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32. He meets Mouth Body 5.202; 9.205; 11.220; 11.249; Dawson 20, 



21; Co 5.63. 



A person covered with mouths rolls about on the beach. The Transformer 

 passes his hand over the body, and only one mouth remains (all versions). 

 This story occurs also among the Comox. The Transformer changes him 

 into a stone 5.63. In the version 11.249 a stoiy of the marriage of Mouth 

 Body with a chief's daughter is added. 



33. A depression in a bowlder at K!wa' £ ne £ is Q!a'neqe £ lak u 's foot- 



print 5.202; Dawson 20. 



It is said that his other footprint is on the island He'Las (Cox Island) 5.202; 

 Dawson 20. Other stones are shown as his eyes. If sand is thrown into the 

 right one, an east wind will spring up; if thrown into the left one, west wind 

 5.202. To put the foot into his footprints brings misfortune or death, Daw- 

 son 20. 



34. A hole in a rock at K!wa' e ne £ was made by Q !a'neqe £ lak u 5.203. 



He threw many people into the hole, and for this reason blood comes out 

 of it up to this day. 



35. A stone at Newettee Bar is a person transformed by Q la'neqe- 



J lak u 5.196. 1 



36. Qlo'mg'ustaEls of the Xo'yalas and his attendant are trans- 



formed into stones 9.335; 10.378. 



37. Q !a'neqe £ lak u obtains fish 5.194; 5.202; 9.191; Nu ap 908. See 



also BC 5.261; Co 5.93; Lil 297, 354, 355; Lil Hill-Tout 6.202; 

 Squ Hill-Tout 3.534; Ntl Teit 2.52; Ntl Teit 3 367; U 231 

 (also Ntl 5.17; Wish 141; Wasco 261). 



Q !a'neqe £ lak u and his brother are reborn by Dza'dzaxwitElaga (Olachen 

 Woman). They borrow her blanket, dip a corner into the water, which at 

 once is full of fish. The mother then returns into the fish country 5.194. 



Q !a'neqe £ lak u bets Dza'dzaxwitElaga's blanket against the lance of the 

 bird Ts!ats!o, and loses. The bird dips the corner of the blanket into the 

 water in Knight Inlet: therefore there are great quantities of fish there 5.202. 

 Ts lata !o plays with Dza'dzaxwitElaga. She wins his blanket. Q S'neqe^ak" 

 forbids her to go to the beach. She asks him to call the herring, and he allows 

 her to go down to the beach, and calls the herrings 9.191. 



Q!a'nexenax u comes down from heaven wearing a blanket in which he 

 carries salmon and olachen. lie puts all the olachen and two salmon of each 

 kind into the river of Knight Inlet: hence olachen run only in this river, and 

 there are all kinds of salmon, Nu ap 908. 



On Fraser River this incident occurs as part of the stury of 

 the deserted boy who exchanges his blanket for that of the 

 Sun. When the Sun blanket is dipped into water, shoals of 

 fish appear Co 5.93. 



The Sun places the fringe of his robe in the water, and a fish is caught on 

 each tassel Lil 297. The Sun gives to the boy his robe and teaches him how 

 to make fish traps Lil 354. The Sun gives to the boy his blanket made of 



i This may be identical with No. 10, p. 591. 



