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youth, however, went to her and lay down. It got day and he arose. 

 He was not dead. They departed for the house of the sqapts. The latter 

 said: "A stranger landed." Then they went on and came to the fish 

 samij. They landed and the youth said : "This is a good country. Here 

 are pretty girls." They avoided the house of the fish t'll. They left her 

 and she laughed. Then the youth and the Salmon said : " They are glad 

 and make merry in this town. They are laughing." They went on and 

 reached the house of the k-'apai' salmon. Her town was bad. They 

 went on to the house of the silver salmon and landed. They looked about 

 and the youth and the salmon saw the place where the women went 

 bathing. A man was sitting at the bank of the pond. The youth ex- 

 changed cloths with him. Then the girls came and bathed. They went 

 into the water and the youth washed them, but they recognized him. They 

 ran away and cried. They were afraid. Then they returned to the house 

 of the fish samL. The youth married her. He thought he had stayed 

 away one night, but it was two seasons. The youth had two children. 

 Now the salmon made his canoe ready and they went to visit the house of 

 the youth's father. They arrived there and found the youth's father sit- 

 ting at his salmon weir crying. Then the youth pulled the rope and 

 lifted the net. The father recognized his son. He saw him at the salmon 

 weir. Then all the people came to the house of the old man. The youth 

 told him to clean it. Then he entered the house of his father, and he 

 related to all of them : "The salmon desires to have cedarbark." It is 

 said that the salmon eat it. (He stayed there with his wife and his chil- 

 dren.) Then the (other) children quarreled and fought with them. 

 Then she grew angry and deserted her husband. 



8. The Ascent to Heaven. 



NusLOLa'neta. Tx'sisinte'x" wa tsitstsipe'. 



There was a hunting hut at the water. They shot birds. 



Anaik-sto'o x'sgyasqs. Sx'ik*!x"is ti sonx" t'aix. KMx'tislo'o 

 He wished to go up. He wished to see the sun that one. He saw 



wunaqs'nq ai, tu L5k"t'aq. SLokoalaya'mktis. 



ducks at the above. He found something supernatural. 



Ix'e'eqsatis, x'tok-sto'ttq. NeetststoLa'aqstis, k'!x"aut(Vo. 



He cured them, he worked on them. He spat on their eyes, they saw. 



Skoa'tstatit x'i Smoq'oa'ns. Leptsotsto'o. K'lx'istoo ti sa'axist 

 They called him the Smoq'oa'ns. He returned. He saw him the younger brother 



ta koxld'lemx-'au'tx. Axsa'nix'tostu'o ta manau'tx. "KMxiitsts, 

 the their country. He made know the their father. "I saw him, 



kMx'litsts ta q'oale'mts." " Alatsikmu'ks ti nu'kLootsE'mno," 

 I saw him the my elder brother." " Why you the liar you," 



tso'tkuts ta manau'tx ul tsenL. " Ts'ak'o'liwa wa 



said the their father to him. " I speak the truth 



SL'iu^kts'awa." "Wa iLLana'' oqxe^x." "A^xko ai'ots sk'a 

 what I said." "Go call him." "Not he says and 



