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When he approached YaaiXugiwano, he saw a canoe with two jneu 

 coming np. O'maxt'a'laLe paddled toward this canoe. When the 

 canoes were side by side, the men took hold of each other's gunwale 

 and O'maxt'a/laLc said: "Where are you going, brother?" The one 

 in the bow of the other canoe replied: "Brother, I au" hunting among 

 these islands here. I thank you for meeting me here. I am Qa'wati- 

 liqala. Who are you, brother?" O'maxt'a'laLe replied: "Thank you, 

 brother, for meeting me here. I am O'maxt'a'laLe. Let us go to my 

 house, the smoke of which we see there on the other side. It is not far. 

 Come, take my canoe; it is yours now." Then Qa'watiliqala spoke: 

 "Brother, now this my canoe is yours and everything that is in it." 

 He meant the mountain goat skins with which it was covered and his 

 harpoon. But O'maxt'a'laLe's canoe was all covered with sea-otter 

 skius. His blanket was made of sea otter and his harpoon line of the 

 guts of the sea lion, while Qa'watiliqala's line was of cedar bark and 

 his blanket made of mountain goat skin. O'maxt'a'laLe spoke : "Thank 

 you, brother. Now come across to your canoe and let me go into the 

 canoe you gave me." Qa'watiliqala arose and went into O'maxt'a'- 

 laLe's canoe, and O'maxt'a'laLe arose and went into Qa'watiliqala's 

 canoe. This was as though they had exchanged their hearts so that 

 they liad only one heart now. 



Then Qa'watiliqala spoke: "That is done. ISTow, brother, come to 

 my house. It is beyond this point." They paddled on, and when they 

 had nearly reached Qa'watiliqala's house, he said : " Brother, take care. 

 When I jump into my house, you and your slave must jump in at the 

 same time.'' Now they arrived at the beach in front of the house of 

 Qa'watiliqala. They went ashore and walked up to the house. When 

 they arrived in front of the house, the mouth of the door of Qa'watili- 

 qala's house opened. They jumped in all at the same time and it bit 

 only a corner of Lo'Latsa's blanket. Then the posts at the sides of the 

 door spoke, and the one to the right hand side said: "You made them 

 come to your house, Qa'watiliqala;" and the post on the left-hand side 

 said : " Now spread a mat and give your guests to eat, Chief." It is said 

 that the cross-beams over the rear posts were double-headed snakes 

 (sI'siuL), which were constantly playing with their tongues. The posts 

 in the rear of the house were wolves, and a grizzly bear was under each 

 of the wolves. Carved images were all round the house. O'maxt'a'laL 

 and Lo'Latsa were sitting in the house and were given mountain goat 

 meat to eat. When they had finished eating, the speaker of the house 

 said: "What do you want here?" Xow O'maxt'a'laLe beheld the 

 daughter of Qa'watiliqala, who was sitting in the rear of the house. 

 He thought: " I will say that I came to marry her." Then the thought 

 hearer of the house spoke : "Chief ( )'maxt'a'laLe came to marry Qa'wa- 

 tiliqala's princess." Qa'watiliqala said at once : " O, brother ! thank you 

 that you want to marry my daughter. It has been my desire that 

 you should marry her, brother ( )'inaxt'a'laLe. Now you marry my prin- 

 cess and you shall have this house for your house as a gift from your 



