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the name Killer Whales Are Ready To Go Up (Wi-alas-latk-gul-nexl- 



al-yo). After the two had proclaimed their names, the young man 

 helped the cliief serve the dried salmon and the other food. They 

 put it into the carved dishes, which they placed before the guests. 



After a while the young chief said, ''Throw all the carved wooden 

 dishes into the fire ! " The young men did so ; and when all the dishes 

 that were filled with roasted dried salmon were burned, the cliief said 

 to his attendants, "Take the deep carved wooden dishes ami put the 

 dried berries into them!" They did as they had been told; and 

 after they had eaten the dried berries and salmon, the fat of mountain 

 goat was thrown into the fire. Alter they had eaten the berries 

 mixed with crabapples and cranberries, they filled the carved square 

 boxes and threw them into the fire with the carved wooden spoons; 

 and when the monsters had eaten dried blueberries mixed with 

 crabapples, they looked at one another with smiling faces. Then 

 the cliief said to his attendants, "Xow grind the roasted hemlock 

 bark!" They did so, and mixed.it with hot water and grease and 

 with cranberries, and placed them in carved boxes. They put one 

 spoon in each box — a nice carved mountain-goat-horn spoon. They 

 threw these also into the fire: the carved boxes, wooden dishes, 

 and spoons which all the Tsimsliian tribes had made for two years 

 before the feast. They cast everything into the fire with the food. 



After the food had been served, the chief piled up many elk skins, 

 marten garments, raccoon garments, weasel garments, and others, 

 and goat fat, tobacco, ocher, and costly coppers. lie gave them 

 away to all these supernatural chiefs. Then he said to all his guests, 

 "I want these two chiefs to take their place way back of Canoe Pass, 

 because these two chiefs are so hard for human behigs to pass." 

 Then all the monsters consented to what Down The Useless River 

 said. That is the reason why these two chiefs, Spagait-an-a'tk and 

 K-knaaze, left their places. 



On the following day the young cliief said to his attendants, "My 

 dear young men, now go and flee again up the hills!" So they went 

 into the woods up the hills and mountains. Then the wind blew 

 harder and harder. The flood came, and the houses were covered 

 with foam and water, and it was storming the whole night. On the 

 following morning the wind ceased, for Cliief K-gazoun poured his 

 seal oil on the water, and it was quite calm; and when all the monsters 

 were gone, the cliief 's people came down to their camp; and they saw- 

 that the chief's house was carved with the great starfish covered 

 with costly abalone shells, and the other house was carved with a 

 large bullhead with live children on its back, with beautiful green 

 abalone shells in the eyes and fins. These two carved houses were 

 given to the chiefs by the monsters. Then all the people of the 

 chief's tribe loved their master very much, and the cliief and his sister 

 also loved their people. 



