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Then he flew away northward again, and he kept on flying until 

 night. He heard many children playing ahead of him. He went 

 on in the direction the sound came from, and in a very short time 

 came to the village of a happy people. They were playing all night. 

 He went and sat very close to the beach on the salt water. Now, 

 this village belonged to the Herring (Lu'smit'). They were a little 

 bigger people than the Sardines, and they were spawning at the time 

 Ya'lo £ a' came to their village. He staid there until daylight, and 

 they were playing all that time. In the morning he saw them running 

 in at the front door of a great long house and out at the back door, and 

 then back through the front door again. They were going round all 

 the time, and they seemed to be blind. It was late in the day when 

 some one stopped and looked outward ; and as soon as he caught sight 

 of the great white swan, he called out to his friends and told them about 

 what he had seen. All the people rushed out of the long house, and 

 then they said that they would go and try to catch him; but Ya'lo £ a' 

 said, ' ' I don't see any pretty young women here, I will leave them." 

 So he flew away before any of them came down to their canoes. He 

 kept on going northward, and in the night he came to a village that 

 belonged to the Cohoes Salmon (Tso' £ wit'). These people are of thesame 

 size as we are, and there was a large village which belonged to them. 

 In the morning he saw many men come out of a largo house ; and they 

 saw the swan sitting on the salt water very close to the beach of their 

 village. The first thing they did was to go and get a paddle each, 

 and their spears; and they went down to their canoes and tried to 

 catch the swan. After all the people had come out of their houses, he 

 saw many women with light-colored hair; and they were very pretty. 

 Now, he was going to let them catch him ; but he said, "I am all right, 

 for I still have much food and water. I can come back to this 

 place again, so I will go on a little farther to see the world;" and he 

 flew away again. For two days he was flying. 



Then he came to a village. It was a very large one. The houses 

 were large, and the people were stout and heavy. It was in the night 

 that he came there and sat on the salt water in front of the village. 

 Early in the morning a young man came out of a house to pass water; 

 and as he came out of the house, he saw the swan sitting on the water 

 in front of the village. Then he began to call out to the people of the 

 tribe to come out to see the swan. Very soon all the men and women 

 came out to see him. Now, this village belonged to the Spring 

 Salmon (Sa'ts!op') tribe; and whan they had all come out of their 

 houses, the chief, Ya'l5 £ a', said that he had never seen any uglier 

 people than they were. Then they also tried to catch him in their 

 canoes; but he flew away from them, and he flew all day long north- 

 ward. 



