO THE GROUP OF TALES AND MYTHS CHARACTERISTIC OF THE
NORTHWESTERN PLATEAUS, THE LILLOOET TALES SHOW A STRONG INFUSION OF
COAST ELEMENTS.  THE SAME IS TRUE OF THE TRADITIONS OF THE LOWER
THOMPSON INDIANS, WHO INHABIT THAT PART OF THE FRASER RIVER CANYON
ADJOINING THE FRASER RIVER DELTA.  THE COLLECTIONS MADE AMONG THE
COAST TRIBES BY MYSELF, AND LATER ON BY MR. CHARLES HILL-TOUT,
SHOW CLEARLY THE CLOSE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE MYTHS AND TALES OF
ALL THE TRIBES LIVING AROUND THE GULF OF GEORGIA AND THOSE OF OTHER
COAST TRIBES.  THE LILLOOET AND THE LOWER THOMPSON INDIANS HAVE
ADOPTED FROM THESE TRIBES THE WHOLE GROUP OF ANCESTOR LEGENDS, WHICH
ARE ENTIRELY ABSENT IN THE INTERIOR, AND WHICH ARE CHARACTERISTIC OF
THE SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF THE COAST TRIBES THAT HAVE VILLAGE
COMMUNITIES CLAIMING DESCENT FROM A SINGLE ANCESTOR; WHILE IN THE
INTERIOR NO SUCH SUBDIVISION OF THE TRIBES EXISTS.  THE INCIDENTS
BELONGING TO THE COAST FOLK-LORE HAVE BEEN POINTED OUT IN THE
COMPARATIVE NOTES ACCOMPANYING MR. TEIT'S COLLECTION OF TRADITIONS.
IT IS INTERESTING TO FOLLOW THE GRADUAL DISSEMINATION OF THE
TRANSFORMER MYTHS, TELLING OF A GROUP OF SEVERAL CULTURE-HEROES WHO
TRAVEL THROUGH THE COUNTRY TOGETHER, FREEING THE LAND OF MONSTERS,
AND GIVING MAN HIS ARTS.  IN THE INTERIOR THEIR PLACE IS TAKEN BY THE
COYOTE: BUT, AS HAS BEEN POINTED OUT BEFORE BOTH BY MR TEIT AND BY
MYSELF, THE IDEA OF THE GROUP OF TRANSFORMERS HAS PENETRATED FAR INTO
THE INTERIOR.  EVERYWHERE, HOWEVER, THE OPINION IS CLEARLY EXPRESSED
THAT IN REALITY THESE TRANSFORMERS BELONG TO THE COAST, AND THAT THEIR
DEEDS EAST OF THE FRASER RIVER CANYON WERE A TRESPASS ON THE TERRITORY
WHICH BELONGED PROPERLY TO COYOTE AND TO OLD-ONE.  SEVERAL OF THE
THOMPSON RIVER TRADITIONS END WITH THE STATEMENT THAT AT THE REQUEST
OF COYOTE, THE COAST TRANSFORMERS RETIRED TO THE COAST, AND LEFT THE
COUNTRY TO HIM TO BE PUT INTO PROPER SHAPE.
    IN REGARD TO THESE POINTS THE REPORT OF A CONVERSATION BETWEEN
MR. TEIT AND A LILLOOET OVER EIGHTY YEARS OLD WILL BE OF INTEREST.
MR. TEIT DESCRIBES THIS CONVERSATION AS FOLLOWS:-
    "MY INFORMANT SAID THAT IN THE BEGINNING THE INHABITANTS OF THE
WORLD HAD ANIMAL CHARACTERISTICS.  IT IS DOUBTFUL WHETHER AT THAT TIME
REAL ANIMALS AND REAL PEOPLE EXISTED AS WE KNOW THEM TO-DAY.  THE
WORLD WAS VERY SPARSELY SETTLED.  A NUMBER OF TRANSFORMERS GAVE THE
WORLD ITS PRESENT SHAPE, AND TRANSFORMED THE BEINGS OF THE MYTHICAL
PERIOD INTO REAL PEOPLE AND REAL ANIMALS.  THESE TRANSFORMERS
TRAVELLED ALL OVER THE WORLD FOR THIS PURPOSE.  NONE OF THEM WAS BORN
IN THE LILLOOET COUNTRY.  THEY WERE STRANGERS, MOST OF WHOM CAME FROM
THE COAST REGION.  AMONG THESE WAS THE MINK.  THERE IS NO STORY WHICH
ACCOUNTS FOR THE ORIGIN OF THE LILLOOET TRIBE AS A WHOLE, ALTHOUGH
SOMETIMES IT IS CLAIMED THAT THE LILLOOET ARE DESCENDANTS OF THE
BLACK-BEAR-WOMAN'S CHILDREN.  IT IS SAID THAT BLACK-BEAR AND
GRIZZLY-BEAR LIVED WITH THEIR HUSBAND ON THE EAST SIDE OF FRASER RIVER
NORTH OF LYTTON, PROBABLY IN BOTANI VALLEY.  AFTER THE YOUNG
BLACK-BEARS HAD KILLED THE YOUNG GRIZZLY-BEARS, THEY ESCAPED, AND
CROSSED FRASER RIVER SOMEWHERE BETWEEN LYTTON AND LILLOOET, AND TOOK
REFUGE IN THE LILLOOET COUNTRY NEAR PEMBERTON.  THEY BECAME THE
ANCESTORS OF PEOPLE SPEAKING THE LILLOOET LANGUAGE, AND THEIR
DESCENDANTS SPREAD UP AND DOWN THE RIVERS FROM THIS POINT,
INTERMARRYING WITH THE MYTHICAL INHABITANTS; THAT IS, THE SEMI-ANIMAL
PEOPLE OF THE LILLOOET COUNTRY.  OTHERS SAY THAT THE YOUNG BLACK-BEARS
BECAME THE TRANSFORMER BROTHERS, THE QOA'QTQWET# (="SMILING") OF THE
THOMPSON INDIANS, AND THAT LATER ON THEY VISITED THE THOMPSON COUNTRY,
ASCENDING THE FRASER RIVER FROM THE DELTA UPWARD.
    "EVERY BAND OF THE LILLOOET ORIGINATED FROM THE UNION OF A MAN
WITH ONE OF THE SEMI-ANIMAL INHABITANTS OF THE COUNTRY, PERHAPS FROM
ANIMALS.  MOST OF THE TRADITIONS INFORM US THAT A LILLOOET MAN WENT
OFF AND MARRIED ONE OR MORE ANIMAL PEOPLE WHOM HE FOUND INHABITING A
CERTAIN PART OF THE COUNTRY; AND THE BAND THAT NOW INHABITS THIS SPOT
CLAIMS DESCENT FROM THESE ANCESTORS.  THUS THE ANDERSON LAKE PEOPLE
ARE DESCENDANTS OF TWO GRIZZLY-BEAR SISTERS.  MOST OF THE MEMBERS OF
THE PEMBERTON BAND ARE DESCENDANTS OF TWO MEN WHO LIVED AT THE
PLACES KNOWN AS TEZI'L AND LEQTS, WHERE ONE MARRIED A BEAR, THE OTHER
A GIANT.  THE ORIGINAL INHABITANTS OF PORT DOUGLAS ARE DESCENDANTS OF
A LILLOOET MAN WHO MARRIED A SEAL WOMAN, WHO BORE HIM A SON AND A
DAUGHTER.  THE BRIDGE RIVER PEOPLE ARE DESCENDANTS OF A BLACK BEAR;
THOSE OF SETL, OF A FROG; AND THOSE OF SEATON LAKE, OF A SA'TUEN (A
CRANE-LIKE BIRD).  THE SESHELT TRIBE ARE IN PART DESCENDANTS OF A MAN
AND A PORPOISE(?) WOMAN.  SOME OF THE SESHELT ARE LILLOOET BY ORIGIN.
THEIR ANCESTORS WERE A PARTY OF LILLOOET WHO DESCENDED TO THE COAST,
AND WHO CONTINUED TO SPEAK LILLOOET UNTIL ABOUT 1850.  THEY LIVED
AT HA'NITCEN.  THE TLAHU'S TRIBE, WHO NOWADAYS SPEAK THE COMOX
LANGUAGE, ARE IN PART DESCENDANTS OF CHILCOTIN WHO SETTLED ON THE
COAST.  IT IS SAID THAT IN EARLY DAYS THE PEOPLE OF THIS TRIBE DRESSED
AND ADORNED THEMSELVES LIKE THE CHILCOTIN OF THE INTERIOR.
    "THE SHUSWAP AND THOMPSON INDIANS ARE SAID TO HAVE BEEN ORIGINALLY
DESCENDANTS OF COYOTE; AND SOME LILLOOET CLAIM THAT ALL THE PEOPLE OF
THE SOUTHERN INTERIOR WERE OF THIS DESCENT, WHILE THE PEOPLE OF THE
NORTHERN INTERIOR WERE DESCENDANTS OF THE BEAR OR DEER.  THE FOUNTAIN
TRIBE ARE DESCENDANTS OF COYOTE AND HIS WIVES, ALDER AND COTTONWOOD.
SOME PEOPLE CLAIM THAT ALL THE INDIANS OF THE INTERIOR, AND PERHAPS
ALL THE PEOPLE OF THE WHOLE WORLD, ARE DESCENDANTS OF COYOTE AND THESE
TWO WOMEN.
    "THERE ARE TWO SPRINGS - ONE HOT AND ONE COLD - NEAR SKOOKUM
CHUCK, IN THE LOWER LILLOOET DISTRICT.  THEY WERE A MARRIED COUPLE
WHOM THE TRANSFORMER CHANGED INTO SPRINGS AT THEIR OWN REQUEST.
THEY SAID, 'LET US BE TWO SPRINGS, ONE HOT AND ONE COLD, SIDE BY SIDE.
PEOPLE WHO BATHE IN US AND DRINK OUR WATER WILL BECOME WELL.' ANOTHER
SPRING OR BROOK NEAR LILLOOET WAS FORMERLY A WOMAN WHO ASKED
THE TRANSFORMER TO BE TRANSFORMED INTO WATER, ASKING THAT THE PEOPLE
SHOULD DRINK OF HER TO BE MADE HEALTHY."
    THE MATERIAL HAS BEEN ARRANGED IN TWO GROUPS, THE FIRST GROUP
CONTAINING TRADITIONS COLLECTED AMONG THE "REAL LILLOOET," THE
LILUET-O'L, WHO ARE LOCATED AROUND PEMBERTON MEADOWS; THE SECOND,
TRADITIONS OF THE LILLOOET OF THE LAKES (LEXALEXAMUX), - OF ANDERSON
AND SEATON LAKES.  THE COLLECTION MADE BY MR. HILL-TOUT(ANTHROP.INST.
XXXV) IS FROM THE LOWER LILLOOET, AT THE UPPER END OF HARRISON LAKE,
A GROUP WHICH IS VERY MUCH MIXED WITH THE DELTA TRIBES.  FOR THIS
REASON HIS COLLECTION CONTAINS MORE COAST ELEMENTS THAN MR. TEIT'S
COLLECTION.  I HAVE POINTED OUT THAT THE COLLECTION WHICH I OBTAINED
ON HARRISON RIVER IN BRITISH COLUMBIA, AND WHICH BELONGS TO THE DELTA
GROUP, CONTAINS MANY LILLOOET ELEMENTS.  THE SAME IS TRUE OF THE
TRADITIONS COLLECTED BY MR. HILL-TOUT IN THE DELTA OF FRASER RIVER.
EDITOR.\

         I.  TRADITIONS OF THE "REAL LILLOOET" (THE LILUET-O'L)


         1.  A'TSE'MEL; OR, THE STORY OF THE TRANSFORMERS
    FOUR BROTHERS, CALLED THE A'TSE'MEL, CAME UP FROM THE MOUTH OF THE
FRASER RIVER.  THEY WERE ACCOMPANIED BY THEIR SISTER, WHO WAS
ENDOWED WITH MAGIC, AND ALSO BY ANOTHER TRANSFORMER CALLED SQAIX.
IT IS SAID THAT THESE PEOPLE CAME FROM SOME PLACE ON THE COAST, AND
ENTERED THE INTERIOR BY WAY OF THE FRASER RIVER, FOR THE PURPOSE OF
PUTTING THINGS TO RIGHTS IN THE WORLD, AND KILLING EVERYTHING THAT WAS
BAD.  THESE SIX PERSONS WERE GIFTED WITH MAGIC IN A HIGH DEGREE,
AND THEY TRAVELLED BY CANOE.
    AFTER PERFORMING MANY WONDERFUL DEEDS ON THEIR WAY UP THE FRASER
RIVER, THEY ENTERED THE HARRISON RIVER, AND CAMPED A FEW MILES
ABOVE WHERE THE TCEHE'LES TRIBE LIVE.  HERE ABODE A WICKED WOMAN
WHO WAS GIFTED WITH MAGIC, AND WHO KILLED MANY MEN.  SQAIX SAID HE
WOULD GO ALONE AND VISIT THE WOMAN; BUT THE BROTHERS TOLD HIM HE HAD
BETTER AVOID HER UNTIL THE NEXT DAY, WHEN THEY WOULD ALL GO TOGETHER.
SQAIX ANSWERED, "WHY SHOULD I AVOID HER?  NO ONE IS SUPERIOR TO ME
IN MAGIC."  SO, WHEN THE OTHERS SLEPT, HE WENT TO HER HOUSE.  HE SAID
TO HER, "WHY HAVE YOU NO HUSBAND?  IT IS BAD FOR YOU TO BE ALONE.
I AM SEEKING A WIFE, AND WISH TO HAVE YOU."  SHE ANSWERED, "LET
ME ALONE, AND DO NOT MAKE ME FEEL ASHAMED BY TALKING IN THAT WAY."
BUT SQAIX INSISTED, AND TRIED TO DO VIOLENCE TO HER.  HIS HAND WAS
CAUGHT BY HER ORGANS, AND, SINCE HE WAS UNABLE TO WITHDRAW IT, HE HAD
TO CUT IT OFF ABOVE THE WRIST.
    HE FELT ASHAMED, WENT HOME, AND LAY DOWN.  IN THE MORNING THE
OTHERS TOLD HIM TO GET UP, BUT HE WOULD NOT RISE.  THEY ASKED HIM TO
SHOW HIS HANDS, AND HE SHOWED THEM ONE HAND.  THEY SAID, "SHOW
US THE OTHER ONE;" AND HE CHANGED HIS HAND TO THE OTHER SIDE OF HIS
BODY, AND SHOWED IT AGAIN.  THEY KNEW WHAT HAD HAPPENED, AND
LAUGHED AT HIM.  THEN THEY WENT TO THE WOMAN'S HOUSE, AND THE
BROTHERS TRIED TO TRANSFORM HER; BUT IN VAIN, FOR SHE WAS EQUAL TO
THEM IN POWERS.  THEREFORE THEY ASKED THEIR SISTER TO HELP THEM; AND
SHE PUSHED HER HAND AND ARM INTO THE  WOMAN'S ORGANS.  WHEN SHE PULLED
THEM OUT AGAIN, THE WOMAN DIED AT ONCE.
    AFTER SOME TIME THEY ARRIVED HALFWAY UP HARRISON LAKE, WHERE THEY
SAW A HOUSE IN WHICH LIVED AN OLD MAN NAMED S'EXEI.  THEY ENTERED
HIS HOUSE, AND TALKED TO HIM JOKINGLY, AS IF HE WERE A CHILD.  HE
BECAME ANGRY, AND SAID, "WHY DO YOU TALK TO ME AS IF I WERE A CHILD?
I AM AN OLD MAN, AND MORE EXPERIENCED THAN YOU, WHO ARE YOUNG."
LEAVING THEIR SISTER IN THE HOUSE, THEY PROPOSED TO THE OLD MAN THAT
THEY SHOULD WALK UP THE MOUNTAIN-SIDE TO SEE WHO COULD CLIMB BEST.
WHEN THEY WERE QUITE A DISTANCE AWAY, THE OLD MAN CAUSED A HEAVY FALL
OF SNOW, FASTENED ON HIS SNOW-SHOES, WHICH HE HAD HIDDEN UNDER HIS
CLOTHES, LEFT THE BROTHERS, AND WALKED HOME.
    IT TOOK THE OTHERS THREE DAYS TO WADE THROUGH THE DEEP SNOW TO THE
HOUSE; AND AS SOON AS THEY REACHED IT, THE SNOW ALL DISAPPEARED.
THEN THEY ASKED THE OLD MAN TO TAKE THEM UP THE LAKE IN HIS CANOE,
WHICH WAS VERY SMALL.  THEY ALL EMBARDED, AND THE OLD MAN PADDLED.
WHEN THEY HAD GONE SOME DISTANCE, THEY TRIED TO FRIGHTEN HIM, SAYING,
"SEE THAT MONSTER COMING UNDERNEATH THE CANOE]"  HE LOOKED, AND
SAID, "THAT IS NOTHING.  IT IS ONLY THE SHADOW OF THE MOUNTAIN-TOPS
MOVING ON THE WAVES."  THEN THEY SAID, "SEE THAT MAN PADDLING
UNDERNEATH THE CANOE]"  THE OLD MAN ANSWERED, "IT IS NOTHING,
ONLY MY SHADOW PADDLING."  THEN SQAIX CHANGED HIMSELF INTO A MINK
AND WENT DOWN THROUGH THE WATER.  THE OTHERS TOLD THE OLD MAN TO
LOOK.  HE SAID, "THAT IS NOTHING.  ALL KINDS OF ANIMALS SWIM IN THE
LAKE."  THEN SQAIX CHANGED HIMSELF INTO A WEASEL, AND, ENTERING THE
CANOE, RAN UP OVER THE OLD MAN'S LEGS.  THE BROTHERS SAID, "LOOK AT
THAT BAD ANIMAL]"  BUT THE OLD MAN ANSWERED, "THAT IS NOTHING.
I CAN EASILY KILL IT WITH MY PADDLE."
    NOW THEY REACHED A PLACE CALLED S'A'TA, WHERE THERE WAS A LONG
SANDY BEACH.  HERE THEY PROPOSED TO RUN THE OLD MAN A RACE.  THEY
WERE TO RUN TO THE END OF THE BEACH AND BACK AGAIN.  THEY LEFT THEIR
SISTER IN THE CANOE, AND BEGAN TO RACE.  THE OLD MAN BEAT THEM, AND
REACHED THE CANOE AGAIN WHILE THE OTHERS WERE YET FAR AWAY.  THEN HE
CAUSED A CALM WITH INTENSE HEAT TO COME, WHICH MADE HIS OPPONENTS
HARDLY ABLE TO WALK.  AT LAST THEY SAT DOWN, OVERCOME BY THE HEAT.
SO THE OLD MAN SAID TO THE WOMAN, "WE WILL TAKE THE CANOE TO MEET
THEM, FOR THEY ARE TIRED."  THEN HE MADE A BREEZE; AND THE BROTHERS
AND SQAIX, FEELING REFRESHED, PROPOSED TO THE OLD MAN THAT THEY SHOULD
GO UP THE MOUNTAIN TO GATHER CEDAR-BRANCHES.  WHEN HE TURNED AROUND
TO LOOK AT THE MOUNTAIN THEY PROPOSED TO CLIMB, THE SISTER THREW ON
HIS BACK THE PAINT SHE HAD USED WHEN PUBESCENT; AND HE WAS
IMMEDIATELY TURNED INTO A STONE, WHICH MAY BE SEEN AT THE PRESENT DAY.
    AFTER THIS THEY CROSSED TO THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE LAKE, TO WHERE
S'CXEI'S WIFE LIVED.  HER NAME WAS SKAIYA'M.  THEY TURNED HER AND
HER CANOE INTO STONE, FOR SHE WAS A WICKED WOMAN.
    THE TRANSFORMERS THEN PROCEEDED ON THEIR VOYAGE, AND ENTERED THE
LOWER LILLOOET RIVER.  THEY PROCEEDED SLOWLY UP THIS RIVER, AND
PERFORMED MANY WONDERFUL FEATS, KILLING AND TRANSFORMING BAD PEOPLE,
AND MAKING BAD PARTS OF THE COUNTRY BETTER.
    AT LAST THEY ARRIVED HALFWAY UP LILLOOET LAKE, ON THE WEST SIDE OF
WHICH THEY SAW A HOUSE IN FRONT OF WHICH A PREGNANT WOMAN WAS
STANDING.  THEY ASKED HER WHERE HER HUSBAND WAS, AND SHE POINTED
TO HIM ON THE LAKE-SHORE, WHERE HE WAS ENGAGED TRYING TO CATCH FISH
WITH TWO STICKS.  THE FISH WOULD PASS BETWEEN THE STICKS.  THEN HE
WOULD TAKE THEM OUT AND WIPE THE SLIME OFF THEM WITH GRASS, AND TRY
AGAIN.  THIS MAN'S NAME WAS STSOP; AND THE TRANSFORMER ASKED HIM
WHAT HE WAS DOING.  HE ANSWERED, "I AM POOR AND IGNORANT, AND
KNOW NOT HOW TO CATCH FISH.  I TRY TO CATCH THEM IN THE MANNER YOU
HAVE JUST SEEN, BUT CAN NEVER CAPTURE ANY."  THEY SAID, "WHAT DO
YOU EAT?" AND HE ANSWERED, "WE GATHER GRASS AND BOIL IT IN A BASKET,
AND EAT IT WHEN IT IS COOKED."  THEY NOTICED THAT THE MAN CARRIED A
LONG KNIFE ON HIS BACK, WITH STRINGS OF EAGLE'S FEATHERS ATTACHED TO
THE HANDLE AND SHEATH, AND ASKED HIM WHAT HE USED IT FOR.  HE SAID
"WHEN MY WIFE BECOMES VERY LARGE WITH CHILD, I TAKE THIS KNIFE, CUT
OPEN HER BELLY WITH IT, AND TAKE OUT THE CHILD.  MY WIFE ALWAYS DIES.
THUS I HAVE HAD MANY WIVES."  THEY SAID, "WE WILL TEACH YOU HOW
TO DO THINGS RIGHT, SO THAT FUTURE GENERATIONS IN THIS COUNTRY SHALL
KNOW."
    THEY CROSSED THE LAKE, AND PULLED HAIRS OUT OF THEIR LEGS FROM
BELOW THE KNEE, WHICH THEY THREW ON THE GROUND: SPA'TSAN-BUSHES GREW
UP AT ONCE.  THEY STRIPPED THE BARK FROM SOME OF THEM, WENT TO THE MAN
AND HIS WIFE, AND SHOWED THEM HOW TO PREPARE IT, TWIST IT INTO TWINE,
AND WEAVE IT INTO NETS.  THEY MADE A DIP-NET FOR HIM, AND SHOWED HIM
HOW TO FISH WITH IT.  EVERYTHING THEY DID THEY MADE THE COUPLE DO
THEMSELVES, SO THAT THEY SHOULD REALLY KNOW HOW TO DO IT.  THEN ONE
OF THE BROTHERS, UNPERCEIVED BY THE MAN AND HIS WIFE, CHANGED HIMSELF
INTO A SALMON, AND ENTERED THE MAN'S NET.  THE MAN LANDED IT, AND
THE OTHER BROTHERS SHOWED HIM HOW TO CUT IT UP.  THEY LIGHTED A FIRE
AND HEATED STONES.  THEN THEY PLACED A LARGE BASKET AND A SMALL
BASKET SIDE BY SIDE, AND FILLED THEM WITH WATER.  THEY PUT THE FISH
IN THE LARGE ONE.  THEY LIFTED THE STONES WITH TONGS AND DIPPED THEM
INTO THE SMALL KETTLE TO CLEAN THEM, AND THEN DROPPED THEM INTO THE
LARGE KETTLE.  THEY ADDED FRESH STONES UNTIL THE FISH WAS BOILED; THEN
THEY PUT IT ON SOME CEDAR-BARK, AND ALL JOINED IN EATING IT.  THEY
TOLD THE MAN TO SAVE ALL THE BONES, AND THROW THEM INTO THE WATER,
WHICH HE DID; AND THE OTHER BROTHER RETURNED TO HIS FORMER SHAPE,
AND JOINED THEM.  THEN THEY SAID, "FUTURE GENERATIONS SHALL DO AS
WE HAVE SHOWN.  THEY SHALL CATCH AND BOIL SALMON, AND EAT THEM
INSTEAD OF GRASS."
    WHEN THE MAN'S WIFE CAME TO BE DELIVERED OF HER CHILD, THE SISTER
TOOK BIRD-CHERRY BARK AND TIED IT TO THE INFANT.  SHE PULLED TWICE,
BUT THE STRING BROKE EACH TIME.  SHE TIED IT AGAIN, AND ON THE THIRD
PULL THE CHILD CAME OUT.  THE TRANSFORMERS SAID, "FUTURE GENERATIONS
SHALL GIVE BIRTH TO THEIR CHILDREN, AND MEN SHALL NO LONGER CUT THEIR
WIVES.  OCCASIONALLY THERE MAY BE A HARD BIRTH, WHEN THE CHILD MUST
BE PULLED OUT."  NOW SQAIX SAID, "THIS MAN HAS KILLED MANY WOMEN.
HE OUGHT TO BE PUNISHED."  AND THE BROTHERS SAID, "HE SHOULD BE
TURNED INTO STONE, SO THAT FUTURE GENERATIONS, BY SEEING HIM, MAY
REMEMBER THE CAUSE OF HIS TRANSFORMATION, AND KNOW WHAT HAS BEEN
ORDAINED."  THEY TURNED HIM INTO A STONE, WHICH MAY BE SEEN AT THE
PRESENT DAY; BUT HIS WIFE AND HIS NEWLY-BORN SON THEY LEFT TO OCCUPY
THE PLACE.
    PROCEEDING UP THE LAKE, THE TRANSFORMERS CAME TO ITS HEAD, INTO
WHICH THE UPPER LILLOOET RIVER FLOWS.  HERE THERE WAS FLAT GROUND LIKE
A BOG, WHICH MOVED UP AND DOWN, AND HINDERED CANOES FROM ASCENDING
THE RIVER.  THEY MADE IT INTO FIRM BUT SWAMPY LAND, AND LEFT A CHANNEL
BY WHICH CANOES MIGHT REACH THE RIVER.  AT THIS PLACE THEY SAW A MAN
SITTING AT WORK, FINISHING THE HANDLE OF A SPEAR.  HE HAD HIS MOUTH
PUCKERED UP, AND WAS WHISTLING TO HIMSELF.  THEY ASKED HIM WHAT HE
WAS DOING, AND HE ANSWERED, "IT IS NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS."  THEY
ASKED HIM AGAIN, AND HE SAID, "I HAVE HEARD OF THESE TRANSFORMERS
COMING, AND I AM MAKING THIS SPEAR TO SPEAR THEM IN THE NECK."  THEY
SAID, "LET US SEE THE SPEAR: IT LOOKS VERY NICE."  HE HANDED IT TO
THEM.  THEN THEY THREW HIM INTO THE WATER, AND SPEARED HIM WITH THE
SPEAR.  THEY SAID, "YOUR NAME SHALL BE WHITEFISH (ME'MELT), AND FUTURE
GENERATIONS SHALL SPEAR YOU IN THIS MANNER, AND EAT YOU AS FOOD."
THE WHITEFISH HAS A VERY SMALL MOUTH, BECAUSE HE WAS WHISTLING WHEN
TRANSFORMED.
    THE TRANSFORMERS CONTINUED THEIR JOURNEY UP THE LILLOOET RIVER
TO A PLACE NEAR PEMBERTON, AND THEN UP THE POLE RIVER UNTIL THEY
REACHED A PLACE ON THAT RIVER KNOWN AS SALMON-HOUSE.  HERE THEY
SAW A MAN LEANING FORWARD, AND GAZING INTENTLY INTO THE WATER.  THEY
ASKED HIM WHAT HE WAS LOOKING AT, AND HE ANSWERED, "IT IS NOTHING
TO YOU."  THEY WATCHED HIM, AND SAW THAT HE WAS CATCHING FISH WITH
HIS HANDS.  HE CAUGHT ONE, AND THEY ASKED HIM HOW HE ATE IT.  HE
NEVER ANSWERED, BUT, PUTTING THE FISH TO HIS MOUTH, BEGAN TO EAT IT
RAW.  THEY TRANSFORMED HIM INTO A FISH-HAWK (YOXALA'), AND SAID,
"HENCEFORTH PEOPLE SHALL NOT CATCH FISH WITH THEIR HANDS, NOR EAT
THEM RAW."
    ASCENDING THE RIVER, THEY PASSED ITS SOURCE, AND CAME NEAR TO THE
LAKE CALLED TSEKA'LENAL, AT THE SOURCE OF THE STREAM THAT EMPTIES INTO
THE HEAD OF ANDERSON LAKE.  HERE THEY WENT UP ON SOME ROCKS NEAR
WHERE THE OLD INDIAN TRAIL PASSES, AND SAT DOWN TO REST.  ONE BROTHER
WENT AWAY, AND RETURNED FROM THE SOUTH, DRESSED IN CEDAR-BARK PAINTED
RED, AND CARRYING CEDAR-BARK AND OTHER THINGS IN A BUNDLE ON HIS BACK.
ANOTHER BROTHER WENT AWAY, AND RETURNED FROM THE EAST, DRESSED ONLY
IN A BREECH-CLOUT, AND CARRYING ON HIS BACK A BUNDLE OF SPATSAN-BARK
AND OTHER THINGS.  WHEN THEY APPEARED TO VIEW, THE OTHER TRANSFORMERS
HAILED THE ONE FROM THE SOUTH AS LI'LUET, AND THE ONE FROM
THE EAST AS SLA'TLEMUX, SAYING, "HENCEFORTH THE LI'LUET SHALL GO TO
THE FRASER IN THE SLA'TLEMUX COUNTRY TO BUY SALMON AND SPATSAN-BARD,
AND THE SLA'TLEMUX SHALL VISIT THE LI'LUET TO TRADE WITH THEM.  THEN
ONE OF THE TRANSFORMERS STAMPED HIS FOOT ON THE ROCK, AND LEFT THE
IMPRINT OF HIS SOLE, SAYING, "THIS FOOTPRINT SHALL MARK THIS SPOT AS
THE TRIBAL BOUNDARY BETWEEN THE LI'LUET AND THE SLA'TLEMUX"\THE UPPER
AND LOWER LILLOOET\.  THE FOOTPRINT MAY BE SEEN AT THE PRESENT DAY.
    IT IS NOT CERTAIN WHERE THE TRANSFORMERS WENT AFTER THIS, BUT IT
IS SAID THEY RETURNED AGAIN TO THEIR OWN COUNTRY, BY WAY OF PEMBERTON
AND GREEN LAKE, TO THE SQUAMISH.


         2.  THE BOY AND THE SUN
    THERE WAS ONCE A BOY WHO MADE HIMSELF OBNOXIOUS TO THE PEOPLE BY
CONSTANTLY STEALING THEIR FOOD.  THE CHIEF TOLD THE PEOPLE TO LEAVE
THEIR HOUSE AND DESERT THE BOY.  THEY ORDERED SOME OTHER BOYS TO
INDUCE THE THIEF TO GO WITH THEM WHILE THE PEOPLE MADE READY TO
DEPART.  THESE BOYS SAID, "LET US GO AND SEARCH FOR WOOD TO MAKE BOWS
AND ARROWS."  ON REACHING A DENSELY WOODED PLACE, THEY SAID, "WE WILL
SEPARATE HERE AND SEARCH, THAT WE MAY THE SOONER FIND GOOD WOOD; BUT
WE WILL CONTINUE TO WHISTLE TO ONE ANOTHER, SO THAT WE MAY ALL KNOW
ONE ANOTHER'S WHEREABOUTS."
    WHEN THE BOYS WERE OUT OF SIGHT, THEY EASED THEMSELVES IN SEVERAL
PLACES, AND THEN HURRIED AWAY TO OVERTAKE THE PEOPLE.  AFTER THEY
HAD GONE, THEIR EXCREMENTS CONTINUED TO WHISTLE, SO THE THIEF THOUGHT
THAT HIS COMPANIONS WERE STILL NEAR BY.  HAVING FOUND SOME GOOD
WOOD, HE CALLED ON THE OTHER BOYS TO COME, BUT HEARD NO REPLY EXCEPT
THE WHISTLING.  HE SEARCHED FOR THEM, AND AT LAST FOUND THEY HAD GONE,
AND THAT THE SOUNDS PROCEEDED, NOT FROM THEM, BUT FROM THEIR
EXCREMENTS.
    THEN THE THIEF HURRIED HOME, BECAUSE IT WAS LATE; BUT, UPON
ARRIVING AT THE VILLAGE, HE FOUND ALL THE PEOPLE GONE.  HE WAS HUNGRY,
AND SEARCHED ALL THE HOUSES FOR FOOD, BUT FOUND NONE.  RETURNING TO
HIS PARENTS' HOUSE, HE SAW A BASKET UPSIDE DOWN IN A CORNER.  HE
THOUGHT SOME FOOD MIGHT BE THERE, SO HE KICKED IT OVER WITH HIS FOOT.
HE FOUND HIS GRANDMOTHER SITTING UNDERNEATH.  HE WAS ANGRY, BECAUSE HE
WOULD RATHER HAVE FOUND FOOD THAN HER; BUT SHE CRIED OUT THAT HE
SHOULD NOT KICK HER, AS SHE MIGHT BE OF MUCH SERVICE TO HIM.
    THE GRANDMOTHER HAD A CEDAR-BARK MATCH, WHICH SHE GAVE HIM TO
LIGHT A FIRE.  AFTER WARMING THEMSELVES, SHE ASKED HIM TO SHOOT MICE
TO EAT.  HE DID THIS, AND THEY LIVED ON WHAT VERMIN HE KILLED.  SHE
ASKED HIM TO SHOOT BIRDS, AND SHE WOULD MAKE A ROBE OF THEIR SKINS.
HE SHOT VERY MANY BRIGHT-PLUMAGED BIRDS, AND THE OLD WOMAN MADE HIM A
VERY LARGE AND HANDSOME ROBE.  SHE TOLD HIM TO MAKE A SPEAR OF
CEDARWOOD.  HE DID THIS, AND SPEARED SOME FISH.
    ONE DAY SUN SAW HIM FISHING WITH HIS CEDAR-WOOD SPEAR, AND,
NOTICING THE BEAUTIFUL BLANKET HE WORE, THOUGHT HE WOULD TRY TO OBTAIN
IT FROM HIM.  SUN WAS DRESSED IN A GOAT-SKIN BLANKET WITH LONG FRINGE.
HE APPROACHED THE BOY, AND OFFERED TO EXCHANGE ROBES WITH HIM; BUT THE
BOY DECLINED.  SUN SAID, "YOU DO NOT KNOW THE VALUE OF MY ROBE.  IT
CAN CATCH FAR MORE FISH THAN YOUR SPEAR."  THEN SUN PLACED THE
FRINGE OF HIS ROBE IN THE WATER, AND CAUGHT A FISH ON EACH TASSEL.
WHEN THE BOY SAW THIS, HE EXCHANGED ROBES WITH SUN.  HE WAS NOW ABLE
TO CATCH GREAT QUANTITIES OF FISH, WHICH HE DRIED, AND WITH WHICH HE
FILLED MANY HOUSES, CELLARS, AND DRYING-POLES.
    THE PEOPLE OF THE VILLAGE, WHO WERE CAMPED A LONG WAYS OFF, HAD
BEEN UNSUCCESSFUL HUNTING AND FISHING, AND WERE NOW ON THE VERGE OF
STARVATION.  ONE OF THEM, RAVEN, LEFT THEM, AND RETURNED TO THE
VILLAGE, WHERE HE WAS SURPRISED TO FIND THE BOY LIVING IN AFFLUENCE.
THE BOY SAW RAVEN, AND THREW SOME FISH AT HIM, WHICH HE GLADLY ATE.
NEXT DAY RAVEN CAME AGAIN, AND ASKED THE LAD FOR SOME FISH TO TAKE
HOME TO HIS CHILDREN.  HE WAS GIVEN THREE FISH, WHICH HE TOOK AWAY,
AND KEPT UNTIL THE OTHER PEOPLE HAD GONE TO BED.  WHEN ALL WAS QUIET,
HE GAVE THEM TO HIS CHILDREN; BUT THEY QUARRELLED AND MADE A GREAT
NOISE: SO THE PEOPLE HEARD THEM, AND SAID, "RAVEN'S CHILDREN MUST BE
EATING SOMETHING GOOD."  THEY WENT TO HIS HOUSE AND ASKED HIM WHAT
HIS CHILDREN HAD BEEN EATING; AND HE TOLD THEM, "MOSS."  THEY DID
NOT BELIEVE HIM, AND MADE UP THEIR MINDS TO WATCH NEXT NIGHT.  ON
THE THIRD DAY, RAVEN WENT TO THE LAD AGAIN, AND ASKED HIM FOR MORE
FISH.  AGAIN HE WAS GIVEN THREE, WHICH HE TOOK HOME FOR HIS CHILDREN.
THAT NIGHT RAVEN'S CHILDREN QUARRELLED AGAIN WHEN THEY WERE FED.
THE PEOPLE RAN IN, CAUGHT THEM EATING, AND MADE THEM DISGORGE BY
PRESSING THEIR THROATS.  THEY FOUND THAT THE FOOD WAS FISH: SO THEY
ASKED RAVEN WHERE HE GOT IT.  HE TOLD THEM THE WHOLE STORY, AND THE
PEOPLE AT ONCE BROKE CAMP AND RETURNED TO THE VILLAGE, WHERE THE BOY
FEASTED THEM ON FISH TILL THEY WERE SATISFIED.
    THE LAD BECAME A GREAT FISHERMAN, AND THE PEOPLE OF THE VILLAGE
THUS NEVER LACKED AN ABUNDANT SUPPLY OF FISH.  THE CHIEF GAVE HIM HIS
DAUGHTER TO WIFE, AND THE LAD AFTERWARDS BECAME CHIEF.
    BEFORE SUN OBTAINED THE BOY'S ROBE, HE WAS PALE; AND HIS LIGHT WAS
FAINT, LIKE THAT OF THE MOON; BUT THENCEFORTH HE BECAME BRIGHT AND
DAZZLING, BECAUSE HE WORE THE BOY'S BRIGHT AND MANY-COLORED ROBE.


         3.  THE FROG SISTERS
    THE THREE FROG SISTERS HAD A HOUSE IN A SWAMP, WHERE THEY LIVED
TOGETHER.  NOT VERY FAR AWAY LIVED A NUMBER OF PEOPLE IN ANOTHER
HOUSE.  AMONG THEM WERE SNAKE AND BEAVER, WHO WERE FRIENDS.
THEY WERE WELL-GROWN LADS, AND WISHED TO MARRY THE FROG GIRLS.
    ONE NIGHT SNAKE WENT TO FROG'S HOUSE, AND, CRAWLING UP TO ONE OF
THE SISTERS, PUT HIS HAND ON HER FACE.  SHE AWOKE, AND ASKED HIM WHO
HE WAS.  LEARNING THAT HE WAS SNAKE, SHE SAID SHE WOULD NOT MARRY
HIM, AND TOLD HIM TO LEAVE AT ONCE.  SHE CALLED HIM HARD NAMES, SUCH
AS, "SLIMY-FELLOW," "SMALL-EYES," ETC.  SNAKE RETURNED, AND TOLD HIS
FRIEND OF HIS FAILURE.
    NEXT NIGHT BEAVER WENT TO TRY, AND, CRAWLING UP TO ONE OF THE
SISTERS, HE PUT HIS HAND ON HER FACE.  SHE AWOKE, AND, FINDING OUT WHO
HE WAS, SHE TOLD HIM TO BE GONE.  SHE CALLED HIM NAMES, SUCH AS,
"SHOLR-LEGS," "BIG-BELLY," "BIG-BUTTOCKS."  BEAVER FELT HURT, AND,
GOING HOME, BEGAN TO CRY.  HIS FATHER ASKED HIM WHAT THE MATTER WAS,
AND THE BOY TOLD HIM.  HE SAID, "THAT IS NOTHING.  DON'T CRY]  IT WILL
RAIN TOO MUCH."  BUT YOUNG BEAVER SAID, "I WILL CRY."
    AS HE CONTINUED TO CRY, MUCH RAIN FELL, AND SOON THE SWAMP WHERE
THE FROGS LIVED WAS FLOODED.  THEIR HOUSE WAS UNDER THE WATER, WHICH
COVERED THE TOPS OF THE TALL SWAMP-GRASS.  THE FROGS GOT COLD, AND
WENT TO BEAVER'S HOUSE, AND SAID TO HIM, "WE WISH TO MARRY YOUR SONS."
BUT OLD BEAVER SAID, "NO]  YOU CALLED US HARD NAMES."
    THE WATER WAS NOW RUNNING IN A REGULAR STREAM.  SO THE FROGS SWAM
AWAY DOWNSTREAM UNTIL THEY REACHED A WHIRLPOOL, WHICH SUCKED THEM
IN, AND THEY DESCENDED TO THE HOUSE OF THE MOON.  THE LATTER INVITED
THEM TO WARM THEMSELVES AT THE FIRE; BUT THEY SAID, "NO.  WE DO NOT
WISH TO SIT BY THE FIRE.  WE WISH TO SIT THERE," POINTING AT HIM.  HE
SAID, "HERE?" AT THE SAME TIME POINTING AT HIS FEET.  THEY SAID,
"NO, NOT THERE."  THEN HE POINTED TO ONE PART OF HIS BODY AFTER
ANOTHER, UNTIL HE REACHED HIS BROW.  WHEN HE SAID, "WILL YOU SIT
HERE?" THEY ALL CRIED OUT, "YES," AND JUMPED ON HIS FACE, THUS
SPOILING HIS BEAUTY.  THE FROG'S SISTERS MAY BE SEEN ON THE MOON'S
FACE AT THE PRESENT DAY.


         4.  BEAVER AND EAGLE
    BEAVER AND EAGLE LIVED WITH THEIR SISTER IN THE LILLOOET COUNTRY.
THEY HAD NO FIRE, AND ATE THEIR FOOD RAW.  THE SISTER CRIED AND
COMPLAINED CONSTANTLY, BECAUSE SHE HAD NO FIRE AT WHICH TO ROAST HER
DRIED SALMON-SKINS.  AT LAST THE BROTHERS TOOK PITY ON HER, BECAUSE
SHE CRIED SO MUCH, AND SAID, "DON'T CRY ANY MORE] WE WILL PROCURE FIRE
FOR YOU.  WE WILL TRAIN OURSELVES FOR A LONG TIME, AND DURING OUR
ABSENCE YOU MUST BE VERY CAREFUL NOT TO CRY OR COMPLAIN; FOR, IF YOU
DO, WE SHALL FAIL IN OUR OBJECT, AND OUR TRAINING WILL BE FRUITLESS."
    LEAVING THEIR SISTER, THE BROTHERS REPAIRED TO THE MOUNTAINS,
WHERE THEY SPENT FOUR YEARS TRAINING THEMSELVES.  AT THE EXPIRATION OF
THAT TIME, THEY RETURNED TO THEIR SISTER, WHO HAD NEVER CRIED DURING
THEIR ABSENCE, AND TOLD HER THEY WOULD GO TO PROCURE FIRE, AS THEY NOW
KNEW WHERE IT COULD BE FOUND, AND HOW THEY COULD OBTAIN IT.
    AFTER FIVE DAYS' JOURNEYING, THEY ARRIVED AT THE HOUSE OF THE
PEOPLE WHO POSSESSED FIRE.  THEN ONE BROTHER DREW OVER HIMSELF AN
EAGLE'S BODY, AND THE OTHER ONE A BEAVER'S BODY.  THE LATTER DAMMED
THE CREEK NEAR BY, AND THAT NIGHT MADE A HOLE UNDERNEATH THE PEOPLE'S
HOUSE.  NEXT MORNING HE SWAM AROUND IN THE WATER MADE BY THE DAM,
AND AN OLD MAN SAW HIM AND SHOT HIM.  HE TOOK HIM INTO THE HOUSE,
AND, LAYING HIM BESIDE THE FIRE, TOLD THE PEOPLE TO SKIN HIM.  WHILE
THEY WERE SKINNING HIM, THEY CAME ON SOMETHING HARD UNDERNEATH
HIS ARMPIT.  THIS WAS A CLAM-SHELL, WHICH BEAVER HAD HIDDEN THERE.
    JUST THEN THE PEOPLE NOTICED A VERY LARGE AND FINE-LOOKING EAGLE
PERCHED ON A TREE NEARBY.  THEY WERE ANXIOUS TO KILL HIM TO GET HIS
PLUMES: SO THEY ALL RAN OUT AND BEGAN TO SHOOT AT HIM, BUT NONE OF
THEM COULD HIT HIM.  WHEN THEY WERE THUS ENGAGED, BEAVER, WHO
WAS NOW LEFT ALONE, PUT SOME OF THE FIRE IN HIS CLAM-SHELL, AND
ESCAPED THROUGH THE HOLE HE HAD MADE.  HE SOON REACHED THE WATER,
WHICH WAS NOW ALMOST AT THE HOUSE, AND SWAM AWAY WITH HIS PRIZE.
    AS SOON AS EAGLE SAW THAT HIS BROTHER WAS SAFE, HE FLEW AWAY AND
JOINED HIM.  THEY CONTINUED THEIR JOURNEY HOME, EAGLE RESTING HIMSELF
ON BEAVER'S BACK WHEN TIRED.  THEY BROUGHT THE FIRE HOME AND
GAVE IT TO THEIR SISTER, WHO NOW BECAME VERY HAPPY AND CONTENTED.


