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his wife lying at a short distance. They travelled the 

 second day as before and at night he again made a fire ; on 

 awakening he again beheld her, and although he had re- 

 bellious thoughts, still he restrained himself, for he thought 

 that only one day more and he should triumph. The 

 third day also passed in travel and on awakening that 

 night he saw his wife more distinctly than ever ; love for her 

 was this time more powerful than reason ; the three days 

 are assuredly expired by this time, and he crept towards 

 her. He laid hold of the figure and found an old rotten 

 trunk of a tree in his arms. He remained a sorrowful 

 wanderer on earth till his death. 



Whenever this legend was to be told, the hearers first 

 bathed and washed themselves, then came to listen. 



The bird Cuwot is still believed in. It is nocturnal in 

 its habits, never seen, but sometimes heard. Its cry was 

 simply Cu. It is said that a man was once carried away 

 by it from the Lodge of Yan (Los Angeles). 



Some state that the return of the women to life after 

 the soul had fled could not have happened; it being 

 only a compassionate ruse to get the husband back to 

 earth, to return again at a proper time in the form of a 

 celestial being. 



NOTES. 



1. Refers in particular to the sub-tribe located in the vicinity of 

 San Gabriel, usually termed Tobikhar, and known as the Kizh 

 of former investigators. The subdivisions of the Kauvuya 

 tribe are only recognized on account of dialectic differences. 

 The tribe is one 'of the group composing the Shoshonian lin- 

 guistic family, and formerly extended from the coast to the 

 Colorado river, and from near San Diego, northward to the 

 San Fernando mountains. Later, the tribe was divided into 

 the Serranos, or mountaineers and Playsanos, or lowlanders. 

 Of the latter are the Tobikhar. 



