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8. In the Skidegate version incident 4 is preceded by two others. 



They reach a big thing which falls on them and kills two 

 Sk 332. 



9. They meet a small dog, which kills three when they try to jump 



over it Sk 332 (then follows incident 4). 



10. The first incident of the Skidegate version is that of the local 



snowfall, which will be found discussed on p. S29. 



11. The concluding incident of the Nass version is the encounter 



with the spirit of sleep (see p. 871). 



The Tlingit versions have no account of migrations, and end with 

 tests of the youth. 



He meets a supernatural canoe-maker, who kills people by making them go into 

 his canoe and knocking out the thwart, so that the canoe closes on them (see p. 801V 

 The youth kills him. AVhen hunting, he crosses canyons by striking his roots into the 

 gi ound on one side. On account of this story, girls areforbidden to swallow the sap of roots 

 Tla 42. 



The version T16 193 ends with the contest with a rock, which the youth pulls over 

 by means of his roots. 



The combination of the story with the raccoon incident, the woman 

 who kills her visitors by witchcraft, and the visit to the edge of the 

 world, is characteristic of the Tsimshian and Skidegate versions; 

 while the Nass River version contains also the element of the witch 

 woman, but lacks, in the form in which it has been recorded, the 

 raccoon story. Evidently these three stories are identical. 



12. The Feast of the Mountain Goats 



(3 versions: Ts 131; Tsl.91; K 10.11. See also Tl 58; K 5.169; K 9.9; K 10.17; Lil 

 Hill-Tout 6.191; U 258; IT 261; Sh 5.12) 



While no other version of the entire story has been recorded, 

 analogous stories of the feasts of the mountain goats are known in 

 other combinations and from other tribes. The feast of the mountain 

 goats forms an incident of the story of Asdi-wa/1 (see p. 817). Another 

 one has been recorded from the Kwakiutl (see K 10.11). The one- 

 horned mountain goat plays an important part in Kwakiutl mythology 

 (see K 9.9; K 10.17). 



Following is an abstract of our story : 



A number of hunters leave the meat and bones of mountain goats on the ground. 

 Their children play with a kid and maltreat it. A young man rescues it and takes 

 it back to the mountains. Early in the fall, messengers invite all the people. They 

 go to the village of the strangers and are kindly received. The youth who had saved 

 the mountain goat is asked by a young man to sit behind a post. They perform a 

 dance, in which a beautiful mountain appears in the middle of the house. A one- 

 horned goat appears on the mountain, jumps down, and kicks the front of the house, 

 which breaks down. The house proves to be a mountain, and the people have been 

 killed by a rock-slide. The youth who had protected the kid finds himself on a 

 steep rock behind a spruce tree. His friend explains that the mountain goats have 