         5.  THE FIRE PEOPLE; OR, THE MAN WHO INTRODUCED FIRE
    A MAN WHO LIVED ON THE LOWER LILLOOET RIVER HAD A DAUGHTER WHO
REFUSED ALL SUITORS.  THE PEOPLE SAID, "PERHAPS YOU WISH THE MAN
WHO LIVES IN THE EAST TO BE YOUR HUSBAND."  THIS MAN, WHO LIVED IN A
VERY DISTANT COUNTRY, HEARD WHAT THEY SAID, AND CAME AND TOOK THE
GIRL FOR HIS WIFE.  SHE WENT HOME WITH HIM, AND SOME TIME AFTERWARD
GAVE BIRTH TO A SON.  WHILE THE BOY WAS YET A CHILD, HIS FATHER SAID
TO HIS WIFE, "LET US GO AND VISIT YOUR PEOPLE."  A LARGE NUMBER OF THE
HUSBAND'S PEOPLE ACCOMPANIED THEM ON THEIR JOURNEY.  THEY WERE
WARLIKE, AND ENDOWED WITH MAGIC AND THE "MYSTERY" OF FIRE.  WHEN
THEY ARRIVED ON THE LOWER LILLOOET RIVER, INSTEAD OF ACTING IN A
FRIENDLY MANNER, THEY ATTACKED THE PEOPLE THERE, AND KILLED A GREAT
MANY OF THEM, AND THEN RETURNED HOME.
    WHEN THE BOY GREW TO BE A MAN, HE SAID, "I MUST PAY MY MOTHER'S
PEOPLE BECAUSE THEY WERE SLAUGHTERED BY MY FATHER'S PEOPLE."  HE
WENT TO HIS MOTHER'S COUNTRY AND GAVE THEM A PRESENT OF FIRE, WHICH
WAS AT THAT TIME UNKOWN TO THEM.  HE POSSESSED THE MAGIC OF FIRE,
AND COULD MAKE FIRE APPEAR AT ANY TIME OR PLACE HE WISHED.  BY
COMMANDING, HE COULD MAKE A HOUSE TAKE FIRE A LONG WAY OFF.  THE
SHAMAN CALLED NAPOLEON, OF THE LOWER LILLOOET RIVER, LEARNED HIS
SECRET OF MAKING FIRE APPEAR WHEN HE WISHED BY SUPPLICATING THESE
FIRE PEOPLE, FOR HE HAD THEM FOR HIS MANITOU, AND HAD THUS LEARNED
SOME OF THEIR MAGIC.


         6.  ORIGIN OF LIGHT AND FIRE
    RAVEN AND SEA-GULL WERE FRIENDS, AND LIVED IN THE LILLOOET
COUNTRY.  THEIR HOUSES WERE CLOSE TOGETHER.  RAVEN HAD FOUR SERVANTS;
NAMELY, WORM, FLEA, LOUSE, AND LITTLE-LOUSE.  IT WAS DARK ALL OVER THE
WORLD AT THAT TIME, AS SEA-GULL OWNED THE DAYLIGHT, WHICH HE KEPT IN A
BOX, AND NEVER LET ANY OF IT OUT, EXCEPT OCCASIONALLY, WHEN HE NEEDED
SOME FOR HIS OWN USE.
    RAVEN THOUGHT IT WAS NOT FAIR THAT SEA-GULL SHOULD KEEP THE
DAYLIGHT ALL TO HIMSELF, WHEN IT WAS OF SO MUCH VALUE, AND WOULD
BENEFIT THE PEOPLE IF LIBERATED.  HE MADE UP HIS MIND TO OBTAIN THE
DAYLIGHT: SO ONE NIGHT HE PLACED MANY HAWTHORN-BRANCHES ON THE TRAIL
WHICH LED FROM SEA-GULL'S HOUSE TO THE PLACE WHERE THE LATTER'S CANOE
WAS FASTENED; THEN, HASTENING TO SEA-GULL'S HOUSE, HE CRIED LOUDLY
THAT HIS CANOE HAD GONE ADRIFT.  SEA-GULL RUSHED OUT IN HASTE TO SAVE
HIS CANOE, AND SEVERAL THORNS ENTERED HIS BARE FEET.  HE CRIED WITH
PAIN, RETURNED TO THE HOUSE, AND ASKED RAVEN TO GET HIS CANOE FOR HIM,
AND DRAW IT UP.  RAVEN WENT AND DREW UP GULL'S CANOE, AND THEN
RETURNED.
    GULL COMPLAINED MUCH OF THE THORNS IN HIS FEET, AND RAVEN SAID HE
WOULD PULL THEM OUT IF GULL WOULD OPEN THE BOX ENOUGH TO LET SOME
LIGHT OUT.  TO THIS GULL AGREED.  HE SAT DOWN BESIDE THE BOX AND
OPENED IT A LITTLE WITH ONE HAND.  NOW RAVEN BEGAN TO EXTRACT THE
THORNS WITH AN AWL, BUT PRETENDED HE COULD NOT SEE WELL ENOUGH, AND
ASKED GULL TO OPEN THE BOX A LITTLE MORE, WHICH HE DID.  RAVEN
EXTRACTED MOST OF THE THORNS, AND SAID HE COULD SOON EXTRACT THE LAST
ONES, IF HE WERE GIVEN A LITTLE ADDITIONAL LIGHT.  WHEN GULL OPENED
THE BOX A LITTLE MORE, RAVEN GAVE HIS ARM A PUSH.  THUS HE KNOCKED
DOWN THE BOX AND BROKE IT.  THE DAYLIGHT NOW ALL ESCAPED AND SPREAD
OVER THE WORLD, AND GULL WAS UNABLE TO COLLECT IT AGAIN.  RAVEN
CLAIMED THAT THE PUSH WAS ACCIDENTAL, AND, AFTER TAKING THE LAST OF
THE THORNS OUT OF GULL'S FEET, HE LEFT AND WENT HOME, CHUCKLING TO
HIMSELF.
    RAVEN COULD NOW SEE VERY FAR WITH THE NEW DAYLIGHT: SO ONE MORNING
HE WASHED HIMSELF, COMBED AND OILED HIS HAIR, PUT ON HIS BEST ROBE,
AND PAINTED HIS FACE BLACK.  THEN HE ASCENDED TO THE TOP OF HIS
UNDERGROUND HOUSE AND LOOKED AROUND THE WORLD.  HE GAZED ABOUT ALL DAY
WITHOUT SEEING ANYTHING.  NEXT MORNING HE FIXED HIMSELF UP AGAIN,
CHANGED HIS FACE-PAINT, AND SAT ON HIS HOUSE-TOP ALL DAY.  THAT DAY,
ALSO, HE SAW NOTHING.  THE THIRD DAY HE CHANGED HIS FACE-PAINT, AND
DID LIKEWISE.  THAT EVENING, BEFORE DESCENDING, HE SAW SIGNS OF SMOKE.
ON THE FOURTH DAY HE CHANGED HIS FACE-PAINT AGAIN, AND THAT EVENING
HE LOCATED THE SMOKE, RISING FAR AWAY IN THE SOUTH, ON THE SHORE OF
THE SEA.
    ON THE FOLLOWING DAY RAVEN EMBARKED WITH ALL HIS SERVANTS IN
LITTLE-LOUSE'S CANOE; BUT IT WAS TOO SMALL, AND THEY WERE SWAMPED.
ON THE FOLLOWING DAY HE TRIED BIG-LOUSE'S CANOE; BUT IT, ALSO, WAS TOO
SMALL.  THUS HE TRIED ALL HIS SERVANTS' CANOES, BUT WITH THE SAME
RESULT.  NOW HE TOLD HIS WIFE TO GO AND ASK THE LOAN OF SEA-GULL'S
LARGE CANOE, AS HE INTENDED TO GO AND GET FIRE.  THE FOLLOWING DAY,
AFTER HE HAD OBTAINED THE CANOE, HE EMBARDED WITH HIS SERVANTS, AND,
AFTER FOUR DAYS' PADDLING DOWN STREAM, THEY ARRIVED CLOSE TO THE HOUSE
OF THE PEOPLE WHO POSSESSED FIRE.
    NOW RAVEN ASKED HIS SERVANTS WHICH OF THEM WAS WILLING TO GO AND
STEAL THE BABY-GIRL OF THESE PEOPLE.  LITTLE-LOUSE OFFERED TO GO; BUT
THE OTHERS SAID, "YOU WILL MAKE TOO MUCH NOISE, AND WAKE THE PEOPLE."
BIG-LOUSE OFFERED HIMSELF; BUT THEY HAD THE SAME OBJECTIONS TO HIM.
THEN FLEA SAID, "I WILL GO.  IN ONE JUMP I WILL REACH AND SNATCH
THE BABY, AND WITH ANOTHER JUMP I WILL BE OUT AGAIN.  THE PEOPLE
WON'T BE ABLE TO CATCH ME."  BUT THE OTHERS SAID, "YOU WILL MAKE A
NOISE, AND WE DON'T WANT THE PEOPLE TO KNOW."  WORM NOW SPOKE,
SAYING, "I WILL GO SLOWLY AND QUIETLY, AND WILL BORE A HOLE
UNDERGROUND. I WILL COME OUT UNDERNEATH WHERE THE BABY HANGS IN ITS
CRADLE, STEAL IT, AND RETURN WITHOUT ANY ONE HEARING ME."  THEY ALL
THOUGHT THIS WAS THE BEST PROPOSITION, AND ASSENTED TO WORM'S PLAN.
SO THAT NIGHT WORM BORED A HOLE UNDERGROUND, AND STOLE THE BABY.  AS
SOON AS HE RETURNED WITH IT, THEY PUT IT IN THEIR CANOE AND PADDLED
RAPIDLY AWAY TOWARD HOME.
    EARLY THE NEXT MORNING THE PEOPLE MISSED THE BABY, AND THE WISE
ONES KNEW WHAT HAD HAPPENED.  THEY GAVE CHASE, BUT COULD NEITHER
LOCATE NOR OVERTAKE RAVEN AND HIS SERVANTS.  STURGEON, WHALE, AND
SEAL SEARCHED LONG AND FAR, BUT AT LAST GAVE IT UP AND RETURNED HOME.
ONLY ONE SMALL FISH FOUND THE COURSE THE CANOE HAD TAKEN, AND OVERTOOK
IT.  IT TRIED TO RETARD THE CANOE'S PROGRESS BY STICKING TO THE
PADDLES, BUT AT LAST GOT TIRED AND RETURNED HOME.
    THE MOTHER OF THE CHILD CAUSED A HEAVY RAIN TO COME, THINKING THAT
WOULD STOP THE THIEVES, BUT WITHOUT AVAIL.  RAVEN REACHED HIS OWN
COUNTRY WITH THE CHILD, AND THE LATTER'S RELATIVES, HEARING WHERE IT
HAD BEEN TAKEN TO, CAME TO RAVEN'S HOUSE WITH MANY PRESENTS; BUT RAVEN
SAID THEY WERE NOT WHAT HE WANTED, SO THEY WENT BACK WITHOUT GETTING
THE CHILD.
    TWICE AGAIN THEY VISITED RAVEN WITH PRESENTS, BUT WITH THE SAME
RESULT.  ON THEIR FOURTH VISIT, TOO, RAVEN REFUSED THEIR PRESENTS,
ALTHOUGH THEY HAD BROUGHT DIFFERENT AND MORE VALUABLE PRESENTS EACH
TIME.  THEN THEY ASKED HIM WHAT HE WANTED, AND HE SAID, "FIRE."
THEY ANSWERED, "WHY DID YOU NOT SAY THAT BEFORE?" AND THEY WERE
GLAD, BECAUSE THEY HAD PLENTY, AND CONSIDERED IT OF LITTLE VALUE.
THEY WENT AND BROUGHT HIM FIRE, AND HE GAVE THEM BACK THEIR CHILD.
    THE FISH PEOPLE SHOWED RAVEN HOW TO MAKE FIRE WITH DRY
COTTONWOOD-ROOTS.  RAVEN WAS GLAD, AND SAID TO SEA-GULL, "IF I HAD NOT
STOLEN LIGHT FROM YOU, I COULD NOT HAVE SEEN WHERE FIRE WAS KEPT.  NOW
WE HAVE FIRE AND LIGHT, AND BOTH ARE BENEFITED."  THEREAFTER RAVEN
SOLD FIRE TO EVERY FAMILY THAT WISHED IT, AND EACH FAMILY THAT BOUGHT
IT PAID HIM A YOUNG GIRL.  THUS RAVEN BECAME POSSESSED OF MANY WIVES.


         7.  THE SALMON MEN; OR, THE ORIGIN OF SALMON
    TWO BROTHERS LIVED AT THE VERY HEAD WATERS OF THE UPPER LILLOOET
RIVER, AND SPENT MOST OF THEIR TIME TRAINING THEMSELVES IN THE
NEIGHBORING MOUNTAINS, FOR THEY WISHED TO BECOME GREAT.  ONE OF THEM
BECAME ILL, AND HAD TO REMAIN AT HOME.  AFTER FOUR YEARS' ILLNESS, HE
BECAME WEAK, AND SO THIN THAT HE SEEMED NOTHING BUT SKIN AND BONES.
HIS BROTHER GREW ANXIOUS ABOUT HIM, AND STOPPED HIS TRAINING.  HE
HUNTED, AND BROUGHT IN RABBITS, SQUIRREL, AND ALL KINDS OF MEAT, FOR
HIS SICK BROTHER.  HE ALSO THREW SMALL PIECES OF STICK INTO THE WATER,
MAKING THEM TURN INTO FISH.  THEN HE CAUGHT THEM AND GAVE THEM TO HIS
BROTHER TO EAT.  BUT NO KIND OF FOOD SEEMED TO AGREE WITH THE INVALID,
FOR HE RAPIDLY GREW WEAKER AND THINNER.
    WHEN THE YOUTH SAW THAT NO FOOD DID HIS BROTHER GOOD, HE MADE UP
HIS MIND TO TAKE HIM AWAY TO SOME OTHER PLACE TO BE CURED.  THEY
EMBARKED IN A CANOE, AND PROCEEDED DOWN THE LILLOOET RIVER, GIVING
NAMES TO ALL THE PLACES AS THEY PASSED ALONG.  THEY CAME TO A PLACE
THEY CALLED ILAMU'X.  HERE THERE WAS A ROCK WHICH DAMMED THE
RIVER.  THEY MADE A HOLE THROUGH IT TO ALLOW THEIR CANOE TO PASS.
EVEN AT THE PRESENT DAY IT APPEARS LIKE A STONE BRIDGE ACROSS THE
RIVER.  PROCEEDING, THEY CAME TO A PLACE THEY CALLED KOME'LUX.  HERE
TWO CREEKS, RUNNING FROM OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS, MET EACH OTHER WITH VERY
GREAT FORCE.  THEY MADE THE WATER SMOOTH ENOUGH TO BE SAFE FOR
A CANOE TO PASS.  PROCEEDING, THEY CAME TO A PLACE THEY NAMED
KULEXWI'N.  HERE THERE WAS A STEEP, ROCKY MOUNTAIN CLOSE TO THE
RIVER.  THEY THREW THEIR MEDICINE-MAT AT IT, AND IT BECAME FLAT LIKE
A MAT.
    THUS THEY PROCEEDED DOWN TO BIG AND LITTLE LILLOOET LAKES AND THE
LOWER LILLOOET RIVER, UNTIL THEY REACHED HARRISON LAKE.  ALL THE WAY
ALONG THEY GAVE NAMES TO THE PLACES, MADE THE WATERS NAVIGABLE, AND
CHANGED MANY FEATURES OF THE COUNTRY.  THEY REACHED FRASER RIVER,
WENT DOWN TO ITS MOUTH, AND PROCEEDED OUT TO SEA TO THE LAND OF THE
SALMON.  WHEN THEY ARRIVED THERE, THE STRONG BROTHER HID HIMSELF,
WHILE THE SICK MAN TRANSFORMED HIMSELF INTO A WOODEN DISH, NICELY
PAINTED AND CARVED; AND IN THIS FORM HE FLOATED AGAINST THE DAM INSIDE
OF WHICH THE PEOPLE KEPT THE SALMON.  A MAN FOUND THE DISH, AND TOOK
IT TO HIS DAUGHTER, WHO ADMIRED IT VERY MUCH, AND USED IT TO EAT FROM.
WHATEVER SALMON SHE LEFT IN THE DISH OVER NIGHT ALWAYS DISAPPEARED;
BUT SHE DID NOT CARE, BECAUSE SALMON WERE PLENTIFUL.
    THE DISH ATE THE SALMON, OR, RATHER, THE SICK BROTHER IN DISH
FORM; AND SOON HE BECAME FAT AND WELL AGAIN.  THE OTHER BROTHER LEFT
HIS HIDING-PLACE EVERY NIGHT TO SEE THE INVALID, AND TO EAT SALMON OUT
OF THE BASKET INTO WHICH THE PEOPLE THREW THEIR LEAVINGS.  HE WAS GLAD
TO SEE HIS BROTHER GETTING WELL SO RAPIDLY.  WHEN HE HAD BECOME VERY
FAT, HIS BROTHER TOLD HIM IT WAS TIME THEY DEPARTED: SO ONE NIGHT HE
BROKE THE DAM, AND LET THE SALMON OUT.  THEN THEY EMBARKED IN THEIR
CANOE, AND LED THE SALMON TOWARD THE MOUTH OF THE FRASER RIVER.
    THE SALMON TRAVELLED VERY FAST, AND BY THE NEXT MORNING THEY HAD
REACHED THE RIVER.  AS THEY ASCENDED, THEY TOOK PIECES OF SALMON FROM
THEIR BASKET, AND THREW THEM INTO THE DIFFERENT CREEKS AND RIVERS.
WHEREVER THEY THREW PIECES OF SALMON, SOME OF THE FISH FOLLOWED.  THUS
THEY INTRODUCED THE SALMON INTO THE STREAMS OF THE INTERIOR.
"HENCEFORTH," SAID THEY, "SALMON SHALL RUN AT THIS TIME EACH YEAR, AND
THE PEOPLE SHALL BECOME ACQUAINTED WITH THEM AND EAT THEM."  THEN
THE BROTHERS RETURNED TO THEIR HOME AT THE HEAD OF THE UPPER LILLOOET
RIVER, AND THEY MADE NEAR THEIR HOUSE THE HOT SPRINGS CALLED TCIQ,
WHICH THEY USED FOR COOKING THEIR FOOD.


         8.  COYOTE
    COYOTE LIVED NEAR GRIZZLY-BEAR'S HOUSE.  ONE DAY HE WENT TO WHERE
GRIZZLY-BEAR USED TO EASE HIMSELF FROM A CROSS-STICK ABOVE A HOLE, AND
CUT THE STICK NEARLY THROUGH.  WHEN GRIZZLY-BEAR WENT AS USUAL,
THE STICK BROKE, AND HE FELL INTO THE HOLE, AND SPOILED HIS FUR.  HE
WASHED HIMSELF AGAIN AND AGAIN, BUT COULD NOT CLEAN HIMSELF.  COYOTE
WENT TO GRIZZLY-BEAR'S HOUSE, AND SAID, "WHAT IS THE MATTER?  YOU
SMELL LIKE EXCREMENT."  GRIZZLY-BEAR FELT ASHAMED, AND WENT TO THE
RIVER TO WASH AGAIN.  WHILE HE WAS GONE, COYOTE HURRIED TO
GRIZZLY-BEAR'S CELLAR AND STOLE A PACK OF DRIED SALMON.  WHEN
GRIZZLY-BEAR WENT TO THE CELLAR SOON AFTERWARD, HE MISSED THE FISH AND
FOLLOWED COYOTE; BUT THE LATTER CAUSED COLD WIND AND SNOW TO COME; AND
GRIZZLY-BEAR WAS AFRAID, AND RETURNED HOME.
    SOME TIME AFTERWARD COYOTE WAS HUNGRY, AND KNOWING THAT
GRIZZLY-BEAR HAD A LARGE STORE OF DRIED SALMON, BERRIES, AND OTHER
FOOD, HE VISITED HIM, AND SAID, "YOU HAVE GREAT STORES OF FOOD, BUT
NEVER GIVE ME ANY AT ALL.  WHY ARE YOU SO STINGY, WHEN THE SALMON WILL
BE HERE SOON?"  GRIZZLY-BEAR ANSWERED, "NO, IT WILL BE A LONG TIME YET
BEFORE THE SALMON COME."  COYOTE WENT DOWN TO THE FRASER RIVER,
NEAR THE MOUTH OF CAYUSE CREEK, WHERE HE FOUND SOME OLD SOCKEYE-SALMON
AND KING-SALMON BONES, WHICH HE CHANGED INTO FRESH SALMON.
HE FOUND SOME OLD PIPS ON ROSEBUSHES, AND CHANGED THEM INTO
SERVICEBERRIES.  THEN HE RETURNED TO GRIZZLY-BEAR'S HOUSE WITH THE
FISH AND BERRIES, WHICH HE LEFT OUTSIDE.  HE SAID TO GRIZZLY-BEAR, "I
AM HUNGRY," AND THE LATTER GAVE HIM SOME DRIED SALMON AND DRIED
BERRIES TO EAT.  HE THREW THE FOOD OUTSIDE, SAYING, "THE BERRIES ARE
RIPE, AND THE SALMON HAVE COME, YET YOU GIVE ME THAT OLD STUFF TO
EAT."  GRIZZLY-BEAR WOULD NOT BELIEVE HIM, SO COYOTE BROUGHT IN THE
FRESH SALMON AND BERRIES.  GRIZZLY-BEAR ATE COYOTE'S FOOD, AND
BELIEVED WHAT HE SAID: SO HE WENT TO HIS CACHE AND THREW AWAY ALL HIS
PROVISIONS.
    THEN COYOTE WENT DOWN TO THE RIVER, AND, SEEING A POLE OVERHANGING
THE RUNNING WATER, HE THOUGHT HE WOULD HAVE SOME FUN.  HE GOT UP
ON THE POLE AND DANCED UP AND DOWN.  BEFORE LONG HE BECAME GIDDY
AND SICK, AND LAY DOWN ON THE RIVER-BANK.  A MAN CAME ALONG AND
KICKED HIM.  HE GOT UP AND RUBBED HIS EYES, SAYING, "I HAVE BEEN
ASLEEP."
    TRAVELLING ON, HE CAME UPON A NUMBER OF YOUNG GROUSE AT PLAY,
AND ASKED THEM WHERE THEIR PARENTS WERE.  THEN HE PUT GUM IN THE
EYES OF ONE OF THEM, SO THAT IT COULD NOT SEE.  THEIR MOTHER CAME AND
CLEANED THE CHILD'S EYES, AND ASKED HOW IT CAME TO HAVE GUM IN THEM.
THE CHILD SAID, "COYOTE DID IT."  COYOTE BECAME SO HUNGRY THAT HE
FAINTED, AND A MAN CAME ALONG AND KICKED HIM, SAYING, "WHY ARE
YOU LYING THERE?"  COYOTE GOT UP AND SAID, "I WAS SLEEPING."
    HE WENT TO THE BUCK-DEER'S HOUSE AND TOLD HIM THAT HE WAS
HUNGRY.  THE BUCK PUT ON A BIG FIRE, AND STOOD WITH HIS BACK CLOSE
TO IT.  WHEN THE FAT OF HIS BACK WAS COOKED, HE TOLD COYOTE TO EAT
HIS BACK-FAT, AND COYOTE ATE HIS FILL.  THEN COYOTE MADE THE FIRE
HOTTER, AND, STANDING WITH HIS BACK IN FRONT OF IT, SINGED HIS HAIR.
THEN HE ASKED THE BUCK TO COME AND EAT HIS BACK-FAT; BUT THE BUCK
THREW COYOTE OUT.  HERE HE LAY ON THE GROUND AND SLEPT, UNTIL A MAN
PASSING ALONG KICKED HIM AND WOKE HIM UP.
    THEN COYOTE WENT TO WATER-OUZEL'S HOUSE AND TOLD HIM HE WAS
HUNGRY.  WATER-OUZEL WENT TO THE STREAM AND DIVED FOR SALMON-SPAWN,
WHICH HE PUT IN A BASKET, AND BOILED FOR COYOTE TO EAT.  AFTER
EATING HIS FILL, COYOTE TOOK A BASKET, AND, GOING TO THE STREAM, DIVED
IN.  THINKING THE FINE GRAVEL WAS SPAWN, HE TRIED TO CATCH IT WITH HIS
MOUTH.  HE DID THIS UNTIL HE GOT TIRED, AND THE CURRENT CARRIED HIM
AWAY.  HE EVENTUALLY GOT ASHORE, AND, FEELING EXHAUSTED, LAY DOWN
TO SLEEP.  A MAN PASSING BY WOKE HIM UP WITH A KICK.
    HE FELT HUNGRY, AND WENT TO KINGFISHER'S HOUSE.  THE LATTER WENT
DOWN TO THE LAKE, MADE A HOLE IN THE ICE, AND SPEARED SOME FISH, WHICH
HE TOOK HOME AND BOILED FOR COYOTE.  AFTER EATING HIS FILL, COYOTE
MADE A SPEAR OF PITCH-WOOD, AND STUCK IT IN HIS NOSE.  THEN, GOING TO
THE HOLE IN THE ICE, HE PUT HIS HEAD DOWN TO SPEAR FISH; BUT THE
PITCH-WOOD STRUCK A PIECE OF ICE, AND RAN UP HIS NOSTRIL.  COYOTE
FAINTED WITH THE PAIN, AND KINGFISHER WENT AND KICKED HIM.  THEN
COYOTE CEASED TRAVELLING FOR A WHILE, AND MADE A HOUSE IN A NEW PLACE.
    HE DESIRED TO HAVE A SON: SO HE MADE ONE OF CLAY, AND TOLD HIM
NEVER TO GO INTO THE WATER NOR TO WASH HIMSELF; BUT HIS SON DISOBEYED,
WENT INTO THE WATER, AND DISSOLVED.  THEN HE MADE ANOTHER SON OUT
OF GUM, AND TOLD HIM NEVER TO GO IN THE SUN OR NEAR A FIRE; BUT HE
ALSO DISOBEYED, FOR HE LAY DOWN TO SLEEP ON A FLAT ROCK, AND MELTED.
AGAIN COYOTE MADE A SON, THIS TIME OF STONE, AND TOLD HIM NEVER TO
SWIM IN THE WATER; BUT, LIKE THE OTHERS, HE DID WHAT HE WAS TOLD NOT
TO DO, AND, GOING TO SWIM IN THE WATER, HE SANK.  AT LAST COYOTE MADE
A FOURTH SON, FROM THE BARK OF THE BALSAM-POPLAR.  THE SON WASHED
HIMSELF, HE SWAM, AND HE SUNNED HIMSELF, BUT NOTHING HAD ANY EFFECT ON
HIM: SO HE GREW UP TO BE A YOUNG MAN.  HE HUNTED, AND WAS VERY
SUCCESSFUL, AND HE AND HIS FATHER MADE MANY GOAT-HAIR AND DEER-SKIN
ROBES.
    COYOTE TOOK HIS SON WITH HIM TO TRAVEL AROUND THE COUNTRY.  HIS
NAME WAS YIKUSXEN.  THEY PASSED BY A LAKE, NEAR WHICH THEY SAW
MANY SWANS FLYING OVERHEAD.  COYOTE CALLED ON THEM TO FALL DOWN.
THE SWANS SAID TO THEMSELVES, "IT IS COYOTE.  WE WILL FALL DOWN."
THEY FELL LIKE HAIL, AND REMAINED AS IF DEAD.  COYOTE TOLD HIS SON TO
MAKE A FIRE TO COOK THEM, AND HE HIMSELF WENT FOR MORE WOOD.  WHEN
HE WAS AWAY SOME DISTANCE, THE SWANS BEGAN TO MOVE, AND SOME TO
FLY AWAY.  YIKUSXEN CALLED ON HIS FATHER, WHO RAN BACK, CARRYING A
STICK, AND BEGAN TO HIT THE RISING SWANS IN AN EXCITED MANNER.  HE HIT
HIS SON, WH CRIED OUT, "STOP]" AND THE SWANS ALL GOT AWAY.
    CONTINUING THEIR JOURNEY, THEY CAME ON THE CARCASS OF A
GRIZZLY-BEAR.  THEY MADE AN OVEN IN THE GROUND SIMILAR TO THOSE USED
FOR COOKING ROOTS, AND PUT THE WHOLE CARCASS IN.  AT NIGHT THEY TOOK
IT OUT, AND SAID THEY WOULD LET IT COOL AND WOULD EAT IT IN THE
MORNING.  WHILE THEY WERE ASLEEP, SOME WOMEN WHO WERE SEARCHING FOR
BIRDS' EGGS CAME ALONG AND ATE UP THE WHOLE CARCASS.  WHEN THE WOMEN
WERE LEAVING, THEY SMEARED THE MOUTHS AND HANDS OF THE COYOTES WITH
SOME OF THE GREASE.  WHEN COYOTE AWOKE IN THE MORNING, HE FOUND
NOTHING BUT BONES.  HE WAS ANGRY AT HIS SON, SAYING, "YOU ATE THE
WHOLE BEAR, AND NEVER CALLED ME."  YIKUSXEN DENIED IT, AND COYOTE
SAID, "SEE THE GREASE ON YOUR HANDS AND MOUTH]"  YIKUSXEN SAID, "SEE
THE GREASE ON YOUR OWN HANDS AND MOUTH]"  THEN COYOTE KNEW THAT A
TRICK HAD BEEN PLAYED ON THEM.
    THEY FOLLOWED THE TRACKS OF THE WOMEN, AND, UNPERCEIVED, PASSED
BY THE PLACE WHERE THEY WERE GATHERING EGGS.  AT EVENING, COYOTE
CHANGED HIMSELF INTO A LARGE BRANCHING CEDAR-TREE, AND HIS SON INTO A
LOG OF DRY WOOD.  THEN HE CAUSED A HEAVY SHOWER OF RAIN TO COME.
THE WOMEN SOUGHT SHELTER UNDER THE TREE, AND THOUGHT IT WAS A GOOD
PLACE TO CAMP FOR THE NIGHT.  THEY SAID, "WE HAVE SHELTER HERE, AND
PLENTY OF DRY WOOD."  THE WOMEN COOKED THEIR EGGS, AND SAID THEY
WOULD LEAVE MOST OF THEM FOR BREAKFAST.  WHEN THEY WERE ASLEEP,
COYOTE AND HIS SON ASSUMED THEIR NATURAL FORMS, AND ATE ALL THE EGGS.
WHEN THE WOMEN AWOKE IN THE MORNING, THERE WAS NEITHER TREE, NOR
WOOD, NOR EGGS.  THEY SAID, "THIS IS COYOTE'S WORK."  CONTINUING
THEIR JOURNEY, COYOTE SAW A CANNIBAL APPROACHING.  HE GAVE HIS PACK
TO HIS SON, AND TOLD HIM TO HIDE IN THE BUSH.  COYOTE AND THE CANNIBAL
MET, AND EACH ASKED THE OTHER WHO HE WAS.  BOTH ANSWERED THAT THEY
WERE CANNIBALS AND ATE MEN, AND THE ONE PRETENDED NOT TO BELIEVE
THE OTHER.  COYOTE PROPOSED THEY SHOULD VOMIT, AND THUS FIND OUT
WHO WAS TELLING THE TRUTH.  THE CANNIBAL AGREED TO THIS; AND COYOTE
SAID, "WE MUST BOTH SHUT OUR EYES."  THEY VOMITED, AND, WHILE THE
CANNIBAL'S EYES WERE YET CLOSED, COYOTE CHANGED THE STUFF THEY HAD
VOMITED, PLACING HIS OWN IN FRONT OF THE CANNIBAL.  WHEN THE LATTER
OPENED HIS EYES, HE SAW LUMPS OF HUMAN FLESH IN FRONT OF COYOTE, AND
NOTHING BUT GRASS IN FRONT OF HIMSELF.  COYOTE LAUGHED AT HIM, AND
SAID, "I KNEW YOU WERE A LIAR AND A BOASTER."
    AT LAST THEY REACHED A COUNTRY WHERE THERE WERE MANY PEOPLE WHO
MADE BASKETS.  THEY STAYED WITH THESE PEOPLE, WHO WERE VERY KIND,
AND GAVE TWO GIRLS TO BE THE WIVES OF YIKUSXEN.  COYOTE WAS NOT
PLEASED OVER HIS SON'S MARRIAGE, AND SAID, "HE IS VERY POOR, AND
CANNOT SUPPORT TWO WIVES."  HE THOUGHT THEY OUGHT TO HAVE OFFERED THE
GIRLS TO HIM, FOR HE WAS ANXIOUS TO MARRY.  COYOTE HUNTED A GREAT
DEAL, AND GAVE PRESENTS OF MANY DEER-SKINS TO THE PEOPLE, RECEIVING IN
RETURN BASKETS, WHICH HE GAVE TO THE ELDERLY WOMEN, THINKING SOME OF
THEM MIGHT OFFER HIM THEIR DAUGHTERS; BUT THEY DID NOT DO SO.
    THEN COYOTE WISHED TO GET HIS SON'S WIVES: SO HE WENT TO A SMALL
TREE, DEFECATED ON THE TOP OF IT, AND TURNED HIS EXCREMENT INTO A NEXT
FULL OF YOUNG EAGLES.  HE ASKED THEM TO SAY, "SIK, SIK, SIK]" LIKE
YOUNG BIRDS; BUT THEY ALWAYS SAID, "EXCREMENTS]" INSTEAD.  AT LAST HE
GOT THEM TO SPEAK IN THE RIGHT MANNER, AND THEN HE WENT TO HIS SON AND
TOLD HIM THAT THERE WERE EAGLETS IN A NEST NEAR BY.  COYOTE HAD MADE
THE TREE GROW VERY TALL.  YIKUSXEN TOOK OFF HIS CLOTHES AND CLIMBED
THE TREE.  COYOTE MADE THE TREE GROW TALLER AND TALLER, UNTIL IT
REACHED THE SKY; AND HIS SON KEPT ON CLIMBING, BEING ENCOURAGED BY HIS
FATHER.  AT LAST HE FOUND HIMSELF SO HIGH UP, HE WAS AFRAID TO COME
DOWN.  COYOTE MADE HIMSELF LOOK YOUNG, AND, PUTTING ON HIS SON'S
CLOTHES, WENT TO HIS WIVES.  ONE OF THEM, WHO HAD A BABY SON, WOULD
HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH HIM, AS SHE WAS SURE HE WAS COYOTE, AND HAD
PLAYED SOME TRICK ON HER HUSBAND; BUT THE OTHER WIFE WAS EASILY
DECEIVED, AND THENCEFORTH LIVED WITH COYOTE.  THIS WAS THE WIFE HIS
SON DID NOT LOVE VERY MUCH.
    WHEN YIKUSXEN REACHED THE SKY, HE BEGAN TO TRAVEL THROUGH THE
UPPER WORLD, AND CAME TO TWO OLD WOMEN WHO WERE BLIND.  THEY WERE
HANDING EACH OTHER GRAVEL, WHICH SEEMED TO BE THEIR FOOD.  HE TOOK
THE GRAVEL OUT OF THEIR HANDS, AND THEY THOUGHT THE ONE WAS FOOLING
THE OTHER WHEN THEY SAID, "I GAVE YOU SOME, AND YOU TOOK IT."  THEY
WERE ANGRY AT EACH OTHER FOR A TIME; THEN ONE OF THEM SAID, "COYOTE'S
SON MUST BE HERE: I SMELL HIM."  HE ASKED THEM IF THERE WERE ANY
HOUSES NEAR BY; AND THEY SAID IF HE KEPT ON TRAVELLING, HE WOULD COME
TO SOME UNDERGROUND HOUSES.
    HE CONTINUED HIS JOURNEY, AND SAW THE LADDER OF AN UNDERGROUND
HOUSE IN THE DISTANCE.  WHEN HE ARRIVED AT THE HOUSE, HE FOUND IT
INHABITED BY TWO OLD PEOPLE, SPIDER AND HIS WIFE.  SPIDER GAVE HIM A
BOW AND ARROWS, AND TOLD HIM TO GO HUNTING.  HE SAID, "DON'T SHOOT
HARD.  IF YOU DO, THE ARROW WILL REBOUND FROM THE ANIMAL AND COME
BACK TO ME.  SHOOT GENTLY, AND ALWAYS WAIT UNTIL YOU GET THE ANIMALS
ONE IN FRONT OF THE OTHER; THEN SHOOT THE RUMP OF THE LAST ONE, AND
THE ARROW WILL GO THROUGH THEM ALL AND KILL THEM."  HE WENT HUNTING
SEVERAL TIMES, BUT ALWAYS SHOT TOO HARD, AND THE ARROWS WENT BACK TO
SPIDER.  AT LAST HE LEARNED HOW TO SHOOT GENTLY, AND KILLED MANY DEER
AND GOATS.  SPIDER'S WIFE WAS GLAD, AND SPUN MUCH GOAT-HAIR.
    AT LAST YIKUSXEN GOT TIRED OF THE UPPER WORLD, AND SAID HE WISHED
TO RETURN TO EARTH.  SPIDER SAID, "ALL RIGHT]  MY WIFE WILL MAKE A
VERY LONG ROPE OF GOAT'S HAIR, AND WE WILL LOWER YOU DOWN."  WHEN
THE ROPE WAS FINISHED, THEY TIED A COVERED BASKET TO THE END OF IT,
AND PUT YIKUSXEN INSIDE.  THEY SAID, "YOU MUST NOT LOOK OUT ON YOUR
WAY DOWN."  THEY LOWERED HIM DOWN UNTIL HE REACHED THE CLOUDS,
WHEN HE LOOKED OUT, AND THE BASKET WENT UP AGAIN.  NEXT TIME HE DID
NOT LOOK OUT, AND THE BASKET PASSED THE CLOUDS, AND SOON REACHED THE
EARTH.  HE DID NOT OPEN THE LID UNTIL HE HEARD THE MEADOW-LARK CRY,
THEN HE KNEW THAT HE HAD REACHED THE EARTH.  HE CAME OUT AND RAN
WITH THE BASKET, AND SWUNG IT.  THE SPIDER THEN PULLED IT UP.  HE
LOOKED AROUND, AND FOUND THAT THE PEOPLE HAD RECENTLY LEFT ON A
HUNTING-TRIP.  HE FOLLOWED THEIR TRACKS, AND OVERTOOK HIS WIFE, WHO
WAS CARRYING HER CHILD.  THE LATTER RECOGNIZED HIM AND CALLED HIM BY
NAME, AND HIS WIFE WAS GLAD TO SEE HIM.  THEY ARRIVED AT THE PLACE
WHERE THE PEOPLE WERE CAMPED, AND COYOTE OFFERED TO GIVE HIM BACK HIS
OTHER WIFE, BUT HE WOULD NOT TAKE HER.
    NOW YIKUSXEN WENT HUNTING, AND SHOT A DEER ON THE FAR SIDE OF A
LARGE CREEK.  HE TOOK OUT THE ENTRAILS, AND MADE THE INTESTINES INTO A
TUMP-LINE, WHICH HE HUNG UP NEAR THE CARCASS.  THEN HE RETURNED HOME
AND TOLD COYOTE OF HIS SUCCESS.  THE LATTER SAID, "I WILL GO WITH YOU
TO-MORROW AND HELP YOU CARRY IT IN."  ON THE FOLLOWING MORNING, WHEN
THEY HAD GONE SOME DISTANCE, COYOTE SAID, "I HAVE FORGOTTEN MY
PACKING-LINE."  YIKUSXEN SAID, "NEVERMIND]  I LEFT ONE YESTERDAY
WITH THE DEER."  THEY FORDED THE STREAM, AND CUT THE DEER UP.
YIKUSXEN SAID, " IF YOU CARRY THE DEER HOME, I WILL GO HUNTING, FOR
THE DAY IS YET YOUNG."  YIKUSXEN LEFT, AND COYOTE PUT THE DEER-MEAT ON
HIS BACK.  BY THIS TIME IT WAS RAINING HARD, FOR YIKUSXEN HAD CAUSED
RAIN TO FALL; AND COYOTE HURRIED ALONG, FOR HE WAS AFRAID THE CREEK
WOULD SWELL SO, THAT HE COULD NOT CROSS: BUT THE PACK-STRAP BROKE
EVERY LITTLE WHILE, AND HE HAD TO STOP AND MEND IT.  WHEN HE REACHED
THE CREEK, HE FOUND THE WATER WAS ALREADY DEEP, AND STILL RISING
RAPIDLY.  HE TRIED TO FORD THE CREEK; BUT WHEN IN THE DEEPEST PLACE,
THE TUMP-LINE BROKE, AND THE PACK WAS SWEPT AWAY.  COYOTE TRIED TO
CATCH IT, BUT THE RISING WATER CARRIED HIM AWAY, AND IT IS SAID HE WAS
DROWNED.


         9.  THE MAN WHO HAD A BRANCH FOR A WIFE
    ONCE A MAN LIVED ALONE IN AN UNDERGROUND HOUSE.  ALL THE OTHER
PEOPLE IN THE LAND LIVED VERY FAR AWAY.  HE LONGED TO HAVE A WIFE, BUT
DID NOT KNOW WHERE TO OBTAIN ONE.  AT LAST HE MADE UP HIS MIND
TO MAKE A TREE-BRANCH HIS WIFE.  HE TRAVELLED AROUND MANY DAYS,
BREAKING BRANCHES FROM TREES, UNTIL AT LAST HE FOUND A SUITABLE ONE,
WHICH BROKE OFF, LEAVING A HOLE THROUGH THE PART WHICH HAD BEEN NEXT
THE TREE.  HE CARRIED IT HOME, AND TREATED IT AS HIS WIFE.  HE TALKED
TO IT, AND, CHANGING HIS VOICE, TALKED AGAIN AS IF IT WERE ANSWERING
HIM.  HE SLEPT WITH IT; AND WHEN HE WENT OUT, HE COVERED IT OVER WITH
A BLANKET, AND LEFT FOOD AND WATER BESIDE IT.
    A WOMAN WHO LIVED IN A DISTANT COUNTRY KNEW HOW THE MAN WAS
ACTING, AND WENT TO SEE HIM.  SHE REACHED THE HOUSE DURING HIS
ABSENCE, PUT IT IN ORDER, DRANK THE WATER AND ATE THE FOOD LEFT FOR
THE BRANCH-WIFE, AND, AS EVENING CAME ON, LIGHTED THE FIRE.  WHEN THE
MAN CAME HOME, SHE HID HERSELF AND WATCHED HIM.  THE MAN WENT
HUNTING FOUR SUCCESSIVE DAYS, AND ALWAYS FOUND THE HOUSE ARRANGED,
AND THE FOOD AND WATER GONE, WHEN HE CAME BACK.  HE THOUGHT TO
HIMSELF, "MY BRANCH-WIFE MUST BE DOING THIS.  SHE MUST BE GETTING
ALIVE."  AND HE WAS GLAD THAT HIS WIFE WAS BECOMING USEFUL, AND COULD
EAT AND DRINK.
    THE NEXT NIGHT, BEFORE THE HUNTER CAME HOME, THE WOMAN THREW THE
BRANCH INTO THE FIRE.  WHEN HE ARRIVED, AND MISSED THE BRANCH, HE
WEPT AND LAMENTED, SAYING, "MY LOSS IS GREAT.  MY WIFE MUST HAVE
FALLEN INTO THE FIRE WHILE SHE WAS CLIMBING THE LADDER TO GO AND GET
WATER.  WHAT SHALL I DO FOR A WIFE?"  THEN THE WOMAN LAUGHED AT
HIM FROM WHERE SHE WAS HIDDEN.  SHE STEPPED TOWARDS HIM, AND ASKED
HIM FOR WHOM HE WAS CRYING.  SHE SAID, "IBURNED THE BRANCH, AND
NOW I WILL BE YOUR WIFE."  SHE TOLD HIM THE WHOLE STORY, AND HE WAS
GLAD TO HAVE A REAL WIFE.  THEY LIVED TOGETHER, AND HAD MANY CHILDREN.


