244 TSIMSHIAN MYTHOLOGY [bth.ann.31 



The child grew up and became strong in his mind. He went 

 everywhere with his father. He went hunting in the woods or on the 

 slippery rocks above the mountains; and he knew well how to hunt, 

 because his father taught him how to hunt wild animals. When he 

 went up the mountains with his father, his father would give him a 

 spear and his dogs, and also his large hunting-hat, his little basket, 

 and mat blanket, and his pole, to take care of while he crept up to 

 the animals. He himself only took his bow and arrows and his 

 snowshoes. 



The boy loved his father very much. When he moved to Nass 

 River with his father and his uncles, they stopped halfway, and the 

 young man went up the mountains with his father Asdi-wa'l. There 

 they killed some bears hi their dens. When they came home late in the 

 evening, the boy told his uncles how many black bears his father had 

 slain, and the young man took care of all the weapons which his 

 father had given him. 



When his uncles left his father at KsE-ma'ksEn, the boy did not 

 want to go with them, but they compelled him to do so. Therefore 

 he wept bitterly with his mother all the way while they were going 

 up to Nass River. 



Not many days after the} 7 arrived at Nass River, the mother and 

 her son took a canoe by night and came down from Nass River, 

 trying to find Asdi-wa'l. When they reached the place on the follow- 

 ing day, he had disappeared, and his wife and son were full of sorrow. 

 They searched KsE-ma'ksEn, and thought that some wild animal 

 had come and devoured him. Then they went right down to their 

 home on Skeena River. 



The young man was a very skillful hunter. He knew his father's 

 hunting-ground, and he knew also how to use his father's weapons. 

 He would kill all kinds of animals, and he became very rich in property. 

 He had meat and tallow of all kinds of animals, fat, and skins of all 

 kinds; and he made black horn spoons of mountain-goat horn, and 

 spoons of elk antler, and dippers of elk antler. 



Before his mother died she wanted her son to marry one of her cous- 

 ins, and he did what his mother wanted him to do. Not many days 

 after he had married, his mother died, and the young couple were 

 happy. He always went alone to hunt on his father's hunting- 

 ground. He slew many animals. Sometimes his wife would go 

 with him. There was a great mountain on which his father used to 

 hunt mountain goats in the fall, when they were very fat. He went 

 there, and camped in the hut that his father had built at the foot of 

 the high mountain. 



His wife was with child, and the children struggled in her womb ; 

 and when the time came, behold! she gave birth to twins. In the 

 fall they moved from the village and went to the foot of the 



