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At last QoaLqoiVoe recovered his senses. He si^oke to his father: 

 "When I grow excited again, do not try to defend yourself, I shall do 

 you no harm." After a short time he fell again into a state of ecstasy. 

 He lay flat on the floor, his face downward. The people threw a net 

 made of cedar bark over him, in order to catcli liim. Sometimes they 

 succeeded in placing a foot on his neck, but they were unable to hold 

 him, not even by winding his long hair around their hands. He 

 escaped, and nobody knew what had become of him. He ran about in 

 the woods and when he came back to the village he bit whomsoever he 

 met. When he recovered his senses, he asked his father to boil oulachon 

 oil and to give it to him as soon as he fell into a renewed ecstasy, as 

 this would restore his senses. Once when he was excited, he scented 

 the mussels in a canoe which was approaching the village, but which 

 was still far away. He ran down to the beach and as soon as the canoe 

 landed he ate all the mussels that were in it. Then he became quiet. 



Another group of initiating spirits are the ghosts; their proteges 

 are the ghost dancers. Following is a legend of the L'a'sq'enox regard- 

 ing the origin of the ghost dance:' 



Cxoa'xLa and his children lived in a village in heaven. His sons 

 were Qo'masdox, the eldest one, Hai'aqoalaL, tlie next, No'lak-as the 

 following, and A'n(iolak-as. His rival was TsilqoaloLEla. He had 

 three sons, Sepa'xis and YaqanLamaye and G-e'xdEu. Then Tsi'lqoalo- 

 LEla wanted to come down to our world. He made a copper ladder 

 on which he was going to climb down with l)is children. His rival 

 wanted him to pay for it.C?) !N"ow Goa'xLa heard what Tsi'lqoaloLEla 

 had said. Then he walked and walked for four days. All of a sudden, 

 he saw a mountain growing up from this our world reaching up to the 

 sky. Then he went home and told his sons. They got ready and came 

 to the i)lace where he had been before. After a little while they saw 

 the mountain rising up again. As soon as it reached heaven Goa/xLa 

 said to his sons: •'! shall not follow you. Go now and call your tribe 

 the Pe'pawiLenox. You shall take my dancing implements." Thus 

 he spoke to his sons. Then Qo'masdox and Hai'aqoalaL and No'lak-as 

 and also A'nqolak-as came down to liaspberry Beach. Then they went 

 on looking for a river. They were walking in the woods and came to 

 (;ape Cook. There they found a pole at the point of Cape Cook. Then 

 Qo'milsdox and Hai'aqoalaL went back, keeping close to the beach. 

 They came to Ots'o'lis and went to the head of the bay. There they 

 saAv smoke. They came up to it and saw a house, which they entered. 

 There were two women who were roasting clams. Then Qo'masdox 

 and Hai'aqofdaL asked the women: "Where do you come from?" The 

 women replied : "We came from the upper world and we have no hus- 

 bands." Then (^Id'masdox said, "We have no wives. How did you 

 come down?" Then Wryolcueqa, one of the women, spoke: "These 

 geese brought us down here and we came to be your wives." The 

 brothers were glad on hearing this and they went home with their 



' Appendix page 681. See ulso page 335. 