         10.  GLACIER AND CHINOOK-WIND
    A GLACIER IN THE MOUNTAINS, NEAR THE NORTH END OF LILLOOET LAKE,
WISHED TO GET A WIFE.  HE TRAVELLED SOUTH UNTIL HE REACHED THE SEA.
HE FOLLOWED SOUTH ALONG THE SEASHORE UNTIL HE REACHED THE HOUSE OF
CHINOOK-WIND, WHO GAVE HIM HIS DAUGHTER IN MARRIAGE.  HE TOOK HER
HOME; BUT SHE SOON FOUND SHE COULD NOT LIVE WITH HIM BECAUSE THE
TEMPERATURE WAS SO LOW.  SHE FELT COLD, AND LIGHTED A FIRE.  HER
HUSBAND BEGAN TO MELT: SO HE PUT THE FIRE OUT, AND THREW THE WOOD
AWAY.  HE SENT HIS SERVANT, WATER-OUZEL, INTO THE WATER TO FETCH WET
WOOD, AND SAID TO HIM, "WHEN MY WIFE DESIRES WOOD FOR A FIRE, ALWAYS
GIVE HER WET WOOD, AND NEVER DRY."  THE WOMAN USED SOME OF THE WET
WOOD, BUT IT GAVE NO HEAT, AND SMOKED SO MUCH THAT SHE COULD NOT SEE.
THE WOMAN WAS THUS VERY MISERABLE LIVING WITH GLACIER.
    SHE GAVE BIRTH TO A CHILD, AND SHORTLY AFTERWARDS GOT AN
OPPORTUNITY TO SEND WORD TO HER RELATIVES, TELLING THEM OF HER
MISERABLE STATE.  WHEN THEY RECEIVED THE NEWS, HER BROTHER WITH MANY
FRIENDS WENT TO HER RESCUE IN A CANOE.  WHEN THEY NEARED GLACIER'S
HOUSE, THEY CHANGED TO SNOWFLAKES, AND DANCED AROUND AND ABOVE IT.
THE WOMAN SAW THEM, AND SAID TO HERSELF, "THE WEATHER IS MILDER, IT IS
SNOWING.  MY BROTHER HAS ARRIVED."  GLACIER CAUSED THE COLD TO COME,
SO THAT THERE WAS MUCH FROST ON THE TREES, AND DROVE CHINOOK-WIND
AWAY; BUT THE LATTER RETURNED AGAIN STRONGER THAN EVER, AND IN THE
FORM OF SOFT SNOWFLAKES AND SLEET DANCED AROUND THE HOUSE.  AGAIN
GLACIER MADE IT COLD, SO THAT ICE FORMED ON THE TREES; BUT
CHINOOK-WIND RETURNED IN THE FORM OF RAIN, WHICH BEGAN TO MELT
GLACIER, WHO COULD NOW ONLY PRODUCE A LITTLE COLD WITH HAIL.  THEN
CHINOOK-WIND CAME BACK, BLOWING STEADY AND STRONG AND WARM; AND
GLACIER RETREATED UP THE MOUNTAINS, LEAVING HIS WIFE BEHIND.
    THEY PUT HER IN THE CANOE, AND PADDLED BACK AGAIN DOWN LILLOOET
LAKE.  WHEN HALF-WAY DOWN THE LAKE, THEY PUT ASHORE TO LIGHT A
FIRE AND EAT.  HERE THE BROTHER NOTICED A HUMP ON HIS SISTER'S HIPS.
HE ASKED HER WHAT IT WAS, AND SHE SAID IT WAS HER BABY.  SHE WAS
HIDING IT, INTENDING TO TAKE IT HOME SECRETLY.  HER BROTHER TOOK IT
FROM HER, AND, FINDING IT WAS A PIECE OF ICE, HE THREW IT INTO THE
FIRE, WHERE IT MELTED.  THEN HE TURNED AROUND AND SAID, "HENCEFORTH,
IN THIS COUNTRY, COLD AND ICE SHALL HAVE THE MASTERY FOR ONLY A FEW
MONTHS EACH YEAR; THEN THE CHINOOK-WIND WILL COME AND DRIVE AWAY THE
COLD, AND MELT THE ICE, AS WE HAVE DONE.  OUR VOYAGE SHALL BE MADE
EACH YEAR."  THEY EMBARKED AGAIN, AND REACHED THEIR HOME IN DUE TIME.
BECAUSE THE WOMAN CARRIED HER ICE-BABY ON HER HIPS, THEREFORE IN COLD
WEATHER A WOMAN'S BACKSIDE IS ALWAYS COLDER THAN A MAN'S.


         11.  WREN; OR, THE CHAIN OF ARROWS
    THIS STORY, AS TOLD BY THE LILUET-O'L, IS JUST LIKE THE VERSION
WHICH I OBTAINED FROM THE UTA'MQU.


         12.  THE MOSQUITOES AND THUNDER
    THE MOSQUITOES WERE VERY NUMEROUS, AND LIVED IN THE UPPER WORLD,
WHERE THEY WERE RULED BY A CHIEF.  THUNDER ALSO LIVED THERE, BUT NOT
WITH THE MOSQUITOES.  ONE DAY, WHEN THE WEATHER WAS VERY HOT, THE
MOSQUITO CHIEF SENT ONE OF HIS PEOPLE TO THE EARTH TO SEARCH FOR
BLOOD.  THIS MOSQUITO, FINDING SOME MEN, SUCKED THEIR BLOOD, AND
RETURNED HOME WITH HIS BELLY FULL.  WHEN HE ARRIVED, HE VOMITED THE
BLOOD INTO A KETTLE, AND, AFTER BOILING IT, INVITED ALL THE WOMEN TO
COME AND EAT IT.  THEN THE CHIEF SENT ANOTHER MAN TO THE EARTH IN
QUEST OF MORE BLOOD.  HE FOUND SOME WOMEN ASLEEP, AND, AFTER GORGING
HIMSELF WITH BLOOD FROM THEIR PRIVATES, HE RETURNED TO THE UPPER
WORLD.  HE VOMITED UP THE BLOOD, BOILED IT IN A ROUND BASKET, AND
INVITED ALL THE MEN TO EAT.
    HAVING ACQUIRED A TASTE FOR BLOOD, AND HAVING LEARNED WHERE TO
OBTAIN IT, THE MOSQUITOES LIVED ON IT ALMOST ALTOGETHER.  EVERY WARM
DAY THEIR CHIEF SENT DOWN GREAT NUMBERS TO EARTH, WHERE THEY COLLECTED
MUCH BLOOD, AND THEN RETURNED HOME WITH IT, BOILED IT, AND ATE IT.
THEN THE MOSQUITO CHIEF SAID, "HENCEFORTH MOSQUITOES SHALL GO TO
EARTH AND SUCK BLOOD WHEN THEY CAN GET IT.  FEMALE MOSQUITOES SHALL
SUCK MEN'S BLOOD, AND MALE MOSQUITOES SHALL SUCK WOMEN'S BLOOD;
AND ANY ONE WHO KILLS MOSQUITOES WHEN SUCKING BLOOD SHALL BE ATTACKED
BY MANY OTHER MOSQUITOES, AND THUS BE PUNISHED."
NOW, THUNDER HEARD THAT HIS NEIGHBORS THE MOSQUITOES WERE LIVING
ON BLOOD: SO HE WENT AND ASKED THE FIRST MOSQUITO WHO HAD VISITED
THE EARTH WHERE HE OBTAINED THE BLOOD.  THE MOSQUITO TOLD HIM THAT
HE SUCKED IT FROM THE TREE-TOPS.  THEN THUNDER SHOT THE TREE-TOPS,
WENT DOWN, AND SUCKED THEM; BUT HE COULD NOT EXTRACT ANY BLOOD.
HE WENT TO THE OTHER MOSQUITO WHO HAD FIRST BROUGHT BLOOD FROM THE
EARTH, AND ASKED HIM WHERE HE GOT THE BLOOD.  THE MOSQUITO ANSWERED,
"I SUCKED IT FROM THE ROCKS."  THEREUPON THUNDER SHOT THE ROCKS, AND
SUCKED THEM; BUT HE COULD NOT OBTAIN ANY BLOOD.  IF THE MOSQUITOES
HAD TOLD THE TRUTH, THUNDER WOULD HAVE SHOT THE PEOPLE AND SUCKED
THEIR BLOOD, INSTEAD OF SHOOTING THE TREES AND ROCKS, AS HE DOES AT
THE PRESENT DAY.  THE MOSQUITOES THUS SAVED PEOPLE FROM BEING SHOT BY
THUNDER.


         13.  WREN
    WREN (TSATSO') STRUTTED UP AND DOWN, TOSSING HIS HEAD, AND
STRIKING HIS HEELS INTO THE GROUND.  AS HE WALKED ABOUT, HE SANG,
CALLING BUCK-DEER TO COME.  FAWN APPEARED; AND WREN SAID TO HIM, "LET
ME LOOK AT YOUR BUTTOCKS]"  FAWN TURNED AROUND.  "GO AWAY]" SAID
WREN.  "I DO NOT WANT YOU.  I DO NOT WANT WORTHLESS DEER.  I WANT
A FAT ONE."  HE SANG AGAIN, AND ONE-PRONG BUCK APPEARED.  HE ASKED
HIM TO TURN AROUND SO THAT HE COULD SEE HIS BACKSIDE.  THEN HE SAID,
"GO AWAY]  I DO NOT WANT YOU.  WHY DOES NOT BUCK COME?  I WISH
A VERY FAT DEER."  HE SANG AGAIN, AND TWO-PRONGED BUCK CAME.  HE
HAD A LOOK AT HIM, ALSO, AND THEN TOLD HIM TO GO AWAY.  NEXT
THREE-PRONGED BUCK CAME, AND AT LAST FOUR-PRONGED BUCK.  AFTER LOOKING
AT HIS BUTTOCKS, AND SEEING THAT HE WAS VERY LARGE AND FAT, HE SAID,
"YOU ARE THE ONE I WANT.  WHY DID YOU NOT COME BEFORE?"  HE
SMACKED HIS LIPS, AND DREW OUT HIS SMALL KNIFE, WHICH HE HELD READY
IN HIS HAND.  THEN HE JUMPED INTO BUCK'S ANUS, AND, REACHING HIS
HEART, HE SEVERED HIS HEART-STRINGS.  BUCK FELL DOWN DEAD, AND WREN
WENT OUT AGAIN THE SAME WAY HE HAD ENTERED.
    NOW HE SOON DISCOVERED THAT HE HAD LEFT HIS KNIFE INSIDE OF BUCK;
AND HE DARED NOT ENTER AGAIN FOR FEAR THAT HE WOULD DIE.  HE WONDERED
WHAT HE SHOULD DO.  SO HE STRUTTED AROUND BUCK'S CARCASS, AND SANG
TO HIMSELF, "I WANT TO GET MY KNIFE TO SKIN THE DEER."  HE FORGOT
HIMSELF FOR THE MOMENT.  HE DID NOT INTEND TO SAY AS MUCH OR TO SING
SO LOUDLY; FOR HE WAS AFRAID THE WOLF PEOPLE, WHO LIVED IN AN
UNDERGROUND HOUSE NEAR BY, MIGHT HEAR HIM.  SO HE CHANGED HIS SONG,
AND SAID, "I WANT TO GET MY KNIFE TO SKIN A TREE FOR BOW AND ARROWS."
    A WOLF HEARD HIM THE FIRST TIME, AND SAID TO HIS FRIENDS, "COME
OUTSIDE AND LISTEN]  WREN IS SINGING THAT HE WISHES HIS KNIFE TO SKIN
A DEER.  HE MUST HAVE KILLED ONE."  THEY ALL WENT OUTSIDE, AND HEARD
HIM SING, "I WANT MY KNIFE TO SKIN A TREE."  THEY SAID, "WE WERE
MISTAKEN: HE HAS KILLED NOTHING."  NOW THE WREN SANG, "I WANT MY
KNIFE TO SKIN A BUCK;" THEN, CORRECTING HIMSELF, HE SANG, "I WISH MY
KNIFE TO SKIN A TREE TO MAKE A BOW."  THEN THE WOLVES SAID, "HE
HAS CERTAINLY KILLED SOMETHING]" AND THEY RAN TO SEE.
    THEY MET WREN, AND ASKED HIM WHAT HE WAS GOING TO SKIN.  HE SAID,
"A STICK."  THEY SAID, "YOU SANG, 'SKIN A DEER.'"  HE ANSWERED,
"NO, I DID NOT SING THAT."  THEY SAID, "HE LIES.  WE WILL GO AND SEE."
THEY FOUND THE DEER, AND ATE IT ALL, EXCEPTING THE TRIPE AND THE
TROTTERS, WHICH THEY PUT ASIDE FOR AN OLD MAN WOLF, WHO HAD TOLD THEM
WHEN THEY LEFT, "IF YOU FIND ANY DEER, KEEP THE TRIPE AND THE TROTTERS
FOR ME.  I LIKE THEM BETTER THAN ANY OTHER PART OF THE ANIMAL."  THE
WOLVES FORGOT THE OLD MAN'S TIDBITS, AND WENT HOME, LEAVING THEM
BESIDE WREN'S KNIFE, WHICH THEY HAD FOUND INSIDE, NEAR THE DEER'S
HEART.
    WHEN THE WOLVES HAD DEPARTED, WREN RETURNED, AND, FINDING THE
TROTTERS AND TRIPE ALONG WITH HIS KNIFE, HE ATE, PUTTING THE TRIPE IN
HIS MOUTH, AND CUTTING IT OFF PIECE BY PIECE, CLOSE TO HIS LIPS.  HE
HAD NOT EATEN VERY MUCH WHEN HE ACCIDENTALLY CUT OFF HIS NOSE.  HE
TRIED TO GLUE IT ON WITH SALIVA; BUT, AS SOON AS THE SALIVA DRIED, THE
NOSE FELL OFF AGAIN.  THEN HE TRIED CLAY, BUT WITHOUT SUCCESS: SO HE
WENT AWAY, CARRYING HIS NOSE IN HIS HAND.
    NOW, ONE OF THE WOLVES, WHILE EATING THE DEER, HAD GOTTEN A LARGE
BONE BETWEEN HIS TEETH, WHICH HE COULD NOT GET OUT, AND HIS FACE
BEGAN TO SWELL.  HE TRAVELLED ABOUT TO SEE IF HE COULD NOT GET RELIEF.
HE MET WREN, WHO ASKED HIM, "WHAT IS THE MATTER THAT YOUR FACE IS
SWOLLEN?"  THEN THEY TOLD EACH OTHER OF THEIR INJURIES, AND AGREED
THAT THEY WOULD CURE EACH OTHER.  WOLF SAID, "MY INJURY IS THE WORSE:
YOU HAD BETTER CURE ME FIRST."  WREN, HOWEVER, MAINTAINED THAT HIS
WAS THE WORSE, AND SHOULD BE CURED FIRST.  AT LAST WOLF SPIT ON HIS
HANDS, SMEARED WREN'S FACE, PUT ON HIS NOSE, AND IT GREW THERE.  THEN
WREN POINTED HIS FINGER AT THE BONE IN WOLF'S MOUTH, AND IT CAME OUT.
    NOW THEY WERE WELL PLEASED, AND SAID, "WE WILL LIVE TOGETHER."
SO THEY MADE A HOUSE IN WHICH THEY DWELT.  WOLF ALWAYS HUNTED AT
NIGHT, AND HE TOLD WREN NOT TO SLEEP TOO SOUNDLY, BUT TO HAVE PLENTY
OF PITCH-WOOD MADE INTO TORCHES, READY TO LIGHT, AND TO COME TO HIM
WHEN HE CALLED.  HE ADDED, "IF YOU DO NOT ATTEND TO THIS, YOU WILL NOT
GET MUCH TO EAT."  THE FIRST NIGHT WREN SLEPT, AND FOR A LONG TIME DID
NOT HEAR WOLF SHOUT.  WHEN HE REACHED WOLF, THE LATTER HAD JUST
FINISHED EATING THE DEER.  THE NEXT NIGHT WREN WAKED UP JUST IN TIME
TO REACH WOLF WHEN ONLY THE FEET OF THE DEER WERE LEFT.  THE FOLLOWING
NIGHT HE AWOKE IN TIME TO REACH WOLF WHEN ABOUT HALF THE DEER HAD
BEEN CONSUMED.  AFTER THAT, HE ALWAYS WAKED WHEN WOLF SHOUTED THE
FIRST TIME, AND THUS WAS ALWAYS ON HAND TO RECEIVE HIS SHARE OF THE
MEAT.
    WOLF WAS A GREAT HUNTER, AND HAD MANY OBSERVANCES TO RETAIN HIS
LUCK.  HE TOLD WREN TO BE PARTICULAR NEVER TO THROW WATER IN WHICH
MEAT HAD BEEN BOILED NEAR THE DOOR OF THE HOUSE, AS HE MIGHT TREAD ON
IT WHEN HE WENT HUNTING.  HE ALSO TOLD HIM NEVER TO EAT ANY OF THE
HARDENED GREASE WHICH HAD BEEN THROWN ON THE GROUND ALONG WITH
THE WATER IN WHICH FAT MEAT HAD BEEN BOILED.  HE SAID, "THERE IS
PLENTY OF GOOD FAT IN THE HOUSE: ALWAYS EAT THAT."  WOLF WAS VERY
SUCCESSFUL IN HUNTING, AND SOON HAD THE HOUSE FULL OF GOOD MEAT, FAT,
AND DEER-SKINS.
ONE DAY WREN DISOBEYED ORDERS, AND ATE SOME GREASE FROM OFF THE
GROUND.  AT ONCE ALL THE MEAT, FAT, AND SKINS IN THE HOUSE BECAME
ALIVE, AND, ASSUMING THE FORM OF DEER, RAN OFF AND LEFT HIM.  WOLF CAME
HOME, AND, FINDING WREN ASLEEP AND NOTHING TO EAT IN THE HOUSE,
BECAME VERY ANGRY, AND KICKED WREN IN THE BACK.  THEN HE STRUCK HIM IN
THE FACE, AND THRASHED HIM SOUNDLY, AND TRANSFORMED HIM INTO THE WREN
WHICH WE SEE AT THE PRESENT DAY, SAYING, "HENCEFORTH YOU SHALL BE
KNOWN AS THE WREN-BIRD, AND YOU SHALL NEVERMORE EAT DEER-MEAT."


         14.  OWL
    OWL LIVED ALONE IN AN UNDERGROUND HOUSE ON OWL CREEK.  IN THE
NEIGHBORING COUNTRY LIVED A NUMBER OF PEOPLE NEAR TOGETHER IN
UNDERGROUND HOUSES.  IN ONE HOUSE WAS A GIRL WHO CONSTANTLY CRIED AND
FRETTED, THUS ANNOYING THE PEOPLE VERY MUCH.  THE PEOPLE BECAME
ANGRY; AND HER PARENTS SAID TO HER, "OWL WILL COME AND TAKE YOU SOME
DAY IF YOU DON'T STOP CRYING."
    ONE NIGHT, AFTER THE PEOPLE HAD ALL FALLEN ASLEEP, OWL CAME TO THE
HOUSE CARRYING HIS BASKET, WHICH WAS HALF FULL OF FROGS, TOADS,
SNAKES, AND INSECTS.  AN OLD MAN IN THE HOUSE, WHO HAD OWL FOR HIS
MANITOU, KNEW WHEN OWL CAME, AND UNDERSTOOD WHAT WOULD HAPPEN; BUT HE
SAID NOTHING.  THE GIRL WAS CRYING: SO OWL TOOK HER, PUT HER INTO HIS
BASKET, AND WENT AWAY WITH HER.  THE PEOPLE NOTICED THAT THE GIRL
HAD STOPPED CRYING; BUT THEY DID NOT KNOW (WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE
OLD MAN) THAT OWL HAD TAKEN HER, NOR HAD THEY EXPECTED THAT THE
THREATS OF HER PARENTS WOULD BE FULFILLED.
    OWL TOOK THE GIRL HOME, AND SHE BECAME HIS WIFE.  HE WAS A GREAT
HUNTER, AND EVERY DAY WAS SUCCESSFUL IN THE CHASE; BUT HIS WIFE WOULD
NOT EAT THE SNAKES AND FROGS WHICH HE KILLED AND BROUGHT HOME.  SHE
BECAME VERY HUNGRY: SO ONE DAY, SEEING CROW NEAR BY, SHE ASKED HIM
TO GO TO HER MOTHER, AND TELL HER THE PLIGHT SHE WAS IN, AND ASK HER
TO GIVE HIM SOME DRIED SALMON, DRIED BERRIES, AND SALMON-OIL.  CROW
WENT.  HE MET THE GIRL'S MOTHER ON HER WAY TO HER FOOD-CACHE AND
DELIVERED HER DAUGHTER'S MESSAGE.  SHE WOULD NOT TAKE CROW'S WORD
AT FIRST, AS SHE THOUGHT HER DAUGHTER WAS DEAD, BUT FINALLY BELIEVED
HIM AND GAVE HIM THE FOOD HE ASKED FOR.  CROW AT ONCE HASTENED BACK
AND DELIVERED IT TO THE GIRL.
    THAT DAY THE GIRL PUT SOME OF THE OIL ON HER HAIR, FACE, AND BODY.
WHEN OWL CAME HOME, HE NOTICED IT, AND ASKED WHAT SHE HAD PUT ON
TO MAKE HER LOOK SO NICE AND SHINY.  SHE TOLD HIM THAT IT WAS GUM
SHE HAD GATHERED FROM THE TREES.  HE SAID HE WOULD LIKE HER TO PUT
SOME ON HIM TOO.  SHE TOLD HIM IF HE WENT AND GOT SOME, SHE WOULD
PUT IT ON HIM.  SO HE WENT, AND SOON RETURNED WITH A LARGE QUANTITY
OF GUM.  NOW THE GIRL PUT THE GUM INTO A BASKET, HEATED SOME STONES,
AND PUT THEM IN ALSO.  WHEN THE GUM HAD NEARLY MELTED, SHE SAID TO
OWL, "SHUT YOUR EYES]  I WILL NOW ANOINT YOU."  SHE PUT SOME OF THE
PITCH ALL OVER HIS BODY, BUT MOST OF IT SHE PUT ON HIS HEAD AND FACE.
WHEN THE GUM DRIED, OWL COULD NOT OPEN HIS EYES: SO THE GIRL RAN
AWAY.  EVENTUALLY SHE REACHED THE HOUSE OF HER PARENTS, AND NARRATED
TO THEM HER ADVENTURES.
    WHEN OWL HAD GOTTEN ALL THE PITCH OFF HIS BODY, AND WAS ABLE TO
SEE WELL AGAIN, HE WENT TO SEARCH FOR HIS WIFE.  AS HE WENT ALONG, HE
CRIED, "OO, OO, OO]  WHERE IS MY GIRL?  WHERE IS MY WIFE?"  WHEN THE
PEOPLE HEARD HIM APPROACHING, THEY HID THE GIRL BY PUTTING HER INTO A
HOLE.  OWL CAME TO THE TOP OF THE LADDER, AND SAID, "HOOT-A-HOO, OO,
OO]  WHERE IS MY WIFE?"  THEY SAID, "SHE IS HERE.  COME DOWN
AND SEE HER]"  WHEN OWL DESCENDED, THEY POINTED OUT A GIRL TO HIM;
BUT, SEEING THAT SHE WAS NOT HIS WIFE, HE DEPARTED, CRYING AS BEFORE.
    HE WENT TO ALL THE OTHER HOUSES AND SEARCHED THEM.  HE ALSO TORE
DOWN THE SALMON-CACHES, AND SEARCHED THROUGH THEM.  HE BECAME
ANGRY AND WENT TO THE TREES.  HE TORE THEM UP BY THE ROOTS, AND SPLIT
THEM ASUNDER.  WHEN HE DID NOT FIND HER, HE RETURNED TO THE HOUSE
IN WHICH SHE WAS HIDDEN, AND SAID, "THAT WAS NOT MY WIFE YOU SHOWED
ME.  I KNOW MY WIFE IS HERE."  THEN HE BEGAN TO TEAR DOWN THE HOUSE.
THE PEOPLE BECAME AFRAID, AND TOLD THE GIRL TO SHOW HERSELF.
WHEN OWL SAW HER, HE WAS APPEASED AT ONCE, AND STAYED WITH HER.
    THE GIRL'S FATHER TOLD THE YOUNG MEN TO TAKE OWL TO SWEAT-BATHE.
THEY MADE THE STONES VERY HOT; AND WHEN OWL WAS INSIDE, THEY PUSHED
HIM ON THE STONES, HELD HIM DOWN, AND BURNED HIM UNTIL HE WAS NEARLY
DEAD.  THEN THEY TRANSFORMED HIM INTO AN OWL, SAYING, "HENCEFORTH
YOU SHALL BE AN OWL, AND SHALL INHABIT THE MOUNTAINS, LIVING ON FROGS,
MICE, AND SNAKES, AND PEOPLE WILL HEAR YOU AT NIGHT CRYING FOR YOUR
WIFE."


         15.  THE GIRL AND THE DOG
    A GIRL WHO LIVED NEAR THE SEA HAD A DOG THAT ALWAYS FOLLOWED HER.
SHE WAS IN LOVE WITH THE DOG.  ONE DAY SHE LAY DOWN AND RUBBED
ANIMAL GREASE ON HER ABDOMEN, AND THUS SEDUCED THE DOG.  THE GIRL
BECAME PREGNANT; AND WHEN HER FATHER LEARNED THAT SHE HAD CONCEIVED
BY THE DOG, HE KILLED IT, AND LEFT HIS DAUGHTER ALONE TO HER FATE.
THEY NEVER CAME BACK AGAIN TO THAT PLACE.  SOME SAY THEY MIGRATED
NORTH.
    SOME TIME AFTER ALL THE PEOPLE HAD GONE, THE GIRL GAVE BIRTH TO
FOUR MALE PUPS AND ONE FEMALE PUP.  SHE SUPPORTED HERSELF AND HER
CHILDREN WITH CLAMS, WHICH SHE DUG AT EVERY EBB-TIDE.  ONE NIGHT IT
WAS RAINING: SO SHE COVERED HERSELF WITH A MAT OF CEDAR-BARK, AND WENT
TO THE SHORE TO DIG CLAMS BY THE LIGHT OF A TORCH.  WHEN THE CHILDREN
SAW BY THE LIGHT THAT SHE WAS BUSY, THEY TOOK OFF THEIR DOG-SKINS, AND
BEGAN TO PLAY AROUND THE FIREPLACE.  THE GIRL TOOK OFF HER SKIN FROM
THE UPPER PART OF HER BODY ONLY, AS SHE WAS ASHAMED.  EVERY LITTLE
WHILE ONE OF THE CHILDREN WENT TO SEE IF THEIR MOTHER WAS COMING.
WHEN THEY SAW HER APPROACHING, THEY PUT ON THEIR DOG-SKINS AGAIN.
THEIR MOTHER SAW THE FOOTPRINTS NEAR THE FIRE, WHERE THEY HAD BEEN
RUNNING AND DANCING.  THERE WERE TRACKS OF CHILDREN'S FEET, AND NOT
OF DOGS' FEET.  SHE THEN KNEW THAT HER CHILDREN WERE REALLY HUMAN, AND
WAS VERY GLAD.
    THE FOLLOWING NIGHT THE CHILDREN DID THE SAME AS BEFORE.  ON THE
THIRD NIGHT THE WOMAN WENT, AS USUAL, TO DIG CLAMS, BUT MADE UP HER
MIND TO DECEIVE THE CHILDREN.  SHE STUCK HER TORCH ON THE BEACH, AND
HUNG HER MAT ON A STICK NEAR BY.  THE CHILDREN THOUGHT SHE WAS STILL
THERE, AND KEPT ON PLAYING.  SHE PEERED INTO THE HOUSE, AND SAW THAT
THE BOYS HAD LAID THEIR DOG-SKINS ASIDE, AND THAT THE GIRL HAD REMOVED
HERS CLEAR DOWN TO THE ANKLES.  SHE RAN IN SUDDENLY, SNATCHED AWAY THE
DOG-SKINS, AND THREW THEM INTO THE FIRE.  SHE HELD THE GIRL'S FEET IN
THE FIRE, AND SINGED OFF THE DOG'S HAIR.  THE CHILDREN WERE ASHAMED,
SO SHE MADE THEM CLOTHES OF CEDAR-BARK.  SHE LET THEM WASH EVERY DAY,
AND THEY GREW FAST.
    WHEN THEY HAD REACHED MATURITY, SHE SAID TO THEM, "I WISH YOU TO
OCCUPY YOURSELVES EACH WITH A PARTICULAR KIND OF WORK.  YOU WILL
NOW EACH CHOOSE WHAT YOU WILL DO."  ONE SAID, "I WILL BE A HUNTER,
AND WILL HUNT LAND-GAME."  THE NEXT SAID, "I WILL BE A FISHERMAN.  I
WILL CATCH FISH, AND WILL SPEAR SEALS AND SEA-GAME.  ANOTHER SAID,
"I WILL MAKE CANOES AND TOOLS."  THE FOURTH ONE SAID, "I WILL SPLIT
AND HEW CEDAR, AND WILL MAKE A HOUSE."  THE GIRL SAID, "I WILL SPIN,
AND MAKE BLANKETS FROM THE HAIR OF THE GOATS MY BROTHER SHOOTS."
THENCEFORTH THEY ALL OCCUPIED THEMSELVES AT THEIR SEVERAL TASKS.
    THEY BUILT A LARGE HOUSE, WHICH THEY FILLED WITH FOOD AND
BLANKETS.  THE MOTHER HAD TOLD HER TWO SONS WHO WORKED IN WOOD TO BE
SURE NOT TO SET FIRE TO THE CHIPS AND SHAVINGS, BUT CAREFULLY TO
PRESERVE THEM.  THEN SHE COLLECTED THEM ALL TOGETHER, SO THAT THEY
MADE A GREAT PILE, AND, TAKING THEM UP IN HER ARMS, SHE THREW THEM UP
INTO THE AIR, AND THEY BECAME PEOPLE, AND THE PLACE WAS AT ONCE
THICKLY POPULATED.  AFTER FEASTING THE PEOPLE, AND CLOTHING THEM, SHE
TOLD THEM THAT THENCEFORTH THEY SHOULD PROVIDE FOR THEMSELVES.  THIS
THEY DID, AND THEY BUILT MANY HOUSES, SO THERE CAME TO BE A LARGE
VILLAGE THERE.  HER CHILDREN MARRIED AMONG THESE PEOPLE.  AS THE CHIPS
AND SHAVINGS WERE WOOD OF MANY KINDS OF TREES, DIFFERING VERY MUCH
IN COLOR, THE PEOPLE ALSO DIFFERED IN THE COLOR OF THEIR SKINS.  SOME
WERE WHITE, OTHERS RED, SOME BROWN, AND SOME YELLOW.  THAT IS THE
REASON THESE SHADES ARE TO BE FOUND AMONG THE INDIANS AT THE PRESENT
DAY.


         16.  RAVEN
    FOUR WOMEN LIVED TOGETHER IN ONE HOUSE.  THEIR NAMES WERE
XWITX#, BLUEJAY, CROW, AND SNAIL.  THEY HAD GATHERED AND CURED A
GREAT QUANTITY OF BERRIES DURING THE SEASON; AND XWITX# WISHED TO TAKE
A LARGE PRESENT OF BERRIES TO HER DAUGHTER, WHO LIVED DOWN ON THE
LOWER FRASER.  THE WOMEN COULD NOT GO ALONE, FOR THEY HAD NO
CANOE, AND, BESIDES, THEY NEEDED A MAN TO ACCOMPANY THEM.  THEY
DECIDED TO INVITE RAVEN TO GO WITH THEM: SO XWITX# WENT AND ASKED
HIM.  HE CONSENTED, BUT TOLD THEM IT WAS AN ENEMY'S COUNTRY THEY
WOULD TRAVEL THROUGH, AND THERE WOULD BE MUCH DANGER IN THE JOURNEY.
    WHEN THEY HAD BEEN PADDLING TWO DAYS, RAVEN TOLD THE WOMEN TO
PADDLE TO THE SHORE, FOR HE MUST GO ASHORE TO EASE HIMSELF.  GOING
DOWNSTREAM SOME DISTANCE, HE DEFECATED AND URINATED, AND TOLD HIS
EXCREMENTS TO SHOUT LOUDLY, WHICH THEY DID.  RAVEN HASTENED BACK
TO THE CANOE, AND TOLD THE WOMEN TO HIDE THEMSELVES, FOR ENEMIES WERE
COMING TO ATTACK THEM.  THE WOMEN BELIEVED RAVEN'S STORY WHEN
THEY HEARD THE SHOUTING: SO THEY RAN, AND HID IN THE BUSHES.  SNAIL,
BEING VERY SLOW, DID NOT TRY TO REACH THE BUSHES, BUT HID NEAR THE
WATER'S EDGE.  THEN RAVEN HIT THE CANOE WITH HIS PADDLE, SHOUTED,
AND MADE A GREAT NOISE.  THE WOMEN THOUGHT HE WAS FIGHTING.  AFTER
SOME TIME, ALL WAS QUIET, AND THEY THOUGHT HE MUST BE DEAD.
    NOW, RAVEN HAD EATEN ALL THE BERRIES, FRESH AND DRIED, AND, TAKING
THE JUICE FROM THE BOTTOMS OF THE BASKETS, HAD EMPTIED IT OVER HIS
BODY AND HEAD.  HAVING DONE THIS, HE LAY DOWN IN THE BOTTOM OF THE
CANOE, AND COVERED HIMSELF OVER WITH CEDAR-BARK MATS.  AT LAST THE
WOMEN VENTURED TO GO TO THE CANOE, AND THERE THEY FOUND RAVEN LYING
IN THE BOTTOM.  HE SAID, "WE MUST RETURN HOME WITH ALL SPEED.  I
AM BADLY WOUNDED, AND OUR ENEMIES MAY ATTACK US AGAIN."  SO THE
WOMEN GOT INTO THE CANOE, AND PADDLED TOWARD HOME.
    NEXT DAY, SNAIL, WHO WAS SUSPICIOUS OF RAVEN, SAID, "LET ME SEE
YOUR WOUNDS]"  RAVEN ANSWERED, "NO.  YOU MUST NOT UNCOVER ME.
I AM ALL CUT UP, AND SHALL DIE IF I AM UNCOVERED."  WHEN THEY GOT NEAR
HOME, A YOUNG MAN MET THE CANOE, AND THE WOMEN RELATED THEIR
STORY TO HIM.  HE SAID, "RAVEN LIES.  HE IS NOT WOUNDED.  HE HAS
EATEN ALL YOUR BERRIES."  SO HE TORE THE MATS AWAY FROM RAVEN, AND
EXPOSED HIM, ALL COVERED WITH THE BERRY-JUICE, WHICH HAD DRIED ON HIM.


         17.  BALD-HEADED EAGLE
    BALD-HEADED EAGLE LIVED IN AN UNDERGROUND HOUSE NEAR PEMBERTON.
HE HAD AS SERVANTS BLUEJAY, CROW, AND FROG.  IN ANOTHER UNDERGROUND
HOUSE NOT FAR AWAY LIVED HAWK (ATAA'T), GOLDEN-EAGLE (HALA'U), AND
ALL THE OTHER BIRDS.  UP THE POLE RIVER, AT NO GREAT DISTANCE, LIVED
OTHER PEOPLE, AMONG WHOM WAS THE SWEETHEART OF HAWK, WHO WAS
NOTED FOR HER BEAUTY.  THE DAY ARRIVED THAT THE GIRL SHOULD GO TO HER
INTENDED HUSBAND: SO, TAKING HER BASKETS AND HER MATS ON HER BACK,
SHE STARTED OUT.  SHE TRAVELLED TOWARD A FISH-DAM ON WHICH SHE
INTENDED TO CROSS THE RIVER.  WHEN SHE ARRIVED THERE, SHE SAW
BALD-HEAD ENGAGED IN TAKING AWAY DRIFTWOOD WHICH HAD FLOATED AGAINST
THE DAM.  THERE WAS NO ROOM FOR HER TO PASS HIM, SO SHE REQUESTED HIM
TO MAKE WAY.  SHE FIRST ADDRESSED HIM BY NAME, WITH NO RESULT.  THEN
SHE SAID, "MAN, LET ME PASS]" BUT HE NEVER HEEDED HER.  THEN, "FRIEND,
LET ME PASS]" BUT HE PAID NO ATTENTION.  THEN SHE ADDRESSED HIM AS
BROTHER, BUT HE DID NOT NOTICE HER.  AT LAST SHE SAID, "HUSBAND, LET
ME PASS]"  THEN HE EMBRACED HER, SAYING, "WHY DID YOU NOT SAY
THAT AT FIRST?"  HE TOOK HER HOME WITH HIM, INTENDING TO MARRY HER.
    THAT EVENING A BOY CAME FROM HAWK'S HOUSE TO OBTAIN FIRE, AND,
SEEING A GOOD-LOOKING WOMAN THERE, HE HASTENED BACK, AND SAID TO
HAWK, "A GIRL WHO LOOKS MUCH LIKE YOUR SWEETHEART IS SITTING IN
BALD-HEAD'S HOUSE."  THE BIRDS AT ONCE MADE UP THEIR MINDS TO GET
HER, AND LAID PLANS ACCORDINGLY.  ALL OF THEM WENT DOWN INTO
BALD-HEAD'S HOUSE TO PLAY LEHAL WITH HIS SERVANTS, WHILE HAWK AND
GOLDEN-EAGLE STAYED OUTSIDE NEAR THE TOP OF THE LADDER.  THEY HAD
BUCKETS OF WATER WITH THEM.  SOME OF THE BIRDS CONTINUED PLAYING
LEHAL, WHILE OTHERS KEPT ADDING FUEL TO THE FIRE, UNTIL THE HOUSE GOT
SO WARM THAT THE WOMAN SAID TO BALD-HEAD, "I MUST GO OUTSIDE AND COOL
MYSELF."  AS SOON AS SHE REACHED THE TOP OF THE HOUSE, THE WATCHERS
OUTSIDE THREW WATER DOWN ON THE FIRE, AND EXTINGUISHED IT: SO THE
HOUSE BECAME DARK, AND FULL OF DUST AND SMOKE.  BALD-HEAD NOW KNEW
THAT A TRICK HAD BEEN PLAYED ON HIM, SO HE BEGAN TO STRIKE AT THE
BIRDS AS THEY RAN OUT.  BY THIS TIME, HAWK AND GOLDEN-EAGLE HAD RUN
AWAY WITH THE WOMAN TO THEIR OWN HOUSE.
    BALD-HEAD WAS ANGRY BECAUSE HE HAD NOT SUCCEEDED IN GETTING THE
WOMAN TO BE HIS WIFE: SO NEXT MORNING HE PUT ON FOUR BREASTPLATES OF
BIRCH-BARK, ONE ABOVE THE OTHER, AND, GOING OVER TO HAWK'S HOUSE, HE
CHALLENGED THE INMATES TO COMBAT, ONE BY ONE.  THE SMALL BIRDS WENT
OUT FIRST, AND WERE EASILY KILLED BY BALD-HEAD.  THEN, ONE AFTER
ANOTHER, THE THREE LARGEST AND FIERCEST HAWKS WENT OUT; AND EACH OF
THEM, BEFORE BEING VANQUISHED BY BALD-HEAD, MANAGED TO BREAK ONE
OF HIS BREASTPLATES.  THEN THE WOMAN COMBED THE HAIR OF GOLDEN-EAGLE,
AND HE WENT OUT TO BATTLE.  AFTER A FIERCE STRUGGLE, HE BROKE
THE REMAINING CUIRASS OF BALD-HEAD, BUT WAS HIMSELF KILLED.  THEN
THE WOMAN COMBED HAWK'S HAIR, AND HE WENT OUT TO FIGHT.  IT WAS AN
EVEN STRUGGLE NOW, FOR BALD-HEAD WAS UNPROTECTED BY ARMOR; AND
BEFORE VERY LONG HAWK KILLED HIM.
    EACH BIRD KILLED HAD BEEN BEHEADED: SO HAWK GATHERED ALL THE
BIRDS' BODIES AND HEADS TOGETHER IN A HEAP, JUMPED OVER THEM, AND THEY
BECAME ALIVE.  THEN HE PUT THE HEAD OF BALD-HEADED EAGLE ON HIS BODY,
AND, JUMPING OVER HIM, HE BECAME ALIVE ALSO.  NOW, HAWK TRANSFORMED
THEM ALL INTO THE BIRDS WE KNOW BY THEIR NAMES AT THE PRESENT DAY.


         18.  THE SLAVE WHO MARRIED BALD-HEAD'S DAUGHTER
    A GREAT CHIEF LIVED NEAR THE SEA.  HE HAD TWO WIVES,- ONE AN OLD
WOMAN, AND THE OTHER VERY YOUNG,- AND HE USUALLY STAYED WITH THE
OLDER ONE.  THE CHIEF HAD FOUR SLAVES, ALL YOUNG MEN; AND THEY,
NOTICING THAT THEIR MASTER NEGLECTED HIS YOUNG WIFE, WHO WAS GENERALLY
LEFT TO SLEEP BY HERSELF, PROMPTED ONE ANOTHER TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF
THE FACT.  TWO NIGHTS THEY DID THIS, BUT EACH ONE OF THEM WAS AFRAID
TO ACT.  AT LAST, ON THE THIRD NIGHT, THE YOUNGEST ONE SAID HE WOULD
GO.  TYING A BOARD TO HIS BACK, HE WENT TO WHERE HIS MASTER'S WIFE
SLEPT, AND LAY WITH HER ALL NIGHT.
    THAT NIGHT THE CHIEF WENT TO SEE HIS YOUNG WIFE, AND, FINDING THE
MAN WITH HER, HE CALLED THE OTHER SLAVES, AND TOLD THEM TO TAKE THE
CULPRIT IN A CANOE FAR OUT TO SEA, AND THROW HIM OVERBOARD.  THE CHIEF
DID NOT KNOW THAT THE MAN HAD A BOARD FASTENED TO HIS BACK, FOR IT WAS
UNDERNEATH HIS SHIRT.  THE SLAVES TOOK HIM IN A CANOE FAR OUT TO SEA,
AND THREW HIM OVERBOARD.  THE MAN FLOATED ON THE BOARD FOR SEVERAL
DAYS, THE WIND AND CURRENTS GRADUALLY TAKING HIM NEARER THE LAND.
AT LAST, WHEN HE WAS NEAR THE SHORE, A STRONG GALE AROSE, AND BLEW HIM
OUT OF THE WATER AND UP AMONG THE TREES.  THEN HE TOOK OFF THE BOARD,
LIGHTED A FIRE, AND SLEPT.  TWICE A VOICE WOKE HIM, SAYING, "COME
HERE]"  THE THIRD TIME IT CALLED, HE SAW THE SHORT-TAILED MOUSE
SPEAKING TO HIM.  WHEN MOUSE SAW THAT SHE WAS NOTICED, SHE
DISAPPEARED IN THE GRASS.  THE MAN WENT TO THE SPOT WHERE MOUSE HAD
BEEN, AND SAW AT THE ROOTS OF THE GRASS WHAT APPEARED TO BE THE
ENTRANCE TO A HOUSE.  HE WENT IN AND FOUND BALD-HEADED EAGLE THERE,
WHO TREATED HIM VERY KINDLY, AND GAVE HIM HIS DAUGHTER TO WIFE.
    SOME TIME AFTERWARDS, BALD-HEAD, WHO WAS A CHIEF, SAID TO HIS
SON-IN-LAW, "THE SALMON WILL ARRIVE TO-DAY.  GO WITH THE YOUNG MEN AND
CATCH SOME.  I WILL GIVE YOU A MAGIC BLANKET TO PUT ON, WHICH WILL
ENABLE YOU TO DIVE AND TO FLY.  WHEN YOU SEE THE SALMON COMING UP
THE STREAM, YOU MUST BE CAREFUL TO LET THE FIRST ONE PASS, BECAUSE IT
IS 'MYSTERIOUS.'"  REACHING THE STREAM WHERE THE SALMON WERE TO COME,
THEY TOOK UP THEIR POSITIONS IN SOME LARGE TREES NEAR THE WATER'S
EDGE.  WHEN THE SALMON APPEARED, THE MAN POUNCED DOWN ON THE FIRST
ONE, WHICH WAS SOME DISTANCE IN THE LEAD OF THE REST; BUT THE FISH
PULLED HIM UNDER WATER.  HIS BROTHER-IN-LAW CAUGHT HOLD OF HIM TO SAVE
HIM, AND ONE OF THE YOUNG MEN GRASPED THE BROTHER-IN-LAW, AND SO ON
WITH THE REST, ONE BEHIND THE OTHER; BUT ALL OF THEM WERE GRADUALLY
PULLED UNDER THE WATER, EXCEPT THE LAST ONE.  FINALLY THE YOUNG MAN'S
WIFE CAME: SHE DIVED AND WITH A SHELL KNIFE WHICH SHE CARRIED IN HER
HAND CUT HER HUSBAND LOOSE FROM THE SALMON.  THEN SHE PULLED THEM ALL
OUT, AND THEY RETURNED TO THEIR SEATS IN THE TREES.  BEFORE LONG, MORE
SALMON CAME; AND THE MEN SWOOPED DOWN ON THEM, CAUGHT MANY, AND
SOON FILLED A CANOE WITH THEM.
    SOME TIME AFTER THIS THE MAN SAID TO HIS FATHER-IN-LAW, "I WISH TO
TRAVEL, AND SHOULD LIKE TO BORROW YOUR MAGIC BLANKET."  BALD-HEAD
LENT HIM THE BLANKET, AND THE MAN FLEW AWAY TO THE HOME OF THE CHIEF
WHOSE SLAVE HE HAD BEEN.  HE SAW THE CHIEF COME OUT OF HIS HOUSE, AND
AT ONCE POUNCED UPON HIM.  HIS SLAVES CAME TO THE RESCUE; BUT HE
FLEW AWAY WITH THEM ALL TO SEAWARD, AND LET THEM DROP INTO THE OCEAN
FAR FROM LAND, WHERE ALL WERE DROWNED.  THEN HE TOOK UP HIS ABODE
IN HIS FORMER MASTER'S HOUSE, AND LIVED THERE FOR SOME TIME.
    HIS WIFE GREW ANXIOUS, AND WONDERED WHY HER HUSBAND DID NOT
RETURN: SO SHE AND HER BROTHERS TOOK A LARGE CANOE AND STARTED OUT TO
SEARCH FOR HIM.  THE CANOE HAD A BALD-HEADED EAGLE'S HEAD AT THE PROW,
AND ANOTHER AT THE STERN.  THEY FED THE HEADS FOOD AND WATER; AND
THE CANOE RUSHED ALONG OF ITS OWN ACCORD, AND NEEDED NO PADDLING.
IN DUE TIME THEY REACHED THE PLACE WHERE THE MAN WAS LIVING; AND THE
LATTER, WHEN HE SAW THEM, GAVE A FEAST.
    AFTER A FEW DAYS THE BROTHERS RETURNED IN THEIR DOUBLE-HEADED
CANOE, AND LEFT THEIR SISTER WITH HER HUSBAND.  SHE GAVE BIRTH TO A
BOY, WHO GREW RAPIDLY.  THE HUSBAND ALWAYS FETCHED WATER FOR HIS WIFE;
AND EACH DAY, WHEN HE ARRIVED AT THE WATERING-PLACE, HE SAW A
BEAUTIFUL WOMAN, WHO TEMPTED HIM.  FOR A LONG TIME HE REJECTED HER
ADVANCES.  EACH DAY, WHEN HE BROUGHT HOME THE WATER, HIS WIFE PLUCKED
AN EAGLE-FEATHER FROM HER WING, AND DIPPED IT IN THE BUCKET OF WATER
TO FIND OUT WHETHER HER HUSBAND HAD BEEN FAITHFUL OR NOT.  SHE TOLD
HIM, THAT, IF HE FELL UNDER THE POWER OF THE WOMAN, HE WOULD DIE.
    ONE DAY NOT LONG AFTER THIS, WHEN HE WAS AT THE WATERING-PLACE, HE
BECAME UNABLE TO RESIST THE WOMAN.  WHEN HE REACHED HOME, HIS
WIFE DIPPED A FEATHER IN THE WATER AS USUAL, AND AT ONCE KNEW WHAT
HER HUSBAND HAD DONE.  SHE LEFT HIM, AND STARTED FOR HER FATHER'S
HOUSE, ACCOMPANIED BY HER SON, WALKING ON THE SURFACE OF THE SEA.
HER HUSBAND FOLLOWED, ENTREATING HER TO RETURN.  SHE SPOKE TO HIM
WITHOUT TURNING AROUND TO LOOK AT HIM, SAYING, "GO BACK]  IF YOU
CONTINUE TO FOLLOW US, AND I LOOK AT YOU, YOU WILL SINK."  SHE TOLD
HIM THIS THREE TIMES, BUT THE HUSBAND PERSISTED IN FOLLOWING THEM.
THEN THE WIFE LOOKED BACK AT HIM, AND HE AT ONCE SANK UNDER THE WATER
AND WAS DROWNED.  THE WOMAN REACHED HER FATHER'S HOUSE WITH HER SON.



