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turn them over. When you turn the frame over, say 'Lawa!' Then 

 put it in good order again, and put them on the frame with the other 

 side towards the fire. Then, when one of the olachen bursts on 

 account of the heat of the fire, say 'Oh, oh! some more olachen are 

 coming up!' " Giant was very glad to receive the instructions of the 

 two Gulls. Before the olachen was done, the two Gulls began to eat 

 Giant's olachen ; and they cried while eating, "Gunax haa, gunax Tiaa!" 

 Then many gulls came, crying "Gunax Tiaa, gunax Turn ! " and ate all the 

 olachen on the frame. Now Giant was sad. He took the Gulls and 

 threw them into the fire, and ever since that time the tips of their 

 wings have been black. 



(Note of the Recorder. — The place where he camped at that time 

 was called Little Crabapple-Tree Place. And so we know nowadays 

 how to cook olachen, for Giant taught the people how to cook olachen. 

 All these works he did in order to support the people whom he made 

 out of the elderberry tree. The first thing he did was to leave his 

 father; the second was to fly over the sea to the mainland; the third, 

 to scatter all kinds of fishes in the rivers and streams; the fourth, 

 to scatter all kinds of berries over the dry land; fifth, he ascended to 

 heaven and brought down daylight and north wind; and as the sixth 

 thing, he went to the village of his father and brought the fire; 

 seventh, he went to the old woman and obtained from her the tide- 

 line; eighth, he called the Gull to gamble with him, and in their 

 quarrel he stepped on the Gull's stomach and made him vomit 

 olachen; ninth, he went to the olachen village and deceived the 

 chief; tenth, he met the Oil Woman; eleventh, he called two Gulls 

 to teach him how to roast the olachen. And this is the end of his 

 works to fill the wants of the new people whom he had made.) 



(11) txa'msem and the steelhead salmon 1 



Now Giant's name was changed to TxiimsEm. He went on, and saw 

 a steelhead salmon jumping in the river. Then he made a plan. He 

 kicked the rock and made a deep hole. He said with a loud voice, 

 " Ha, steelhead salmon ! come up to me to the beach ! " He was stand- 

 ing above the hole which he had kicked into the rock. Suddenly the 

 steelhead salmon hit his heart, and TxamsEm lay there like one 

 dead. After a while he opened his eyes, and saw that the salmon had 

 jumped over the hole that he had made. He kicked the rock again, 

 and made a second hole. Again he said, "Come up to me, big steel- 

 head salmon, and we will see who is the stronger!" He stood there, 

 ready to catch the steelhead salmon. Again suddenly the steel- 

 head salmon hit his heart, and he lay there like one dead. After 

 a while he opened his eyes and saw the steelhead salmon lying in the 

 hole near the water. TxamsEm rushed down to kill it, but could not 

 reach it. He kicked the rock again, and made a third hole, and he 



