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of the canoe off the mouth of Sandy Bay Creek. They went with 

 the tide, and therefore the canoe was very swift ; and when it was 

 near the bar, they saw a mass of foam over the sandbar; and while 

 the young women went across the foam, they paddled very hard; 

 and when they had passed by, they found that they had lost the 

 princess out of the canoe. The canoe was full of foam where she 

 had been sitting. Then they cried for her sake. They made a 

 camj) at Autumn Camp, which is now named Port Essington. There 

 they waited for the tide to turn, and when the tide was out, went 

 home and told all that had happened to them. 



Then the wise men said that the. supernatural being of Sandy Bay 

 had taken her. Therefore the great chief, her uncle, called all the 

 shamans from all the villages and paid them. The shamans said that 

 the son of the great supernatural being of Sandy Bay had married 

 the girl. Therefore the uncle of the princess sacrificed for her sake 

 grease, crabapples, cranberries, dried berries, elk skins, costly coppers, 

 garments of sea-otter skin, marten garments, abalone shells, canoes, 

 and slaves. He made a great sacrifice. The young princess saw 

 all these things, which came into the house of the chief of Sandy Bay, 

 where she was sitting at the bottom of the sea. 



As soon as she entered the house of the supernatural being, Mouse 

 Woman came to her side, and said to her, "Throw your woolen ear- 

 ornament into the fire!" and when she had done so, the Mouse 

 Woman took the burnt wool out of the fire, and asked the princess, 

 "Do you know who has brought you here V She said, "No." — "This 

 is the house of a great chief of the supernatural beings. His son 

 wants to marry you." Thus said the Mouse Woman, and went away. 



When the sacrifices of her uncle came into the house of the super- 

 natural being at the bottom of the sea, the young man loved her very 

 much, for she was very beautiful. She staid there many years. 

 She had a son, whom her father-in-law called Down The Useless River 

 (Wa-mEdi-a'ks). When the boy was born, the grandfather took his 

 forehead and pulled it, and he also pulled his legs and his hands and 

 his bodj*, and the infant was called by its grandfather Y!aga-gunu'ks 

 Down The Useless River (Y!aga-watkda wa-mEdi-a'ks). 



One day the supernatural chief was sitting by the side of his large 

 fire with Ins back against the fire, his face toward the Useless-River 

 a little above Ins house. He said to the Useless-River, "Send down 

 to my daughter-in-law a baby girl!" On the following morning the 

 princess had conceived; and when the time came, she gave birth to a 

 baby girl. The chief made it grow quickly, as he had done with the 

 elder child; and when the children had grown up to bo a young man 

 and young woman, the old chief invited all the supernatural beings 

 of the rocks; and when all the supernatural beings came into the 

 house, the great chief's people served food to his guests. After 

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