         19.  THE GRIZZLY-BEARS AND THE BLACK-BEARS
    FOUR BROTHERS LIVED WITH THEIR SISTER IN A HOUSE NEAR POLE RIVER.
THEY BUILT A DAM ACROSS THE RIVER, AS THEY WERE EXPECTING THE ANNUAL
SALMON-RUN.  WHEN THEY HAD FINISHED THE DAM, THEY LEFT THEIR SISTER
TO WATCH IT, AND WENT HUNTING IN THE MOUNTAINS WEST OF PEMBERTON
MEADOWS.  THE DAY AFTER HER BROTHERS HAD LEFT, THE GIRL WENT TO THE
DAM AND FOUND ONE SALMON, WHICH SHE CAUGHT, ROLLED UP CAREFULLY IN
HER ROBE, AND TOOK HOME.  THAT EVENING SHE PUT IT ON A STICK, AND
ROASTED IT IN FRONT OF THE FIRE.  WHEN IT WAS NEARLY READY TO EAT, SHE
HEARD SOME ONE CALL, "CALI'TCIA]" AND SHE AT ONCE FELL ASLEEP.  IT WAS
GRIZZLY-BEAR-WOMAN WHO CALLED.  SHE ENTERED, AND ATE THE FISH.
WHEN THE GIRL AWOKE, SHE FOUND THE SALMON GONE.  NEXT DAY SHE
TOOK TWO SALMON AT THE DAM.  WHEN THEY WERE NEARLY ROASTED,
GRIZZLY-BEAR-WOMAN CALLED, AND SHE AT ONCE FELL ASLEEP.  WHEN SHE
AWOKE, THE FISH HAD DISAPPEARED.  THE FOLLOWING DAY SHE CAUGHT THREE
SALMON AT THE DAM, AND THE SAME THING HAPPENED.
    THE BROTHERS WERE AWARE THAT SOMETHING WAS WRONG AT HOME: SO
THEY RETURNED TO THEIR SISTER, WHO TOLD THEM WHAT HAD HAPPENED.
THAT DAY THEY WENT TO THE DAM, AND CAUGHT FOUR SALMON, WHICH THEY
PUT ON STICKS BEFORE THE FIRE TO ROAST.  THEN THEY HID THEMSELVES.
THEY SAID, "IF GRIZZLY-BEAR-WOMAN EATS OR TAKES AWAY ALL THE FISH
WE WILL KILL HER."
    GRIZZLY-BEAR-WOMAN APPEARED, AND, SEEING ONLY THE GIRL, SHE
CALLED, "CALI'TCIA]" AND AT ONCE THE LATTER FELL ASLEEP.
GRIZZLY-BEAR-WOMAN ATE THREE OF THE SALMON, AND THEN LEFT.  THE
BROTHERS FOLLOWED HER SOME DISTANCE, AND THEN TURNED BACK, EXCEPTING
THE ELDEST, WHO FOLLOWED HER TO HER HOUSE.  THERE HE FOUND
GRIZZLY-BEAR-WOMAN WITH HER SISTER, BLACK-BEAR.  EACH OF THEM COOKED
SOME BERRIES AND ROOTS FOR HIM.  HE ATE WHAT THEY GAVE HIM; BUT HE
FOUND BLACK-BEAR'S FOOD MUCH BETTER COOKED, OF BETTER QUALITY, AND
MORE PALATABLE, THAN GRIZZLY-BEAR'S.  HE MARRIED BOTH THE BEARS, AND
THENCEFORTH LIVED WITH THEM.  GRIZZLY-BEAR-WOMAN'S NAME WAS
TSEMXA'LITC, BLACK-BEAR-WOMAN'S NAME WAS HU'KAMI'.  BLACK-BEAR,
HOWEVER, WAS HIS FAVORITE WIFE, AND GRIZZLY-BEAR WAS JEALOUS OF HER
SISTER.  EACH OF HIS WIVES BORE HIM FOUR DAUGHTERS.
    GRIZZLY-BEAR-WOMAN MADE UP HER MIND TO KILL HER SISTER, HER
HUSBAND, AND HER SISTER'S CHILDREN: SO ONE DAY SHE SAID TO HER
HUSBAND, "COME ALONG WITH ME]  I AM GOING TO DIG ROOTS.  YOU CAN HELP
ME TO CARRY THEM HOME."
HE ACCOMPANIED HER.  ABOUT SUNSET SHE TURNED TO HIM AND SAID,
"IT IS TIME WE WERE GOING HOME; BUT THERE IS NO GREAT HURRY.
COME HERE AND LAY YOUR HEAD ON MY LAP.  I WILL LOUSE YOU."  HE
DID AS REQUESTED, AND, AFTER PICKING OVER HIS HEAD A LITTLE WHILE, THE
GRIZZLY WIFE SAID, "WHAT A QUANTITY YOU HAVE]  IT IS A WONDER THE
WIFE YOU LOVE SO MUCH DOES NOT LOUSE YOU."  THEN SHE BIT HIM IN
THE THROAT, AND KILLED HIM.  SHE THEN CUT OFF HIS GENITALIA, PUT THEM
IN HER BASKET, AND WENT HOME.  HERE SHE SAID TO THE BLACK BEAR,
"OUR HUSBAND LEFT ME AND WENT SHOOTING, BUT DID NOT COME BACK."
AFTER DARK SHE PUT HER HUSBAND'S GENITALIA IN THE ASHES TO ROAST.
ONE OF THE YOUNG BLACK BEARS SAW HER WHEN SHE WAS RAKING THE
COALS, AND SHOUTED, "SHE IS BAKING MY FATHER'S GENITALIA."  BUT THE
GRIZZLY BEAR MADE FUN OF THE CHILD, AND PEACE WAS RESTORED.  AFTER
THE MEAT WAS COOKED, THE GRIZZLY AROSE FROM HER BED AND ATE IT.
THE NEXT MORNING SHE SAID TO THE BLACK BEAR, "LET US GO HOME TO
OUR CHILDREN.  BUT WE HAVE PLENTY OF TIME;  LET US REST BEFORE WE
START."  SHE THEN SAID, "COME AND LAY YOUR HEAD ON MY LAP.  I WILL
LOUSE YOU."  THIS THE BLACK BEAR DID, AND AFTER A WHILE THE GRIZZLY
BIT HER THROAT, KILLED HER, AND CUT OFF HER BREASTS.  ON ARRIVING
HOME, SHE TOLD THE BLACK BEAR'S CHILDREN, "IT IS STRANGE YOUR MOTHER
DID NOT OVERTAKE ME.  SHE MUST HAVE GONE A LONG WAY SEARCHING FOR
HER HUSBAND."  THAT NIGHT THE GRIZZLY BEAR BAKED THE BREASTS; BUT
ONE OF THE BLACK BEAR'S CHILDREN SAW HER AND SHOUTED, "OH, MY
MOTHER'S BREASTS]"  BUT THE GRIZZLY BEAR MADE FUN OF THE CHILD,
AND SAID SHE WAS BAKING ROOTS.  THEN SHE TOLD HER THREE CHILDREN
THAT SHE HAD KILLED HER HUSBAND AND HIS WIFE, AND THAT SHE ALSO
WANTED TO KILL THE BLACK BEAR'S THREE CHILDREN.  "WHEN I GO AWAY
TO DIG ROOTS IN THE MORNING," SHE TOLD THEM, "SAY TO THE BLACK BEAR'S
CHILDREN, 'LET US PLAY AT FEASTING]'  THEN SET BEFORE THEM A BASKET
OF THEIR CHOICEST FOOD, IN ORDER THAT THEY MAY EAT HEAVILY AND LOSE
THEIR STRENGTH.  YOU MUST EAT VERY LITTLE OF THE FOOD THEY GIVE TO
YOU.  THEN SAY, 'LET US GO AND SWIM,' AND WHEN YOU GET TO THE
LAKE SUGGEST, 'LET US PLAY AT FIGHTING.'  THEY WILL BE FULL, AND YOU
CAN EASILY OVERCOME THEM AND DROWN THEM.  THEN TAKE THEIR BODIES
HOME, AND STICK THE YOUNGEST ONE ON A STICK TO ROAST, FOR I SHALL
BE HUNGRY WHEN I GET HOME."  IN THE MORNING THE YOUNG GRIZZLY
BEARS DID AS TOLD.  THE ELDEST BLACK BEAR, HOWEVER, BECAME SUSPICIOUS,
AND WARNED HIS BROTHERS.  THEY ATE VERY LITTLE OF THE FOOD
GIVEN TO THEM BY THE GRIZZLY BEARS; BUT THE LATTER COULD NOT RESTRAIN
THEIR APPETITES.  THE GRIZZLY BEARS THEN SAID, "LET US GO AND
SWIM."  THEY ALL WENT DOWN TO THE LAKE AND SWAM.  THEY THEN
SUGGESTED, "LET US PLAY AT FIGHTING."  THE BLACK BEARS AGREED, AND
THE TWO YOUNGEST COMMENCED FIRST.  THE GRIZZLY BEAR BEING GLUTTED
WAS SOON PUT UNDER THE WATER BY THE BLACK BEAR, AND DROWNED.
THEY PULLED HIS BODY TO THE BANK AND LAID IT DOWN, SAYING, "WE
WILL BRING HIM TO LIFE AGAIN BY AND BY."  THE NEXT TWO THEN HAD A
CONTEST, RESULTING IN THE DEATH OF THE GRIZZLY BEAR, AS BEFORE; AND
LASTLY THE TWO ELDEST MET, WITH THE SAME RESULT.  THE BLACK BEARS
THEN TOOK THE BODIES OF THE GRIZZLY BEARS TO THE HOUSE, STUCK THE
YOUNGEST ONE ON A STICK TO ROAST, AND LAID THE OTHERS IN THE PLACE
WHERE THE BLACK BEARS THEMSELVES GENERALLY LAY, COVERING THEM OVER
WITH ROTTEN WOOD AND ANT-HILLS.  THEY THEN WENT AS FAST AS POSSIBLE
ALONG THE TRAIL TO THEIR GRANDFATHER'S HOUSE.
THE SHE GRIZZLY BEAR CAME HOME AFTER DARK, AND BEING HUNGRY
AT ONCE COMMENCED TO EAT THE SMALL BEAR ON THE SPIT, AND WAS THUS
ENGAGED WHEN THE MEADOWLARK CRIED OUT, "LOOK AT THE CLAWS]"
SHE THEN LOOKED AND RECOGNIZED IT BY THE CLAWS.
SHE FLEW INTO A RAGE, RAN TO WHERE THE BLACK BEARS SLEPT, TO KILL
THEM, BUT FOUND THERE HER OWN CHILDREN DEAD.  SHE THEN STARTED
ON THE TRAIL OF THE BLACK BEARS, AND OVERTOOK THEM SHORTLY BEFORE THEY
REACHED THE RIVER, WHERE THEIR GRANDFATHER LIVED.  THE BLACK BEARS
RAN UP A TREE.  THE GRIZZLY CAME TO THE FOOT OF THE TREE, AND SAID TO
THEM, "YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER HAVE COME BACK, AND I HAVE COME
TO TELL YOU SO.  COME DOWN AND RETURN WITH ME TO YOUR PARENTS]"
BUT THE ELDEST BLACK BEAR TOLD HER SHE LIED, AND ADVISED THE OTHERS
NOT TO GO DOWN.  SHE THEN GREW ANGRY, AND SAID SHE WOULD KILL
THEM, COMMENCING AT ONCE TO BITE THE TREE AT THE BUTT, IN ORDER TO
MAKE IT FALL.  WHEN THE TREE WAS NEARLY FALLING, THE ELDEST BLACK
BEAR SAID, "WE WILL DROP THE YOUNGEST ONE DOWN TO YOU.  OPEN
YOUR MOUTH WIDE."  HE THEN THREW DRY ROTTEN WOOD MIXED WITH
ANTS INTO THE GRIZZLY'S FACE, CHOKING AND BLINDING HER.  THE THREE
BROTHERS FORTHWITH DESCENDED AND RAN FOR THE RIVER.  ON ARRIVING
THEY SAW THEIR GRANDFATHER S'QONEQA PATCHING HIS CANOE ON THE
OTHER SIDE.  HE CAME ACROSS TO FETCH THEM, AND LANDED THEM SAFELY
ON THE OTHER SIDE.  THEY TOLD HIM THEIR STORY AND SAID, "THE GRIZZLY
BEAR WILL BE HERE IN A LITTLE WHILE."  AS EXPECTED, THE GRIZZLY CAME
AND CALLED ON S'QONEQA TO TAKE HER OVER.  HE TOOK HER INTO HIS
CANOE, AND TOLD HER TO SIT DOWN ON AN UNPATCHED HOLE, SO AS TO KEEP
THE WATER FROM COMING IN.  GRIZZLY BEAR ASKED, "WHAT HOLE IS THAT?"
AND S'QONEQA ANSWERED, "IT IS THE RECTUM OF THE CANOE."
THEY TOOK A LONG WHILE TO CROSS; AND
ALL THE LARGE FISHES BIT THE GRIZZLY THROUGH THIS HOLE, PULLING OUT
HER ENTRAILS.  WHEN SHE WOULD JUMP UP, THE CANOE WOULD FILL WITH WATER
SO THAT SHE HAD TO SIT DOWN AGAIN.  SHE DID NOT LAND, BUT DIED
IN THE CANOE, AND S'QONEQA THREW HER BODY INTO THE RIVER.
SHORTLY AFTERWARDS THE COYOTE CAME ALONG AND FOUND THE GRIZZLY
BEAR'S BODY, DREW IT OUT OF THE WATER, AND, CUTTING IT UP, PUT THE
PIECES ON STICKS TO ROAST AT
THE FIRE WHICH HE HAD LIGHTED.  HERE HE LEFT THEM TO COOK, INTENDING
TO EAT THEM IN THE MORNING, AND IN THE MEANTIME RETURNED TO SLEEP
WITH HIS TWO CHILDREN, WHO ACCOMPANIED HIM.  DURING THE NIGHT SOME
BOYS CAME ALONG AND ATE ALL THE FAT MEAT WHICH THEY FOUND ROASTING.
WHEN ABOUT TO DEPART, THEY SAW THAT THE COYOTES STILL SLEPT, AND
RUBBED GREASE OVER THE MOUTHS OF THE TWO CHILDREN AND ON THE HANDS
OF THEIR FATHER, AND STUCK A STICK IN THEIR FATHER'S BACK.  IN THE
MORNING WHEN THE COYOTE AWOKE, HE MISSED
HIS MEAT, AND SEEING STIFFENED GREASE AROUND THE MOUTHS OF HIS
CHILDREN, HE THOUGHT THEY HAD EATEN THE MEAT.  SO HE THRASHED THEM
SEVERELY.  BUT THEY CRIED OUT, "IT MUST HAVE BEEN YOU, FATHER, WHO
ATE THE MEAT, BECAUSE YOUR HANDS ARE ALL COVERED WITH GREASE."
THE COYOTE THEN GUESSED WHAT HAD HAPPENED, AND LAMENTED THE LOST
MEAT.


         20.  THE MALE GRIZZLY-BEAR
    AN OLD WOMAN LIVED IN AN UNDERGROUND HOUSE WITH HER GRANDSON.
ONE DAY SHE SAID TO HIM, "GO AND SOAK SOME SALMON IN THE WATER."
HE TOOK THE SALMON AND LAID IT ON THE BEACH; THEN, AFTER THROWING
WATER ON HIS LEGS, HE RETURNED, AND SAID, "LOOK AT MY LEGS]  I HAVE
PLACED THE SALMON IN A DEEP PLACE: THERE IS NO DANGER OF ANY ONE
STEALING IT."
    NEXT MORNING THE LAD SAID TO HIS GRANDMOTHER, "HEAT THE STONES
READY FOR BOILING.  I WILL GO AND GET THE SALMON."  IN A SHORT TIME HE
RETURNED, AND TOLD HER THAT SOME ONE HAD STOLEN IT.  SHE SAID, "I
BELIEVE YOU DID NOT PUT IT INTO THE WATER."  THEN SHE GAVE HIM SOME
MORE, AND TOLD HIM TO BE SURE AND PUT IT INTO THE WATER, OUT OF REACH
OF ANY ONE.
    HE WENT TO THE CREEK, AND PLACED THE FISH NEAR THE EDGE OF THE
WATER.  AFTER WADING UP TO THE WAIST, HE RETURNED, AND SHOWED HIS
GRANDMOTHER HOW WET HE WAS, SAYING, "I PUT IT IN A DEEPER PLACE THIS
TIME.  SEE] THE WATER REACHED TO MY WAIST."
    THE NEXT MORNING, AFTER TELLING THE OLD WOMAN TO HEAT THE STONES,
HE WENT TO GET THE FISH.  RETURNING PRESENTLY, HE SAID TO HER, "THE
SALMON IS GONE.  I THINK THE GRIZZLY-BEAR MUST HAVE EATEN IT.  I WILL
KILL HIM FOR STEALING THE SALMON."  THE OLD WOMAN SAID, "YOU OUGHT
NOT TO TALK SO.  THE GRIZZLY-BEAR WILL KILL YOU IF YOU TRY TO SHOOT
HIM.  HE IS A DANGEROUS ENEMY, AND HAS KILLED MANY MEN; AND YOU ARE
ONLY A LAD."
    THE BOY, NEVER HEEDING WHAT HIS GRANDMOTHER SAID, MADE A BOW
AND ARROWS, AND LAID SOME SALMON NEAR THE WATER'S EDGE.  THEN HE
CONCEALED HIMSELF, AND WAITED FOR THE GRIZZLY-BEAR TO APPEAR.  HE
CAME; AND, WHEN HE WAS JUST IN THE ACT OF TAKING THE SALMON, THE BOY
SHOT HIM.  THE ARROW PASSED THROUGH HIS BODY IN A VITAL PLACE, AND
KILLED HIM.
    THE BOY WENT HOME AND TOLD HIS GRANDMOTHER WHAT HE HAD DONE,
ADDING, "I JUST HAD TO SHOOT HIM ONCE.  NOW, YOU HAD BETTER COME
AND HELP ME SKIN HIM."  SHE WOULD NOT BELIEVE HIM AT FIRST, BUT AT
LAST CONSENTED TO GO WITH HIM.  WHEN THEY HAD TAKEN OFF THE SKIN AND
CUT THE BODY UP, THE LAD ASKED HIS GRANDMOTHER IF SHE DESIRED ANY
PARTICULAR PART TO EAT.  SHE ANSWERED, "I DO NOT WISH ANY."  FORMERLY,
PEOPLE NEVER ATE THE MEAT OF GRIZZLY BEARS.  HE DID NOT HEED HER
WORDS, AND OFFERED HER ONE PART OF THE ANIMAL AFTER ANOTHER,- FIRST
THE SKIN, THEN THE HEAD, THEN THE FORE-LEGS, THE HIND-LEGS, THE LIVER,
HEART, ETC.,- BUT SHE REFUSED THEM ALL.  AT LAST HE OFFERED HER THE
RUMP AND THE MEMBRUM VIRILE.  THESE SHE ACCEPTED, SAYING, "THANK
YOU.  THESE ARE JUST THE PARTS I WANT."  SHE TIED THEM UP IN HER
STRAP TO TAKE HOME, AND THE LAD ALSO MADE UP A PACK OF THE MEAT TO
CARRY HOME.
    THEY STARTED TOGETHER, BUT HAD ONLY GONE A FEW YARDS, WHEN HIS
GRANDMOTHER'S STRAP BROKE, SHE FELL DOWN, AND THE GRIZZLY-BEAR'S
MEMBRUM PENETRATED HER.  SHE TIED THE MEAT UP AGAIN; BUT EVERY
FEW YARDS HER STRAP WOULD BREAK, AND, AS SHE LAY ON THE GROUND, THE
SAME ACT WOULD BE REPEATED.  THE LAD LEFT HER, AND CONTINUED ON HIS
WAY WITH HIS LOAD.  HE COOKED SOME MEAT WHEN HE GOT HOME, AND ALSO
BOILED AND ROASTED BONES TO BREAK FOR THE MARROW.
    TOWARD EVENING HIS GRANDMOTHER APPEARED AT THE TOP OF THE LADDER;
BUT, JUST WHEN SHE WAS ABOUT TO DESCEND, HER PACK-STRAP BROKE, AND
THE SAME THING HAPPENED AS BEFORE.  SHE FIXED HER STRAP AGAIN, AND
TIED HER BURDEN UP; BUT, JUST WHEN SHE REACHED THE BOTTOM OF THE
LADDER, IT BROKE AGAIN, AND THE SAME THING HAPPENED AS BEFORE.  THEN
THE LAD OFFERED HER SOME MEAT, BUT SHE REFUSED TO EAT.  HE SAID, "IT
IS A LONG TIME SINCE YOU HAVE HAD ANY FOOD.  YOU MUST EAT, OR YOU WILL
DIE."  THEN HE OFFERED HER SOME MARROW-BONES, WHICH SHE TOOK.  SHE ATE
HASTILY, AND SWALLOWED A SPLINTER OF BONE WITH THE MARROW.  THE BONE
STUCK IN HER THROAT, SO SHE TOLD THE LAD TO RUN FOR WATER.  HE TOOK
A BUCKET AND WENT TO THE CREEK.  ON HIS RETURN, HE FELL DOWN AND
SPILLED THE WATER.  HE HASTENED BACK TO THE CREEK, BUT, WHEN RETURNING
WITH THE WATER, HE FELL DOWN AND SPILLED IT AGAIN.  HE DID THIS
INTENTIONALLY THREE TIMES.  THE FOURTH TIME HE SAW THAT HIS
GRANDMOTHER WAS DYING, SO HE BROUGHT THE WATER TO HER; BUT IT WAS TOO
LATE, FOR SHE WAS TURNING INTO A BLUEJAY.  HE OFFERED HER THE WATER;
BUT SHE SAID, "KEEP IT FOR YOURSELF."  IMMEDIATELY AFTERWARD SHE FLEW
AWAY IN THE FORM OF A BLUEJAY.
    WHEN THE LAD REALIZED THAT HE WAS ALONE, HE WEPT.  AT LAST HE FELL
ASLEEP.  A LOUSE BIT HIM, AND HE AWOKE, THINKING THAT HIS GRANDMOTHER
HAD COME BACK.  WHEN HE SAW THAT IT WAS ONLY A LOUSE, HE CALLED IT
NAMES, WAS ANGRY, AND KILLED IT.  THEN A FLEA BIT HIM, AND HE AWOKE.
WHEN HE FOUND OUT WHAT IT WAS, HE WAS ANGRY, AND KILLED THE FLEA.
    ON THE FOLLOWING DAY HE WENT TO THE HIGH MOUNTAINS TO SEARCH FOR
HIS GRANDMOTHER.  HE SAID TO A SHORT TREE, "HAVE YOU SEEN MY
GRANDMOTHER?"  THE TREE DID NOT ANSWER, SO HE KILLED IT.  THEN HE
WENT DOWN TO THE CREEK, AND ASKED A TALL TREE IF IT HAD SEEN HIS
GRANDMOTHER; BUT THE TALL TREE DID NOT ANSWER, SO HE KILLED IT.  THEN
HE SAID TO A STONE, "HAVE YOU SEEN MY GRANDMOTHER?" AND, RECEIVING
NO ANSWER FROM THE STONE, HE KILLED IT ALSO.
    AFTER TRAVELLING SOME DISTANCE, HE CAME TO A RIVER IN WHICH HE SAW
A SALMON SWIMMING.  HE SAID, "IF I WERE A SALMON, I WOULD JUMP ON THE
GROUND, INSTEAD OF SWIMMING IN THE WATER."  THE SALMON, WISHING TO
SHOW THAT IT COULD DO THIS, JUMPED OUT ON THE BANK, AND THE LAD CAUGHT
IT AND KILLED IT.  HE PUT IT ON A STICK, AND SET IT BEFORE THE FIRE TO
ROAST; BUT BEFORE IT WAS COOKED HE FELL ASLEEP.
    SOME BOYS WHO HAPPENED TO BE NEAR SAW HIM.  THEY TOOK THE FAT
SALMON AND SMEARED HIS MOUTH WITH IT.  THEY RAN THE STICK INTO HIS
ANUS, AND THEN HID CLOSE BY TO SEE THE FUN.  WHEN HE AWOKE, HE WENT
TO EASE HIMSELF, AND, FINDING SOMETHING WAS WRONG, HE FELT, AND PULLED
OUT THE STICK.  HE NOW KNEW THAT THE BOYS HAD PLAYED A TRICK ON HIM:
SO, AFTER GOING TO THE RIVER AND WASHING HIS MOUTH AND BACKSIDE, HE
CUT SOME SWITCHES, RAN AFTER THE BOYS, CAUGHT THEM, AND THRASHED THEM
SOUNDLY.


         21. FAWN
    SOME PEOPLE LIVED IN A LARGE UNDERGROUND HOUSE NEAR POLE CREEK.
ONE OF THEM, AN OLD MAN, PARTLY BLIND, WENT HUNTING WITH A DOG, AND
DROVE A FAWN INTO THE CREEK.  FAWN SWAM DOWN THE RIVER TO A PLACE
OPPOSITE THE UNDERGROUND HOUSE, WHERE THE PEOPLE SAW AND CAPTURED
HIM.  THEY TOOK HIM DOWN INSIDE THE HOUSE, AND THERE HE REMAINED AS
A SLAVE FOR MANY MONTHS.
    ONE NIGHT, FAWN MADE UP HIS MIND TO REGAIN HIS LIBERTY.  WHEN ALL
THE PEOPLE WERE ASLEEP, HE AROSE AND TRIED TO JUMP UP THROUGH THE
ENTRANCE OF THE HOUSE; BUT HIS HEAD STRUCK THE TIMBERS, AND HE FELL
DOWN AGAIN.  THE NOISE AWOKE THE OLD MAN WHO OWNED HIM, AND HE
ASKED, "WHAT IS THAT?"  FAWN ANSWERED, "ONE OF THE DOGS FELL DOWN,
AND I AM TRYING TO THROW HIM OUT AGAIN."  SOME TIME AFTERWARDS,
FAWN TRIED AGAIN, BUT WITH LIKE RESULT.  THE OLD MAN WOKE UP AGAIN,
AND SAID, "LET THE DOG REMAIN.  GO TO SLEEP."  NOW, FAWN PRETENDED
TO SNORE, AND WAITED UNTIL THE OLD MAN FELL ASLEEP.  AGAIN HE AROSE
TO TRY TO JUMP OUT THE ENTRANCE, AND THIS TIME SUCEEDED.
    HE TOOK TO THE WATERS OF POLE CREEK, AND SWAM ALONG UNTIL HE
REACHED ITS JUNCTION WITH THE UPPER LILLOOET RIVER.  SWIMMING DOWN THE
LATTER RIVER, HE REACHED THE UPPER END OF BIG LILLOOET LAKE.  HERE HE
JUMPED ON A SHOAL, AND IT BECAME A LITTLE ISLAND.  HERE HE REMAINED
HIDDEN.
    NEXT MORNING THE PEOPLE FOUND HIS TRACKS IN THE SNOW, BUT LOST
THEM WHERE HE HAD TAKEN TO THE WATER.  THEY FOLLOWED ALONG THE
RIVERBANKS, BUT COULD NOT FIND ANY TRACE OF HIS HAVING LEFT THE WATER.
THEY CAME BACK AND TOLD THE OLD MAN, WHO SAID, "BRING ME SOME DEER'S
TROTTERS TO EAT, AND I WILL SOON LOCATE HIM."  THE PEOPLE BROUGHT
SOME, AND HE ATE THEM.  NOW HE KNEW WHERE FAWN WAS, AND DIRECTED THE
PEOPLE WHERE TO FIND HIM.  THEY TOOK CANOES AND WENT TO THE ISLAND
THAT FAWN HAD CREATED, BUT FOUND NOTHING BUT HIS TRACKS.  FAWN WAS
AWARE THAT THEY WERE COMING: SO HE JUMPED OFF, AND SWAM AWAY DOWN
THE LAKE, AND THE PEOPLE NEVER SAW HIM AGAIN.


         22.  THE LAD WHO KILLED HIS COUSIN
    A FAMILY CONSISTING OF A MAN AND HIS WIFE, THEIR TWO DAUGHTERS,
AND THE MAN'S NEPHEW, ONCE LIVED NEAR PEMBERTON MEADOWS, WHERE THERE
WERE MANY PEOPLE.  THE ELDEST GIRL WAS PUBESCENT, AND LIVED APART
IN HER OWN LODGE.  HER MOTHER VISITED HER EVERY MORNING TO LIGHT
HER FIRE AND TO GIVE HER FOOD.
    ONE EVENING THE NEPHEW WENT TO VISIT HER, TO SEE HOW SHE WAS
GETTING ALONG.  WHEN HE REACHED HER LODGE, HE SAW A YOUNG MAN WITH
HER.  HE AT ONCE TURNED BACK, FEELING VERY ANGRY AND ASHAMED.  HE WENT
THREE SUCCESSIVE NIGHTS, AND FOUND THE YOUNG MAN WITH HER EACH NIGHT.
HE MADE UP HIS MIND TO SHOOT HIS COUSIN'S LOVER: SO HE WENT AND MADE
A BOW AND SOME ARROWS, WHICH HE TIPPED WITH GOOSE-FEATHERS.  A
NUMBER OF LADS WERE WITH HIM WHEN HE MADE THE WEAPONS.
    NEXT EVENING HE REPAIRED TO THE GIRL'S LODGE, AND, FINDING THE
YOUNG MAN WITH HER, HE SHOT AT HIM.  HIS AIM WAS NOT TRUE, HOWEVER;
AND THE ARROW WENT THROUGH HIS COUSIN'S BODY, AND KILLED HER.  WHEN HE
SAW WHAT HE HAD DONE, HE BROKE HIS BOW IN PIECES, WENT HOME, AND LAY
DOWN WITHOUT SPEAKING.
    ON THE FOLLOWING MORNING THE MOTHER SAID TO HER YOUNGER DAUGHTER,
TAKE SOME FIRE AND FOOD TO YOUR SISTER."  THE GIRL WENT, BUT SOON
RETURNED, WEARING A TERRIFIED LOOK, AND SAYING THAT HER SISTER WAS
DEAD, WITH AN ARROW IN HER BODY.  THE MOTHER WAKED HER HUSBAND AND THE
NEPHEW, AND THEY ALL WENT TO SEE.  THE LATTER BEGAN TO DANCE, AND
BEHAVED IN A WARLIKE MANNER, SAYING HE WOULD BE AVENGED ON HIS
COUSIN'S SLAYER.
    THE PEOPLE ALL GATHERED AROUND, AND BEGAN TO CRY.  THE FATHER
ADDRESSED THE PEOPLE, SAYING HE WISHED TO KNOW WHO HAD KILLED HIS
DAUGHTER.  SOME OF THE YOUNG MEN SAID, "WE THINK YOUR NEPHEW
KILLED HER, FOR WE RECOGNIZE THE ARROW IN HER BODY AS BELONGING TO
HIM."  THEN THE NEPHEW WAS AFRAID, AND MOVED AWAY FROM THE PEOPLE.  AS
HE WENT, HE SANG, "IF I ONLY KNEW WHO KILLED MY SISTER]  IF I ONLY
KNEW WHO KILLED THE DAUGHTER OF MY UNCLE]"  HE WENT TO A SMALL
SWAMPY LAKE IN PEMBERTON MEADOWS, MADE A CANOE OF HORSE-TAIL GRASS,
AND PADDLED AROUND IN IT, SINGING IN THE THOMPSON LANGUAGE "I
KILLED THE DAUGHTER OF MY UNCLE."
    THE PEOPLE SAID, "IT IS CERTAINLY HE WHO KILLED THE GIRL."  SO
THEY ALL WENT TO ATTACK HIM WITH SPEARS.  WHEN HE SAW THEM COMING, HE
STOOD UP IN HIS CANOE, AND DANCED, SINGING IN THOMPSON, "I KILLED MY
SISTER.  I KILLED THE DAUGHTER OF MY UNCLE."  THEY STABBED HIM THROUGH
AND THROUGH WITH THEIR SPEARS, AND LEFT HIM SEEMINGLY DEAD, WITH HIS
BLOOD AND BRAINS STREAMING OUT.
    THEY HAD JUST REACHED HOME, AND TOLD THAT THEY HAD KILLED HIM,
WHEN THEY HEARD HIM SINGING LOUDLY, AS BEFORE.  THEY RETURNED, AND
SAW HIM DANCING IN THE CANOE.  THEY FORMED A CIRCLE AROUND HIM, AND
DREW IN UPON HIM.  THEY SAID TO ONE ANOTHER, "BE SURE HE DOES NOT
ESCAPE]"  HE PADDLED TOWARDS COYOTE; AND THE OTHERS CRIED OUT,
"COYOTE, BE SURE YOU SPEAR HIM]"  HE DIVED OUT OF THE CANOE TOWARDS
COYOTE, WHO STRUCK AT HIM, AND CRIED OUT, "I HAVE HIM]  I HAVE
SPEARED HIM]  COME AND SEE]"  WHEN COYOTE PULLED OUT HIS SPEAR,
THERE WAS NOTHING BUT A LUMP OF MUD ON THE END OF IT.  THE PEOPLE
WERE ANGRY WITH COYOTE.  JUST THEN THE YOUNG MAN APPEARED SOME
DISTANCE AWAY, SINGING IN THOMPSON, AS BEFORE, AND MOCKING THEM.
THEY TRANSFORMED HIM INTO A MUSKRAT, AND ORDAINED THAT HE SHOULD
ALWAYS INHABIT SWAMPS.


         23.  NKIMTCAMU'#
    AN ORPHAN BOY LIVED WITH SOME PEOPLE WHO TOOK LITTLE OR NO CARE
OF HIM, AND TREATED HIM VERY MEANLY.  THEY GAVE HIM NOTHING TO EAT:
SO HE HAD TO SUBSIST ON THE BONES AND REFUSE WHICH THEY THREW AWAY.
NEITHER DID THEY PROVIDE HIM WITH CLOTHES OR BLANKETS: SO HE SLEPT
NAKED BESIDE THE FIRE AT NIGHT.  NOT CONTENT WITH STARVING HIM, THEY
ALSO BEAT HIM, AND CALLED HIM MANY HARD NAMES.  EVEN THE NEIGHBORS
TREATED HIM BADLY, AND DESPISED HIM BECAUSE HE WAS NAKED, DIRTY,
AND UGLY.  THEY NICKNAMED HIM "BIG-BELLY" BECAUSE OF HIS DISTENDED
ABDOMEN.
    WHEN THE BOY GREW OLDER, HE DETERMINED TO BECOME A GREAT MAN,
AND MAKE THE PEOPLE ASHAMED OF THEIR TREATMENT, AND ENVIOUS OF HIS
SUCCESS.  HE CONTINUED LIVING WITH THE SAME PEOPLE, BUT USED TO GO
AWAY AT NIGHT TO THE MOUNTAINS, WHERE HE PASSED THE TIME IN TRAINING
HIMSELF.  EVERY MORNING HE WAS HOME BEFORE THE PEOPLE AWOKE:
CONSEQUENTLY THEY ALWAYS FOUND HIM SLEEPING BESIDE THE FIRE, AS USUAL.
FOR YEARS HE CONTINUED THE PRACTICE, UNKNOWN TO THE PEOPLE, AND HAD
BECOME A WISE AND ATHLETIC YOUNG MAN.  HE SPENT MANY OF HIS NIGHTS
NOW IN HUNTING, AND SUCCEEDED IN KILLING GREAT NUMBERS OF MARMOTS,
DEER, AND OTHER ANIMALS, THE SKINS OF WHICH HE MADE INTO ROBES, AND
WHICH HE HID AWAY.
    NOW THERE WAS A YOUNG GIRL WHO WAS STILL A VIRGIN, WHO LIVED IN
ANOTHER VILLAGE, AND WHO HAD REFUSED ALL OFFERS OF MARRIAGE MADE BY
THE YOUNG MEN OF THE COUNTRY, BECAUSE SHE CONSIDERED THEM HER
INFERIORS.  NKIMTCAMU'#, FOR THAT WAS THE NAME BY WHICH THE ORPHAN
BOY WAS GENERALLY KNOWN, RESOLVED TO MARRY THIS GIRL: SO HE WENT TO
HER VILLAGE ONE NIGHT, AND, KNOWING THE UNDERGROUND LODGE IN WHICH
SHE LIVED, HE TORE A HOLE IN THE ROOF, JUST ABOVE WHERE SHE SLEPT, AND
SPAT DOWN ON HER NAVEL.  SHE BECAME PREGNANT, AND IN DUE TIME GAVE
BIRTH TO A SON; BUT NEITHER SHE NOR ANY OF THE PEOPLE KNEW WHO WAS
THE FATHER OF THE CHILD.
    WHEN THE BOY WAS A FEW YEARS OLD, THE GIRL'S FATHER CALLED ALL THE
MEN OF THE COUNTRY TOGETHER, AND TOLD THEM HE WISHED TO FIND OUT
WHO WAS THE FATHER OF HIS GRANDSON.  HE ASKED EACH ONE TO MAKE A
BOW AND ARROW, AND GIVE THEM TO THE BOY.  THE MEN DID AS THEY WERE
REQUESTED; BUT THE BOY DISDAINED EACH OF THEIR WEAPONS, AND THREW THEM
AWAY.  THE GRANDFATHER ASKED IF EVERY MAN HAD GIVEN HIS BOW AND
ARROW; AND THEY ANSWERED, "YES, EVERY ONE EXCEPT BIG-BELLY, WHO
CANNOT POSSIBLY BE THE FATHER OF THE CHILD."  THE OLD MAN INSISTED
THAT NKIMTCAMU'# SHOULD ALSO PRESENT A BOW AND ARROW: SO HE MADE
VERY ROUGH ONES OUT OF FIR-BRANCHES, AND HANDED THEM TO THE BOY,
WHO AT ONCE WAS DELIGHTED, AND CRIED OUT, "FATHER]"
    THE PEOPLE WERE ALL DISGUSTED WHEN THEY KNEW THAT THE NAKED,
DESPISED NKIMTCAMU'# WAS THE FATHER OF THE BOY.  THE OLD MAN GAVE
HIS DAUGHTER TO NKUMTCAMU'#; AND ALL THE PEOPLE MADE FUN OF THE GIRL,
AND LAUGHED AT HER BECAUSE OF HER HUSBAND.  NOW, NKIMTCAMU'# MADE
A HOUSE FOR HIS WIFE AND CHILD, AND, GOING TO HIS CACHES IN THE
MOUNTAINS, BROUGHT HOME MANY FINE SKINS, AND PRESENTED HIS WIFE WITH
SEVERAL OF THE BEST MARMOT ROBES.  THENCEFORTH HE CLAD HIMSELF IN THE
FINEST SKINS, AND NO LONGER WENT NAKED.  HE SOON SHOWED THE PEOPLE
THAT HE WAS A BETTER HUNTER THAN ANY OF THEM, AND HIS FAMILY WAS
ALWAYS THE BEST PROVIDED FOR OF ANY IN THE VILLAGE.  HE BECAME RICH,
AND HAD MANY CHILDREN, AND THE PEOPLE ENVIED HIS SUCCESS AND WEALTH.


         24.  THE MAN WHO GOT FOUR WIVES
    FOUR BROTHERS LIVED IN THE SAME HOUSE WITH THEIR FOUR SISTERS.
THEY WERE ALL ANXIOUS TO MARRY; BUT THEY KNEW OF NO PEOPLE IN THEIR
COUNTRY EXCEPT THEMSELVES.  IN THE NEIGHBORING COUNTRY THERE DWELT A
MAN WHO TRAINED IN THE MOUNTAINS AND BECAME LIKE A SHAMAN.  THROUGH
HIS MAGIC HE LEARNED OF THESE PEOPLE, AND MADE UP HIS MIND TO RELIEVE
THEM.  HE PUT ON A DEER'S SKIN, AND IN THE FORM OF A BUCK-DEER PASSED
BY THE BROTHERS' HOUSE.  NEXT MORNING THEY NOTICED THE FRESH
DEER-TRACKS, AND FOLLOWED THEM UP.  AFTER FOLLOWING THEM A LONG
DISTANCE, THEY GOT TIRED, AND THREE OF THE BROTHERS GAVE UP AND
RETURNED; BUT THE ELDEST PERSEVERED, AND OVERTOOK THE DEER.
    WHEN THE SHAMAN SAW THAT HE WAS NEARLY CAUGHT, HE MADE A HOUSE
NEAR A CREEK, AND A SWEAT-HOUSE CLOSE BY.  THEN, CHANGING HIMSELF TO
HIS NATURAL FORM, HE BEGAN SWEAT-BATHING.  THE BROTHER CAME TO THE
CREEK, AND SEARCHED FOR THE BUCK'S TRACKS, WHICH HAD COME TO AN END
THERE.  AT LAST, UNSUCCESSFUL AND TIRED, HE DECIDED TO RETURN HOME.
JUST THEN HE NOTICED THE SWEAT-HOUSE, AND, APPROACHING IT, FOUND A MAN
INSIDE.  HE ASKED HIM IF HE HAD SEEN A BUCK GO PAST; BUT THE MAN
ANSWERED, "NO.  GO TO MY HOUSE OVER YONDER," SAID HE, "AND I
WILL COME TO YOU WHEN I FINISH SWEATING."  THE HUNTER WENT TO THE
HOUSE, AND THE MAN, ARRIVING PRESENTLY, TREATED HIM VERY KINDLY.
    ON HIS RETURN HOME, THE BROTHER RELATED THAT HE HAD SEEN A MAN
LIVING NEAR A CREEK; AND, AS HE WAS A GOOD MAN, THE BROTHERS SENT ONE
OF THEIR SISTERS TO HIM TO BE HIS WIFE.  SOME TIME AFTERWARDS THE MAN
CHANGED HIMSELF TO A DEER AGAIN, AND DID AS HE HAD DONE BEFORE.
ANOTHER OF THE BROTHERS FOUND HIM, AND, THINKING IT WAS A DIFFERENT
MAN IN A DIFFERENT PLACE, AS SOON AS HE RETURNED HOME, SENT ONE OF HIS
SISTERS TO MARRY HIM.  THUS THE MAN ACTED FOUR TIMES, UNTIL HE HAD
GOT THE FOUR SISTERS FOR HIS WIVES.
    NOW THE MAN SAID, "I HAVE TAKEN ALL THE BROTHERS' SISTERS.  I WILL
TRY TO GET WIVES FOR THEM."  HE CHANGED HIMSELF INTO AN EAGLE, AND
FLEW AWAY TO A NEIGHBORING COUNTRY.  HERE HE SAW FOUR GIRLS PICKING
BERRIES.  THREE OF THEM WERE SINGING, AND ONE WAS QUIET.  HE TOOK OFF
HIS EAGLE'S BODY, AND APPROACHING THE QUIET ONE, WHO WAS ALONE, ASKED
HER IF SHE WOULD COME WITH HIM.  SHE CONSENTED, AND JUMPED ON HIS
BACK; HE FLEW AWAY WITH HER, AND GAVE HER TO HIS ELDEST
BROTHER-IN-LAW.  THEN HE RETURNED AS A DIFFERENT MAN, FLEW AWAY WITH
ANOTHER ONE OF THE SISTERS, AND GAVE HER TO THE SECOND ONE OF HIS
BROTHERS-IN-LAW.  THUS HE CONTINUED UNTIL HE HAD OBTAINED WIVES FOR
THE FOUR BROTHERS, THEN HE LEFT, AND WENT TO A DISTANT COUNTRY WITH
HIS OWN WIVES.


