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rivei'S, and land were seen once more. The man now took his daughter 

 to wife, and fi'om those two the land was in course of time once more 

 repeopled. Times of plenty came back, and the people learned to forget 

 the terrible punishment the Great Spirit had sent upon their forefathers. 

 But once again a dreadful misfortvine befell them. This time it hap- 

 pened in this wise. One salmon season the fish were found to be covered 

 with running sores and blotches, which rendered them unfit for food. But 

 as the people depended very largely upon these salmon for their winter's 

 food supply, they were obliged to catch and cure them as best the}^ could, 

 and store them awaj^ for food. They put off eating them till no other 

 food was available, and then began a terrible time of sickness and dis- 

 tress. A dreadful skin disease, loathsome to look upon, broke out upon 

 all alike. jSTone were spared. Men, Avomen and children sickened, took 

 the disease and died in agony by hundreds, so that when the spring 

 arrived and fresh food was procurable, there was scarcely a person left 

 of all their numbers to get it. Camp after camp, village after village, 

 was left desolate. The remains of which, said the old man, in answer to 

 ni}^ queries on this head, are found to-day in the old camp sites or 

 midden-heaj^s over which the forest has been growing for so many gene- 

 rations. Little by little the remnant left by the disease grew into a 

 nation once more, and when the first white men sailed vip the Squamish 

 in their big boats, the tribe was strong and numerous again. Following 

 Vancouver's advent four generations have come and gone, the second of 

 which was his own. "What follows from this point is not of any particular 

 interest, but before concluding my paper I desire to say that the name of 

 this fii-st Squamish man, as handed down b}^ tradition, — Kà-là'nà — suggests 

 some thoughts for the ethnologist's consideration. The Haida term for 

 God closely resembles it, viz., Sha-lana, the initial consonants being inter- 

 changeable throughout the tongues of this area. But if Ave go outside 

 the district and language of British Columbia, and examine the genea- 

 logies of the Ilawaiians, Ave there find this name '' Ka-lana," or " Ka- 

 lani," occurring again and again. For example, Ave have a fragment of 

 a chant entitled " Kaulu-a-Kalana," Avhich in English runs thus : 



I am Kaulu,! 

 The child of Kalana, 

 Etc., etc., etc. 



And Fornander, in his first volume of •' The Polynesian Eace " (pp. 

 199-200), writes thus : " It is almost certain that a number of names on 

 the " UIu " line Avere those of chiefs in some of the southern groups Avho 

 never set foot on Hawaiian soil, but Avhose legends Avere imported by 



southern emigrants The Maui legends, the Maui flimily of 



four brothers, and their parent, a-Kalana, Karana or Taranga, are 



1 This Kaula-Kalaiia was a celebrated navigator. 



