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road will you take to go to your father's house ? for there are two 

 roads. One of them is a broad road, and there are many dangerous 

 animals on it; but on the narrow road there is only one dangerous 

 woman. Her name is HoksEmaqas. If she sees you, she will call 

 you into her house, and she will feed you on brown clover root. 

 Now, if she calls you in to eat that clover root, do not eat it, but 

 take some of our clover root and hide it; and when she offers you 

 her clover root, pretend to eat it, throw it away without her seeing 

 you do so, and eat some of what I give you. Then, when you finish 

 eating, walk out of her house and go toward your father's house. 

 Then you will be safe." 



After the two old blind Duck Women had given instructions, he 

 found and followed the narrow road. He had not gone far, when he 

 saw a small house. A woman was standing at the door; and when he 

 came near, the woman called Mm. When he was in, she told him to sit 

 down on a mat. Then she took some brown clover root and put it on 

 red-hot stones, and steamed it. After it was cooked, she placed it 

 on a small mat, put it down in front of Mm, and said, "You had 

 better eat it." Then she went out of the house. He ate the brown 

 clover root that was given to him by the old women, but the clover 

 root on the mat he tMew into the corner of the house. After he had 

 finished eating, he walked out of the house and went along the road. 

 Then he saw a house a long way ahead. He walked up to it, and then 

 went in. There he saw his father on a seat at the rear of the house. 

 His father said to him, ' 'I am glad to see you. Come here, my son! 

 for I see that there are many tMngs that need to be changed in the 

 lower world. I see there are people there who look like men, but 

 they are not men : they have the souls of animals. So I want you to 

 go down again and put all of them to rights. Now and hereafter your 

 name shall be QJa'nexemaxw. I want you to go down again; and 

 now I will give .you this blanket that carries the herring (ias e m,W) and 

 all the different kinds of salmon in it; and whenever you come to a 

 river that you think should have some salmon in it, take two of the 

 fishes only and put them into the river, one female and one male; and 

 do likewise with the olachen. Now, that is all I can say at this time. 

 Put this blanket on and go down again." 



Then QJa'nexemaxw came down to Dza'wade, oft Knight's Inlet; 

 and there he saw that Dza'wade was a good river for the olachen; 

 so he took all the olachen from his blanket and put them into the 

 river. He also took one pair of silver salmon and one pair of spring 

 salmon, one pair of dog salmon and a pair of steelhead salmon, from 

 his blanket, and he put them into the river; and that is why all kinds 

 of salmon go up Dza'wade River. Now, he did not keep any olachen 

 in his blanket for the other rivers, but he put them all into this river. 

 That is why there is no olachen in any river except that of Dza'wade. 