         25.  THE GHOST-MOTHER
    A MAN'S WIFE DIED, LEAVING HIM WITH A YOUNG CHILD, WHICH HE USED
TO PUT TO SLEEP AT NIGHT IN A BASKET-CRADLE SUSPENDED FROM A BOUGH.
THE BABY CRIED ALL DAY, BUT WAS ALWAYS QUIET AT NIGHT.  AS SOON AS IT
GOT DARK, THE CHILD'S CRYING WOULD SUDDENLY CEASE, AND THE PEOPLE
WOULD HEAR A NOISE AS IF THE INFANT WERE SUCKING.  THE MOTHER'S GHOST
STAYED WITH IT ALL NIGHT, AND SUCKLED IT.
    NOW, THE MAN WAS RICH; AND HE WISHED, IF POSSIBLE, TO CAPTURE HIS
WIFE'S GHOST, AND TRY TO MAKE HER BECOME A HUMAN BEING AGAIN.  HE
SENT TO ALL THE NEIGHBORING COUNTRIES FOR SHAMANS TO COME AND TRY
THEIR SKILL.  HE OFFERED TO PAY THEM WELL: SO THE BEST ONES CAME FROM
EACH COUNTRY.  SEVERAL CAME FROM DOWN THE RIVER AND FROM THE SEA,
AND ONE EACH FROM THE UPPER LILLOOET, THE SHUSWAP, AND THE THOMPSON
INDIANS.  WHEN THEY HAD ALL ARRIVED, THEY HELD A CONSULTATION, AND
AGREED TO WORK TOGETHER.  SOME FIXED THE AIR ABOVE THE CHILD; OTHERS,
THE AIR ON ALL SIDES AROUND IT; OTHERS MADE A FIRE UNDERNEATH, ALL
READY TO LIGHT; AND THE THOMPSON SHAMAN HAD A BASKET FULL OF URINE AND
MEDICINE OF HERBS, READY TO THROW ON THE GHOST.  THEN THEY ALL SAT
AROUND, READY AND WAITING.
    JUST AT DARK THE GHOST ENTERED THE SPACE OCCUPIED BY THE CHILD.
SHE DID SO FROM BELOW, AS THAT WAS THE ONLY WAY SHE COULD GET IN.
IMMEDIATELY THE SHAMANS LIGHTED THE FIRE, AND TOOK AWAY THE BABY.
THEN THE MEDICINE WAS THROWN ON THE GHOST, AND, HER ESCAPE BEING
CUT OFF ON ALL SIDES, SHE WAS A PRISONER.  THE SHAMANS TREATED HER AND
SPRINKLED MEDICINE ON HER ALL NIGHT, AND BY MORNING SHE WAS SO CHANGED
THAT SHE HAD PARTLY LEFT THE GHOST STATE, AND HAD BEGUN TO RESEMBLE A
LIVING WOMAN.
    THUS THEY TREATED HER FOR SEVERAL MONTHS, WHEN SHE WAS SO FAR
ADVANCED THAT SHE WAS ABLE TO LIE DOWN IN HER BED AND SUCKLE HER
CHILD.  SOME OF THE SHAMANS NOW LEFT, WHILE A FEW STILL REMAINED, AND
CONTINUED THEIR EFFORTS.  AFTER MANY MORE MONTHS OF TREATMENT, THE
WOMAN BECAME HUMAN ENOUGH TO BE ABLE TO DO A LITTLE OF THE HOUSEWORK,
AND TO SLEEP WITH HER HUSBAND.  THEN THE LAST SHAMANS LEFT.
WHEN DEPARTING, THEY WARNED THE MAN TO TAKE VERY GREAT CARE OF HIS
WIFE, AND TO GIVE HER TASKS BY DEGREES, AS IT WOULD TAKE A VERY LONG
TIME YET FOR HER TO BECOME JUST AS SHE HAD BEEN BEFORE HER DEATH.  IF
SHE WERE EXCITED OR STARTLED IN ANY WAY, SHE WOULD AT ONCE CHANGE BACK
TO THE SPIRIT STATE.
    SEVERAL YEARS ELAPSED, AND THE WOMAN HAD SLOWLY IMPROVED DURING
THE INTERVAL, SO THAT SHE WAS NOW ABLE TO DO MOST OF THE WORK SHE USED
TO DO, MUCH TO THE JOY OF HER HUSBAND.  ONE DAY THE LATTER THOUGHT HE
WOULD GIVE HER A NEW TASK TO PERFORM: SO HE ASKED HER TO GO TO THE
CELLAR FOR SOME ROOTS.  AT FIRST SHE REFUSED TO GO, SAYING SHE MIGHT
MEET WITH SOME ACCIDENT; BUT AT LAST SHE CONSENTED, AND WENT.  SHE
CARRIED TWO BASKETS,- ONE WOVEN FOR THE ROOTS, AND ONE OF BIRCH-BARK
TO FETCH WATER IN ON HER WAY BACK.  SHE LEFT THE BARK BASKET AT THE
ENTRANCE WHEN SHE DESCENDED INTO THE CELLAR, AND BEGAN TO FILL THE
OTHER ONE WITH ROOTS.  WHEN THE BIRCH-BARK BASKET WAS ABOUT HALF FULL,
IT FELL DOWN AND ALMOST HIT HER, AND STARTLED HER.  AT ONCE SHE
REVERTED TO THE SPIRIT STATE, AND WAS A GHOST AS BEFORE.
    THE HUSBAND FOUND OUT WHAT HAD HAPPENED, AND WAS VERY SORRY.
HER GHOST NEVER VISITED HIM OR THE PEOPLE AGAIN.  THE CHILD, HOWEVER,
WAS NOW OLD ENOUGH TO DO WITHOUT HER CARE, AND GREW UP TO BE A MAN.


         26.  STORY OF THE SISTERS
    A NUMBER OF WOMEN WENT TO GATHER ROOTS AT A PLACE FOUR DAYS'
JOURNEY FROM THEIR HOME.  AMONG THEM WERE TWO YOUNG WOMEN WHO
WERE SISTERS.  THE FIRST TWO DAYS, AS WAS THE CUSTOM, THEY JUST
GATHERED WHAT AMOUNT OF ROOTS THEY COULD EAT EACH NIGHT.  ON THE THIRD
AND FOLLOWING DAYS THEY INTENDED TO DIG AS MANY ROOTS AS THEY COULD.
    ON THE AFTERNOON OF THE SECOND DAY THE SISTERS WENT TO BATHE
THEMSELVES; AND THE ELDER ONE NOTICED, IN THE REFLECTION OF A TREE IN
THE WATER, WHAT APPEARED TO BE THE FORM OF A MAN.  THE TREE WAS A
LARGE ONE GROWING NEAR THE WATER'S EDGE; AND THE WOMAN WAS AFRAID TO
LOOK UP AT IT, LEST THE MAN MIGHT THINK SHE HAD NOTICED HIM, AND WOULD
KILL THEM.  THAT EVENING IN CAMP SHE SAID TO HER YOUNGER SISTER, "COME
HERE AND LET ME LOUSE YOUR HEAD]"  THE YOUNGER SISTER WENT AND
LAID HER HEAD ON THE OLDER ONE'S LAP.  THE ELDER SISTER THEN WHISPERED
INTO HER EAR, "THERE ARE ENEMIES NEAR.  I SAW THE REFLECTION OF THEIR
SCOUT SITTING ON A TREE WHEN WE WERE BATHING."  THE YOUNGER SISTER
BEGAN TO CRY, AND THE OTHER WOMEN ASKED WHAT WAS WRONG WITH HER.
THE ELDER ANSWERED, "I JUST HAPPENED TO PULL HER HAIR TOO MUCH, AND
IT HURT HER."  SHE THEN WHISPERED TO HER SISTER, "DON'T BE AFRAID]
I WILL HIDE YOU."  SHE MADE A SMALL HOLLOW IN THE GROUND A LITTLE
DEEPER BY DIGGING IT, AND MADE HER YOUNGER SISTER LIE DOWN IN IT.
SHE COVERED HER OVER, AND, PUTTING HER PILLOW ON THE TOP, SHE HERSELF
LAY DOWN OVER THE PLACE WHERE HER SISTER WAS HIDDEN.
    THAT NIGHT ALL THE WOMEN WERE KILLED BY A WAR-PARTY OF STRANGERS,
THE ELDER SISTER'S SKULL BEING SPLIT IN TWO.  WHEN THE ENEMY HAD GONE,
THE YOUNGER SISTER AROSE AND STARTED FOR HOME.  THAT NIGHT SHE CLIMBED
A TREE AND SLEPT IN THE BRANCHES.  ABOUT DUSK THE GHOST OF HER ELDER
SISTER APPEARED AT THE BOTTOM OF THE TREE, WITH HER SPLIT HEAD
FLOPPING ABOUT ON HER SHOULDERS.  SHE COULD NOT SEE STRAIGHT,
EVERYTHING APPEARING TO BE UPSIDE DOWN.  SO SHE SAID TO HER SISTER,
"WHAT SHALL I DO TO GET UP THERE?  I WISH TO BE WITH YOU."  THE
YOUNGER SISTER ANSWERED, "WHERE I AM IS BELOW.  IF YOU WISH TO REACH
ME, YOU WILL HAVE TO PUT YOUR FEET UP, AND CLIMB HEAD DOWN."  THE
GHOST DID THIS, AND TRIED ALL NIGHT IN VAIN TO ASCEND THE TREE.  AT
DAYBREAK THE GHOST LEFT.
    NEXT NIGHT THE GIRL AGAIN SLEPT IN A TREE, AND WAS VISITED BY HER
SISTER'S GHOST, WHO ASKED HER THE SAME QUESTION, AND WAS ANSWERED
IN THE SAME WAY.  THUS THE GHOST FOLLOWED HER UNTIL SHE REACHED HOME,
WHERE SHE TOLD THE PEOPLE HER STORY, AND THEN DROPPED DOWN DEAD.
THE PEOPLE BLAMED THE ELDER SISTER FOR NOT HAVING TOLD ALL THE WOMEN
ABOUT SEEING THE MAN IN THE TREE, AND THUS GIVEN THEM ALL A CHANCE TO
ESCAPE.


         27.  THE MEDICINE-MAN AND HIS SWEETHEART
    A YOUNG MAN IN THE LILLOOET COUNTRY HAD A SWEETHEART WHO DIED.
HE WAS VERY FOND OF THE GIRL, AND HER DEATH WAS A GREAT BLOW TO HIM.
HE WENT INTO THE MOUNTAINS AND LIVED BY HIMSELF.  AFTER SPENDING
FOUR YEARS THERE TRAINING, HE RETURNED HOME ONE NIGHT, AND, GOING TO
THE PLACE WHERE THE GIRL WAS BURIED, HE DUG HER UP AND TOOK OUT HER
REMAINS.  AFTER CUTTING THE STRINGS, HE TOOK OFF THE MAT IN WHICH SHE
WAS WRAPPED, AND BEGAN TO TREAT HER.  BEFORE LONG SHE SHOWED SIGNS
OF LIFE, BUT WAS NOT ABLE TO MOVE.  HE TOOK FIR-BRANCHES AND STRUCK
HER FOUR TIMES WITH THEM.  SHE WAS ABLE TO GET UP, SO HE TOLD HER TO
GO AND WASH IN THE RIVER FOUR TIMES.  WHEN SHE HAD DONE THIS, SHE
WAS QUITE WELL AGAIN, AND WENT WITH THE MAN TO HIS PARENTS' HOUSE.
    ON THE FOLLOWING MORNING A BROTHER OF THE GIRL CAME INTO THE HOUSE
TO OBTAIN A LIGHT TO MAKE FIRE.  SEEING HIS DEAD SISTER SITTING WITH
THE MAN WHO HAD BEEN AWAY SO LONG, HE RAN BACK IN ASTONISHMENT, AND
INFORMED HIS MOTHER, WHO AT ONCE WENT TO SEE FOR HERSELF.  SHE CAME
BACK CRYING, AND INFORMED HER HUSBAND THAT THEIR DAUGHTER WAS REALLY
THERE.  THE FATHER THEN WENT TO SEE, AND FOUND HIS WIFE'S STORY TO BE
TRUE.  THE PEOPLE ALL FLOCKED TO THE HOUSE TO SEE THE WONDERFUL
COUPLE; AND THE MAN BECAME KNOWN AS A GREAT SHAMAN.
    ONE DAY A LAD'S SWEETHEART DIED, AND HE THOUGHT HE WOULD LIKE TO
RAISE HER FROM THE DEAD, AS THE SHAMAN HAD DONE: SO HE WENT TO HIM
AND ASKED HIM WHAT TO DO.  THE SHAMAN SAID, "IF YOU TRAIN FOUR DAYS
AND NIGHTS, YOU WILL BE ABLE TO BRING YOUR SWEETHEART BACK TO LIFE
AGAIN."  THE LAD DID THIS, AND THEN WENT AND DUG UP THE BODY OF THE
GIRL.  HE CARRIED HER HOME, EXPECTING SHE WOULD COME TO LIFE SOME
TIME BEFORE MORNING.  HE COVERED HER OVER WITH A BLANKET, AND LAY
DOWN BESIDE HER.  THE BLANKET WAS TOO SHORT TO COVER HER ALL, SO HER
FEET WERE EXPOSED.
    ABOUT DAYBREAK THE LAD BEGAN TO LAUGH TO HIMSELF; AND AN OLD
WOMAN WHO HAD GOT UP TO LIGHT THE FIRE, HEARING HIM, LOOKED IN THAT
DIRECTION.  SEEING THE BARE FEET STICKING OUT FROM BELOW THE BLANKET,
SHE WONDERED WHO IT COULD BE.  SHE NOTICED THAT THE FEET WERE SWOLLEN
AND DISCOLORED, SO SHE WONDERED ALL THE MORE.  TAKING AN AWL, SHE
STUCK IT INTO THE SOLE OF ONE FOOT, BUT THERE WAS NO MOVEMENT.  SHE
NOW TOOK OFF THE BLANKET, AND WAS ASTONISHED TO SEE BEFORE HER THE
BODY OF THE GIRL WHO HAD RECENTLY DIED.  SHE NOW GUESSED WHAT HAD
HAPPENED, AND WAS VERY ANGRY WITH THE BOY, CALLING HIM A CRAZY FELLOW.
THEY SENT FOR THE GIRL'S PARENTS, WHO CAME AND TOOK THE BODY AWAY,
AND REBURIED IT.


         28.  TCIMTCIMI'KIN
    TCMTCIMI'KIN WAS THE NAME OF A VERY TALL MAN WHO HAD THE POWER
OF CHANGING HIMSELF AT WILL INTO THE FORM OF A BLACK BEAR.  ONCE A
CANNIBAL STOLE HIS WIFE, SO HE DEVISED A PLAN TO GET HER BACK AGAIN.
HE TRANSFORMED HIMSELF INTO A BLACK BEAR, AND HID IN A LARGE HOLLOW
TREE.  A HUNTER CAME ALONG, AND, WHEN HE NOTICED A HOLE IN THE
TREETRUNK, SAID TO HIMSELF, "A BEAR MUST LIVE HERE."  HE TOOK A LONG
STICK, POKED IT DOWN THE HOLE, AND BELIEVED THAT HE FELT A BEAR
SLEEPING THERE.
    NEXT MORNING HE RETURNED TO THE PLACE, ACCOMPANIED BY A BOY,
WHOM HE LEFT AT THE UPPER HOLE TO WATCH, WHILE HE HIMSELF CRAWLED IN
THROUGH THE LOWER HOLE TO KILL THE BEAR.  HE DID NOT FIND THE ANIMAL
WHERE HE THOUGHT TO FIND IT, FOLLOWED ALONG THROUGH THE LOG IN SEARCH,
AND EITHER WAS LOST OR KILLED, FOR HE NEVER CAME OUT AGAIN.  THE BOY
WAITED PATIENTLY FOR A LONG TIME.  FINALLY, WHEN THE MAN DID NOT
APPEAR, HE BEGAN TO CRY.
    THEN TCIMTCIMI'KIN TRANSFORMED HIMSELF BACK AGAIN INTO A MAN,
CAME OUT OF THE LOG, AND APPROACHED THE BOY, SAYING, "DO NOT CRY
OR BE AFRAID]  I WILL TAKE CARE OF YOU."  HE TOOK THE BOY ON HIS
SHOULDERS, AND SAID, "WE WILL TRAVEL A LONG DISTANCE.  THUS HE CARRIED
THE LAD AT A RAPID PACE ALL DAY, WITHOUT STOPPING.  ONCE THE BOY SAID,
"I WISH TO URINATE;" AND TCIMTCIMI'KIN ANSWERED, "URINATE ON MY
SHOULDERS:" SO HE DID SO.  SOME TIME AFTERWARDS THE BOY SAID
HE WISHED TO DEFECATE, AND THE MAN TOLD HIM TO DO IT ON HIS SHOULDERS;
SO THE BOY DID AS DIRECTED.
    AT LAST THEY CAME TO A LAKE, WHERE THEY STOPPED TO CAMP.
TCIMTCIMI'KIN FELT VERY HUNGRY, AND, AS THERE WERE MANY BEAVERS IN THE
LAKE, HE DECIDED TO GET THEM TO EAT.  HE INSTRUCTED THE BOY TO KILL
THE BEAVERS AS SOON AS THE LAKE WAS DRY; THEN HE STEPPED INTO THE
WATER, BEGAN TO DRINK, AND NEVER STOPPED UNTIL THE LAKE WAS DRY.  THE
BOY KILLED MANY BEAVERS, AND TCIMTCIMI'KIN ATE THEM ALL THAT NIGHT;
BUT THE BEAVER-TAILS HE THREW AWAY, AS HE THOUGHT THEY WERE UNFIT FOR
FOOD.  AT LAST, BEING GORGED WITH FOOD, AND TIRED, HE FELL FAST
ASLEEP.  THEN THE BOY COLLECTED ALL THE TAILS, AND ATE THEM.  WHEN
TCIMTCIMI'KIN AWOKE, HE SAW THE BOY ROASTING BEAVER-TAILS AT THE FIRE,
AND EATING THEM.  HE REMONSTRATED WITH THE BOY; BUT THE LATTER
MAINTAINED THEY WERE THE BEST PART OF THE BEAVER, AND INVITED HIM TO
TRY THEM.  THIS HE DID, AND FOUND THEM TO BE EXCELENT EATING.
    NOW TCIMTCIMI'KIN SAID TO THE LAD, "I WISH YOU TO TRAIN, THAT YOU
MAY BE ABLE TO HELP ME."  SO THE BOY TRAINED HIMSELF UNDER THE
TUTORSHIP OF TCIMTCIMI'KIN.  THEY REPAIRED SUCCESSIVELY TO THREE OTHER
SMALL LAKES, WHOSE WATERS THEY DRANK DRY, AND WHERE THEY KILLED AND
ATE MANY BEAVERS.  WHEN THEY WERE AT THE FOURTH LAKE, THE BOY WAS
ABLE TO DRINK IT DRY HIMSELF, THUS SHOWING THAT HE HAD ATTAINED THE
SAME POWERS AS HIS TEACHER; BUT HE CONTINUED TRAINING UNTIL HE WAS
ABLE TO JUMP ACROSS A RIVER AT ONE BOUND.  TCIMTCIMI'KIN LAY DOWN
ON HIS BACK, AND ASKED THE BOY TO JUMP ACROSS THE RIVER.  WHEN HE HAD
DONE THIS, HE ASKED HIM TO JUMP BACK AGAIN.  THIS HE DID, ALIGHTING
ON TCIMTCIMI'KIN'S BREAST.  AFTER THE BOY HAD JUMPED ACROSS FOUR
TIMES, TCIMTCIMI'KIN WAS SATISFIED THAT HE WAS PROFICIENT.
    HE RELATED TO HIM THE STORY OF HIS WIFE, WHO HAD BEEN STOLEN BY A
CANNIBAL, AND SUGGESTED THAT THEY SHOULD GO AND FIGHT HIM.  THE
CANNIBAL LIVED ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF A LARGE RIVER, WHERE HE SPENT
MOST OF HIS TIME FISHING FOR PEOPLE WITH A DIP-NET.  THIS NET WAS
ENDOWED WITH MAGIC, AND WAS ORNAMENTED ALONG THE HOOP AND HANDLE
WITH STRINGS OF HUMAN TEETH, AND FINGER AND TOE NAILS, WHICH THE
CANNIBAL HAD OBTAINED FROM THE BODIES OF HIS VICTIMS.  TCIMTCIMI'KIN
SENT THE BOY ACROSS TO TORMENT HIM AND TO CALL HIM NAMES.  THE
CANNIBAL DID NOT TAKE ANY NOTICE UNTIL THE LAD MADE FUN OF HIS BROW.
THEN HE BECAME ANGRY, AND CHASED HIM.  THE BOY JUMPED ACROSS THE
RIVER, AND THE CANNIBAL AFTER HIM.  NOW TCIMTCIMI'KIN CAME TO HELP
THE BOY, AND THEY FOUGHT THE CANNIBAL, AND KILLED HIM EVENTUALLY BY
DISMEMBERING HIM.  THE BOY THEN WENT ACROSS THE RIVER, AND BROUGHT
OVER TCIMTCIMI'KIN'S WIFE, WHO MADE THE LAD SWEAT-BATHE FOUR TIMES
BEFORE HE LEFT THEM.
    AFTER HUNTING FOR SOME TIME, THE BOY DEPARTED FOR HOME, TAKING
WITH HIM FOUR BLADDERS WHICH TCIMTCIMI'KIN HAD GIVEN HIM FOR
PROTECTION.  THESE HE COULD MAKE APPEAR AS DOGS.  HE HAD TO CAMP FIVE
NIGHTS BEFORE REACHING HOME.  ON EACH OF THE FIRST FOUR NIGHTS HE
CAMPED NEAR A CLIFF, AS TCIMTCIMI'KIN HAD DIRECTED HIM, AND WAS
VISITED BY STRANGE MEM WHO WISHED TO KILL HIM; BUT HE MADE THE
BLADDERS ADVANCE, AND GROWL LIKE DOGS; AND THE STRANGERS, IN RUNNING
AWAY, FELL OVER THE CLIFF IN THEIR FRIGHT.  ON THE FIFTH NIGHT HE DID
NOT CAMP NEAR ANY PRECIPICE, SO THE BLADDERS WOULD NOT ACT.  THAT
NIGHT HE WAS ATTACKED BY A CANNIBAL, WHO ATE HIM.


         29.  THE LOON AND THE WOMAN
    A YOUNG MAN LIVED WITH HIS WIFE AND MOTHER-IN-LAW.  THEY DWELT
NEAR THE SMALL LAKES CALLED KOKWO'LINAZ AND WELLE.  THE WIFE GATHERED
SKEMTC-ROOT (ERYTHRONIUM GRANDIFLORUM) EVERY DAY NEAR THE LAKES.
SHE WAS FASCINATED BY THEM, AND BEGAN TO HAVE AMOROUS DESIRES.
    ONE DAY SHE WENT DOWN TO A LOW ROCK WHICH EXTENDED OUT INTO THE
LAKE, AND, LYING DOWN FLAT ON HER BACK, SHE CRIED OUT, "CALLK]"
REPEATEDLY, AND ASKED ANY ONE FROM THE LAKE TO COME AND TO BE HER
PARAMOUR.  SOON LOON GAVE HIS WEIRD CRY, AND APPROACHED THE ROCK.
GOING ASHORE, HE STOOD OVER THE WOMAN, AND STRUCK HER REPEATEDLY WITH
HIS BILL ON THE NAVEL.  WHEN HE LEFT THE WOMAN GATHERED ROOTS; BUT
SHE DID NOT DIG MANY.
    AT NIGHT HER HUSBAND SAID, "WHY HAVE YOU GATHERED SO FEW
SKEMTC-ROOTS?  WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN DOING ALL DAY?"  SHE REPLIED, "THE
PLANTS WERE SCARCE, AND I HAD TO WANDER AROUND A GREAT DEAL TO GET
EVEN A FEW."
    THE NEXT TWO DAYS THE WOMAN DID THE SAME THING.  HER HUSBAND
WAS NOW SUSPICIOUS, AND THE NEXT DAY HE WATCHED HER.  SHE FELT
SORE WHERE LOON HAD PECKED HER; YET SHE WENT TO THE ROCK AS USUAL, AND
CALLED LOON, WHO CAME ASHORE, AND DID AS BEFORE.
    WHEN LOON HAD DISAPPEARED, THE HUSBAND WENT TO HIS WIFE, AND,
AFTER ACCUSING HER, HE KILLED HER, TAKING OFF HER CLOTHES, AND BURYING
HER BODY.  THEN HE DRESSED HIMSELF IN HER CLOTHES, FIXED HIS HAIR AS
HER HAIR HAD BEEN AND, GOING TO THE ROCK, LAY DOWN AND CALLED,
"CALLK]"  SOON LOON CAME, AND, THINKING IT WAS THE WOMAN, HE BEGAN TO
STRIKE THE MAN'S NAVEL WITH HIS BILL.  WHEN HE DID THIS, THE MAN
STABBED HIM WITH HIS KNIFE AND KILLED HIM.  HE TOOK THE BODY, AND
BURIED IT BESIDE THAT OF THE WOMAN.
    WHEN HE REACHED HOME, HIS MOTHER-IN-LAW ASKED HIM WHERE HIS
WIFE WAS, AND HE ANSWERED HER, SAYING, "I BURIED HER WITH HER
PARAMOUR."


         30.  THE FAITHLESS WIFE
    MANY PEOPLE LIVED TOGETHER IN ONE UNDERGROUND HOUSE.  AMONG
THEM WAS A YOUNG MAN WHO WAS TRAINING.  WHEN THE MEN OF THE
HOUSE WENT HUNTING, HE WOULD NEVER GO WITH THEM, BUT ALWAYS WENT
OUT TO TRAIN.  WHEN THEY HAD BEEN AWAY SOME TIME, HE WOULD ALWAYS
RETURN AND MEET ONE OF THE MEN'S WIVES SOME DISTANCE FROM THE HOUSE.
THIS WOMAN WOULD NOT GO WITH THE OTHER WOMEN WHEN THEY DID WORK,
BUT WOULD COMPLAIN OF FEELING ILL, AND WOULD WANDER OFF TO MEET THE
YOUNG MAN.  SHE WOULD EAT VERY LITTLE WHEN OTHER PEOPLE WERE NEAR,
BUT WHEN ALONE WOULD EAT HEARTILY.
    ONE DAY THE MEN WENT OUT HUNTING, AND KILLED SO MANY DEER, THAT
THEY HAD TO CAMP OVER NIGHT.  THE HUSBAND OF THE WOMAN WAS SUSPICIOUS
OF HIS WIFE: THEREFORE HE LEFT THAT NIGHT, WHEN THE OTHER HUNTERS HAD
FALLEN ASLEEP, AND WENT HOME TO SEE HIS WIFE.  HE DRESSED HIMSELF AS
SHE DID, IN A MARMOT-SKIN BLANKET WITH A BELT AROUND THE WAIST.
WHEN HE REACHED THE HOUSE, HE DESCENDED THE LADDER QUIETLY, AND
CRAWLED UP TO NEAR HER BED.  THEN HE HEARD THE YOUNG MAN TALKING
TO HIS WIFE, CRAWLED UP TO THEM, TOOK OUT HIS KNIFE AND CUT OFF THE
LAD'S OFFENDING PARTS.  THE LAD DID NOT UTTER A SOUND, BUT JUMPED UP
AND RAN OUTSIDE, LEAVING MANY BLOOD-STAINS ON THE LADDER.  THE HUSBAND
FOLLOWED, CARRYING THE PARTS WHICH HE HAD CUT OFF, AND WHICH HE HID
IN A TREE.
    ON THE FOLLOWING MORNING, WHEN THE PEOPLE AWOKE, THEY FOUND THAT
THE LADDER WAS BLOOD-STAINED, AND WONDERED WHAT HAD HAPPENED.
THE PEOPLE SAID, "EVERY ONE IS HERE EXCEPT THE HUNTERS AND THE LAD
WHO IS TRAINING.  PERHAPS IT IS HE."  BUT THE LAD'S FATHER SAID, "IT
CANNOT BE HE, FOR HE IS OUT TRAINING IN THE WOODS AND MOUNTAINS."  THE
PEOPLE FOLLOWED THE BLOOD-MARKS, AND EVENTUALLY CAME TO THE BODY OF
THE LAD, WHO HAD BLED TO DEATH.
    THAT DAY THE WOMAN PRETENDED TO BE VERY ILL, AND SAT DOWN ALONE
JUST OUTSIDE THE UNDERGROUND HOUSE.  ABOUT NOON A MAN CAME ALONG,
HAVING A DOG WITH HIM, AND, SEEING THE WOMAN THERE, ASKED HER IF SHE
WERE ILL.  RECEIVING AN ANSWER IN THE AFFIRMATIVE, HE SAID HE COULD
CURE HER IF SHE WOULD EAT HIS MEDICINE.  SHE SAID SHE WOULD.  SO HE
TOLD HER THAT THE MEDICINE HE WOULD GIVE HER WAS SOME VERY GOOD
VENISON, BUT SHE WOULD HAVE TO EAT IT A VERY SMALL PIECE AT A TIME.
THE WOMAN GAVE HIM A BASKET, AND HE WENT SOME LITTLE DISTANCE AWAY,
AND BOILED THE VENISON ALONG WITH THE PRIVATES OF THE YOUNG MAN.  WHEN
IT WAS COOKED, HE CUT THE WHOLE INTO VERY SMALL PIECES, AND GAVE IT TO
THE WOMAN TO EAT.  WHEN SHE HAD TASTED IT, HE ASKED HER IF IT WAS
GOOD, AND SHE SAID IT WAS VERY NICE.  SHE ATE IT ALL, AND DIED SHORTLY
AFTERWARDS.  BY THAT TIME THE MAN AND DOG HAD DISAPPEARED.
         31  THE SQUINT-EYED WOMAN; OR, THE MAN WHO OBTAINED A
                        NEW HEAD
    A WOMAN LIVED IN A CERTAIN PLACE WITH HER SON.  SHE WAS
SQUINT-EYED, AND HAD A WICKED TEMPER, SO THAT NO ONE WOULD MARRY HER.
AT LAST, HOWEVER, SHE OBTAINED A GOOD-LOOKING MAN; BUT EVERY NIGHT SHE
TORE HIS FACE WITH HER NAILS, SO THAT HE BLED PROFUSELY.  AFTER SOME
TIME OF THIS TREATMENT, HE BECAME SO DISFIGURED THAT HE COULD HARDLY
BE RECOGNIZED.  HE LEFT HIS WIFE, AND WENT TO A WISE OLD WOMAN TO SEE
IF SHE COULD NOT TELL HIM OF SOME WAY TO GET BACK HIS GOOD LOOKS.
    HE REACHED THE HOUSE OF THE WOMAN, WHO LIVED NEAR A TRAIL; AND SHE
ADVISED HIM TO GO TO THE HOUSE OF THE MAN WHO KEPT HEADS, AND GET A
NEW ONE.  "HE WILL FIRST SHOW YOU ALL THE WORST HEADS, WHICH HANG ON
THE WALLS," SHE SAID; "AND THEN HE WILL SHOW YOU BETTER ONES, WHICH
HE KEEPS IN BOXES: BUT REFUSE THEM ALL EXCEPT ONE, WHICH IS KEPT
COVERED IN A SMALL BOX BY ITSELF.  IT HANGS IN A CORNER.  ASK FOR IT,
AS IT IS THE BEST AND MOST BEAUTIFUL ONE IN THE PLACE."
    REACHING THE OLD MAN'S HOUSE, HE WAS INVITED IN, AND ASKED IF HE
WANTED ANYTHING.  HE SAID, "I WISH TO GET A NEW HEAD."  THE OLD
MAN SHOWED HIM ALL THE HEADS, ONE AFTER ANOTHER; BUT HE REFUSED THEM
ALL.  AT LAST HE TOOK THE ONE OUT OF THE SMALL COVERED BOX; AND THIS
THE MAN ACCEPTED.  HE CUT OFF HIS OWN HEAD, AND PUT THE NEW ONE ON IN
ITS PLACE.  AS HE WENT OUT AND PASSED BY THE HEADS ON THE WALLS, THE
WOMEN'S HEADS BEGAN TO SING, AND CRIED OUT, ASKING HIM TO BE THEIR
HUSBAND; BUT HE PASSED BY WITHOUT HEEDING THEM.
    ON HIS WAY BACK HE VISITED THE HOUSE OF BLACK-BEAR-WOMAN AND
CRANE-WOMAN, WHO LIVED TOGETHER.  HE MARRIED THEM AND STAYED THERE,
EACH OF THEM BEARING HIM A CHILD.
    WHEN THE CHILDREN HAD ATTAINED SOME SIZE, THEY CRIED CONTINUALLY
TO SEE THEIR GRANDFATHER: SO THEIR FATHER HUNTED, AND KILLED MUCH
LARGE GAME.  HE PUT ALL THE MEAT AND FAT IN ONE GLOVE, AND THE SKINS
IN ANOTHER, TOOK HIS WIVES AND CHILDREN, AND JOURNEYED TO HIS PARENTS'
HOUSE.  HERE HE CALLED ALL THE PEOPLE TOGETHER, AND GAVE THEM A GREAT
FEAST AND MANY PRESENTS OF SKINS.
    AMONG THE PEOPLE WHO ATTENDED THE FEAST WAS HIS FORMER WIFE WITH
HER SON.  THE LATTER LAUGHED AT HIS FATHER BECAUSE OF HIS NEW WIVES;
BUT THE MOTHER WISHED THE MAN TO TAKE HER BACK AGAIN AS HIS WIFE.
"OH, NO]" HE SAID, "I HAVE GOT A NEW HEAD NOW, AND I DO NOT WISH IT
SPOILED."  THE WOMAN BECAME ANGRY, AND SAID, "I WILL GET A NEW HEAD
TOO; AND WHEN HE SEES MY BEAUTY, HE WILL ADMIRE ME, AND ASK ME TO
BECOME HIS WIFE AGAIN."  TAKING HER SON WITH HER, SHE WENT TO THE
HOUSE OF THE MAN WHO KEPT HEADS; BUT, AS SHE COULD NOT SEE STRAIGHT,
SHE CHOSE A VERY UGLY HEAD WITH ONE EYE LOOKING TO EACH SIDE.
THINKING HERSELF TO BE NOW PRETTY, SHE RETURNED HOME; BUT SHE WAS SO
UGLY, THAT THE PEOPLE WERE ALL AFRAID OF HER, AND THE CHILDREN RAN
AWAY IN TERROR:  SO THE PEOPLE TOOK HER AND HER BOY AND THREW THEM INTO
THE WATER, SAYING THAT HENCEFORTH THEY SHOULD BE WATER MYSTERIES OR
SPIRITS.


         32.  THE GAMBLER
    ONCE A MAN PLAYED LEHAL UNTIL HE HAD LOST EVERYTHING.  FIRST HE
GAMBLED AWAY HIS WEAPONS, THEN HIS CLOTHES, THEN HIS BLANKETS AND
FOOD.  HE LOST ALSO HIS FOUR CHILDREN, HIS WIFE, HIS HAIR, AND FINALLY
HIMSELF.  HE LAY DOWN THAT NIGHT FEELING VERY MISERABLE, FOR NOW HE
WAS VIRTUALLY A SLAVE FOR A TIME.  MOREOVER, HE WAS NAKED, AND WITHOUT
WIFE OR CHILDREN.  HE BROODED SO MUCH OVER HIS BAD LUCK THAT HE COULD
NOT SLEEP, SO AT LAST HE AROSE AND WENT TO THE HOUSE OF AN OLD WOMAN
WHO WAS CELEBRATED FOR HER WISDOM.  SHE TOLD HIM THAT HIS BAD LUCK
CAME THROUGH HIS NOT HAVING TRAINED ENOUGH; AND SHE ADVISED HIM TO
GO TO THE MOUNTAINS, AND TRAIN HIMSELF FOR FOUR YEARS.  "IF YOU DO
THIS," SHE SAID, "YOU WILL BECOME WISE AND RICH."  HE TOOK HER ADVICE,
AND AT ONCE RETIRED TO THE MOUNTAINS.  AT THE END OF THE FOUR YEARS
HE HAD BECOME VERY WISE, AND KNEW WHAT TO DO.  HE HAD OBTAINED
SEVERAL POWERFUL PROTECTORS, CHIEF AMONG WHICH WAS THE KNIFE.
    NOW HE REPAIRED TO A LAKE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF WHICH DWELT A
NUMBER OF PEOPLE IN TWO UNDERGROUND HOUSES.  THOSE WHO LIVED IN ONE
WERE GOOD PEOPLE, WHILE THOSE WHO DWELT IN THE OTHER WERE BAD PWOPLE
AND CANNIBALS.  OVER EACH HOUSE PRESIDED A CHIEF; KALENUXXWA' BEING
THE NAME OF THE BAD CHIEF, AND ASUXXWA', THE NAME OF THE GOOD ONE.
ON THE LAKE-SHORE, AND NOT VERY FAR FROM THE HOUSES, LIVED LOON, WHOSE
DUTY IT WAS TO TAKE ACROSS THE LAKE ANY ONE WHO WISHED TO VISIT THE
CHIEFS.  HE HAD A COPPER CANOE, WHICH HE USED FOR THIS PURPOSE.  THE
GAMBLER ARRIVED AT THE LAKE-SHORE, AND CALLED ON LOON TO TAKE HIM
ACROSS; BUT LOON EVIDENTLY DID NOT HEAR, FOR HE PAID NO ATTENTION.
GETTING TIRED OF CALLING, THE GAMBLER LAY DOWN, AND, FEELING TIRED,
YAWNED.  AS SOON AS HE YAWNED, LOON SEEMED TO HEAR OR KNOW THAT
SOME ONE WISHED TO CROSS; FOR HE IMMEDIATELY LAUNCHED HIS CANOE AND
PADDLED RAPIDLY ACROSS THE LAKE.  WHEN STILL SOME DISTANCE FROM THE
SHORE, HE STOPPED THE CANOE AND TOLD THE MAN TO JUMP IN.  THIS THE
GAMBLER DID AT ONE BOUND.  WHEN HE WAS SEATED IN THE CANOE, LOON
ASKED HIM WHICH HOUSE HE WISHED TO VISIT, AND THE MAN ANSWERED,
"I AM GOING TO SEE ASUXXWA'."  LOON SAID, "ARE YOU SURE THAT IT IS
NOT KALENUXXWA' YOU INTEND TO VISIT?"  BUT THE GAMBLER KNEW THE
DIFFERENCE IN CHARACTER OF THE TWO CHIEFS: SO HE SAID AGAIN,
"ASUXXWA'." -  "THAT IS STRANGE," SAID LOON.  "EVERY ONE WHO CROSSES
HERE GOES TO SEE KALENUXXWA'."
    REACHING THE OTHER SIDE, THE GAMBLER WENT UP TO ASUXXWA''S HOUSE,
AND ENTERED.  THE CHIEF SPOKE TO HIM KINDLY, AND INVITED HIM TO SIT
AMONG THE PEOPLE; BUT THE GAMBLER PREFERRED TO SIT APART, SAYING, "I
DO NOT YET KNOW ENOUGH TO SIT AMONG YOU."  THEN ASUXXWA' SAID,
"I WILL MAKE YOU ALL RIGHT," AND, GOING UP TO HIM, HE STRUCK HIM FOUR
TIMES WITH A WHIP OF SWITCHES, AND THEN TOLD HIM TO GO AND WASH
HIMSELF FOUR TIMES.  WHEN HE RETURNED FROM WASHING, THE CHIEF GAVE HIM
HIS TWO DAUGHTERS TO WIFE.
    KALENUXXWA', HEARING THERE WAS A STRANGER IN THE OTHER CHIEF'S
HOUSE, WENT TO TEST HIM AT LEHAL.  HE PUT UP HIS TWO DAUGHTERS AND
MUCH GOODS AS A STAKE.  THE MAN WON ALL, BUT RETURNED THE GOODS TO
KALENUXXWA', WHILE THE TWO DAUGHTERS HE KEPT.  AFTER THIS,
KALENUXXWA' DID NOT TROUBLE HIM AGAIN.
    THE GAMBLER HAD NOW FOUR WIVES.  ONE OF HIS FIRST TWO WIVES BORE
HIM A DAUGHTER, AND ONE OF THE WIVES HE WON AT LEHAL ALSO BORE HIM A
DAUGHTER.  AFTER HE HAD STAYED SOME TIME WITH THESE PEOPLE, HIS
CHILDREN BEGAN TO CRY TO SEE THEIR GRANDMOTHER: SO HE TOOK HIS FOUR
WIVES AND TWO CHILDREN, AND RETURNED TO HIS PARENTS IN HIS OWN
COUNTRY.  SOME TIME AFTERWARDS A MAN THERE LOST EVERYTHING PLAYING
LEHAL: SO, HAVING HEARD THE STORY OF THE GAMBLER'S SUCCESS, HE WENT
AND ASKED HIM HOW HE HAD MANAGED TO BECOME SO RICH AND SUCH A GOOD
GAMBLER.  THE GAMBLER SAID, "I TRAINED FOUR YEARS, THEN WENT TO THE
LAKE WHERE LOON TAKES PEOPLE ACROSS IN HIS COPPER CANOE.  WHEN
CROSSING, I WAS ASKED WHETHER I INTENDED TO VISIT THE CHIEF
KALENUXXWA' OR THE CHIEF ASUXXWA', AND I SAID THE FORMER.  I WAS
DIRECTED TO HIS HOUSE, AND, ON REACHING THERE, I STAYED AND GAINED
GREAT KNOWLEDGE."  THE MAN BELIEVED THE GAMBLER'S STORY, DID AS
DIRECTED; AND KALENUXXWA' ATE HIM, AND THREW HIS BONES OUT BESIDE
THOSE OF HIS OTHER VICTIMS.


         33.  THE WOMAN WHO WAS IMPALED ON A TREE-TOP
    AN OLD WOMAN LIVED IN A HOUSE WITH HER SON AND HIS WIFE, A YOUNG
WOMAN.  THE WIFE WENT OUT EVERY DAY TO GATHER CEDAR-BARK AND TO
DIG FERN-ROOTS.  ALTHOUGH SHE ALWAYS STAYED AWAY UNTIL DARK, SHE
NEVER BROUGHT HOME MUCH BARK OR ROOTS.  SHE REALLY SPENT MOST OF
HER TIME EACH DAY WITH LYNX, WHO USED TO MEET HER IN THE FOREST.
HER HUSBAND BECAME SUSPICIOUS.  ONE DAY HE WATCHED HIS WIFE, AND
SAW HER WITH LYNX.  ON THE FOLLOWING DAY HE SAID TO HER, "I LOVE YOU
VERY MUCH, AND LIKE TO BE WITH YOU.  I WILL GO WITH YOU TO-DAY TO DIG
ROOTS AND GATHER BARK."  WHEN THEY HAD TRAVELLED SOME DISTANCE
THROUGH THE FOREST, THEY ARRIVED AT THE BOTTOM OF A VERY TALL,
STRAIGHT TREE.  THE HUSBAND CLIMBED THE TREE, AND ASKED HIS WIFE TO
FOLLOW, WHICH SHE DID.  WHEN HE REACHED THE TOP, HE SHARPENED THE
POINT OF THE TREE WITH HIS KNIFE, AND IMPALED HIS WIFE ON IT.  THEN,
AS HE DESCENDED, HE PEELED THE BARK OFF THE TREE FOR A LONG DISTANCE
DOWN, AND WENT HOME, LEAVING HIS WIFE TO DIE.
    IT WAS A VERY HOT DAY, AND THE WOMAN SUFFERED TERRIBLY.  SHE
CALLED FOR HELP TO HER BROTHERS, WHO WERE AT SEA IN A CANOE,
HARPOONING SEALS.  THEY HEARD HER, AND WENT TO HER RESCUE, AND SHE TOLD
THEM HOW SHE CAME TO BE THERE.  THEY CALLED TOGETHER ALL THE ANIMALS
AND BIRDS, AND ASKED THEM TO TRY AND SAVE THE WOMAN; BUT THEY WERE ALL
UNABLE TO CLIMB THE SLIPPERY PART OF THE TREE.  AT LAST SNAIL TRIED
IT.  SNAIL WAS SO SLOW CLIMBING UP THE PEELED PART OF THE TREE, THAT
THE WOMAN WAS DEAD WHEN HE REACHED HER.  SNAIL TOOK THE BODY DOWN.
    NOW, ONE OF THE BROTHERS, WHO LOOKED VERY MUCH LIKE HIS SISTER,
CUT OFF HER HAIR AND PUT IT ON HIS OWN HEAD.  HE ALSO PUT ON HER
CLOTHES, TOOK HER BASKET ON HIS BACK, AND IN THE EVENING WENT TO THE
HOUSE OF THE OLD WOMAN, WHO SAID, THINKING IT WAS HER DAUGHTER-IN-LAW,
"WHAT KEEPS YOU SO LATE WHEN YOU GATHER SO FEW ROOTS?"  THE HUSBAND
WAS SURPRISED TO SEE WHAT HE THOUGHT WAS HIS WIFE, BUT HE SAID
NOTHING, AND ALLOWED THE BROTHER TO GO TO BED WITH HIM.  THE PRETENDED
WIFE SAID TO HIM, "YOU MUST NOT TOUCH ME TO-NIGHT. I AM SORE AFTER
WHAT YOU DID TO ME."  SO THE HUSBAND TURNED OVER AND WENT TO SLEEP.
WHEN HE WAS SOUND ASLEEP, THE BROTHER TOOK OUT A LARGE SHARP KNIFE
WHICH HE HAD HIDDEN IN HIS CLOTHES, AND CUT THE HUSBAND'S THROAT; THEN
HE PUT A LOG IN HIS PLACE IN THE BED AND COVERED IT OVER.
    ON THE NEXT MORNING THE OLD WOMAN CALLED TO HER SON AND HIS WIFE
TO GET UP, BUT THEY DID NOT STIR.  ABOUT NOON SHE UNCOVERED THEM,
AND FOUND A STICK LYING IN THE PLACE OF THE WOMAN, AND HER SON DEAD
WITH HIS THROAT CUT.  THE BROTHERS BURIED THEIR SISTER'S BODY, AND
THEN RETURNED TO THEIR HOME ON THE SEA.


