boas] DESCRIPTION OF THE TSIMSHIAN 455 



will not start until late in the fall. Finally the Trout requests the 

 Spring Salmon to wait for them, and the Trout go along with them. 

 When they reach the rivers, the Salmon separate, each going to his 

 own river (197). 



There is also a country beyond the sea inhabited by dwarfs who 

 are at war with the birds (N 111). 



The house of the being who supports the world is also described 

 as situated on the other side of the ocean, in the southwest (121). 



Another village beyond the confines of our world is the house of 

 the Air (309) . On the j ourney to this place a great number of villages 

 must be passed, which are one month's travel apart. The house of 

 the Air can be reached only by a person wearing a bird garment, 

 which enables him to fly there. The name of the chief of the village 

 is Gutginsa'. He owns the live arrow which has the head of a reptile 

 and which kills the enemy when the owner lets it go. 



Chief Peace is said to live on an island away out in the ocean. He 

 is a powerful supernatural being, and we hear about the marriage of 

 his daughter to a human being (207). 



The Winds live in the four corners of the world. The North Wind 

 is highest in rank. He is followed by the South Wind, East Wind, 

 and West Wind. North Wind is hated by the others because he 

 makes the world pale in winter, while the other winds wish the earth 

 to be green. North Wind has twin children. South Wind has four 

 sons and one daughter. West Wind and East Wind have each two 

 children (123). At another place it is said that the Winds all live 

 in the city of the Air. The daughters of the Winds marry a number 

 of men of supernatural origin, and' the characteristics of the Winds 

 are accounted for by those marriages (131). The town of South Wind 

 is mentioned in a quite different form in another tale, which relates 

 Txa'msEm's war with the South Wind (80). At still another place 

 the Winds are counted among the beings of the sea (274). 



The Ghosts live in a village of their own on the other side of a river, 

 which is crossed on a bridge (325). The chief lives hi a house in the 

 middle of the village, and sits in the rear of the house. The river is 

 the Boiling-Oil River; and if a Ghost falls in, he dies a second death 

 and becomes a cohoes salmon (330) if old, a fisher (326) if young. 

 When a person dies, he crosses the river and is led into the house of 

 the chief of the Ghosts, who asks the newcomer to sit by his side. 

 The Ghosts sometimes make war upon the people, in which case 

 they shoot them with nettle arrows (327) and kill them by taking 

 away their breath (338). The people defend themselves by throwing 

 poisonous fluid over the Ghosts (326). When Ghosts are called, they 

 may appear and attack the people (338) . When the chief of the Ghosts 

 is swallowed up by the earth, he dies a second death (327). 



