boas] APPENDIX I BELLABELLA TALES 887 



where all the people are poor and weak. They pass the village of the 

 Dog Salmon, where all the people have big teeth. 



They go on; and the Salmon tells the boy that soon they will reach 

 the town of the Salmon chief. He instructs him to look for the chief's 

 daughter, who is bathing in a lake near by. After a while they 

 approach a large village. They see many children playing. Many 

 birds are round the village, and flowers are blooming. 



The boy follows the instructions of the Salmon, and hides near a 

 lake. In the morning two pretty girls come along, in order to bathe 

 in the lake. As soon as they have gone into the water, the boy 

 jumps out of his hiding-place and carries away one of them. She 

 smells very sweet. The boy tells her that he wishes to marry her. 

 After some time the young woman is with child. Her father is very 

 much annoyed, and calls all the people together to find out who the 

 child's father is. The young woman is sitting on one side of the 

 house. First the Wren (Tsiskin) comes in and tells the father that he 

 is the father of the child, but she denies it. Next the Tso'palu claims 

 to be the child's father, but the girl denies it. Then the young man 

 comes in unseen. He has anointed himself with medicine, and the 

 people smell him when he arrives. On being asked, he says that he 

 is the child's father, and the girl admits the truth of his statement. 

 Then there is great confusion in the house. The father lets the young 

 man sit down with his daughter on the mat. 



After some time the girl gives birth to twins. Soon the children 

 are growing up. The young husband is very hungry, and wants to 

 eat salmon. One day the chief asks his daughter what ails her 

 husband. She replies that he wants salmon. Then the chief tells 

 him to go out to the playground of the children by the river, to take 

 one of them, and to throw him into the river. The young man does 

 so, and throws a boy into the river, who is at once turned into a 

 salmon, which he takes home. He cooks him over the fire; and the 

 young woman spreads a mat carefully, and tells him not to lose a 

 single bone. They put the bones and the eyes on a mat, and then the 

 young woman tells her husband to throw the bones into the river. 

 At once they turn into the boy whom he had thrown into the water 

 before; but the boy cries, for he has only one eye. The young man 

 finds it on the floor of the house, picks it up, throws it into the water, 

 and the boy is well again. 



For some time the young man does not rise at breakfast-time. He 

 is homesick. The chief asks his daughter what ails him, and he tells 

 her then that he is longing for his parents. The chief promises to 

 send him back on the fourth day. They prepare four boxes filled 

 with food, and they start, five in their canoe — the young man, his 

 wife, and their three children. On their return journey they do not 

 see the hole through which they passed. 



