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odor was sweeter than ever. Before evening they camped, and the 

 prince went into the woods; and as he went through the valley, he 

 saw something standing in the middle of a nice plain, moving and 

 waving. He went near it, and he saw that it was a live tree of odors. 

 So he ran to it and embraced it, and all the branches of the tree also 

 embraced him, and the living tree pressed him hard and squeezed 

 him; and before he lost consciousness, he shouted, to call his men to 

 come to his help. They ran quickly, and saw the prince and the 

 living tree of odors embracing each other. The prince said to his 

 men, "Dig away the earth from the roots quickly." The men dug 

 away the earth quickly; and when all the roots were out of the 

 ground and the branches were dead, the prince was released from the 

 branches. All the branches let go of his body. 



This is the tree of odors, or the live tree. 



This prince was very successful, because he was married to the 

 daughter of a supernatural being. He cut the tree into short 

 pieces, and he also cut the branches and the roots, and he gave to each 

 of his men one root; and his men filled their bags with the soil from 

 the place where the tree of odors had been, and when they came 

 back home, they sold them for a high price. Then all the chiefs from 

 all the tribes came to buy one of the short pieces at a high price, and 

 the princes and the princesses came and bought pieces of the tree of 

 odors, and the prince became a great chief. 



Then the younger daughter of Tsauda said to her husband, "My 

 dear, my father has told me that there is a good copper at the head 

 of a creek;" and the husband of the younger one called Ms young 

 men to go with him up there. The following day they set out and 

 went up that creek, and night after night they camped. That young 

 prince went walking along the bank of the river, searching for smooth 

 copper pebbles; but he could not find any, because the time had not 

 come yet. They traveled on many days, until they reached a place 

 way up the river, and toward evening they camped there. There 

 was not much water in the river, and they could not travel on by 

 canoe, because three small brooks joined where they camped, and at 

 this place the deep water ended. The young prince walked along the 

 bank of the river. ■ Then he saw many salmon. He hastened back to 

 his men, and told them that many salmon were in the deep water 

 there. Therefore he took his salmon-spear and went down again, 

 while his men started to light a fire in the camp. He went down, and 

 stood there ready. When he saw a large salmon come up, he struck it 

 and took hold of it. He dragged it up to the shore and clubbed it. 

 Then he took out his dart and threw the salmon backward. So the 

 salmon struck the smooth stones of the river-bank. It sounded like 

 copper. Then the young prince went to the place where he had 

 thrown the salmon. He took it up again to sec it anything was under 