         34.  BROTHER AND SISTER.
    A WIDOWER LIVED IN AN UNDERGROUND HOUSE WITH HIS SON AND HIS
MAIDEN DAUGHTER.  THE FATHER KEPT THE GIRL IN A BOX NEAR HIS OWN BED,
FOR HE WAS AFRAID SOME OF THE YOUNG MEN MIGHT TOUCH HER.  ONE NIGHT,
WHEN THE FATHER WAS ASLEEP, THE BROTHER OPENED THE LID OF THE BOX,
WENT INSIDE, AND STAYED WITH HIS SISTER.  NEITHER OF THEM SPOKE, AND
THE GIRL DID NOT KNOW WHO HE WAS.  THE BROTHER DID THIS THREE
SUCCESSIVE NIGHTS.  THE GIRL DESIRED TO KNOW WHO WAS VISITING HER, SO
SHE RUBBED SOME POWDERED CHARCOAL AND GREASE ON THE PALMS OF HER
AND, ON THE FOURTH NIGHT WHEN HE VISITED HER, SHE EMBRACED HIM,
LEAVING THE IMPRINTS OF HER HANDS ON HIS BACK.  NEXT MORNING SHE SAT
DOWN ON THE ROOF OF THE HOUSE TO WATCH THE LADS PLAYING, TO FIND OUT
WHICH OF THEM HAD VISITED HER.  SHE SAW THE BLACK HAND-MARKS ON HER
BROTHER'S BACK, AND FELT GREATLY ASHAMED.  THAT NIGHT, WHEN HE VISITED
HER, SHE TOLD HIM WHAT SHE HAD DONE.  "I AM VERY MUCH ASHAMED," SHE
SAID.  "IT WILL NEVER DO FOR OUR FATHER AND THE PEOPLE TO KNOW.  WE
HAD BETTER LEAVE HERE TOGETHER."  THAT NIGHT THEY RAN AWAY TOGETHER,
AND TRAVELLED TO ANOTHER COUNTRY, WHERE THEY LIVED BY THEMSELVES.
THEY MADE A HOUSE IN A PLACE WHERE GAME WAS ABUNDANT, AND IN TIME THE
GIRL GAVE BIRTH, FIRST TO A BOY, AND THEN TO A GIRL.
    WHEN THE CHILDREN GREW LARGE ENOUGH TO RUN AROUND, THEIR PARENTS
ALWAYS MADE THEM STAY ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE FIREPLACE; FOR THEY
WERE AFRAID, IF THEY CAME TOO NEAR, THEY MIGHT NOTICE THE GREAT
RESEMBLANCE BETWEEN THEIR FATHER'S AND MOTHER'S FACES.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS PRECAUTION, THE CHILDREN NOTICED THE SIMILARITY,
AND SAID TO EACH OTHER, "HOW MUCH ALIKE OUR FATHER AND MOTHER ARE]"
THE CHILDREN ASKED THEIR PARENTS HOW IT WAS THEY WERE SO MUCH ALIKE,
AND THE PARENTS FELT EMBARRASSED.
    AT LAST THE MOTHER TOLD THEM THE STORY OF THEIR DISGRACE.  THE
FATHER SAID, "WE FEEL TOO MUCH ASHAMED TO LIVE WITH OUR CHILDREN: WE
HAD BETTER KILL OURSELVES."  THEY HUNG FOOD AND GOAT HAIR AND SKINS IN
A TREE, AND TOLD THE CHILDREN THAT IT WAS FOR THEM, BECAUSE THEY
THEMSELVES WERE GOING TO DIE SOON.  THE CHILDREN CRIED WHEN THEY HEARD
THAT THEIR PARENTS WERE GOING TO DIE; BUT THE FATHER SAID, "WE ARE
NOT GOING TO DIE YET."  SO THE CHILDREN LAUGHED AND WERE GLAD AGAIN.
THEIR FATHER TOLD THEM HOW TO TRAVEL TO REACH THEIR GRANDFATHER'S
HOUSE.  IT WOULD TAKE THEM MANY DAYS; BUT THEY WOULD HAVE FOOD AND
CLOTHES ENOUGH FOR THE JOURNEY, IF THEY TOOK WHAT WAS HANGING ON THE
TREE.  WHENEVER THEIR FATHER TALKED THUS, THEY WOULD CRY.  THEN HE
WOULD CHEER THEM BY SAYING IT WOULD NOT BE FOR A LONG TIME YET; AND
THE CHILDREN WOULD BE MERRY, AND PLAY AGAIN.
    THE PARENTS GATHERED MUCH PITCH-WOOD, WHICH THEY PLACED IN AND
AROUND THEIR LODGE TO MAKE IT BURN QUICKLY.  THEN, ONE DAY, WHEN
THE CHILDREN WERE PLAYING SOME DISTANCE AWAY, THE WOMAN WENT INTO
THE LODGE; AND THE MAN, AFTER SETTING FIRE TO THE HOUSE ALL AROUND THE
OUTSIDE, JOINED HER.  THUS THEY BURNED THEMSELVES TO DEATH IN THEIR
LODGE.
    THE CHILDREN SAW THE FLAMES, AND HURRIED HOME, BUT TOO LATE TO SEE
THEIR PARENTS AGAIN.  AFTER CRYING BITTERLY, THEY MADE UP PACKS OF THE
FOOD THAT HAD BEEN LEFT ON THE TREE, AND STARTED FOR THEIR
GRANDFATHER'S HOUSE.  WHEN THEY ARRIVED THERE, THEIR GRANDFATHER ASKED
THEM WHO THEY WERE AND WHENCE THEY CAME, AND THEY TOLD HIM THE WHOLE
STORY.  THEY REMAINED WITH THEIR GRANDFATHER AND HIS PEOPLE.


         35.  THE FLOOD, AND DISTRIBUTION OF PEOPLE.
    ALL THE LILLOOET PEOPLE LIVED TOGETHER AROUND GREEN LAKE, AND FOR
SOME DISTANCE BELOW IT ON GREEN RIVER.  AT THAT TIME THERE CAME A
GREAT AND CONTINUOUS RAIN, WHICH MADE ALL THE LAKES AND RIVERS
OVERFLOW THEIR BANKS, AND DELUGE THE SURROUNDING COUNTRY.  WHEN THE
PEOPLE SAW THE WATERS RISE FAR ABOVE THE ORDINARY HIGH-WATER MARK,
THEY BECAME AFRAID.
    A MAN CALLED NTCI'NEMKIN HAD A VERY LARGE CANOE, IN WHICH HE
TOOK REFUGE WITH HIS FAMILY.  THE OTHER PEOPLE ASCENDED THE MOUNTAINS
FOR SAFETY; BUT THE WATER SOON COVERED THEM TOO.  WHEN THEY
SAW THAT THEY WOULD PROBABLY ALL BE DROWNED, THEY BEGGED NTCI'NEMKIN
TO SAVE THEIR CHILDREN.  AS FOR THEMSELVES, THEY DID NOT CARE.  THE
CANOE WAS TOO SMALL, HOWEVER, TO HOLD ALL THE CHILDREN: SO NTCI'NEMKIN
TOOK ONE CHILD FROM EACH FAMILY, - A MALE FROM ONE, A FEMALE FROM
THE NEXT, AND SO ON.
    THE RAIN CONTINUED FALLING AND THE WATER RISING, UNTIL ALL THE
LAND WAS SUBMERGED EXCEPT THE PEAK OF THE HIGH MOUNTAIN CALLED SPLIT
(NCI'KATO).  THE CANOE DRIFTED ABOUT UNTIL THE WATERS RECEDED, AND
IT GROUNDED ON SMIMELC MOUNTAIN.  EACH STAGE OF THE WATER'S SINKING
LEFT MARKS ON THE SIDES OF THIS MOUNTAIN.
    WHEN THE GROUND WAS DRY AGAIN, THE PEOPLE SETTLED JUST OPPOSITE
THE PRESENT SITE OF PEMBERTON.  NTCI'NEMKIN WITH HIS WIVES AND
CHILDREN SETTLED THERE, AND HE MADE THE YOUNG PEOPLE MARRY ONE
ANOTHER.  HE SENT OUT PAIRS TO SETTLE AT ALL THE GOOD FOOD-PLACES
THROUGH THE COUNTRY.  SOME WERE SENT BACK TO GREEN LAKE AND GREEN
RIVER; OTHERS WERE SENT DOWN TO LITTLE LILLOOET LAKE AND ALONG THE
LOWER LILLOOET RIVER; AND SOME WERE SENT UP TO ANDERSON AND SEATON
LAKES.  THUS WAS THE COUNTRY PEOPLED BY THE OFFSPRING OF THE GREEN LAKE
PEOPLE.


         36.   THE POOR MAN;  OR, THE ORIGIN OF COPPER.
    FORMERLY MANY PEOPLE LIVED AT GREEN LAKE AND ITS VICINITY.  THE
ONLY OTHER PEOPLE KNOWN TO THEM WERE SOME WHO LIVED ON THE LILLOOET
RIVER.  THEY DID NOT KNOW OF THE COAST INDIANS AT THAT TIME.
    THE GREEN LAKE PEOPLE WERE VISITED BY SOME DISEASE, AND ALL DIED
EXCEPTING AN OLD WOMAN AND HER GRANDSON.  THEY WERE VERY POOR,
AND THE BOY CRIED CONSTANTLY.  THE OLD WOMAN MADE A BOW AND
ARROWS, A BARK CANOE, AND MANY TOYS WITH WHICH TO AMUSE HIM; BUT
HE CONTINUED TO CRY AS MUCH AS EVER.  SHE MADE A FISH-LINE OF HAIR,
AND TAUGHT HIM HOW TO FISH.  THIS PACIFIED HIM, AND HE NOW SPENT
MOST OF HIS TIME IN FISHING.
    ONE DAY HE CAUGHT SOMETHING HEAVY, AND HIS LINE BROKE.  HE WENT
HOME AND TOLD HIS GRANDMOTHER, WHO MADE A NEW LINE FOR HIM OF HEMP
(SPA'TSAN) BARK, AND PUT A BALL OF HER OWN HAIR ON THE HOOK AS A BAIT.
THE BOY WAS WELL PLEASED, AND WENT BACK TO THE SAME PLACE TO FISH.
HE HOOKED SOMETHING HEAVY AGAIN; BUT THIS TIME HE HAD A STRONG LINE,
AND WAS ABLE TO PULL IT OUT.  IT WAS A LARGE PIECE OF COPPER,- A THING
WHICH THE PEOPLE HAD NEVER SEEN BEFORE.  HE ROLLED IT UP CAREFULLY IN
BRUSH, AND TOOK IT HOME.  HIS GRANDMOTHER SAW IT WAS SOMETHING
RARE AND PRECIOUS, SO SHE TOLD HIM TO LAY IT BY, WHICH HE DID.
    WHEN THE BOY HAD GROWN A BIT, HE BEGAN TO SHOOT MANY
HUMMINGBIRDS AND OTHER BRIGHT-PLUMAGED BIRDS, THE SKINS OF WHICH HE
MADE INTO ROBES.  WHEN HE REACHED THE AGE OF PUBERTY, HE BEGAN TO HUNT
LARGER GAME, AND BECAME A GREAT HUNTER.  HE KILLED MANY BEARS AND
DEER AND GOATS.  HIS GRANDMOTHER SPENT ALL HER TIME MAKING THE SKINS
INTO ROBES, IN MAKING GOAT-HAIR BLANKETS, AND IN LAYING UP A LARGE
SUPPLY OF FOOD.  AT THE END OF SEVERAL YEARS THE HOUSE WAS QUITE FULL
OF FOOD OF ALL KINDS, AND ROBES OF GOAT-HAIR, GOAT-SKIN, DEER, BEAR,
AND MARMOT SKIN, ETC.
    NOW THE LAD ASKED HIS GRANDMOTHER WHAT HE SHOULD DO WITH THE
COPPER HE HAD FOUND; AND SHE SAID, "SHOW IT TO THE PEOPLE.  I THINK
THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE WHO LIVE ON THE LILLOOET RIVER."
    ONE DAY NOT LONG AFTER THIS, WHILE THE LAD WAS HUNTING ON THE
WESTERN SLOPES OF THE CASCADE MOUNTAINS, HE MET SOME STRANGE MEN WHO
SAID THEY WERE SQUAMISH.  THE STRANGERS LEFT HIM, AND IN THEIR
EXPLORATIONS REACHED HIS GRANDMOTHER'S HOUSE.  SHE WAS SURPRISED TO
SEE THEM.  THEY SAID THEY BELONGED TO THE SEA, AND ASKED HER WHAT SHE
WAS DOING THERE ALL ALONE.  SHE SAID THAT SHE AND HER SON WERE THE
ONLY ONES LEFT OF THE PEOPLE OF THAT REGION.  THUS THE COAST INDIANS
BECAME KNOWN TO THEM.
    NOW THE OLD WOMAN SAID TO THE LAD, "OUR HOUSE IS FULL.  IT IS NOW
TIME THAT YOU INVITED THE PEOPLE."  SO HE WENT TO THE LILLOOET RIVER,
AND INVITED THE PEOPLE HE FOUND THERE.  HE ALSO JOURNEYED TO THE
COAST, AND INVITED THE SQUAMISH.  WHEN ALL THE GUESTS HAD ASSEMBLED,
HE WENT AND GOT HIS COPPER.  THE COPPER SAID TO HIM, "WHEN YOU SHOW
ME TO THE PEOPLE, YOU MUST PUT FEATHERS AND DOWN ON YOUR HEAD,
WEAR A FEATHER BLANKET, AND CARRY A RATTLE IN YOUR HAND.  YOU MUST
DANCE WHEN YOU SHOW ME."  THE LAD DRESSED AS DIRECTED; AND WHEN
HE SHOWED THE COPPER, HE DANCED, AND SANG THE STORY OF ITS ORIGIN, AND
HOW HE FOUND IT.  HE FEASTED THE PEOPLE MANY DAYS, AND BEFORE THEIR
DEPARTURE HE GAVE EACH ONE A PRESENT OF A ROBE.  THEY ALL CALLED HIM A
CHIEF.  HIS FAME SPREAD; AND, WHEN THE LOWER FRASER PEOPLE HEARD OF
HIM, ONE OF THEIR CHIEFS CAME AND GAVE HIS DAUGHTER TO BE THE YOUNG
MAN'S WIFE.  ONE OF THE SQUAMISH CHIEFS ALSO BROUGHT HIS DAUGHTER
AND GAVE HER TO HIM IN MARRIAGE.  THE YOUNG MAN GAVE
MARRIAGE-PRESENTS OF PIECES OF COPPER TO HIS FATHERS-IN-LAW.
    BY HIS TWO WIVES HE HAD MANY CHILDREN, MOSTLY SONS; AND PEOPLE OF
DISTANT COUNTRIES, ON HEARING OF HIM AND OF HIS SONS, VISITED THEM,
BRINGING THEIR DAUGHTERS, WHOM THEY MARRIED TO HIS SONS.  FOR EACH
DAUGHTER-IN-LAW HE GAVE A PIECE OF COPPER.  THUS COPPER WAS
DISTRIBUTED AMONG ALL THE TRIBES.  THE PEOPLE WHO HAD RECEIVED IT
VALUED IT VERY HIGHLY, AND WOULD NOT PART WITH IT, FOR IT WAS RARE AND
GAVE THEM A HIGHER STANDING AMONG THEIR PEOPLE.  WHEN THEY SHOWED
THEIR COPPER, THEY ALWAYS DRESSED IN FEATHERS, AND DANCED.
    THE SHUSWAP AND THE THOMPSONS EACH MARRIED A DAUGHTER TO THE
SONS OF THE GREEN LAKE CHIEF.  THUS THE GREEN LAKE PEOPLE BECAME
VERY NUMEROUS AGAIN; AND SOME OF THEM MOVED FARTHER EAST, AND
SETTLED AROUND PEMBERTON AND LILLOOET LAKE.  IN RECENT YEARS THE
GREEN LAKE INDIANS HAVE LEFT THAT REGION ALTOGETHER, AND SETTLED
AMONG THE PEMBERTON INDIANS.


         37.  THE S'A'INNUX.
    BETWEEN THE INDIAN VILLAGE OF PEMBERTON AND GREEN LAKE, AT A
PLACE A LITTLE ABOVE CURRIE'S RANCH, THERE FORMERLY LIVED A NUMBER OF
PEOPLE IN TWO UNDERGROUND HOUSES.  THESE PEOPLE WERE CALLED
S'A'INNUX, AND WERE VERY FAMILIAR WITH THE WATER, AND POWERFUL IN
MAGIC.  THEIR CHIEF HAD TWO DAUGHTERS WHO WERE VERY HANDSOME, AND MANY
YOUNG MEN FROM THE NEIGHBORING COUNTRY WERE ANXIOUS TO OBTAIN THEM
AS WIVES; BUT ALL WHO HAD ATTEMPTED TO COURT THEM HAD BEEN KILLED
BY THEIR MAGIC.  THE BONES OF THESE UNFORTUNATE SUITORS WERE HEAPED
UP AROUND THE HOUSES FOR A CONSIDERABLE DISTANCE AWAY.
    ONE DAY THE FOUR TRANSFORMER BROTHERS ARRIVED NEAR THEIR HOUSE,
AND ONE OF THEM AT ONCE UNDERTOOK TO OBTAIN THE GIRLS.  AS HE
APPROACHED THE HOUSE, THE GIRLS' MOTHER SAW HIM, AND CALLED OUT,
"ANOTHER MAN COMES FOR A WIFE]"  THEN ONE OF THE GIRLS RAN OUT,
LAUGHING, AND EMBRACED HIM WHEN SHE MET HIM.  AS SOON AS SHE DID THIS,
HIS FLESH BEGAN TO DISAPPEAR, AND HE DIED: ONLY A HEAP OF BONES WAS
LEFT ON THE SPOT.  AS HE DID NOT RETURN, ANOTHER BROTHER WENT, AND
FARED IN THE SAME WAY AS THE FIRST.  THEN THE THIRD BROTHER WENT; AND
HE ALSO MET A LIKE FATE.
    NOW, THE FOURTH BROTHER KNEW THAT THERE WAS SOMETHING WRONG: SO
HE WENT TO AN OLD WOMAN WHO LIVED IN A SMALL HOUSE NEAR THE TRAIL,
AND ASKED HER ADVICE.  SHE TOLD HIM WHAT TESTS HE WOULD HAVE TO GO
THROUGH, AND ADVISED HIM TO SWEAT IN HER SWEAT-HOUSE BEFORE HE WENT
TO SEE THE S'A'INNUX.  HE DID AS DIRECTED; AND WHEN HE FINISHED
SWEAT-BATHING, HE KNEW EVERYTHING, AND WAS FULL OF MAGIC.  THEN HE
TOOK HIS QUIVER FULL OF ARROWS, HIS BOW AND KNIFE, HIS FISH-SPEAR, HIS
SNOWSHOES, AND HIS PAINT AND GREASE, WENT TO THE S'A'INNUX AT NIGHT,
AND LAY DOWN BETWEEN THE TWO SISTERS.  WHEN THEY AWOKE, THEY WERE
SURPRISED TO FIND A MAN BETWEEN THEM, AND ESPECIALLY SUCH A HANDSOME
MAN; FOR HE SHONE LIKE LIGHT, AND HIS BODY WAS SMOOTH TO THE TOUCH.
THEY AWOKE THEIR PARENTS, WHO WERE SURPRISED; AND, AFTER LOOKING AT
THE MAN, THEY WERE SATISFIED WITH HIM AS THEIR SON-IN-LAW, AND
ALLOWED HIM TO STAY WITH THEIR DAUGHTERS.
    ON THE FOLLOWING MORNING THE PARENTS WERE SURPRISED TO FIND THEIR
DAUGHTERS STILL IN BED, FOR THEY WERE ALWAYS IN THE HABIT OF GOING TO
WASH THEMSELVES AT DAYBREAK.  AT LAST THEY AROSE; AND ONE OF THEM
WENT TO FETCH WATER, WHILE THE OTHER ONE MADE THE FIRE AND BEGAN TO
COOK.  THE MAN DID NOT GET UP; AND THE PARENTS, BEING CURIOUS TO HAVE
A LOOK AT HIM NOW BY DAYLIGHT, REMOVED THE BLANKET WHICH COVERED
HIM.  THEY WERE ASTONISHED TO SEE A VERY OLD, DECREPIT, UGLY MAN IN
PLACE OF THE HANDSOME MAN THEY HAD SEEN THE NIGHT BEFORE.  THEN THEY
LAUGHED AT THEIR DAUGHTERS, AND SAID, "WHAT A WRETCH TO HAVE FOR A
SON-IN-LAW]"  BUT ONE OF THE GIRLS WOULD NOT DESERT HIM, AS SHE
THOUGHT HE WAS ONLY PLAYING A TRICK: SO SHE CARRIED HIM AROUND IN A
BASKET EVERYWHERE SHE WENT.
    ONCE THE PARENTS, EXPECTING TO HAVE A LAUGH AT THE GIRL AND HER
HUSBAND, SAID, "LET OUR SON-IN-LAW GATHER FIRE-WOOD]"  HIS WIFE
CARRIED HIM TO A TREE, WHICH, APPARENTLY WITH GREAT DIFFICULTY, HE
CHOPPED DOWN AND SPLIT UP, THE PEOPLE MEANWHILE LOOKING ON AND
LAUGHING AT HIM.  HIS WIFE WENT HOME WITH HER BASKET, INTENDING TO
RETURN FOR HIM BEFORE LONG.  IN HER ABSENCE, THE PARENTS ATTACKED HIM,
AND LEFT HIM FOR DEAD.  WHEN THEY REACHED THEIR HOUSE, THEY SAID,
"OUR SON-IN-LAW KILLED HIMSELF WHILE SPLITTING WOOD."  NOW, WHEN
THEY HAD GONE, THE MAN AROSE, GATHERED THE WOOD TOGETHER, AND MADE IT
ASSUME THE SIZE OF A SMALL BUNDLE, WHICH HE TOOK TO THE HOUSE.  HE
THREW IT DOWN, AND THE WOOD RETURNED TO ITS NATURAL PROPORTIONS.  HE
HAD CHANGED HIMSELF BACK AGAIN INTO A HANDSOME, ATHLETIC MAN.
    THEN THE PARENTS SAID, "LET OUR SON-IN-LAW GO HUNTING]"  HE TOOK
HIS WEAPONS AND SNOWSHOES, AND WENT OUT.  WHEN HE HAD BEEN GONE A
LITTLE TIME, ONE OF THE S'A'INNUX, HOPING TO KILL HIM ON THE
MOUNTAINS, SANG A SONG TO MAKE SNOW FALL; BUT HE PUT ON HIS SNOWSHOES,
RAN OVER THE SNOW, AND KILLED MUCH GAME, WHICH HE MADE TO ASSUME THE
PROPORTION OF A SMALL PACK.  HE THREW IT INTO ONE HOUSE, AND IT
BECAME ALMOST FULL OF MEAT AND FAT.
    THEN THE PEOPLE SAID, "LET HIM GO TO SPEAR SALMON]"  THEY
CONDUCTED HIM TO A RAPID SOME DISTANCE UP THE RIVER, WHICH WAS THE
ABODE OF "WATER-MYSTERIES" IN THE SHAPE OF MERMEN, HALF MAN AND HALF
FISH.  ONE OF THESE APPEARED, AND THE PEOPLE SAID, "THAT IS A SALMON.
SPEAR IT QUICKLY]"  HE SPEARED IT, AND WAS AT ONCE DRAGGED UNDER
THE WATER.  THE PARENTS RETURNED HOME AND SAID, "OUR SON-IN-LAW
HAS BEEN DROWNED."  BUT BEFORE LONG HE ARRIVED, CARRYING TWO
MERMEN IN EACH HAND.
    THE PEOPLE WERE AFRAID, AND SAID, "DO NOT TAKE THEM IN HERE]
THROW THEM AWAY]"  HE PAID NO ATTENTION, HOWEVER, AND THREW THEM
INTO THE HOUSE.  AT ONCE THE WATER ROSE IN THE HOUSES, AND DROWNED
ALL THE S'A'INNUX, EXCEPTING THE TRANSFORMER'S WIFE AND HER SISTER,
BROTHER, AND PARENTS.  THEN THE MAN MADE A LARGE HOLE, WHICH HE
CAUSED TO BECOME FULL OF WATER.  HE JUMPED OVER EACH OF THE SKELETONS
WHICH WERE STREWED AROUND THE HOUSES, AND TOLD EACH MAN, AS HE
CAME TO LIFE AGAIN, TO GO AND WASH IN THE WATER.  THIS THEY DID, AND
AFTERWARDS RETURNED TO THEIR HOMES.  THE DESCENDANTS OF THE S'A'INNUX
DANCE AT POTLATCHES, WITH MASKS AND CLOTHES REPRESENTING HALF MAN,
HALF FISH.


         38.  THE HAITLO'LAUX AND WOLF PEOPLE, ANCESTORS OF THE
                          LILUET'O'L
    IN THE REGION INHABITED BY THE LILUET'O'L THERE FORMERLY LIVED TWO
GROUPS OF FAMILIES OF PEOPLE WHO NEVER INTERMARRIED WITH EACH OTHER.
ONE GROUP, CALLED HAILO'LAUX (OR HAITLO'LAUX), LIVED IN UNDERGROUND
HOUSES AT THE MOUTH OF THE RIVER THAT EMPTIES INTO THE HEAD OF BIG
LILLOOET LAKE; WHILE THE OTHER GROUP, KNOWN AS THE WOLF PEOPLE,
LIVED A FEW MILES UPSTREAM, ON ITS NORTH BANK, ABOVE ITS JUNCTION WITH
THE POLE RIVER.  THEY ALSO LIVED IN UNDERGROUND HOUSES.  THE SITES
OF THEIR UNDERGROUND HOUSES ARE POINTED OUT BY THE INDIANS AT THE
PRESENT DAY.
    THE HAILO'LAUX WERE VERY TALL PEOPLE (THE MEN ABOUT TEN FEET IN
HEIGHT) AND VERY BROAD AND STRONG.  MANY OF THE MEN HAD HAIR ON
THEIR BREASTS, AND LOOKED LIKE BEARS; WHILE ALL OF THEM HAD VERY LONG
HAIR ON THEIR HEADS, REACHING ALMOST TO THE GROUND.  MOST OF THEM
HAD BLACK HAIR, BUT SOME HAD BROWN, AND QUITE A NUMBER HAD RED HAIR.
THEY WERE A BAD PEOPLE, AND WERE NEVER KNOWN TO SLEEP.  THEY
WANDERED ABOUT AT NIGHT, AND STOLE THINGS FROM THE WOLF PEOPLE, WHO,
WHEN THEY WENT TO THEIR HOUSE AND ASKED FOR THE STOLEN PROPERTY, WERE
WITH MAGIC IN A HIGH DEGREE, ESPECIALLY THE HAILO'LAUX.
    THE HAILO'LAUX HAD A CHIEF WHO HAD FOUR DAUGHTERS NOTED FOR THEIR
MAGICAL POWERS.  THE WOLF CHIEF SENT FOUR MEN TO WATCH THE HAILO'LAUX
ALWAYS MET WITH THE ANSWER, "WE KNOW NOTHING ABOUT WHAT YOU LOST.
WHY DO YOU COME HERE TO LOOK AT OUR PRIVATES?"  WHEN THE WOLF
PEOPLE WOULD PUT FISH IN THE WATER TO SOAK, THE HAILO'LAUX WOULD
FREQUENTLY STEAL IT, FOR THEY WERE FOND OF FISH, AND USED TO CATCH
THEM BY SWIMMING AFTER THEM UNDER THE WATER.  THE WOLF PEOPLE WERE OF
MEDIUM SIZE (SOME OF THEM SMALL), AND WERE WEALTHIER AND BETTER
HUNTERS AND FISHERMEN THAN THE OTHERS.  BOTH PEOPLE WERE ENDOWED
AND SEE WHAT THEY DID AT NIGHT.  THEY HID THEMSELVES NEAR THE
RIVER-BANK.  AT EVENING THE CHIEF CAME OUT OF HIS HOUSE; THEN, A WHILE
AFTERWARDS, ONE OF HIS DAUGHTERS CAME OUT ALSO.  THUS THEY CAME OUT
ONE AT A TIME, THE FOURTH DAUGHTER APPEARING ABOUT MIDNIGHT.  THE
FOUR WOMEN WENT DOWN TO THE RIVER AND WASHED THEMSELVES NEAR
WHERE THE WOLF MEN WERE HIDDEN; AND THE LATTER JUMPED OUT ON THEM,
AND TOOK THEM HOME TO BE THEIR WIVES.  WHEN THEY REACHED THE
LADDER OF THE UNDERGROUND HOUSE, THE WOMEN SUDDENLY BECAME INVISIBLE
AND LEFT THEM, AND EACH OF THE MEN FOUND THAT HE WAS BLEEDING, - ONE
OF THEM BELOW THE ANKLE, ONE AT THE BACK OF THE HEAD, ANOTHER ABOVE
THE EYE, AND THE FOURTH ONE FROM THE HEART.  THE MEN WERE ASTONISHED,
AND WENT INTO THE HOUSE AND REPORTED THEIR ADVENTURE.  THE
WOMEN HAD EACH TAKEN SOME OF THEIR BLOOD HOME.
    SOME DAYS AFTERWARD A HAILO'LAUX MAN CAME TO THE WOLF HOUSE, AND
ASKED IF ANY OF THEM HAD LOST BLOOD, AS THE CHIEF'S FOUR DAUGHTERS HAD
EACH OF THEM A PIECE OF DRIED BLOOD HANGING ABOVE THEIR BEDS.  ONE OF
THE WOLF MEN SAID, "I LOST SOME BLOOD FROM MY FOOT;" AND THE
HAILO'LAUX ANSWERED, "YOU HAD BETTER COME AND SEE IF IT IS YOURS.  IF
IT IS, THE WOMAN WHO HAS IT WILL MARRY YOU."  HE WENT TO THE
HAILO'LAUX HOUSE, AND, SEEING THE BLOOD, HE POINTED OUT ONE OF THE
PIECES AS HIS.  THE WOMAN WHO POSSESSED IT SAID, "NO, IT IS NOT YOURS.
YOU MUST PROVE IT TO BE YOURS BY UNDERGOING A TEST OF YOUR POWERS.  GO
INTO THAT SMALL HOUSE YONDER, AND STAY THERE FOR A TIME.  YOU WILL SEE
A WEB OF FAT HANGING IN THERE WHICH IS CONTINUALLY DRIPPING.  IF YOU
ALLOW THE DROPS TO FALL ON YOU, THEY WILL BURN RIGHT THROUGH YOU,
UNLESS YOU ARE STRONG IN MAGIC.  YOU WILL HAVE DIFFICULTY IN BREATHING
WHEN YOU FIRST GO INTO THE HOUSE, BUT THAT WILL WEAR AWAY.  AS SOON AS
YOU FEEL AT EASE, TAKE SOME OF THE FAT AND PUT IT TO YOUR MOUTH.  IF
YOU DON'T DIE WHEN YOU DO THAT, THEN EAT SOME.  IF YOU STILL FEEL ALL
RIGHT AFTER EATING THE FAT, THEN RETURN TO ME.  IF YOU DIE DURING THE
TEST, YOUR FLESH WILL BE BURNED UP, AND ONLY YOUR BONES WILL BE LEFT."
THE MAN WENT INTO THE HOUSE AS DIRECTED, SAW THE WEB OF FAT, AND SAID
TO HIMSELF, "I DON'T WISH TO STAY HERE LONG, I WILL EAT THE FAT AT
ONCE AND BE DONE WITH IT."  HE ATE THE FAT, AND AT ONCE DIED, HIS
INSIDES AND FLESH BURNING UP.
    THE NEXT DAY A HAILO'LAUX MAN APPEARED AT THE WOLF HOUSE, AND
TOLD THEM THAT THEIR FRIEND WAS DEAD, AND THAT THE WOMEN STILL HAD THE
BLOOD HANGING ABOVE THEIR BEDS.  HE SAID, "WHOEVER OF YOU CAN PROVE
IT TO BE YOURS, HIM THE WOMEN WILL MARRY."  ONE MAN SAID, "SOME OF
IT IS BLOOD FROM MY EYE."  THE HAILO'LAUX SAID, "YOU HAD BETTER
GO AND CLAIM IT."  THE WOLF MAN ANSWERED, "NO, I AM NOT STRONG
ENOUGH IN MAGIC."  ANOTHER SAID, "IT IS BLOOD FROM MY HEAD; BUT I WILL
NOT GO TO CLAIM IT, FOR I ALSO AM WEAK IN MAGIC."  THE FOURTH MAN
SAID, "IT IS BLOOD FROM MY HEART."  THE HAILO'LAUX ANSWERED, "COME
AND CLAIM IT, THEN."
    THE WOLF MAN SAID, "YES, I WILL GO, AND CONQUER OR DIE."  TAKING
HIS BOW AND ARROWS, HIS QUIVER, HIS KNIFE, HIS THUNDER ARROW-HEAD, AND
HIS PAINT, HE STARTED.  HIS GRANDMOTHER LIVED ALONE IN A LITTLE HOUSE
CLOSE BY, AND, AS HE WAS PASSING, SHE CALLED HIM IN.  SHE SAID, "I
WILL GIVE YOU ADVICE."  SHE TOLD HIM WHAT TESTS HE WOULD HAVE TO PASS
THROUGH, AND ADDED, "BEFORE GOING TO THE HAILO'LAUX, YOU MUST
SWEAT-BATHE IN A VERY HOT SWEAT-HOUSE.  THUS YOU WILL GAIN THE
REQUIRED STRENGTH AND KNOWLEDGE."  HE DID AS DIRECTED; AND WHEN HE
CAME OUT OF THE SWEAT-HOUSE HE WAS VERY WISE, AND FULL OF MAGIC.
HE WENT TO THE HAILO'LAUX HOUSE, AND CLAIMED A PIECE OF THE BLOOD AS
HIS.  THE WOMAN POSSESSING IT SAID, "YES, PERHAPS IT IS YOURS; BUT
YOU MUST GO THROUGH A TEST."  THEY GAVE HIM SOME OF THEIR MEAT TO
EAT, WHICH HE BOLTED WITHOUT CHEWING.  THEN THE WOMAN SENT HIM TO
THE SMALL HOUSE, AS HIS PREDECESSOR HAD BEEN SENT.  WHEN HE HAD BEEN
INSIDE A WHILE, HE PUT SOME OF THE FAT TO HIS MOUTH, THEN, BEFORE
LONG, HE ATE SOME.  WHEN HE CAME OUT OF THE HOUSE, HE WAS AT ONCE
CHANGED TO RESEMBLE A HAILO'LAUX, WITH MUCH RED HAIR ALL OVER HIS
BODY.  THE HAIR OF HIS HEAD ALSO ASSUMED A RED COLOR.
    WHEN HE CAME BACK TO THE PEOPLE, THEY SAID, "FELL AND SPLIT THAT
TREE YONDER."  HE TOOK HIS HAMMER AND CHISEL, CUT THE TREE DOWN, AND
SPLIT IT.  WHEN HE HAD NEARLY FINISHED, THE WOOD SUDDENLY BECAME HARD
TO SPLIT, AND HE HAD TO PUT IN SEVERAL WEDGES.  THEN ALL AT ONCE IT
YIELDED, AND ONE OF THE WEDGES FELL INTO THE CRACK.  THE PEOPLE SAID,
"PICK IT OUT]"  WHEN HE HAD HIS ARM AND HEAD IN THE CRACK, THEY
CAUSED THE CRACK TO CLOSE ON HIM.  HE SPIT OUT RED PAINT, WHICH HE
HAD IN HIS MOUTH, AND THE HAILO'LAUX THOUGHT HE WAS DEAD; BUT THE
WOOD HAD NOT REALLY CLOSED ON HIM VERY TIGHTLY, FOR HE HAD PLACED HIS
THUNDER-STONE CROSSWISE IN THE CRACK, WHICH PREVENTED ITS CLOSING.
WHEN THE PEOPLE HAD GONE AWAY, HE SPLIT UP THE REST OF THE TREE, AND,
MAKING ALL THE SPLIT WOOD INTO ONE SMALL PIECE, THREW IT DOWN THE HOLE
OF THE UNDERGROUND HOUSE, AND IT ASSUMED ITS ORIGINAL PROPORTIONS.
    THE HAILO'LAUX TESTED HIS POWERS IN MANY WAYS; BUT HE WAS ALWAYS
EQUAL TO HIS TASK, AND EVEN SHOWED THEM THAT HE WAS MORE POWERFUL
IN MAGIC AND KNOWLEDGE THAN THEY WERE.  HE MARRIED THE WOMAN
WHO HAD TAKEN HIS BLOOD, AND EVENTUALLY BECAME CHIEF OF THE
HAILO'LAUX.  WHEN HE HAD BECOME CHIEF, HE SAID, "THE HAILO'LAUX AND
THE WOLVES SHALL BECOME ONE PEOPLE."
    ONE NIGHT HE TOLD STORIES TO THE HAILO'LAUX, AND ASKED THEM TO SAY
"I'A'I" AS LONG AS HE CONTINUED RELATING THEM.  THEY DID AS TOLD,
AND EVENTUALLY ALL FELL ASLEEP.  AFTER THIS, THEY ALWAYS SLEPT AT
NIGHT, LIKE ORDINARY PEOPLE.  HE ASSEMBLED THE HAILO'LAUX AND THE WOLF
PEOPLE, AND TOLD THEM THEY MUST ALL EAT DEER-MEAT, AND THUS BECOME
LIKE ONE PEOPLE.  THEY ALL PARTOOK OF THE VENISON, EXCEPT SOME OF THE
WOLF PEOPLE, WHO REFUSED.  THESE HE TRANSFORMED INTO WOLVES, SAYING,
"YOU SHALL BE WOLVES, AND SHALL ALWAYS HAVE POOR FOOD, AND OFTEN BE
HUNGRY."  THEN THE PEOPLE WERE CHANGED TO LOOK LIKE INDIANS, AND NO
LONGER LIKE ANIMALS, AND THEY INTERMARRIED WITH ONE ANOTHER.
    THE DESCENDANTS OF THE WOLF PEOPLE DRESS IN WOLF-SKINS, AND WEAR
WOLF MASKS WHEN THEY DANCE AT POTLATCHES; AND THE DESCENDANTS OF THE
HAILO'LAUX DRESS IN BEAR-SKINS, AND WEAR MASKS SOMEWHAT LIKE A BEAR'S
FACE, PAINTED RED, WHEN THEY DANCE.  THE UNION OF THESE TWO PEOPLES
MADE THE LILUETO'L, WHO ARE THEIR DESCENDANTS.  SOME PEOPLE, IT IS
SAID, OCCASIONALLY SEE HAILO'LAUX IN THE MOUNTAINS AT THE PRESENT DAY.


         II.  TRADITIONS OF THE LILLOOET OF THE LAKES


         39.  COYOTE.
    COYOTE WAS SENT TO TRAVEL OVER THE WORLD AND PUT IT TO RIGHTS.  HE
CHANGED THE NATURAL FEATURES OF THE COUNTRY WHERE THEY WERE BAD, SO
THAT THE PEOPLE SHOULD BE ABLE TO LIVE EASIER.  HE TRANSFORMED ALL THE
BAD ANCIENTS INTO STONES, BIRDS, ANIMALS, AND FISHES.
    COYOTE WAS FOND OF JOKING, AND WAS BOASTFUL.  HE PLAYED MANY
TRICKS, AND WAS OFTEN WORSTED IN HIS TRICKS.  HE WAS VERY WISE, YET
SOMETIMES HE WAS FOOLISH, AND DID SILLY THINGS.  NOTWITHSTANDING, HE
WAS THE GREATEST WORKER AND TRANSFORMER IN THE ANCIENT TIMES.  HE HAD
FOUR HELPERS, WHO WERE GREAT IN MAGIC, AND SOMETIMES ACCOMPANIED
HIM ON HIS TRAVELS.  THEY WERE THE SUN, THE MOON, MU'EPEM, AND
SKWIA'XENAMUX.


         40.   THE BLACK-BEAR BROTHERS.
    THERE WERE FOUR BROTHERS CALL THE LITTLE-BLACK-BEARS, WHO WERE
ALSO GREAT TRANSFORMERS, AND TRAVELLED ALL OVER THE EARTH.  IT IS SAID
THEY DID NOT BELONG TO THE INTERIOR, BUT CAME FROM THE SEA.  THEY
CAME UP THE FRASER RIVER FROM ITS MOUTH, AND, AFTER PASSING THROUGH
THE THOMPSON COUNTRY, THEY TRAVELLED NORTH THROUGH THE SLATLEMUX AND
SHUSWAP COUNTRIES.


