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youngest one, evidently the daughter of the uncle who helped him Sk 289. The 

 uncles return, and decide to offer the boy their daughters in marriage. They eat of 

 the decayed whale meat that is floating on the water. Only the youngest one, who is 

 not dressed up, does not do so. She eats hemlock bark. The boy intends to shoot 

 the people, but his wives prevent it. Me smells that the women have eaten decayed 

 whale meat, and he refuses them; but he marries the youngest, who had eaten hemlock 

 bark Sk 183. He gives whales to his uncles and marries the chief's daughter. 

 Another, rather brief story is added at the end M 416. He feeds the people. They 

 dress their daughters in marten skins, and he marries the girl who has been kind to 

 him M 473. The uncle's daughters come to visit him, report that he has reached 

 home. He marries the youngest girl, who has been kind to him (story of the 

 Tsimshian family LEg'e /c x) M 714. 



The people return, dress up their daughters, and present them to the youth as wives. 

 Raven, who has given the advice to leave the boy, also dresses his daughters, but they 

 are refused. While every one is given plenty of food, Haven receives only the entrails 

 of fish Squ Hill-Tout 3.535. 



The three stories BC 5.263, K 5.133, and Nu 5.115 refer to the chil- 

 dren of the Dog, and all end in the same manner. 



The father returns to the village; but when they approach, the daughter makes a 

 gale, in which the canoes capsize. All the people except the old woman who had 

 pitied her perish BC 5.265. When the chief returns to his daughter, her sons swing 

 the death-bringer, the canoe is upset, and the people in the canoes are transformed 

 into stone. Only the girl's grandmother is saved K 5.133. The people return ; and 

 when they arrive in front of the village, the boys go down to the water and wash their 

 hair. This brings about a gale, in which the canoes capsize. Canoes and people 

 are transformed into the islands at the entrance of Barclay Sound Nu 5.115. 



The Cowichan story does not belong to the group of stories of the 

 grateful eagle, and ends in a peculiar manner. 



When the chief hears that his son is wealthy, he returns. He does not recognize 

 him, because he is beautiful and because he has a wife — a Dog who had been trans- 

 formed into a beautiful woman. Every morning the boy strikes the water with cedar 

 bark, and at once it is full of herrings. One day, following instructions received in a 

 vision, the boy takes revenge. A whale appears. The boy calls it ashore, and he asks 

 the people to carve it. Those who had been kind to him he places on one side; the 

 others, on the other. These the whale kills with its tail Cow 5.53. 



The people return, and he wills that the food shall not satiate his uncle and 

 his uncle's wife. They die. He marries the uncle's wife, who had been kind to 

 him. (Here the story continues like the Cowichan story. He sends his helper to get a 

 whale, which drifts to the beach. He forgets his helper, and for this reason the whale 

 destroys the people Tl 266.) The boy invites the people to come back. The people 

 dress up their daughters because they desire him to marry them. The boy gives 

 presents to everybody except to his parents Sts 5.20. The Quinault version simply 

 ends with the statement that the people went back and the boys became chiefs Quin 

 128. In the Chinook version the incident appears as part of the Bluejay cycle. 

 Crow has been fed by the deserted youth and his sister, and at Bluejay's instance the 

 people go back. A gale arises, and they almost die of cold. After five days they are 

 allowed to land. Bluejay is not admitted to the house. He offers his daughter in 

 marriage, but she is rejected. The young man marries the chief's daughter Chin 53. 



33. The Princess and the Mouse (p. 232) 



The chieftainess Gundax has a daughter, Sudal, who is guarded carefully by her 

 parents. The Mouse comes to her in the form of a youth, and she accepts him. Her 

 father is ashamed, and she is set adrift in a box which is filled with coppers, skins, and 



