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house and called his brother secretly, and said, "Get up and let us 

 go and catch a pretty white swan sitting on the salt water in front of 

 us!" and each took a paddle, and they went out in a canoe. They 

 tried to catch the bird, but it kept out of their way; and when they 

 saw that they could not catch it, they called for help, and all the 

 men and women came out of their houses. Then Ya'lo £ a' could see. 

 all the women. Many canoes went out to him, and they paddled all 

 round him; for they wanted to catch him alive. As he saw no 

 pretty women there, however, he said, "I will fly away, for there is 

 no woman here good-looking enough for me." Then he flew over the 

 canoes, and it took him until night to go to Ahousat. Then he sat 

 on the salt water very close to the village beach. Early in the morn- 

 ing one of the old men of that tribe went out to pass water; and as 

 soon as he opened the door he saw the great white swan sitting on 

 the salt water close to the beach. Then he called out loudly, and 

 told all the people to come out and look at it. 



Very soon all the men and children came out of then houses, and 

 all the spearmen took then canoes and spears and went out to spear it. 

 Then Ya'lo £ a' the bird said to himself , ' ' There are no pretty women 

 here; I will go farther on," and he flew over all the canoes. 



In the night he came to another village, the Clayoquot village, 

 and he stopped there and waited for daylight. When daylight came, 

 he went close inshore to the beach of the village. Early in the 

 morning a young man came out of his house, and the first tiling his 

 eye fell on was the white swan sitting on the salt water. Then he 

 went in and called his brother up from sleep, and said to him, "Get 

 up! for there is a white swan sitting on the salt water very close to 

 shore;" and they took their paddles and went out of their houses. 

 They went into a canoe and paddled after the bird, but it was too 

 quick for them. 



After these two men got tired paddling, they called the people of 

 the tribe to try and catch the white swan. Very soon all the men 

 and women came out of their houses, and Ya'lo £ a' the swan looked 

 for a pretty woman among them all; but there was none, so he flew 

 away before all the canoes were ready to come out to him. He kept 

 on going until night, and late that same night he came to a village. 

 That village belonged to the Ucluelet tribe. So he sat on the 

 salt water, as he always did, close to the beach of the village; and 

 early in the morning a woman came out of her house, and she saw 

 the white swan sitting on the water. Then she called her husband 

 out and told him to go and try to catch it. This man took four men 

 in a canoe with him to catch the swan, and the swan was too quick 

 for him also. When they got tired, they called out to their people 

 to come too, and all the people of the tribe came out to see the bird 

 as it was sitting on the water. Then Ya'loV looked to see if there 



