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Among theNootka the story is told of the Mucus Boy, who makes an arrow- 

 chain, goes up to the sky, and finds the Snail women in their house, who are 

 roasting clover roots on stones. They are blind. He takes away their roots. 

 He restores their eyesight by rubbing their eyes, and they advise him how 

 to obtain the daughter of the chief of the Sky Nu 5.118. 



The Nootka have the incident in a story of a visit to the sky Xu ap 907. 



Among the Kwakiutl the story belongs to the Dza'wadalalis tale, and has 

 been referred to before K 5.135. 



The Bellacoola tell the same story of a boy who flies up to the sky in the 

 form of a plume. There he meets a number of blind women who boil roots. 

 They smell the young man. He spits on their eyes and restores their eye- 

 sight. They are the ducks. He takes away their keen sense of smell, 

 throws them down, and ordains that they shall be used for food BC 5.263. 



Among the Seshelt the incident has been recorded in a somewhat composite 

 story, which contains certain elements of the Coyote tales. A man sends 

 his son to climb a tree which stretches up to the sky. Thus the youth reaches 

 the sky land, and meets two blind women who are preparing food. He takes 

 it away three times; and one of the old women asks him if he is her grandson. 

 He puts medicine on the eyes of the women and restores their eyesight 



So 44. 



Coyote's son meets two old women, the Grouse, in the sky. The one says, 

 "I smell something bad." He becomes angry and throws them away. 

 They become birds Ntl 5.18. 



A similar incident told of a blind man forms part of the WVwalis story 

 BC 5.258, Chil 46 (see p. 848). 



It will be seen from this list that in the majority of cases 

 this incident is placed in the sky. In the GunaxnesEmg'a'd 

 story it is placed on the bottom of the sea (see p. 842). 



25. He reaches a blind woman who is making a canoe K 9.45S; K 



10.96; 11.235; Sts Hill-Tout 5.343; Sts 5.29; Sts Hill-Tout 

 5.354; Squ Hill Tout 3.542; Lil Hill-Tout 6.1S7; U 284. 



Her child is in a cradle. He pinches it and makes it cry. This causes 

 the woman to cut through the sides of the canoe. He restores her eyesight. 



In the preceding list I have not enumerated the incidents that 

 refer to the Transformers brother ami a few explanations of natural 

 features and transformations into rocks that form part of the legend. 



26. He kills the double-headed serpent 5.195; 9.193; 11.192. 



\ii<t leaving their parents (see incident 1. p. 588. also p. 586), Q!a'neqe £ - 

 lak u and his brother meet a double-headed serpent, which Q!a'neqe £ lak u 

 kills. He uses its skin [dorsal fin 11.192] for a belt; its eyes, for sling-stones 

 5.195; 11.192. They meet the thunderbird eating a double-headed serpent. 

 Q!a'neqe £ lak u takes the serpent's back as a belt, the eyes as sling-stones !i.h:', 



27. At KNva'^ne'" (Cape Scott) he kills four whales, using the ser- 



pent's eyes as sling-stones 5.195: 9.193; 11.193: Dawson 20. 



He carries them ashore by their tails. Their backs and blow-holes may 

 still be seen 5.195. He kills two pairs of whales with his sling, using the 

 eyes of the double-headed serpent as sling-stones, and then telling the serpent 

 to come to life in order to kill the whales 11.193. He kills whales for his 

 younger brother, Dawson 20. 