         41.   TSU'NTIA.
LONG AGO, DURING THE TIME WHEN THE EARTH WAS BEING BROUGHT INTO
ITS SHAPE, AND FORMED AS WE SEE IT TO-DAY, AND PEOPLE MADE
AS THEY ARE NOW, A MAIDEN WHO LIVED IN THE SETL COUNTRY
WANDERED AROUND MOSTLY BY HERSELF, REFUSING ALL SUITORS.
TAKING A FANCY TO A ROOT CALLED
KOKWELA, WHICH IS UTILIZED BY THE INDIANS AS FOOD, SHE HAD
CONNECTION WITH IT, AND BECAME PREGNANT; AND IN COURSE OF TIME THE
PEOPLE WONDERED AT THIS, AS THE GIRL WAS UNMARRIED, NOR WAS SHE
KNOWN TO HAVE BEEN WITH ANY MAN.  THE GIRL WAS ASHAMED, AND WAS
GOING TO KILL HER CHILD, BUT THE PEOPLE TOLD HER TO REAR IT.
THIS SON, WHOSE FATHER WAS THE
ROOT KOKWELA, AFTERWARDS BECAME A MAN OF RENOWN, GIFTED IN MAGIC;
MOREOVER, IT IS SAID THAT MOST OF THE UPPER LILLOOET TRIBE ARE HIS
DESCENDANTS.  WHEN HE WAS YET A YOUNG MAN, HE WENT TO A SPOT A
SHORT DISTANCE FROM LILLOOET TOWN, A PLACE CALLED SKIMKA'IN, AND
PLAYED SHOOTING ARROWS WITH THE CHILDREN OF TSANATZ, WHO WAS
AN OLD MAN, AND WHO ALWAYS HAD HIS FACE AND BODY PAINTED RED.
TSANATZ ORDERED HIM AWAY TWICE, SAYING, "GO TO YOUR OWN PLACE
AND PLAY, YOU BASTARD SON OF KOKWELA]" HE AFTERWARDS CHANGED
THIS MAN INTO THE FISH OF THAT NAME, WHICH HAS A RED COLOR.
THEN HE TOOK A STONE AND STRUCK HIM ON THE HEAD, THEREBY
FLATTENING IT, AND CURSED HIM, SAYING, "YOU WILL BE A FISH, AND PEOPLE
WILL TAKE YOU AND EAT YOU, AND YOU SHALL NOT BE ABLE TO HELP
YOURSELF."  HENCE THE REASON OF THE PECULIAR SHAPED HEAD OF THE
TSANATZ AT THE PRESENT DAY.  TSUNTIA, FOR THAT WAS HIS NAME, THEN
WENT HOME AND ASKED HIS MOTHER WHO HIS FATHER WAS.  SHE WAS ASHAMED TO
TELL HIM THE TRUTH, AND REPLIED THAT THE REASON THAT HE NEVER SAW HIS
FATHER WAS THAT, BEFORE HIS (TSUNTIA'S) BIRTH, HIS FATHER WAS DROWNED
IN THE RIVER.  TSUNTIA THEN TOOK HIS BOW AND ARROWS, AND WENT TO
KILL THE WATER, BECAUSE IT HAD TAKEN HIS FATHER'S LIFE.  BUT THE WATER
TOLD HIM, "THOSE WHOM I KILL I KNOW AGAIN.  IF I HAD KILLED YOUR
FATHER, I SHOULD KNOW HIM; BUT AS IT IS, I DO NOT."  HE THEN WENT
BACK TO HIS MOTHER, AND TOLD HER THE WATER DENIED HAVING KILLED
HIS FATHER.  SHE THEN SAID, "THE ROCK KILLED HIM."  HE WENT TO THE
ROCK AND DREW HIS BOW ON IT, SAYING, "YOU KILLED MY FATHER:  I WILL
SHOOT YOU."  THE ROCK ANSWERED, "I KILL PEOPLE SOMETIMES, BUT I
KNOW THOSE I KILL. YOU FATHER I NEVER KILLED."  FINALLY HE GREW
ANGRY, AND THREW
HER INTO A LITTLE LAKE BELOW LILLOOET, CALLED BY THE INDIANS
HULAKONANTKO.  WHEN HE REACHED HIS FULL STATURE, HE COMMENCED TO
TRAVEL.  HE HAD GROWN TO BE A MAN OF VERY LARGE SIZE AND GREAT
PHYSICAL STRENGTH.  THE FIRST THING HE DID WAS TO TRANSFORM ALL THOSE
PEOPLE WHO HAD CALLED HIM "BASTARD" WHEN HE WAS A BOY.  HE
WENT TO SETL AND TRANSFORMED THOSE PEOPLE WHO HAD MOCKED HIM.
ONE HE TURNED INTO A GRIZZLY BEAR, ONE INTO A WOLF, AND ONE
INTO A MARTEN.  SOME OTHERS HE TRANSFORMED INTO BIRDS AND
FISHES.  HE THEN SCATTERED THEM OVER THE EARTH IN DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS.
HE TRANSFORMED THE FEATURES OF MANY PARTS OF THE COUNTRY THROUGH WHICH
HE JOURNEYED, PERFORMING MANY WONDERFUL FEATS.  HE WAS IN BETANI, AND
AFTERWARDS WENT DOWN THE CREEK TO LYTTON, WHENCE HE FOLLOWED UP
FRASER RIVER TO ITS HEADWATERS, DOING WONDERS AS HE WENT.  HE CAME
BACK, FOLLOWING THOMPSON RIVER FROM IT SOURCE TO ITS MOUTH,
CROSSED THE FRASER RIVER JUST ABOVE THE MOUTH OF THE THOMPSON, AND NAMED
THE PLACE TAKA'UT.  AT THE CREEK, A LITTLE ABOVE NKA'IA, BELOW LYTTON HE MET
THE FOUR YOUNG BLACK BEARS, OTHERWISE (AND GENERALLY) CALLED QOAQOAL
BY THE NLAKAPAMUX, WHO WERE ALSO DOING GREAT MARVELS.
THESE WERE ON THEIR WAY UP FROM THE MOUTH OF THE FRASER RIVER.  SOMETIMES
THEY NEARLY MANAGED TO TRANSFORM ONE ANOTHER INTO STONE, BUT THERE WAS
ALWAYS SOME PART OF THEIR BODY THEY WERE ABLE TO MOVE; THEREFORE THEY
GAVE UP TRYING.  HAVING AGREED TO EAT TOGETHER
TSUNTIA FORTHWITH BROUGHT OUT A SMALL STONE KETTLE, AND
COMMENCED TO PREPARE SOME NKAUX.  THE BROTHERS LAUGHED  AT THE IDEA
OF SUCH A SMALL VESSEL HOLDING ENOUGH FOOD FOR ALL OF THEM; BUT
TSUNTIA ASSURED THEM THAT IT WOULD.  THEN HE SET IT BEFORE THE
BROTHERS TO EAT.  THEY TOOK A SPOONFUL EACH, WHICH FILLED THEM TO
SATISFACTION, AND MADE NO IMPRESSION ON THE NKAUX, WHICH REMAINED,
TO ALL APPEARANCES, JUST THE SAME.  TSUNTIA THEN SAID, "SEE WHAT
YOU THOUGHT WOULD NOT BE ENOUGH TO SATISFY YOUR APPETITES]"
THE BROTHERS SAID THEY WERE THIRSTY, AND WERE TOO LAZY TO GO FOR WATER.
TSUNTIA TOOK A ROCK, AND, PLACING IT BEFORE THEM, WATER GUSHED OUT OF IT,
AND THEY DRANK.  SOME SAY HE KICKED THE ROCK AND WATER CAME OUT.
AFTERWARDS THEY ATE OF THE BROTHERS' FOOD.  THEY INTENDED TO SERVE
TSUNTIA AS HE HAD DONE THEM; BUT HE TOOK IT ALL IN TWO SPOONFULS, USING
HORN SPOONS, AND LEFT THE KETTLE
EMPTY.  TSUNTIA THEN SAID, "WHERE SHALL WE SLEEP?"  TELLING THEM
TO MAKE A SLEEPING-PLACE BY THEIR MAGIC; BUT THEY SAID THEY THOUGHT
HE COULD DO IT BETTER THAN THEY, AND TOLD HIM TO DO SO.  HE THEN
CAUSED A LARGE, FLAT, SMOOTH STONE TO APPEAR, AND UPON IT THE FIVE
SLEPT THAT NIGHT.  TSUNTIA SLEPT WITH HIS HEAD TO THE NORTH, AND THE
BROTHERS WITH THEIRS TOWARDS THE SOUTH.  THE IMPRESSIONS MADE BY
THEIR BODIES CAN STILL BE SEEN.  ONE MARK IN PARTICULAR SHOWS THE
IMPRINT OF THE BACK OF THE HEAD, THE ELBOWS, AND THE HEELS OF ONE OF
THEM.  NEXT MORNING THEY SEPARATED, TSUNTIA GOING DOWN THE RIVER,
AND THE OTHERS IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION.  WHEREVER TSUNTIA TRAVELLED
THE KOKWELA PLANTS RECOGNIZED HIM, AND EMBRACED HIM BY
ENTWINING THEMSELVES AROUND HIS LEGS.
    WHEN TSU'NTIA AND THE FOUR BLACK BEAR BROTHERS HAD TRAVELLED OVER
THE EARTH AND PUT THINGS TO RIGHTS, THEY MET ONE ANOTHER AT THE EDGES
OF THE EARTH.  THE BROTHERS SAID TO TSU'NTIA, "THERE YET REMAINS ONE
COUNTRY IN THE WORLD WHERE THE PEOPLE ARE BAD.  WE OURSELVES WERE
NOT ABLE TO PUT THEM TO RIGHTS: THEY WERE TOO STRONG FOR US.  YOU,
KOKWE'LA, WHO ARE FULL OF MYSTERIOUS POWER, YOU GO TO THAT COUNTRY
AND STOP THE SUN, SO THEY MAY ALL DIE AND BE BURNED UP AS A
PUNISHMENT."  TSU'NTIA SAID, "IF I GO THERE AND STOP THE SUN, ALL THE
PEOPLE IN THE WORLD WILL BE BURNED UP, AND EVERYTHING ON EARTH
BESIDES."
    THE BROTHERS WOULD NOT BELIEVE HIM, SO HE COMMANDED THE SUN TO
STAND STILL.  THEN THE EARTH BEGAN TO BECOME HOT AND SCORCHED, AND
AT LAST THE TOPS OF THE TREES BEGAN TO SMOKE.  THE BROTHERS, OVERCOME
WITH HEAT, AND AFRAID OF BEING BURNT, SAID, "WE SEE YOU KNOW, AND
SPEAK THE TRUTH.  NOW LET THE SUN MOVE ON]"  HE SAID, "WHISTLE AT THE
SUN, AND IT WILL GO."  BUT THEY ASKED HIM TO DO SO HIMSELF.  NOW HE
WHISTLED, AND, POINTING HIS FINGER AT THE SUN, THE LATTER FOLLOWED HIS
FINGER AS HE MOVED IT TOWARD THE WEST.  HE MOVED HIS FINGER DOWN
OVER THE MOUNTAINS, AND THE SUN SET RAPIDLY.  THEN A BREEZE SPRANG
UP, AND SOON COOLED THE EARTH AND ITS PEOPLE.  THE BAD PEOPLE OF THAT
COUNTRY WERE NEVER PUNISHED, AND STILL REMAIN SOMEWHERE NEAR THE EDGE
OF THE EARTH TO THE EAST.  IT IS NOT KNOWN WHAT
BECAME OF TSUNTIA, FOR HE DISAPPEARED, AND IT IS SAID THAT HE WENT
UP TO HEAVEN.  HE LEFT DESCENDANTS OF FRASER RIVER AT LILLOOET.


         42. (A)  NK#E'OLSTEM. (FIRST VERSION)
    THE SKIMKAINEMUX HAD BECOME A NUMEROUS PEOPLE, AND A DESCENDANT
OF XANAU'KST WAS THEIR CHIEF.  HE HAD A SON WHO BECAME KNOWN
AS NK#E'OLSTEM.  THIS BOY WENT FROM ONE HOUSE TO ANOTHER AT INTERVALS
DURING THE WINTER, AND ASKED THE PEOPLE FOR FOOD OF DIFFERENT KINDS,
SAYING THAT HIS FATHER HAD SENT HIM.  THE PEOPLE ALWAYS GAVE HIM
WHAT HE ASKED FOR, BECAUSE HIS FATHER WAS CHIEF; AND THE LAD TOOK THE
FOOD AWAY AND ATE IT HIMSELF.
    JUST ABOUT SPRING, WHEN MOST OF THE PEOPLE HAD COME OUT OF THEIR
UNDERGROUND HOUSES, HE ASKED A CERTAIN HUNTER FOR DEER'S BACK-FAT,
WHICH WAS GIVEN TO HIM.  THE MAN WENT TO THE LAD'S FATHER, AND SAID,
"HOW IS IT THAT YOU HAVE BEEN BEGGING FOOD ALL WINTER FROM THE
PEOPLE, AND SENDING YOUR SON FOR IT?"  THE CHIEF NEVER ANSWERED FOR
FOUR DAYS, BECAUSE HE WAS ASHAMED.  THEN HE TOLD THE PEOPLE SECRETLY
THAT THEY SHOULD ALL GO UP THE MOUNTAINS, AND DESERT HIS SON.  THEY
WOULD ASK SOME LADS TO TAKE HIM ACROSS THE LAKE, ON PRETENCE OF
GATHERING ARROW-WOOD, AND LEAVE HIM THERE.
    EARLY THE FOLLOWING MORNING, SOME LADS SAID TO NK#E'OLSTEM, "LET
US GO ACROSS THE LAKE TO WHERE THERE IS PLENTY OF WOOD, AND GATHER
STICKS FOR MAKING ARROWS]"  AS SOON AS THEY HAD GONE, THE PEOPLE
CARRIED ALL THEIR EFFECTS TO THE CANOES, AND SET OFF UP THE LAKE.
AFTER THEY HAD GONE A LONG DISTANCE, THEY LEFT THEIR CANOES, AND WENT
UP THE MOUNTAINS UNTIL THEY REACHED A PLACE CALLED TOTCE'LEKS, WHERE
THEY ERECTED LODGES FOR HUNTING.
    THE LADS TOOK NK#E'OLSTEM INTO THE BUSHES TO LOOK FOR ARROW-STICKS
AND SAID TO HIM, "WE WILL SCATTER HERE, AND WILL WHISTLE TO ONE
ANOTHER, SO THAT EACH MAY KNOW THE OTHER'S WHEREABOUTS."
    WHEN THE LADS WERE OUT OF HIS SIGHT, THEY DEFECATED, URINATED, AND
EXPECTORATED ON THE GROUND, AND TOLD THEIR EXCREMENTS, ALSO THEIR
URINE AND SPITTLE, TO WHISTLE, AND WHEN THEY HEARD A WHISTLE TO ANSWER
BACK.  THEN THEY JUMPED INTO THEIR CANOE, AND PADDLED HARD TO
OVERTAKE THE OTHER PEOPLE.  NK#E'OLSTEM HEARD WHISTLING ALL AROUND,
AND THOUGHT HIS COMPANIONS WERE STILL NEAR.  TOWARD EVENING THE
WHISTLING GREW FAINT, AND IN SOME PLACES STOPPED ALTOGETHER.  THIS WAS
BECAUSE THE EXCREMENTS HAD BECOME DRY.  FINALLY HE DISCOVERED WHAT
IT WAS THAT WHISTLED.  HE RAN TO WHERE THE CANOE HAD BEEN, AND FOUND
IT GONE.  HE CRIED, AND WALKED AROUND THE LAKE TO REACH HOME, CRYING
AS HE WENT.
    HE MET GRAY-BODY (PAPAE'IXKIN), AND SAID TO HIM, "OH] YOU ARE
THE ONLY ONE THAT DID NOT LEAVE ME.  WHY DID YOU NOT GO WITH THE
REST?"  HE STRUCK HIM ON THE HEAD WITH AN ARROW-STICK, TRANSFORMING
HIM INTO THE SNAKE OF THAT NAME.  HE SAID, "THIS PLACE SHALL BE
KNOW AS N#EXO'IT.  YOU SHALL LIVE HERE; AND PEOPLE IN LATER DAYS WILL
FIND SNAKES VERY ABUNDANT HERE."
    IN HIS DISTRACTION HE SAT DOWN, AND SHOVED ONE FOOT PAST THE
OTHER, LEAVING THE MARKS AS A BARE SCRAPED ROCK, WHICH MAY BE SEEN AT
THE PRESENT DAY.  ALSO AT THIS PLACE HE THREW HIS STICKS AWAY, AND
HIGH SERVICE-BERRIES NOW GROW THERE IN GREAT PLENTY.  THE PLACE IS
KNOWN AS PLACE-WHERE-HE-KICKED (NTCOTCOTCU'ELN).
    WHEN HE CAME TO THE PLACE WHERE THE LODGES HAD BEEN, HE FOUND THEM
ALL DOWN.  HE WENT UP TO A PLACE NEAR BY, CALLED KO'MIKSTIN, WHERE
THE WINTER HOUSES AND CACHES WERE, AND FOUND THEM ALL DESERTED ALSO.
IN ONE HOUSE WHICH HAD BEEN RECENTLY OCCUPIED HE SAW A LARGE BASKET
TURNED MOUTH DOWN.  HE SAID, "WHY DO THEY LEAVE THEIR BASKETS
BEHIND?" AND GAVE IT A KICK, DISCLOSING AN OLD WOMAN, MINK,
UNDERNEATH.  HE WAS GLAD TO SEE HER.  SHE HAD A SLOW-MATCH, CONSISTING
OF THE UPPER PART OF A DRY BALSAMORRHIZA-ROOT, WHICH SHE HAD LIGHTED
WHEN THE PEOPLE LEFT.  WITH THIS SHE HAD LIGHTED A FIRE.
    NOW HE WENT AROUND ALL THE PEOPLE'S CACHES, AND FOUND THAT MANY
OF THE PEOPLE HAD TAKEN PITY ON HIM, AND LEFT DRIED FISH, FISH-HEADS,
AND BACK-BONES FOR HIM.  HE TOOK THESE TO MINK, WHO SENT HIM TO GATHER
BARK TO MAKE TWINE FOR SNARES.  WHEN THEY HAD MADE MANY SNARES,
HE SET THEM, AND CAUGHT VERY MANY MICE OF DIFFERENT KINDS, RATS,
SQUIRRELS, CHIPMUNKS, HUDSON BAY BIRDS, PINEJAYS, BLUEJAYS, AND OTHER
SMALL BIRDS AND ANIMALS.  THE OLD WOMAN SEWED THE SKINS TOGETHER,
AND MADE MANY ROBES; SO THAT, WHEN SHE SPREAD THEM OUT IN THE
SUNSHINE, THEY COVERED THE KNOLL AT THE BACK OF THE HOUSE.  THEY LIVED
ON THE FLESH OF THE BIRDS AND ANIMALS HE SNARED.
    NOW HE DREAMED OF THE SUN, WHO APPEARED TO HIM SEVEN CONSECUTIVE
NIGHTS.  ON THE EIGHTH DAY, AT EVENING, JUST AFTER THE SUN HAD SET,
HE APPROACHED HIM FROM THE WEST.  AT THAT TIME, PEOPLE COULD LOOK
AT THE SUN; FOR HE WAS LIKE THE MOON, NOT VERY BRIGHT.  THE SUN WAS
CLAD IN A ROBE OF MOUNTAIN-GOAT-HAIR, LIKE THOSE THE LOWER LILLOOET
USE.  HE ADDRESSED THE LAD, SAYING, "YOU HAVE BEEN DESERTED BY THE
PEOPLE.  I PITY YOU, AND WILL GIVE YOU ADVICE AND POWER; BUT I WISH TO
GET ONE OF YOUR BEAUTIFUL BLANKETS.  I HAVE NOTICED THEM OFTEN AS I
PASSED OVERHEAD."  THE LAD ANSWERED, "TAKE YOUR CHOICE OF THEM:
THEY ARE ALL SPREAD OUT ON THE KNOLL."  THE SUN SAID, "I DESIRE THE
ONE YOU USE FOR A PILLOW; AND MY OWN ROBE I WILL GIVE TO YOU, FOR IT
IS NOT BRIGHT ENOUGH, AND THE PEOPLE CAN THUS LOOK AT ME."  THEY
EXCHANGED ROBES.   THE SUN CONTINUED, "THOSE PEOPLE WHO LEFT NO
FOOD FOR YOU IN THEIR CACHES YOU WILL TRANSFORM WHEN THEY COME BACK."
THEN HE SHOWED THE LAD HOW TO MAKE FISH-TRAPS, AND INSTRUCTED HIM
HOW TO SET THEM.  HE FOLLOWED DIRECTIONS, AND MADE THREE TRAPS, WHICH
HE SET NEXT EVENING WHERE SEVERAL CREEKS EMPTIED INTO THE LAKE.  HE
WAS THE FIRST MAN WHO EVER MADE OR USED FISH-TRAPS; AND THOSE HE MADE
WERE AFTERWARDS TURNED INTO STONE, AND MAY BE SEEN AT THE PRESENT DAY.
HE CAUGHT MANY TROUT IN HIS TRAPS, AND MINK SPLIT THEM, AND HUNG
THEM UP TO DRY ON STICKS AND IN BRANCHES OF TREES.
    ONE DAY THE LAD SAW CROW APPROACHING IN A CANOE, AND HE TOLD HIM
TO GO BACK; BUT CROW SAID HE WAS HUNGRY; SO THE BOY ALLOWED HIM TO
LAND, AND GAVE HIM SOME FISH, SOME OF WHICH HE TOOK HOME AND FED TO
HIS CHILDREN AFTER DARK.  HIS CHILDREN MADE SO MUCH NOISE EATING THE
FISH, THAT THE PEOPLE SAID, "CROW MUST BE FEEDING HIS CHILDREN
SOMETHING.  HE IS THE POOREST HUNTER, AND YET HE HAS FOOD FOR HIS
FAMILY.  HE MUST STEAL IT FROM SOME PLACE."  CROW VISITED NK#E'OLSTEM
AGAIN, AND BROUGHT HOME MORE FISH, WHICH HE GAVE TO HIS CHILDREN AFTER
DARK.  NOW THE PEOPLE WERE SURE:  SO THEY ASKED HIM WHAT HE FED HIS
CHILDREN WITH, AND WHERE HE GOT IT.  HE ANSWERED, "IT IS FISH, AND I
GOT IT FROM THE LAD WE DESERTED.  HE HAS LOTS OF TROUT."
    AS THE PEOPLE COULD FIND NO GAME, AND WERE STARVING, THEY ALL
RETURNED HOME IN THEIR CANOES.  WHEN THEY ARRIVED, THE LAD ALLOWED
THOSE WHO HAD LEFT HIM FISH-BONES TO OCCUPY THEIR HOUSES AND LIVE
THERE AS USUAL; BUT THE OTHERS HE TRANSFORMED INTO "WATER-MYSTERIES,"
AND THREW THEM INTO A CANYON AND WATERFALL IN CAYUSE CREEK, WHERE THEY
INHABIT THE ROCKS, BUT ARE INVISIBLE.  INDIANS GO THERE TO TRAIN.
    THE NKAIT PEOPLE, HEARING OF HIS FAME, SENT ONE OF THEIR DAUGHTERS
TO BE HIS WIFE; AND SEVERAL PEOPLE, BOTH AT SKIMKA'IN AND NKAIT, ARE
DESCENDED FROM HIM.  HE WENT TO NKAIT, AND SHOWED THE PEOPLE THERE
HOW TO MAKE AND USE FISH-TRAPS, AND THEN RETURNED HOME AGAIN.  AFTER
THIS THE PEOPLE COULD NOT LOOK AT THE SUN, WHO OBTAINED SO MUCH
BRIGHTNESS BY WEARING NK#E'OLSTEM'S MAGPIE BLANKET.


         42. (B)  NK#E'OLSTEM, OR NQE'QAUMSTEM MYTH. (SECOND VERSION)
    THE PEOPLE OF SEATON LAKE ARE DESCENDED PARTLY FROM FRASER RIVER
LILLOOET BELONGING TO SETL, AND PARTLY FROM NK#E'OLSTEM.  THE LATTER
WAS THE SON OF A CHIEF WHO LIVED NEAR SQEMQA'IN, AND WAS DESERTED BY
THE PEOPLE.  HE AND HIS OLD GRANDMOTHER MADE FOUR LARGE ROBES OF
MOUSE, RAT, BLUEJAY, AND MAGPIE SKINS RESPECTIVELY.  AT THAT TIME THE
SUN TRAVELLED OVERHEAD IN THE SKY EVERY DAY, AS NOW, BUT IT WAS
VISIBLE.  NEVERTHELESS IT GAVE OUT FAR GREATER HEAT THAN AT THE
PRESENT DAY: SO THE PEOPLE SWEATED VERY MUCH, AND FELT ALMOST AS IF
BOILED IN THE DAYTIME.  IT WAS HOT LIKE THIS ALL THE YEAR ROUND.  ONE
DAY NK#E'OLSTEM HAD HIS FOUR BLANKETS SPREAD OUTSIDE, AND WAS SITTING
BY THEM, WHEN HE SAW A MAN DESCEND FROM THE SKY, WHO APPROACHED HIM,
AND SAID, "I AM THE SUN, AND EACH DAY AS I TRAVEL I SEE YOUR ROBES AND
ADMIRE THEM.  I WISH TO EXCHANGE MY ROBE FOR ONE OF THEM.  IF YOU WILL
GIVE ME YOUR BEAUTIFUL ROBE, I WILL TEACH YOU MANY THINGS."  THE LAD
SAID, "PERHAPS, IF I GIVE YOU MY ROBE, YOU WILL BE HOTTER THAN EVER,
AND THE PEOPLE WILL ALL DIE."  THE SUN ANSWERED, "NO] IT WILL MAKE ME
BRIGHT, SO THAT YOU CAN SEE ME EVERY DAY; BUT MY HEAT WILL NOT BE ABLE
TO COME OUT SO MUCH AS THROUGH THE ROBE I AM WEARING, THEREFORE THE
PEOPLE WILL BE COOLER."  THE LAD SAID, "VERY WELL, IF YOU PROMISE TO
BE BRIGHTER AND COOLER, GETTING ONLY MODERATELY HOT DURING THE SUMMER,
AND REMAINING COOL DURING THE REST OF THE YEAR, YOU MAY TAKE TWO OF
MY ROBES IN EXCHANGE FOR YOUR ONE."  THE SUN HANDED THE LAD HIS ROBE,
WHICH WAS MADE OF MOUNTAIN-GOAT WOOL, WITH LONG FRINGE, AND TOLD HIM
TO DIP THE FRINGE OF IT FOUR TIMES INTO THE LAKE, AND EACH TIME FISH
OF A CERTAIN VARIETY WOULD BECOME VERY NUMEROUS.  THEN HE TOLD HIM HOW
TO MAKE A PICTURE OF A FISH-TRAP IN THE GROUND BY SCRATCHING WITH HIS
FEET, AND IT WOULD CHANGE INTO A REAL FISH-TRAP WITH WHICH HE COULD
CATCH THE FISH HE CREATED.  HE ALSO TOLD HIM TO DRAW WITH HIS TOES ON
THE SAND A PICTURE OF A FISH-SPEAR AND A NET, WHICH WOULD ALSO CHANGE
INTO REAL ONES.  AFTER TELLING HIM HOW TO USE THESE THINGS, HE
SELECTED THE BLUEJAY AND MAGPIE ROBES OF THE LAD, AND ASCENDED TO THE
SKY.  NOW THE SUN BEGAN TO WEAR THE MAGPIE ROBE, AND THE PEOPLE COULD
SEE HIM QUITE PLAINLY.  ALTHOUGH IT WAS SUMMER-TIME, THE HEAT FROM THE
SUN WAS MUCH LESS THAN FORMERLY.  WHEN WINTER-TIME CAME, THE SUN
BEGAN TO WEAR BOTH THE ROBES, AND THE HEAT HE EMANATED BECAME STILL
LESS.  SINCE THEN, THE SUN HAS WORN THESE ROBES; AND THE PEOPLE ARE
NOT NOW OVERPOWERED WITH THE HEAT, AND EVER SINCE HAVE HAD MODERATELY
WARM SUMMERS AND COOL WINTERS.  AFTER THE SUN'S DEPARTURE,
NK#E'OLSTEM DID AS HE HAD BEEN DIRECTED, AND CREATED FOUR FISH-TRAPS,
ONE FOR EACH KIND OF FISH.  THUS WERE THE FIRST FISH-TRAPS,
FISH-SPEARS, AND FISH-NETS MADE, AND FOUR NEW VARIETIES OF FISH WERE
ADDED TO THE WATERS OF THE LAKE.  AFTER THIS THE PEOPLE WHO HAD
DESERTED THE LAD RETURNED, AND THEY GAVE HIM TWO OF THEIR DAUGHTERS
FOR WIVES.  EVENTUALLY THE TRANSFORMERS QWO'QTQWATL CAME ALONG, AND,
THINKING THE PEOPLE OF THAT PLACE WERE BAD, THEY COMMENCED TO
METAMORPHOSE THEM INTO STONES, AND SUCCEEDED THUS IN KILLING ALL THE
PEOPLE, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE LAD AND HIS TWO WIVES.  NK#E'OLSTEM
WRAPPED THE SUN'S MAGIC ROBE AROUND HIMSELF AND HIS WIVES, AND THE
TRANSFORMERS COULD NOT HARM HIM.  HE HAD MANY CHILDREN.  AFTERWARDS
A NUMBER OF THE PEOPLE FROM SETL CAME AND SETTLED THERE, AND THE TWO
PEOPLES INTERMARRIED AND BECAME NUMEROUS.  NK#E'OLSTEM CHANGED HIS
NAME TO XANA'UKST, AND BECAME THE CHIEF OF THE BAND, AND NOTED FOR HIS
WEALTH.  THE ORIGINAL SEATON LAKE PEOPLE ARE THUS DESCENDED PARTLY
FROM SETL INDIANS, AND PARTLY FROM THE ANCIENTS XANA'UKST AND HIS
WIVES.  THE SQEMQA'IN (SKIMQAIN) PEOPLE LOOK UPON HIM AS THEIR
ANCESTOR.


         43. (A)  RAVEN;  OR, HOW DEATH CAME INTO THE WORLD.
    RAVEN WAS ONCE A CHIEF OF GREAT POWER, AND VERY WISE.  AT THAT
TIME PEOPLE DID NOT DIE.  ONE DAY A MAN CAME TO RAVEN, AND SAID,
"I AM NOT SATISFIED WITH THE EXISTING ORDER OF THINGS.  LET PEOPLE
DIE, SO WE MAY WEEP, AND THEN WE SHALL BE HAPPY."  RAVEN SAID, "VERY
WELL, IF THE PEOPLE WISH TO DIE, IT SHALL BE SO."
    THE MAN WENT AWAY, AND SHORTLY AFTERWARD HIS CHILD DIED.  HE WAS
SORRY, AND, INSTEAD OF REJOICING WHEN HE WEPT, HE FELT SAD AND
MISERABLE.  HE SAID, "WHAT A FOOL I WAS TO TELL RAVEN TO MAKE PEOPLE
DIE]"  HE WENT BACK, AND ASKED RAVEN TO STOP PEOPLE FROM DYING; BUT
RAVEN ANSWERED, "IT IS TOO LATE.  YOU ASKED FOR THAT, AND I MADE IT
SO.  I CANNOT CHANGE THE ORDER OF THINGS NOW.  PEOPLE SHALL HENCEFORTH
CONTINUE TO DIE."  THIS IS THE REASON THAT ALL PEOPLE DIE.  AFTERWARD
RAVEN WAS TRANSFORMED INTO THE BIRD OF THAT NAME, BECAUSE HE
INTRODUCED DEATH INTO THE WORLD.


         43. (B)  RAVEN AND OLD-ONE, OR CHIEF.
    AFTER RAVEN HAD VANQUISHED THE CHIEF, OR OLD-ONE, AND IT WAS
DECREED THAT PEOPLE AND ALL THINGS SHOULD DIE, RAVEN'S CHILD DIED.
THIS WAS THE FIRST DEATH IN THE WORLD.  HITHERTO PEOPLE HAD DIED ONLY
FOR A TIME, AND THEIR BODIES DURING DEATH NEVER CHANGED.  RAVEN TRIED
TO REVIVE AND DOCTOR THE CHILD INTO LIFE AGAIN, BUT UTTERLY FAILED.
AT LAST HE WENT TO THE CHIEF AND SAID, "MY CHILD IS REALLY DEAD.  ITS
BODY IS CHANGING, AND THE FLESH IS GETTING ROTTEN, SO THAT IT SMELLS.
I WISH I HAD NOT AGREED TO PEOPLE'S DYING."  THE CHIEF ANSWERED,
"NOW YOU SEE HOW NASTY A THING DEATH IS, AND HOW SORE YOUR HEART
GETS WHEN YOUR FRIENDS DIE; BUT IT IS TOO LATE TO CHANGE.  IT HAS BEEN
AGREED THAT HENCEFORTH EVERYTHING MUST DIE, AND, AS THE FIRST DEATH
HAS TAKEN PLACE, IT CANNOT NOW BE AVOIDED."  RAVEN, IN HIS SORROW,
TOOK AN ARROW-STONE AND HIT HIMSELF WITH IT.  HE WAS SURPRISED TO FIND
THAT IT CUT HIS FLESH, AND BLOOD RAN OUT.  HE THOUGHT TO HIMSELF,
"THIS STONE IS MYSTERY, AND CAN KILL PEOPLE.  I WILL TRY IT."  HE
STRUCK IT ON THE END OF A STICK AND STRUCK A MAN, WHO DIED OF THE
WOUNDS.  THUS RAVEN FIRST DISCOVERED THAT ARROW-STONE COULD KILL; AND
THE PEOPLE LEARNED TO MAKE IT INTO KNIVES AND ARROW-HEADS.  RAVEN
WAS THE FIRST PERSON WHO MADE A SPEAR, AND BECAME A MURDERER.
SOME SAY HE DID NOT KILL ANY ONE WITH THE ARROW-STONE, BUT, SEEING
THAT THE SHARP PARTS OF THE STONE DREW BLOOD, HE SHARPENED IT WITH HIS
BEAK, AND CUT HIMSELF MORE AND MORE, IN HIS SORROW, UNTIL AT LAST HE
LOST ALL HIS BLOOD, AND DIED.  THUS HE WAS THE FIRST PERSON IN THE
WORLD WHO COMMITTED SUICIDE.


         44.  ORIGIN OF BANDS OF NORTHERN SHUSWAP LIVING NEXT TO THE
                   LILLOOET OF FRASER RIVER.
    THE NEIGHBORING SHUSWAP TO THE NORTH (THOSE OF FRASER RIVER), OR
AT LEAST PART OF THEM, ARE SAID TO HAVE ORIGINATED FROM A MAN CALLED
COYOTE, WHO LIVED SOMEWHERE NORTH OF CLINTON.  HE LIVED ALONE IN AN
UNDERGROUND HOUSE, AND HAD FOR A WIFE THE BRANCH OF A TREE WITH A
KNOT-HOLE IN IT.  WHENEVER HE WENT OUT HUNTING, HE COVERED THE
BRANCH WITH A ROBE.
    ONE DAY THE FOUR BLACK-BEAR BROTHERS CAME ALONG AND ENTERED THE
HOUSE.  AS IT WAS COLD WEATHER, THEY LOOKED AROUND FOR FIRE-WOOD,
SAW THE BRANCH, MADE A FIRE WITH IT TO WARM THEMSELVES, AND AFTERWARDS
FELL ASLEEP.  THEY WERE AWAKENED BY A VOICE CALLING FROM THE TOP OF
THE LADDER.  THEY HID THEMSELVES.  IT WAS COYOTE, WHO WAS CRYING,
"WIFE, TAKE MY LOAD OF MEAT]"  THEN HE ANSWERED HIMSELF IN A
LOUDER, SHRILLER VOICE, SAYING, "LET YOUR PACK FALL."  HE SAID, "YOU
ARE A LAZY WIFE.  WHY DON'T YOU TAKE DOWN MY BURDEN?"  THEN,
ANSWERING HIMSELF AGAIN, HE EXCLAIMED, "JUST DROP IT DOWN]  THERE IS
NO NEED OF MY GETTING UP."  THE BROTHERS SMILED WHEN THEY HEARD
HIM TALKING THUS.
    COYOTE LET THE PACK OF MEAT DROP DOWN.  WHEN HE WAS INSIDE, HE
NOTICED THAT THE BRANCH WAS NOT IN THE BED, AND, LOOKING AT THE FIRE,
SAW IT THERE NEARLY BURNED OUT.  HE SAID, "OH] MY WIFE HAS BEEN
TRYING TO GO UP THE LADDER, AND HAS FALLEN BACK INTO THE FIRE." AND HE
BEGAN TO WEEP.  THE BROTHERS APPEARED, AND TRIED TO COMFORT HIM,
SAYING, "WE DID NOT KNOW IT WAS YOUR WIFE, SO WE BURNED THE BRANCH;
BUT DO NOT BE SORRY]  WE WILL GIVE YOU A BETTER WIFE."  THEY ASKED
FOR AN ARROW-STONE ADZE, WENT TO A GROVE OF TREES NEAR BY, AND CUT
DOWN TWO OF THEM,- ONE AN ALDER, AND ONE A COTTONWOOD OR ASPEN-POPLAR.
AFTER SHAPING THEM TO RESEMBLE WOMEN, THEY CARRIED THEM TO THE
HOUSE.  THEY BLEW BREATH INTO THEM, AND THE FIGURES BEGAN TO BREATHE,
BECAME ALIVE, AND FOLLOWED THE BROTHERS INTO THE HOUSE.  THEY
PRESENTED THEM TO COYOTE, SAYING, "THESE SHALL BE YOUR WIVES."
COYOTE BLESSED THE BROTHERS, AND CALLED THEM GOOD.  THEY SAID,
"ONE OF THESE WOMEN HAS RED SKIN, AND THE OTHER WHITE SKIN; AND ONE
HAS LIGHT HAIR, AND THE OTHER HAS DARK HAIR: THEREFORE SOME OF YOUR
WIVES' CHILDREN WILL BE DARK, AND SOME LIGHT.  YOUR WIVES WILL HAVE
MANY CHILDREN; AND YOUR DESCENDANTS WILL BE NUMEROUS, AND OCCUPY
A LARGE COUNTRY.  THEY WILL ALL SPEAK SHUSWAP."  THIS IS THE REASON
WHY THE SHUSWAP-SPEAKING PEOPLE OCCUPY A LARGE EXPANSE OF COUNTRY.


         45.  PORCUPINE;  OR, THE STORY OF DEER.
    ALL THE LESSER ANIMALS LIVED IN HUMAN FORM IN FOUR UNDERGROUND
HOUSES NEAR THE PLACE CALLED "THE LAKE," AT THE PORTAGE BETWEEN SEATON
AND ANDERSON LAKES.  THERE WERE AMONG THEM WOLF, FOX, COYOTE, LYNX,
MARTEN, FISHER, WOLVERINE, PORCUPINE, AND MANY OTHERS.  AT THAT
TIME DEER WERE VERY WILD, AND COULD JUMP FROM ONE MOUNTAIN-PEAK
TO ANOTHER AT A SINGLE BOUND;  THEREFORE IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE FOR THE
PEOPLE TO HUNT THEM.  THEY LIVED ON THE NORTH SIDE OF THE MOUNTAINS
WHICH SEPARATED THE LAKES FROM THE UPPER BRIDGE RIVER, AND BEYOND
AS FAR AS THE CHILCOTIN RIVER.  THIS REGION WAS CALL THE DEER COUNTRY;
AND THE DEER PEOPLE LIVED IN FOUR UNDERGROUND HOUSES JUST NORTH
OF THE MOUNTAINS.  THEY WERE MULE-DEER, ELK, CARIBOU, BIGHORN-SHEEP,
MOUNTAIN-GOAT, HORSE, AND SOME OTHERS.
    AT THAT TIME SNOWSHOES WERE NOT KNOWN.  THE SNOW LAY VERY DEEP
ON THE MOUNTAINS WHICH SEPARATED THE TWO PEOPLES, FOR IT WAS
WINTER-TIME.  THE CHIEF OF THE ANIMAL PEOPLE SAID IT WOULD BE
ADVISABLE TO ASK THE DEER PEOPLE TO A FEAST, AND TRY TO TAKE AWAY FROM
THEM THE POWER OF JUMPING.  THEY ASKED COYOTE TO GO AND INVITE THE
DEER PEOPLE; BUT HE RETURNED AT EVENING, NOT HAVING BEEN ABLE TO WALK
THROUGH THE DEEP SNOW.  ONE ANIMAL AFTER ANOTHER TRIED, BUT THEY ALL
FAILED; AND AS A LAST RESORT PORCUPINE WAS ASKED TO GO.  COYOTE, HIS
SONS, AND SOME OTHERS, LAUGHED AT THE IDEA OF PORCUPINE GOING, AND
SAID, "HOW CAN A PERSON WITH SUCH SHORT LEGS AND BIG BELLY GO WHERE
WE COULDN'T?"  PORCUPINE TOOK HIS SHIRT, LEGGINGS, CAP, MOCCASINS,
AND BELT (ALL OF WHICH WERE RICHLY EMBROIDERED WITH DENTALIA), AND HIS
DENTALIA NECKLACES, AND ROLLED THEM ALL UP IN A BUNDLE, WHICH HE PUT
ON HIS BACK.  HE SAID, "IF WE WANT TO GET THESE PEOPLE HERE, WE MUST
MAKE A RICH DISPLAY.  IF I MANAGE TO REACH THE SUMMIT OF THE RANGE, I
SHALL LIGHT A SIGNAL-FIRE, SO THAT YOU MAY KNOW OF MY ARRIVAL."
    HE WENT UNDER THE SNOW, INSTEAD OF ON THE TOP, AND AT LAST REACHED
THE SUMMIT, WHERE HE LIGHTED A FIRE, AS HE HAD PROMISED.  THE
FOLLOWING EVENING HE REACHED THE HOUSES OF THE DEER PEOPLE.  ON THE
SIDE-HILL ABOVE THEIR HOUSES HE PUT ON HIS FINE CLOTHES.  THE PEOPLE
CRIED OUT, "A STRANGER IS COMING, WEARING BEAUTIFUL CLOTHES]"  HE WAS
INVITED IN, AND AS HE DESCENDED THE LADDER, AND JUMPED DOWN AT THE
BOTTOM, DENTALIA FELL FROM HIS CLOTHES.  WHENEVER HE MOVED HIS ARM,
LEG, OR HEAD, DENTALIA FELL DOWN, AND THE CHILDREN GATHERED THEM UP.
THE PEOPLE GAVE HIM VENISON TO EAT, AND ASKED HIM WHY HE HAD COME TO
VISIT THEM.  HE SAID, "I HAVE BEEN SENT TO INVITE YOU TO THE HOUSES OF
MY PEOPLE TO A FEAST."  THEY AT ONCE ANSWERED, "WE WILL START IN THE
MORNING."  THEY THOUGHT ALL THE MESSENGER'S PEOPLE MUST BE LIKE
HIM, OR EVEN MORE RICHLY DRESSED THAN HE, AND THEY WOULD PROBABLY
RECEIVE RICH PRESENTS FROM THEM.  THEY DID NOT KNOW THAT PORCUPINE
WAS THE ONLY ONE OF HIS PEOPLE WHO POSSESSED DENTALIA.
    ON THE NEXT MORNING PORCUPINE LED THE WAY, AND ALL THE DEER PEOPLE
FOLLOWED.  WHEN THE ANIMAL PEOPLE SAW THEM COMING, THEY HASTENED
AND SPREAD MATS FOR THEM TO WALK ON TO THE HOUSE, AND OTHERS FOR
THEM TO SIT ON.  THEY FEASTED THEM FIRST, AND AFTERWARD GAVE THEM
PRESENTS.  THEY GAVE EACH ONE A PRESENT OF SOME ARTICLE OF A PUBESCENT
GIRL'S CLOTHING OR PARAPHERNALIA.  ONE WAS GIVEN A ROBE; ONE, AN
APRON; ANOTHER, PAINT; ANOTHER, A SCRATCHER; AND SO ON.  AFTER ALL THE
PRESENTS HAD BEEN GIVEN OUT, THE PEOPLE CRIED OUT, "YOU HAVE FORGOTTEN
GOAT]"  THE ANIMAL PEOPLE HAD NOTHING TO GIVE HIM, SO THEY MADE TWO
SMALL STICKS OF VINE-MAPLE, SHARP AT THE ENDS, AND THREW THEM AT HIS
HEAD, WHERE THEY STUCK, AND BECAME HORNS.  AGAIN THE PEOPLE CRIED OUT,
YOU HAVE FORGOTTEN ANOTHER PERSON,- HORSE]"  THE ANIMAL PEOPLE
HAD NOTHING TO GIVE HIM, SO THEY THREW A WOMAN'S PRIVATES AT HIS
LEGS, AND THUS HE OBTAINED THE PECULIAR FETLOCKS HE HAS AT THE PRESENT
DAY.
    THE DEER PEOPLE TOOK THEIR PRESENTS, AND WENT AWAY DISAPPOINTED.
THEY FOUND THEMSELVES HEAVY, AND NO LONGER ABLE TO JUMP AS BEFORE.
THIS WAS BECAUSE OF THE PUBESCENT GIRL'S CLOTHES.  WHEN THEY ARRIVED
AT THE SUMMIT OF THE MOUNTAIN-RANGE, THEY WERE ALL TRANSFORMED
INTO DEER, SHEEP, AND GOATS, AND SCATTERED THROUGH THE MOUNTAINS,
AS WE SEE THEM AT THE PRESENT DAY.  THE THINGS THEY RECEIVED AS
PRESENTS MAY BE FOUND IN THEIR BODIES; AND BECAUSE THEY INHABITED THE
COUNTRY AROUND UPPER BRIDGE RIVER, AND NORTH TO THE CHILCOTIN RIVER,
THEREFORE DEER ARE MORE NUMEROUS THERE THAN IN ANY OTHER PLACE, AND
GOATS AND SHEEP ARE ALSO PLENTIFUL.


