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

 away again until night came on. 



Then he came to a village belonging to the Seshart (Ts !fca /e ath a ) 

 tribe; and he went and sat on the water close to the beach of the 

 village. As soon as daylight came, he saw a young man come out of 

 his house. Now, this young man had been to see his sweetheart in 

 the night, and that is why he got up early that morning. As soon 

 as he saw the great swan, he called out for everybody to get up; and 

 as soon as he called out, all the men and women came out of their 

 houses; and the first thing they did was to go to the beach and push 

 their canoes down to the salt water and paddle after him. Then 

 Ya'lo e a' looked to see if there was a pretty young woman among 

 them, and this time he saw a very pretty one. While he was being 

 chased by the people, he was making up his mind whether he had 

 better let them catch him or not. Then he said, "I am all right as 

 I am, for I can come back again if I do not find a prettier woman 

 farther on." Then he flew away again. 



Late in the night he came to the village of the Oiaht (Ho £ a'i £ ath a ) 

 tribe, and there also he went and sat close to the beach of the houses. 

 In the morning he saw a man come out of his house, and he also began 

 to call out to the people to get up and see a strange-looking bird sit- 

 ting on the salt water. Very soon all the women and men came out 

 of their houses. Before they went down to their canoes, he saw 

 there were no pretty women there, so he flew away until night came. 



Then he saw another large village, belonging to the Nitl'na £ ath a 

 tribe; and he went close inshore and sat on the salt water. In the 

 morning two men came out of their houses. Each of them was 

 carrying a paddle ( £ oxwa' p') , and they went down to the beach and 

 pushed a canoe into the water. They both went aboard; and as 

 soon as they paddled, one of them saw the swan close to them, and 

 they paddled after it. The bird was too quick for them; and while 

 these two men were chasing it, more canoes came out, until there 

 were more than a hundred canoes chasing it. Ya'l5 £ a" let them chase 

 him until all the women of the vdlage came out of their houses; and 

 when he saw that there was none good-looking enough for him, he 

 flew away. 



Late in the night he came to the village belonging to the Makah 

 (i,!a' £ os'ath a ) tribe, and went close to the beach of that village and 

 sat on the water. In the morning a man came out of his house; and 

 when he came out of the door, his eye fell on the white bird. Then 

 he called out to all the people of that tribe to come and see it, and 

 very soon all the people came out of their houses; then all the people 

 said, "Let us try to catch it!" but as soon as Ya'l5' £ a' saw there was 

 no woman pretty enough for him, he flew away until night. 



Again he came to a village belonging to the Konyot!ath a (proba- 

 bly Quilleyute), and here also he stopped close to the village; early 



