boas] APPENDIX I NOOTKA TALES 907 



shot at her heart; and as soon as his arrow struck it, the great woman 

 fell down dead on the floor. Now she was really dead. 



Then AndaokH saw all the dried children hanging up over the 

 fire, and he took them all down and laid them in a row on the floor. 

 After he had finished laying them down, he urinated on then- bodies, 

 and they all came to life again. Then he took them home to their 

 parents, who were made happy again. 



Andaok u t then took a long rest; and after that, he told his mother 

 to ask all his people to make a houseful of sharp-pointed arrows. 

 Then all the Mowa'tc!ath a tribe began to make sharp-pointed arrows, 

 and it did not take them long to fill the house. One fine day An- 

 daokH took his large bow, went out of his father's house, and asked 

 the Mowa'tc!ath a if they could see the great log (t.'egEp.'edgel) 

 of the heavens; and not one said he could see it. Afterward SnaU 

 (Ananemlf) said that he could see the great log that lay across the 

 doorway of heaven; and then Thunderbird (A e wade) said to SnaiL 

 "Please let me have your eyes to see the great log up in heaven !" 

 for Thunderbird was blind at that time; and the foolish Snail took 

 his eyes out and gave them to him. Then Thunderbird put Snail's 

 eyes on and looked up, and he saw the log. He kept Snail's eyes, 

 and now he can see everything; but Snail has been blind from that 

 day until now, for he was foolish and lent his eyes to Thunderbird. 

 Now, AndaokH took his great yew bow and began to shoot at the 

 log with the first arrow; and the second arrow he shot was at the 

 nock of the first arrow; and so on until a chain of arrows reached 

 to the ground from the great log of heaven. 



Then AndaokH told his mother that he was going to see his father 

 in heaven: so he began to climb on the long string of arrows, and it 

 did not take him long to go up to heaven. As soon as he reached 

 the great log, he went from that to the doorway; and as soon as 

 he passed through to the upper world, he saw two blind women. 

 They seemed to be veiy old; and AndaokH went toward them and 

 took up their clover root, for they were digging it; and he stood 

 near them for a while, to see what they would say about their brown 

 clover root. Veiy soon one of them began feeling round for her 

 clover root, but she could not find it. Then AndaokH asked her 

 if she was blind; and she said, "We are blind, AndaokH, we can 

 not see the face of the earth." Then he told them that he was going 

 to see his father, and that he would tell him about all the things 

 that needed to be put right all round the world, and that he might 

 be sent down again by his father to put the world right hereafter. 

 "Then I will open your eyes," he said. Now, these two old blind 

 women were the Mallard Ducks. Then they thanked him for what 

 he had said to them; and they also said to him, "AndaokH, which 