         46.  THE MAN WHO LIVED WITH THE BEAR.
    A MAN LIVED AT THE MOUTH OF BRIDGE RIVER WHO HAD A WIFE AND THREE
CHILDREN.  HE ALWAYS WENT HUNTING WITH THE OTHER HUNTERS; BUT, AS HE
WAS NEVER ABLE TO KILL ANYTHING, THE OTHER MEN, WHEN DIVIDING THE
GAME, NEVER GAVE HIM ANY SHARE.  THE PEOPLE WERE CAMPED IN MAT
LODGES.
    ONE EVENING, WHEN THE FATHER WAS AWAY, THE CHILDREN BEGAN TO CRY
FOR MEAT; AND THEIR MOTHER SAID IN A SARCASTIC MANNER, "WHEN YOUR
FATHER COMES HOME, YOU WILL HAVE LOTS OF FAT TO EAT."  HER HUSBAND WAS
NEAR BY, ON HIS WAY HOME, AND HEARD WHAT SHE SAID.  HE FELT SO
ASHAMED, THAT HE TURNED BACK AND WENT UP TO A PLACE IN THE MOUNTAINS
CALLED NPAA'NK, WHERE THERE ARE BARE, BURNT HILLSIDES AND BLUFFS OF
ROCK, WITH A SMALL LAKE ON THE TOP.  HERE HE SLEPT.  NEXT MORNING
EARLY HE TRAVELLED IN AN AIMLESS MANNER TOWARD THE LAKE, SAYING TO
HIMSELF, "I WILL WANDER AROUND UNTIL I DIE."
    WHEN NEAR THE LAKE, HE SAW A MALE BLACK BEAR SITTING IN FRONT OF
HIM.  HE WENT TOWARD IT, BUT NEVER ATTEMPTED TO SHOOT IT, ALTHOUGH HIS
QUIVER WAS FULL OF ARROWS.  BEAR SAID TO HIM, "COME, FRIEND]  I AM
GLAD YOU DO NOT TRY TO SHOOT ME.  I KNOW HOW THE PEOPLE HAVE TREATED
YOU, AND THE BAD LUCK YOU HAVE HAD IN HUNTING.  IF YOU COME WITH ME
AND DO AS I DIRECT, I WILL TEACH YOU, AND YOU WILL BECOME VERY WISE."
    IT WAS THE FALL OF THE YEAR; AND BEAR WENT INTO HIS DEN, TAKING
THE HUNTER WITH HIM.  IT WAS A LARGE CAVE, IN ONE END OF WHICH BEAR
DEFECATED AND URINATED.  IN ANOTHER PLACE THERE WAS A SMALL POOL OF
WATER, AT WHICH HE WET HIS LIPS.  BEAR SAID, "I AM GOING TO STAY HERE
ALL WINTER, AND I WISH YOU TO REMAIN WITH ME."  THE HUNTER LOOKED
AROUND, AND, SEEING NO FOOD, SAID TO HIMSELF, "I WONDER WHAT WE SHALL
EAT]"  BEAR KNEW HIS THOUGHTS, AND SAID, "YOU NEED NOT THINK OF
THAT.  I WILL PROVIDE FOOD FOR BOTH OF US."  NOW BEAR GATHERED
FIR-BRANCHES, AND MADE A BED; AND THE MAN DID LIKEWISE.  THEN BEAR
CLOSED THE ENTRANCE TO THE DEN, AND SAID TO THE MAN, "YOU WILL SLEEP
IN THAT CORNER, AND I WILL SLEEP HERE.  TAKE OFF YOUR CLOTHES AND LIE
DOWN.  IT IS NOW DARK, AND WE WILL GO TO SLEEP."  THE HUNTER DIVESTED
HIMSELF OF HIS WEAPONS AND CLOTHES, AND LAY DOWN.  HE FELT QUITE WARM,
FOR THERE WAS NO DRAUGHT, AND THE BREATH OF THE BEAR KEPT THE PLACE
WARM.  BEAR SAID, "I WILL WAKE YOU WHEN IT IS TIME TO EAT."  AT THE
END OF ONE MONTH, BEAR WAKENED HIM, AND GAVE HIM ONE PAW TO SUCK,
WHILE HE HIMSELF SUCKED THE OTHER.  THUS BEAR WAKENED AND FED HIM
AT THE END OF EACH MONTH FOR FOUR MONTHS.
    NOW IT WAS SPRING-TIME; AND BEAR, OPENING THE DEN, GAVE THE MAN
HIS BOW AND ARROWS, AND BADE HIM GOOD-BY.  TAKING FOUR OF HIS ARROWS,
HE FIXED THEM SO THAT THEY BECAME DIFFERENT, AND SAID, "TAKE CARE OF
THESE]  IF YOU SHOOT THEM AT GAME, THEY WILL ALWAYS KILL.  NEVER TRY
TO SHOOT ANY BLACK BEAR.  NO SHAMAN WILL EVER BE ABLE TO BEWITCH
YOU, OR TAKE AWAY YOUR LUCK.  YOU WILL BE LUCKY, AND KILL ALL KINDS
OF GAME, AND WILL NEVER BE HUNGRY.  YOU WILL BE A GREAT HUNTER.
DON'T GIVE THE PEOPLE ANYTHING YOU KILL AT FIRST."  THEN HE TOLD HIM
WHERE TO FIND DEER; AND THE MAN DID AS DIRECTED, AND SHOT A BUCK,
WHICH HE CARRIED HOME ON HIS BACK.
    COMING TO WHERE THE PEOPLE WERE CAMPED, HE PASSED BY ABOVE THEM,
AND WENT TO HIS WIFE'S HOUSE.  SHE HAD CUT HER HAIR AS A SIGN OF
WIDOW-HOOD.  HE ATE THE MEAT WITH HIS FAMILY.  THE PEOPLE CAME TO SEE
HIM, BUT HE WOULD NOT GIVE THEM ANY MEAT TO EAT.  THEY WERE ANGRY, AND
SAID, "HE HAS BEEN OUT FIVE MONTHS, AND ONLY KILLED ONE DEER: IT IS
WELL IF HE EATS IT ALL HIMSELF."
    AGAIN THE MAN WENT HUNTING, GATHERED THE DEER ALL IN ONE PLACE,
AND SHOT FORTY.  HE TOOK HOME A PIECE OF ONE.  THE PEOPLE SAID, "THE
POOR FELLOW HAS KILLED ANOTHER DEER."  THEY WENT OUT HUNTING; BUT
EACH TIME THEY RETURNED WITHOUT SEEING ANY DEER, AND FEELING VERY
TIRED.  THEN AN OLD MAN SAID TO THE OTHERS, "HE HAS LEARNED THE
'MYSTERY' OF THE DEER: TALK NICELY TO HIM, AND HE MAY GIVE US MEAT."
NOW HE ASKED THE PEOPLE TO GO AND CARRY IN THE DEER.  THEY LAUGHED,
AND SAID, "IT DOES NOT REQUIRE US ALL TO CARRY IN ONE DEER."  AT LAST,
HOWEVER, THEY ALL WENT, AND WERE SURPRISED TO SEE SO MANY DEAD DEER.
IT TOOK THEM ALL OF ONE DAY TO SKIN AND CUT UP THE CARCASS, AND ALL OF
THE NEXT DAY TO CARRY HOME THE MEAT.  THE MAN BECAME THE MOST
FAMOUS HUNTER OF THE TRIBE.


         47.  ORIGIN OF THE LILLOOET AND BRIDGE RIVER PEOPLE.
FORMERLY THERE WERE NO PEOPLE WHO LIVED AT BRIDGE RIVER AND THE
FOUNTAIN; BUT A NUMBER OF PEOPLE LIVED NEAR A SPRING CLOSE TO WHERE
THE PRESENT INDIAN VILLAGE OF LILLOOET IS SITUATED.  THEY WERE
LILLOOET, AND LIVED PRINCIPALLY ON DEER-MEAT.  LOWER DOWN, BETWEEN
THEM AND THE FRASER RIVER, AT ANOTHER SPRING WHERE WHITE PEOPLE ARE
LIVING NOW, DWELT OTHER PEOPLE WHO WERE CALLED FROG-MOUTHS
(PAPE'#ATCIN) BECAUSE THEY ATE FROGS.  THEY LIVED ALL TOGETHER IN AN
UNDERGROUND HOUSE, AND NEVER HELD ANY INTERCOURSE WITH THE PEOPLE WHO
LIVED ABOVE THEM.  THEY SUBSISTED PRINCIPALLY ON FROG-FLESH; BUT THEY
ALSO ATE SNAKES, LIZARDS, AND ALL KINDS OF REPTILES.
    IN THOSE DAYS THE FROGS AND TOADS WERE AS LARGE AS BUFFALOES; AND
THE FROG PEOPLE CALLED THEM, "THE ANIMAL," IN THE SAME WAY AS THE
INDIANS OF THE PRESENT DAY DESIGNATE THE GRIZZLY BEAR.  THESE PEOPLE
MADE ALL THEIR CLOTHES AND BLANKETS OF FROG AND TOAD SKINS.  THEIR
DRESS CONSISTED OF SHOES, BREECH-CLOUT, AND ROBE.  THEY HUNTED THE
FROGS WITH SPEARS SIMILAR TO BEAVER-SPEARS, AND CARRIED HOME THE MEAT
AT NIGHT.
    AMONG THESE PEOPLE WERE TWO MARRIAGEABLE GIRLS WHOM THE YOUNG
MEN OF SETL WERE VERY ANXIOUS TO MARRY.  THE YOUNG MEN REPAIRED TO
THE UNDERGROUND HOUSE TO OBTAIN THE GIRLS; BUT EACH ONE, IN TURN, WAS
OVERCOME BY THE SMELL OF FROG-FAT WHEN THE PEOPLE COOKED, AND DIED
INSIDE THE HOUSE.  THEIR BODIES WERE CARRIED OUT, AND LEFT ON A BENCH
NEAR BY.  THUS ALL THE YOUNG MEN OF SETL MET THEIR DEATH; AND THEIR
BONES WHITENED THE BENCH NEAR THE HOUSE OF THE FROG-EATERS.
    ONLY ONE YOUNG MAN WAS LEFT, AND HE REPAIRED TO THE MOUNTAINS TO
TRAIN HIMSELF.  HE TOOK THE BACK-FAT OF FOUR DEER WITH HIM, AND LIVED
ON THAT DURING THE FOUR YEARS HE WAS AWAY TRAINING.  AT THE END OF
THAT TIME HE HAD LEARNED ALL THE "MYSTERY" OF WATER, LAKE, SWAMP,
MUD, SPRING, AND RIVER.  HE HAD ALSO LEARNED ALL THE "MYSTERY" OF THE
ANIMALS THAT INHABITED OR LIVED NEAR THEM, SUCH AS FROGS, SNAKES,
AND LIZARDS.  HE COULD EAT ALL THESE ANIMALS, AND THEIR FLESH DID NOT
HARM HIM.  BEING COMPLETE IN ALL THE MAGIC REQUIRED FOR HIS PURPOSE,
HE RETURNED HOME, AND TOLD THE PEOPLE HE INTENDED TO GO AND OBTAIN
THE DAUGHTERS OF THE FROG-EATERS.  THE PEOPLE SAID, "DON'T GO]  YOU
ARE SURE TO BE KILLED, AND YOU ARE THE ONLY YOUNG MAN WE HAVE LEFT."
AFTER SWALLOWING ARROWS, SNOWSHOES, AND A DOG, HE WENT TO THE
FROG-EATERS' HOUSE, CLAD ONLY IN BREECH-CLOUT AND LEGGINGS.  A
FROG-MAN WAS SITTING AT THE LADDER, STRIKING ONE FOOT AGAINST THE
OTHER, AND, SEEING HIM COMING, HE SAID, "ALL YOUR FRIENDS HAVE DIED BY
COMING HERE.  DON'T YOU SEE THEIR BONES ON THE BENCH?  WHY DO YOU
COURT DEATH?  HAVE YOU HAD NO LESSON?"  THE LAD ANSWERED, "I WISH TO
OBTAIN YOUR TWO DAUGHTERS, AND AM PREPARED TO DIE."  THE MAN STRUCK
HIM ON THE LEGS AS HE WENT DOWN THE LADDER, BUT HE PAID NO ATTENTION.
REACHING THE BOTTOM, HE WENT ASIDE, AND SAT DOWN WITH HIS BACK TO THE
WALL.  THE PEOPLE WERE ALL LYING DOWN; BUT WHEN HE ENTERED THEY SAID,
"COOK SOME MEAT: WE HAVE NOT EATEN SINCE MORNING."  THEN THEY
BEGAN TO BOIL AND ROAST FROG-MEAT, AND THE SMOKE FROM THE FAT FILLED
THE HOUSE.  THE PEOPLE ATE, AND, WHEN THE SMOKE CLEARED AWAY, THEY
SAW HIM SITTING IN THE SAME PLACE.  THEY SAID TO ONE ANOTHER, "HE
DOES NOT DIE AS QUICKLY AS THE OTHERS DID."  AFTER A WHILE, THE PEOPLE
SAID, "WE WILL COOK AGAIN;" AND THIS TIME THEY ROASTED THE INTESTINES
AND INSIDE PARTS OF THE FROG.  THE HOUSE BECAME SO FILLED WITH SMOKE
FROM THE BURNING FAT, THAT THE PEOPLE COULD NOT SEE ONE ANOTHER.  WHEN
IT CLEARED AWAY, THE LAD STILL SAT ALIVE, AND THE PEOPLE WONDERED.
WHEN THEY WENT TO SLEEP, THEIR CHIEF SAID, "THE LAD HAS VANQUISHED US,
AND SEEMS TO BE ABLE TO LIVE WITH US.  HE MAY HAVE OUR DAUGHTERS."  HE
STAYED WITH HIS WIVES THAT NIGHT, AND THEY COVERED HIM WITH A FROG-SKIN
BLANKET, WHICH SMELLED HORRIBLY.
    ON THE NEXT DAY THE PEOPLE SAID, "LET US HUNT]  WE ARE NEARLY OUT
OF FOOD."  THEY ALL WENT AND HUNTED OVER THE MOUNTAINS BACK OF
LILLOOET, RETURNING BY THE MOUTH OF BRIDGE RIVER, WITHOUT SEEING ANY
GAME, FOR THE LAD MADE ALL THE FROGS LEAVE THEIR USUAL HAUNTS.  THE
PEOPLE ALL RETURNED HOME, THE LAD BEING THE LAST ONE, AND SOME
DISTANCE BEHIND.  HE FELT THIRSTY, WENT TO A SPRING CALLED KELAMU'LAX,
AND, ALTHOUGH KNEE-DEEP IN MUD, HE DRANK, PUSHING ASIDE THE DEAD
LEAVES WHICH COVERED THE SURFACE OF THE WATER.  TO HIS SURPRISE, HE
BEHELD A HUGE FROG LOOKING AT HIM.  IT WAS NEARLY CONCEALED BY THE
DEAD LEAVES, WATER, AND MUD.  IT WAS EARLY WINTER, AND THE FROG HAD
PROBABLY GONE INTO HIS WINTER QUARTERS.  THE LAD SAID, "I AM NOT
AFRAID OF YOU," AND DRANK HIS FILL OF THE WATER.  THEN HE HURRIED HOME
TO THE HOUSE, AS IT WAS GETTING LATE.
    HE WAS WEARING FROG-SKIN SHOES, AND HIS LEGS WERE ALL COVERED WITH
MUD.  WHEN HE ENTERED, THE PEOPLE NOTICED THE MUD, AND SAID, "OUR
SON-IN-LAW MUST HAVE FOUND A FROG]  HE IS A GREAT HUNTER."  HIS
WIVES PULLED OFF HIS SHOES AND LEGGINGS, AND HUNG THEM UP TO DRY.
HE TOLD THEM WHERE HE HAD SEEN THE FROG, AND THEY SAID, "WE WILL GO
TO-NIGHT AND KILL IT."  THEY ALL WENT TO THE PLACE, AND, AFTER
SPEARING THE FROG AND KILLING IT, THEY BEGAN TO ROAST THE MEAT.  THE
PLACE WHERE THEY HAD THEIR FIRE AND ROASTED THEIR MEAT MAY STILL BE
SEEN NEAR THE MOUTH OF BRIDGE RIVER.  THEN THEY CARRIED THE MEAT HOME,
AND ATE AGAIN WHEN THEY REACHED THERE.
    THE LAD DID NOT EAT ANY FROG-MEAT.  HE TOLD HIS WIVES HE WAS GOING
TO HUNT, AND BRING IN A DIFFERENT KIND OF MEAT TO EAT.  EARLY NEXT
MORNING HE WENT OUT, AND VOMITED THE DOG HE HAD SWALLOWED, SENDING
HIM TO ROUND UP DEER.  THEN HE VOMITED HIS SNOWSHOES AND BOW AND
ARROWS, AND PUT THE SNOWSHOES ON, CHASED THE DEER INTO A GULCH, AND
SHOT THEM ALL.  HE CUT UP ONE, TOOK SOME OF THE MEAT HOME, AND,
WHEN HE FOUND HIS WIVES OUT WASHING THEMSELVES, HE PERSUADED THEM
TO EAT SOME.  THEY THOUGHT THEY WOULD DIE; BUT AFTER WAITING A LONG
TIME, AND FINDING NO BAD EFFECTS FROM THE MEAT, THEY WERE GLAD.
    THE LAD SAID, "I WILL CHANGE THE FOOD OF YOUR PEOPLE TO-MORROW."
HE BROUGHT SOME DEER-MEAT TO THE HOUSE THE NEXT DAY, BUT THE PEOPLE
WERE AFRAID TO EAT IT.  ON THE FOURTH MORNING HE WENT TO THE GULCH,
ROASTED THE WHOLE CARCASS OF A DEER, AND BROUGHT IT TO THE HOUSE AND
DROPPED IT DOWN THE HOLE.  THE PEOPLE WERE AFRAID OF SUCH A MYSTERIOUS
OBJECT.  HE TOLD THEM, "YOU MUST EAT THIS MEAT, AND I WILL EAT WITH
YOU.  IT IS GOOD, AND WILL NOT HARM YOU.  I SHALL TRANSFORM ANY ONE
WHO DOES NOT EAT OF IT."  THE PEOPLE AT LAST ATE OF THE MEAT, AND,
FINDING THAT THEY DID NOT DIE, THEY DECLARED IT TO BE GOOD FOOD.
THREE OF THEM WOULD NOT EAT OF THE MEAT.
    THEN HE SENT HIS WIVES AND ALL THE PEOPLE TO BRING IN THE DEER
FROM THE GULCH.  WHEN THEY HAD LEFT, HE TOOK ALL THEIR CLOTHES,
BLANKETS, SKINS, AND MEAT OF FROGS OUTSIDE THE HOUSE, AND BURNED THEM.
WHEN THE PEOPLE RETURNED, HE SAID, "YOU ARE ALREADY IN MY POWER, AND I
CAN DO WITH YOU AS I LIKE.  HAVING EATEN OF VENISON, YOU ARE NOW LIKE
MY OWN PEOPLE."  HE TOLD THEM TO STRIP NAKED, AND BURNED ALL THEIR
FROG CLOTHES.  THEN HE SHOWED THEM HOW TO TAN THE SKINS OF THE DEER
THEY HAD BROUGHT HOME, AND MAKE THEMSELVES DEER-SKIN CLOTHES.
    WHEN THEY WERE ALL CLOTHED, HE TOLD THEM TO SIT DOWN ON THE EDGE
OF THE BENCH WHERE THE SKELETONS WERE, AND WATCH WHAT HE WOULD DO WITH
THEM.  HE SAID, "YOU KILLED THESE PEOPLE: NOW I WILL MAKE THEM
TO WALK AROUND AND MIX WITH THE FROG PEOPLE.  THEN HE TRANSFORMED
INTO "WATER-MYSTERIES" THE THREE FROG-EATERS WHO WOULD NOT EAT
VENISON, AND THREW THEM INTO A CREEK NEAR BY, SAYING, "YOU SHALL
REMAIN THERE AS 'WATER-MYSTERIES,' AND SHALL HOWL LIKE DOGS.  IF A
PERSON HAPPENS TO SEE YOU, YOU MAY DO THEM HARM, IF THEIR TIME HAS
COME TO DIE."  THEN HE CONDUCTED ALL THE FROG-EATERS UP TO SETL,
WHERE THEY LIVED THENCEFORTH, AND THE TWO PEOPLES INTERMARRIED.
    AFTER THEY HAD AMALGAMATED, SOME OF THE PEOPLE MOVED, AND SETTLED
AT THE MOUTH OF BRIDGE RIVER: THEREFORE THE BRIDGE RIVER AND SETL
OF LILLOOET PEOPLE ARE THE SAME.  MANY OF THEM CLAIM DESCENT FROM
THE FROG-EATERS AND THEIR ANCESTOR WHO CHANGED THE FROG-EATERS.
THE OTHER LILLOOET NICKNAME THEM "FROG PEOPLE," OR "FROG-MOUTHS,"
BECAUSE OF THEIR ORIGIN AND ANCESTRY.  THEY USED TO IMPERSONATE THEIR
ANCESTOR AT FEASTS AND POTLATCHES, AND WORE MASKS RESEMBLING FROGS.


         48.  ORIGIN OF THE SKIMQAI'N PEOPLE.
THE EARLIEST KNOWN INHABITANTS OF SKIMQAI'N WERE TWO FAMILIES WHO
LIVED SOME DISTANCE APART.  THE HEAD OF ONE FAMILY WAS A MAN CALLED
XANA'UKST, WHO HAD MANY WIVES AND A LARGE NUMBER OF SONS.  HE WAS
VERY WEALTHY, AND LIVED EXACTLY AT THE SPOT CALLED SKIMQAI'N.  THE
OTHER FAMILY LIVED AT THE PLACE KNOWN AS SLAKA'L, AND THEIR HEAD WAS
A MAN CALLED TWISTED (LUPST), WHO HAD A TWISTED JAW.  THESE TWO
FAMILIES WERE THE ORIGINAL INHABITANTS, AND WERE KIN TO ONE ANOTHER.
    ON THE FAR SIDE OF A LAKE CALLED STOQ, SITUATED A CONSIDERABLE
DISTANCE AWAY, LIVED A DIFFERENT PEOPLE, WHO WERE RELATED TO ONE
ANOTHER.  THEY OCCUPIED TWO UNDERGROUND HOUSES.  THE CHIEF OF ONE WAS
BY NAME ZENUXHA'; AND HIS ELDER BROTHER, WHOSE NAME WAS NKALUXHA',
WAS CHIEF OF THE OTHER.  THESE PEOPLE WERE ENDOWED WITH MAGIC, AND
NKALUXHA' WAS A WICKED MAN AND A CANNIBAL.  HIS BROTHER ZENUXHA'
HAD TWO DAUGHTERS, WHO WERE GOOD-LOOKING YOUNG WOMEN; AND XANA'UKST'S
SONS HAD, ONE BY ONE, GONE TO WOO THEM: BUT EACH IN TURN HAD
MADE THE MISTAKE OF GOING TO NKALUXHA''S HOUSE, AND HAD BEEN EATEN
BY HIM AND HIS HOUSEHOLD.  THUS ALL OF XANA'UKST'S SONS HAD PERISHED,
EXCEPT ONE, WHO GREW VERY RESTLESS BECAUSE HIS BROTHERS DID NOT
RETURN, AND ASKED HIS FATHER WHAT HAD BECOME OF THEM.  HIS FATHER TOLD
HIM THEY HAD BEEN EATEN BY A CANNIBAL.
    XANA'UKST GAVE HIS SON THE BACK-FAT OF FOUR DEER, AND SENT HIM UP
CAYUSE CREEK TO TRAIN.  THERE HE TRAINED HIMSELF FOR FOUR YEARS, AND
NEVER COMBED HIS HAIR IN THAT TIME, SO THAT IT HAD BECOME FILLED WITH
NEEDLES FROM THE FIR-BRANCHES WITH WHICH HE WASHED HIMSELF, AND STUCK
OUT LIKE A BALL AROUND HIS HEAD.  WHEN HE HAD FINISHED TRAINING, HE
FOUND HIMSELF TO BE FULL OF KNOWLEDGE AND MAGIC.  HE WAS THE
DISCOVERER OF ARROW-STONE, AND FROM IT MADE THE FIRST ARROW-HEADS AND
KNIVES, WHICH HE USED IN HUNTING.  HE ALSO MADE THE FIRST BOW AND
ARROW AND QUIVER, AND THE FIRST PAIR OF SNOWSHOES.  WHEN HE HAD MADE
ALL THESE THINGS, HE HUNTED AND KILLED DEER FOR FOOD.
    ONE DAY HE SWALLOWED A DOG, QUIVER, BOW, ARROWS, KNIFE, AND
SNOWSHOES, AND THEN WENT DOWN TO THE LAKE, ON THE OTHER SIDE OF WHICH
LIVED THE PEOPLE WHO HAD KILLED HIS BROTHERS.  HE SHOUTED FOR A CANOE
ALL DAY LONG, BUT THE PEOPLE TOOK NO NOTICE OF HIM.  ABOUT EVENING HE
GREW TIRED, AND, LEANING BACK ON THE BANK, YAWNED.  ALL AT ONCE THE
PEOPLE SEEMED TO HEAR HIM, AND SENT OFF TWO MEN IN A CANOE TO FETCH
HIM ACROSS.  THEY STOPPED THE CANOE ABOUT TEN FEET FROM THE SHORE,
AND ASKED HIM TO JUMP IN.  HE SAID IT WAS TOO FAR: SO THEY BROUGHT THE
CANOE A LITTLE CLOSER, AND HE JUMPED IN.  WHEN THEY WERE GOING ACROSS,
THEY ASKED HIM WHICH CHIEF HE INTENDED TO VISIT, AND HE SAID,
"ZENUXHA'."  THEY SAID, "YOU MUST BE MAKING A MISTAKE.  EVERY ONE WHO
COMES HERE VISITS NKALUXHA'."  BUT HE SAID, "I VISIT ZENUXHA'."
    WHEN NKALUXHA' SAW THE CANOE APPROACHING, HE THOUGHT THE MAN
WOULD CERTAINLY COME TO HIM, AS THE OTHERS HAD DONE: SO HE MADE HIS
LITTLE KETTLE BOIL (IT WAS A HOLE IN THE EARTH, LINED IN THE INSIDE
WITH FLAT STONES), AND HE CRIED, "NIM, NIM, NIM, I WILL SOON HAVE SOME
DAINTY MEAT TO EAT]"  HE WAS DISAPPOINTED, HOWEVER, FOR THE CANOE MEN
HAD TO CONDUCT THE MAN TO ZENUXHA'S HOUSE, AS HE HAD REQUESTED.
    ENTERING THE HOUSE, HE SAID TO ZENUXHA', "YOU ARE A GREAT CHIEF,
AND I TAKE REFUGE WITH YOU.  I COME FOR YOUR DAUGHTERS."  ZENUXHA'
SAID, "KNEEL DOWN BEFORE ME."  THEN HE STRUCK HIM ON THE BACK OF
THE HEAD FOUR TIMES, EACH TIME WITH A DIFFERENT FIR-BRANCH, AND THE
LICE FELL OUT OF HIS HEAD.  THEN HE SAID, "GO AND WASH YOURSELF IN MY
WATER," POINTING TO A LITTLE CREEK NEAR BY.  WHEN HE RETURNED,
ZENUXHA' GAVE HIM HIS TWO DAUGHTERS TO BE HIS WIVES.  HIS
FATHER-IN-LAW SAID, "IT IS WELL THAT YOU CAME TO ME.  IF YOU HAD GONE
TO MY BROTHER, YOU WOULD HAVE SHARED THE FATE OF YOUR BROTHERS."
    THE YOUNG MAN DID NOT LEAVE THE HOUSE FOR A COUPLE OF DAYS.
HE STAYED WITH HIS WIVES, WHO WERE MAKING MOCCASINS FOR HIM.. THE
OTHER YOUNG MEN IN THE HOUSE SAID, "ZENUXHA''S SON-IN-LAW SHOULD
HAVE GIVEN THEM TO US, WHO ARE HUNTERS AND INDUSTRIOUS MEN."  ON
THE NEXT MORNING THE YOUNG MAN WENT HUNTING WITH HIS BROTHERS-IN-LAW
AND ALL THE MEN.  THEY TRAVELLED FAST, AND LEFT HIM BEHIND WITH ONE
OF HIS BROTHERS-IN-LAW, WHO SAID, "YOU HUNT IN THAT DIRECTION, AND I
WILL HUNT IN THIS DIRECTION."  AFTER THEY HAD PARTED, THE YOUNG MAN
VOMITED HIS SNOWSHOES, AND PUT THEM ON.  HE ALSO VOMITED HIS DOG
AND HIS WEAPONS.  THE DOG RAN ALL THE DEER INTO A GULCH, WHERE HIS
MASTER CAME UP AND SHOT THEM.  HE CUT UP ONE, AND TOOK THE WEB-FAT
FROM AROUND THE PAUNCH, AND PUT IT INSIDE HIS QUIVER.
    IT WAS DARK WHEN HE GOT HOME; AND ALL THE OTHER MEN HAD PRECEDED
HIM, BEING UNABLE TO FIND ANY DEER.  THEY LAUGHED WHEN THEY SAW HIM
COME IN WITHOUT ANY MEAT.  WHEN HIS WIVES HAD PULLED OFF HIS SHOES,
HE SAID TO THEM, "GIVE MY QUIVER TO MY FATHER-IN-LAW TO DRY."
ZENUXHA' WAS ASTONISHED TO FIND THE FAT INSIDE, AND THE OTHERS AT ONCE
CEASED LAUGHING.  HE COOKED THE FAT, AND INVITED NKALUXHA' TO COME
AND EAT.  THE LATTER MADE GREAT HASTE, THINKING HIS BROTHER HAD
COOKED HIS SON-IN-LAW.  HE SAID, "NIM,NIM,NIM]" AS HE CAME DOWN
THE LADDER.  ZENUXHA' SAID, "IF YOU KILL ANY MORE PEOPLE, I WILL KILL
YOU."  SO NKALUXHA', AFTER EATING PART OF THE FAT, WENT HOME
DISAPPOINTED.  NOW THE YOUNG MAN SAID, "I HAVE KILLED MANY DEER.
TO-MORROW YOU WILL BRING THEM IN."  IT TOOK ALL THE PEOPLE FOUR DAYS
TO CARRY ALL THE MEAT HOME.
    WHEN THE MAN HAD LIVED FOUR YEARS WITH THESE PEOPLE, HE DECIDED
TO GO HOME.  HE HAD NOW A CHILD BY EACH WIFE, AND THE CHILDREN WERE
ASKING TO SEE THEIR GRANDMOTHER.  HE SAID TO HIS WIVES, "YOUR PEOPLE
ARE VERY BAD.  YOU MUST NOT BE SORRY IF I TRANSFORM THEM.  THEN WE
WILL GO HOME TO MY PEOPLE.  THERE IS NO HURRY, HOWEVER, FOR MY FATHER
DOES NOT EXPECT ME YET.  I TOLD HIM I WOULD BE AWAY EIGHT YEARS."
    ONE DAY HE TOOK NKALUXHA', TRANSFORMED HIM INTO A CRANE AND
THREW HIM ON ONE SIDE OF THE LAKE, AND THE WATER AT ONCE TURNED BLACK.
THEN HE THREW NKALUXHA''S WIFE BEHIND HER HUSBAND, TRANSFORMING
HER INTO A MOUNTAIN OF A BLACK COLOR.  SEIZING ZENUXHA', HE CHANGED
HIM INTO A S'A'TUEN, AND, THROWING HIM TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE LAKE,
THE WATER THERE ASSUMED A WHITE COLOR.  THEN HE THREW ZENUXHA''S
WIFE BEHIND HIM, AND SHE BECAME A WHITE MOUNTAIN.  THUS THE LAKE
BECAME "MYSTERIOUS;" AND HALF OF ITS WATERS IS BLACK, AND THE OTHER
HALF WHITE.
    NOW HE TOOK ALL THE REST OF THE PEOPLE, TRANSFORMED THEM INTO
LIZARDS, AND THREW THEM AROUND THE LAKE-SHORE.  THEN HE JUMPED OVER
THE BONES OF HIS BROTHERS, AND THEY BECAME ALIVE AND WALKED HOME.  HE
FOLLOWED THEM, WITH HIS WIVES AND CHILDREN.  ON THE WAY, HIS WIVES
DUG ROOTS IN GREAT ABUNDANCE, WHICH HE CAUSED TO ASSUME THE SIZE
AND WEIGHT OF TWO SMALL BUNDLES.  HE HUNTED DEER, KILLED FORTY, AND
GAVE THEM THE SIZE AND WEIGHT OF AN ORDINARY PACK OF MEAT, WHICH HE
CARRIED HIMSELF.
    WHEN HE ARRIVED AT HOME, HE CAUSED THE ROOTS AND DEER TO RETURN TO
THEIR ORIGINAL PROPORTIONS, AND THEY FILLED MANY SCAFFOLDS.  THEN HE
GAVE A GREAT FEAST AND A POTLATCH,-THE FIRST ONE ON RECORD.  HE SPREAD
FIR-BRANCHES ALL AROUND THE OUTSIDE OF THE HOUSE FOR HIS GUESTS TO
WALK ON, AND INVITED ALL THE PEOPLE FROM THE LOWER LILLOOET RIVER
NORTH-EAST TO THE FOUNTAIN, AND THEY ALL HAD PLENTY TO EAT.
    MOST OF THE SKIMQA'IN PEOPLE ARE DESCENDED FROM THE MAN AND HIS
TWO WIVES.  THEY WERE THE FIRST WOMEN THAT USED BONE WHISTLES, ON
WHICH THEY USED TO IMITATE THE CRIES OF THE CRANE, HERON, SWAN, AND
OTHER BIRDS.  THE PEOPLE WHO CLAIMED DESCENT FROM THEM USED TO
IMITATE CRANES IN THEIR DANCES, USED WHISTLES, AND WORE MASKS LIKE THE
HEADS OF CRANES.  THE SKIMQA'IN PEOPLE ARE NICKNAMED "CRANES" OR
"S'A'TUEN" BY THE OTHER LILLOOET.


         49.  ORIGIN OF THE FOUNTAIN PEOPLE.
    THE FIRST PERSON KNOWN TO HAVE LIVED NEAR FOUNTAIN (X'A'XALEP)
WAS A MAN CALLED COYOTE, WHO DWELT IN AN UNDERGROUND HOUSE AT A
PLACE CALLED LAXO'XOA, BELOW THE PRESENT FOUNTAIN RANCHERIA.  HE
WAS GOING TO CUT OPEN THE BELLY OF HIS WIFE, WHO WAS PREGNANT, WHEN
THE FOUR TRANSFORMERS-BLACK-BEAR BROTHERS-CAME ALONG, AND,
HEARING HIM WEEPING, ENTERED THE HOUSE AND ASKED WHAT WAS WRONG.
HE SAID, "YOU SEE YOUR MOTHER LYING THERE]  WELL, I AM ABOUT TO CUT
HER OPEN AND TAKE OUT HER CHILD."  HE WAS SHARPENING A STONE
ARROW-HEAD KNIFE FOR THE PURPOSE.  "SHE WILL DIE; BUT I WILL REAR THE
CHILD, WHO WILL, IN TURN, BECOME MY WIFE.  I HAVE BEEN DOING THIS FOR
GENERATIONS."  THE BROTHERS ANSWERED, "YOU ARE CERTAINLY TO BE PITIED;
BUT WE CAN HELP YOU.  GIVE US SOME BIRD-CHERRY BARK."  THEY TOOK THE
BIRD-CHERRY BARK, WHICH THEY MOISTENED, AND, INSERTING IT IN THE
WOMAN, THEY PULLED THE CHILD, THE HEAD OF WHICH CAME OUT.  THE BARK
STRING BROKE, AND THEY ASKED FOR SOME DEER-THONG, WHICH THEY FASTENED
TO THE CHILD, AND PULLED IT OUT ALTOGETHER.  THEN THEY SAID, "YOUR
WIFE WILL HENCEFORTH GIVE BIRTH TO CHILDREN, AND THERE WILL BE NO
LONGER ANY NEED OF CUTTING HER BELLY OPEN."  COYOTE WAS VERY GLAD.
THEY FURTHER SAID, "YOU WILL HAVE VERY MANY CHILDREN BY YOUR WIFE, AND
YOUR DESCENDANTS WILL BECOME NUMEROUS IN THIS COUNTRY."
    COYOTE HAD A NUMEROUS FAMILY, HALF OF WHOM MARRIED SHUSWAP FROM
UP THE FRASER, AND THE OTHER HALF MARRIED LILLOOET FROM ACROSS THE
FRASER.  THEIR DESCENDANTS SETTLED IN AND OCCUPIED THE COUNTRY TO A
POINT UP THE RIVER BEYOND KALA'UT, AND NEAR TO THE MOUTH OF PAVILLION
CREEK, AND AS FAR DOWN AS OPPOSITE THE MOUTH OF BRIDGE RIVER.  THERE
ONE OF THEM, BY NAME KEAXU'S, MADE AN UNDERGROUND HOUSE; AND HIS
DESCENDANTS INCREASED, AND OCCUPIED SEVERAL HOUSES AT THAT PLACE.
THEY ALWAYS INTERMARRIED WITH BOTH THE LILLOOET AND SHUSWAP, AND
FROM THE FIRST HAVE BEEN A MIXED PEOPLE, AS THEY ARE AT THE PRESENT
DAY.  THEY ARE NEITHER LILLOOET NOR SHUSWAP, BUT PART OF BOTH, AND
SPEAK BOTH LANGUAGES.  THEIR ANCESTOR, COYOTE, IS SUPPOSED TO HAVE
BEEN A SHUSWAP, OR AT LEAST HE SPOKE THAT LANGUAGE.  THEY ARE
NICKNAMED "COYOTE PEOPLE" BY THE OTHER LILLOOET, AND USED TO
IMPERSONATE THEIR ANCESTORS AT DANCES.  THEY WORE COYOTE MASKS AT
POTLATCHES AND WHEN THEY DANCED.  SOME OF THE LILLOOET WHO
INTERMARRIED WITH THEM CONTINUED TO WEAR THE FROG MASKS OF THE SETL
PEOPLE AT THEIR DANCES.


         50.  KOMAKSTI'MUT.
    A WOMAN CALLED KOMAKSTI'MUT LIVED IN THE WEST, IN A HIGH MOUNTAIN
OF THE CASCADE RANGE, OVERLOOKING A LAKE, IN A CAVE OF TWO ROOMS.
STRETCHING FROM HER HOUSE TO THE LAKE WAS A SMOOTH, STEEP SLIDE WHERE
SHE AMUSED HERSELF BY SLIDING DOWN INTO THE WATER.  SHE HAD NO HAIR
ON HEAD AND BODY.  SHE NEEDED NO FOOD, FOR SHE LIVED BY HER MAGICAL
POWERS.  SHE WAYLAID HUNTERS, UPON WHOM SHE CAST A SPELL.  AT ONCE
THEY LOST ALL WILL POWER, AND BECAME ENTIRELY SUBJECT TO HER CONTROL.
THUS SHE HAD CAPTURED MANY MEN, AND TAKEN THEM TO HER HOUSE.
THERE SHE STRIPPED THEM NAKED, AND COHABITED WITH THEM.  THEY
LOST ALL DESIRE TO LEAVE HER; AND WHEN SHE WAS ABSENT, THEY SAT IN THE
HOUSE, WAITING FOR HER.  AS SHE KEPT NO FOOD, THEY COULD NOT EAT, AND,
OWING TO HER INFLUENCE, THEY WERE NEVER HUNGRY.  THUS THEY REMAINED
UNTIL THEY GRADUALLY WASTED AWAY AND DIED.  THEN SHE PUT THEM IN
THE INNER CAVE, BESIDE THE SKELETONS OF HER PREVIOUS VICTIMS.
    NOW THERE CAME INTO THIS REGION TWO SISTERS GIFTED WITH MAGIC,
WHO WERE ACCOMPANYING THEIR HUSBANDS ON A HUNTING-TRIP.  THE
HUSBAND OF THE ELDER ONE WAS THE HORNED-OWL; AND HER SON WAS THE
DEER.  THE YOUNGER ONE HAD FOR HUSBAND THE GOLDEN-EAGLE; AND HER
DAUGHTER WAS THE FROG.  BOTH SISTERS HAD LUXURIANT HEADS OF HAIR,
UPON WHICH THEY BESTOWED MUCH CARE, COMBING IT, AND WASHING IT WITH
MEDICINE.  THE HAIR OF THE ELDER ONE REACHED TO HER HEELS,AND THAT OF
THE YOUNGER ONE TRAILED ON THE GROUND.
    ONE DAY THE TWO MEN, WHILE HUNTING, CAME NEAR TO WHERE
KOMAKSTI'MUT WAS, AND FELL UNDER HER SPELL.  EAGLE BECAME COMPLETELY
SPELLBOUND, AND OWL LOST HIS MIND.  HE ESCAPED FROM HER, AND WANDERED
ABOUT, HOOTING AS HE PASSED THE WOMEN'S CAMP, WHICH HE WOULD NOT
APPROACH.
    WHEN THE WOMEN LEARNED THAT KOMAKSTI'MUT HAD TAKEN EAGLE,
THEY SAID, "WE MUST RESCUE OUR HUSBAND."  THEY GAVE OWL'S SON
TOYS TO PLAY WITH DURING THEIR ABSENCE; BUT HE CRIED AND THEY HAD TO
RETURN.  THEN THEY GAVE HIM DIFFERENT KINDS OF TOYS; BUT AGAIN HE
CRIED.  AT LAST, THE FOURTH TIME, THEY GAVE HIM A BOW AND ARROWS AND
A FAWN TO PLAY WITH.  HE WAS DELIGHTED WITH THESE, AND AMUSED
HIMSELF BY SHOOTING AT THE FAWN.  THE WOMEN FASTENED UP THE DOOR
OF THE LODGE AND DEPARTED, CARRYING THE GIRL ON THEIR BACKS.  THE BOY
NEVER CRIED.  WHEN HE WAS TIRED HE SLEPT, AND WHEN HE WOKE UP HE
PLAYED AGAIN.  WHEN KOMAKSTI'MUT HAD CAPTURED EAGLE, SHE TOOK
HIM TO HER HOME.  AS THEY TRAVELLED ALONG, SHE PLUCKED OUT ALL HIS
FEATHERS.  THE SISTERS FOLLOWED THEIR TRACK, PICKED UP THE FEATHERS AS
THEY WENT ALONG, AND PUT THEM IN A SACK.  AT LAST THEY CAME TO THE
LAKE, AND SAW ON ITS CALM WATERS THE LINE OF FEATHERS STRETCHING RIGHT
ACROSS.  NOW THEY TOOK BONES, FLESH, AND INTESTINES OUT OF THE GIRL
THAT THEY WERE CARRYING, AND TRANSFORMED HER SKIN INTO A CANOE, WHICH
MOVED THROUGH THE WATER LIKE A FROG.  THEY PICKED UP ALL THE DOWN AND
FEATHERS AS THEY CROSSED.  WHEN KOMAKSTI'MUT SAW THEM, SHE SAID,
"OH] AT LAST MY RIVALS HAVE COME.  WHAT FINE HAIR THEY HAVE]"
WHEN THEY REACHED THE HOUSE, SHE SAID TO THEM, "I SHOULD LIKE TO HAVE
HAIR LIKE YOURS."  THEY ANSWERED, "WE CAN EASILY MAKE HAIR LIKE
OUR GROW ON YOU, IF YOU WISH."  NOW SHE PROPOSED THAT THEY SHOULD
GO AND PLAY ON THE SLIDE.  SHE WANTED THEM TO GO FIRST, BUT THEY
REFUSED.  THEN SHE JUMPED ON THE SLIDE, AND ROLLED DOWN TO THE LAKE,
BUT DID NOT SINK IN THE WATER.  WHILE SHE WAS GONE, ONE OF THE WOMEN
FILLED HER MOUTH WITH RED PAINT, AND THE OTHER WITH WHITE PAINT, FROM
THEIR PAINT-POUCHES.  WHEN KOMAKSTI'MUT RETURNED, SHE SAID, "NOW IT IS
YOUR TURN."  THE ELDER ONE THEN STEPPED ON THE SLIDE, AND ROLLED
DOWN INTO THE WATER, WHICH BECAME TINGED WITH RED FROM THE PAINT SHE
SPAT OUT.  THEN THE YOUNGER ONE STEPPED ON THE SLIDE, AND ROLLED INTO
THE WATER.  SOON THE LAKE TURNED WHITE; AND KOMAKSTI'MUT THOUGHT
THE GIRLS HAD DASHED OUT THEIR BLOOD AND BRAINS.  SHE WENT HOME
LAUGHING.  BARELY HAD SHE REACHED THERE, WHEN THE SISTERS APPEARED
QUITE UNHARMED.
    THEY SAID, "NOW WE WILL MAKE HAIR GROW ON YOU."  THEY TOLD
HER TO BRING PITCH AND FLAT STONES, AND TO MAKE A FIRE.  THE SISTERS
HEATED THE STONES, AND LET KOMAKSTI'MUT SIT DOWN.  ONE OF THEM HELD
HER BROM BEHIND, WHILE THE OTHER ONE, STANDING BEHIND HER, PUT A
LARGE LUMP OF PITCH ON THE TOP OF HER HEAD.  SHE THEN PLACED A HOT
STONE ON THE PITCH; AND, WHEN THE MELTING PITCH RAN DOWN OVER HER,
KOMAKSTI'MUT BEGAN TO SQUIRM.  IN ORDER TO KEEP HER QUIET, THEY
PASSED SOME OF THEIR OWN HAIR IN FRONT OF HER EARS, SO THAT SHE COULD
SEE IT, SAYING, "LOOK] YOUR HAIR IS OVER YOUR EARS ALREADY."  THEN
THEY PUT ON ANOTHER STONE, HOTTER THAN THE FIRST, AND SHE BEGAN TO
STRUGGLE; BUT THEY MADE HER BELIEVE THAT HER HAIR REACHED OVER HER
SHOULDERS, AND SHE SAT STILL AGAIN.  THE FOURTH STONE BURNED A HOLE
THROUGH THE TOP OF HER HEAD AND KILLED HER.
    THEN THEY THREW HER BODY INTO THE LAKE, AND SAID, "HENCEFORTH
YOU WILL BE THE 'WATER MYSTERY' OF THIS LAKE.  YOU WILL SEEK AND KILL
NO MORE MEN.  ONLY WHEN A HUNTER SEES YOU HERE IN THE LAKE, THEN YOU
MAY KILL HIM."  EVEN IN OUR DAYS, HUNTERS OCCASIONALLY SEE
KOMAKSTI'MUT IN THIS LAKE, AND, IF THEIR TIME HAS COME, THEY DIE AFTER
SEEING HER.
    THE WOMEN FOUND EAGLE, WHO WAS ALREADY VERY THIN.  THEY PUT
ALL HIS FEATHERS ON HIM.  THEN THEY REVIVED ALL KOMAKSTI'MUT'S
VICTIMS, WHO THEN RETURNED TO THEIR HOMES.
    THE SISTERS AND EAGLE CROSSED THE LAKE IN THE FROG CANOE.  THEY
PUT THE FLESH, BONES, AND INTESTINES BACK INTO THEIR CHILD.  SHE
ASSUMED HER ORIGINAL SHAPE, AND THEY CARRIED HER ALONG.  WHEN THEY
ARRIVED AT HOME, THEY FOUND THEIR SON PLAYING WITH THE FAWN.  NOW BOTH
SISTERS WERE EAGLES'S WIVES, FOR OWL WAS STILL WANDERING IN THE
MOUNTAINS.  LATER A TRANSFORMER CHANGED HIM INTO THE HORNED OWL,
SAYING, "HENCEFORTH YOU WILL BE AN OWL, AND HOOT AND CRY.  HUNTERS
WILL IMITATE YOUR CRY WHEN THEY HUNT, SO THAT EACH MAY KNOW WHERE THE
OTHER IS."  THE EAGLE AND THE SISTERS RETURNED HOME, AND LATER ON,
THEY AND THEIR CHILDREN WERE ALSO TRANSFORMED.