MOUNT RAINIER 



struggle the old man was wounded so sternly that 

 when he had given up his last relic of the mighty 

 treasure, when he had thrown into the formless chaos, 

 instinct with Tamanoiis, his last propitiatory offering, 

 he sank and became insensible. 



"It seemed a long slumber to him, but at last he 

 awoke. The jagged moon was just paling overhead, 

 and he heard Skai-ki, the Blue-Jay, foe to magic, sing- 

 ing welcome to sunrise. It was the very spot whence 

 he started at morning. 



"He was hungry, and felt for his bag of kamas and 

 pouch of smokeleaves. There, indeed, by his side 

 were the elk-sinew strings of the bag, and the black 

 stone pipe-bowl, but no bag, no kamas, no kinni 

 kinnik. The whole spot was thick with kamas plants, 

 strangely out of place on the mountain-side, and over- 

 head grew a large arbutus-tree, with glistening leaves, 

 ripe for smoking. The old man found his hardwood 

 fire-sticks safe under the herbage, and soon twirled 

 a light, and, nurturing it in dry grass, kindled a cheery 

 fire. He plucked up kamas, set it to roast, and laid 

 a store of the arbutus-leaves to dry on a flat stone. 



"After he had made a hearty breakfast of the chest- 

 nut-like kamas-bulbs, and, smoking the thoughtful 

 pipe, was reflecting on the events of yesterday, he 

 became aware of an odd change in his condition. He 

 was not bruised and wounded from head to foot, as 

 he expected, but very stiff only, and as he stirred, his 

 joints creaked like the creak of a lazy paddle upon the 

 rim of a canoe. Skai-ki, the Blue-Jay, was singularly 

 familiar with him, hopping from her perch in the arbu- 

 tus, and alighting on his head. As he put his hand 

 to dislodge her, he touched his scratching-stick of 

 bone, and attempted to pass it, as usual, through his 

 hair. The hair was matted and interlaced into a 

 network reaching fully two ells down his back. * Ta- 

 manoiis/ thought the old man. 



"Chiefly he was conscious of a mental change. He 



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