BOAS] APPENDIX I N00TKA TALES 915 



Now, these two boys grew very fast, and before long they got mar- 

 ried and had children. After these children grew up, they married 

 the daughters of the chiefs of the different tribes; and that is why 

 the Mowa'tc!ath a tribe is the leading tribe of all the West Coast 

 Indian tribes, and that is how the Mowa'tc!ath a tribe knows that 

 there are people up in heaven, for these two little boys told them so. 



Now, Woodpecker had still another daughter living. One day 

 Kwa'tiyat' asked the princess to go to the lake with him, and of course 

 the young princess was ready to go. Then they walked to the lake 

 behind the house of the Mowa'tc!ath a tribe, at Place Of Wind (Yo- 

 gwat) ; and as soon as they came to the lake, they got into a canoe, 

 and Kwa'tiyat' paddled out for a short distance. He was trying to 

 spear sharks in this lake, for it was their home, but he could not 

 see any at all. Then Kwa'tiyat' said to the princess, "Let me put 

 you into the lake as bait!" and the young princess was ready to go 

 in. Then Kwa'tiyat' took her and put her overboard; and as soon 

 as she was overboard, the sharks began to be plentiful. Kwa'tiyat' 

 began to speak to them, and it did not take him long to fill the canoe. 

 Kwa'tiyat' speared one large shark which came up, and this shark 

 took his spear down, and it never came up again. 



Then he took the princess into the canoe and went home, and they 

 went into the house. After they had been in the house a little while, 

 the princess began to vomit a great deal of water, and Woodpecker 

 asked her what was the matter with her. She said, "Your slave 

 Kwa'tiyat' took me into the canoe at the lake, and tried to find some 

 sharks to spear, but he did not see any; and then he told me to take 

 my clothes off and go into the water as bait, to bring the shark up; 

 so I took my clothes off, and he put me overboard with a rope round 

 my waist; and I went down to the bottom. He did not pull me up 

 until he had filled the canoe with sharks. When I came up and he 

 had pulled me into the canoe, he told me that he had lost his spear 

 after harpooning a large shark, and he begged me not to tell you what 

 he had done to me." 



After she had finished speaking, her father, Woodpecker, called 

 Kwa'tiyat'; and when his slave Kwa'tiyat' came, Woodpecker asked 

 him what he had been doing to his princess; and Kwa'tiyat' said, 

 "I never did anything to her;" and Woodpecker told his princess 

 to tell him all he had made her do at the lake. Then she repeated 

 every word of what she had already told her father. 



After she had finished speaking, Woodpecker called some of his 

 speakers; and they took a rope and tied Kwa'tiyaf's wrists behind 

 him to a stake, and they whipped him with a stick until he was cut 

 all over; even his face, was all cut. After they finished whipping him, 

 they untied him from the post; and Woodpecker told his speakers 

 to take him to Place To Eat (Ha £ ogwaxs) , the lake in which Kwa'tiyat' 



