APPENDIX: TALES COLLECTED Bl^ FARRAND IN ENGLISH 

 25. S^u'ku, the Transformer^ 



After going up the Yahach River he stopped at a certain place and 

 said, ''I'll make a fish trap here so as to enable the people to catch 

 salmon." So he laid some rocks down at the riffles and said, "I'll 

 lay here a tree across the river." Then he went up a hill to cut a 

 tree. But when he arrived at the top of the hiU he heard the ocean 

 roar and said, ''No, I'U not build a salmon trap here; it is too close 

 to the ocean." Then he went back down the river. While going 

 back he left his footprints on the rocks, which can be stiU seen to-day. 

 Pretty soon he came to a place called Qtau (Otter Rock) , where he 

 saw Crows in great numbers killing the Sea Lions. But he said 

 nothing until he came to Yakwina. There he turned back and said 

 to the Crows: "You shall not kill the Sea Lions any longer. Only 

 the next people, whom I shall create, wiU kill Sea Lions." Then he 

 went on destroying monsters wherever he found them. Pretty soon 

 he came to K'ilxa'mexk'. This place was inhabited by many peo- 

 ple. But S^u'ku changed them into Sea Gulls, saying: "Somebody 

 else will take your place here. You will not always be able to obtain 

 food for yourselves and wiU just pick up whatever comes ashore." 

 Then he went on until he came to the mouth of the Siletz River, 

 passing on without doing anything. 



Thence he went to Salmon River, which he named Si'sinqau. He 

 put many salmon into that river. He also found some Seals but 

 told them, "You shaU live under the cliff here." Then he looked 

 northward and said, "This is a bad-looking place." Still he went oil 

 until he reached the Nestucca River. The mouth of this river was 

 closed; so he kicked the rocks to make a channel, and they fell to 

 pieces. He threw the biggest rock on the north side of the bay, 

 where it can be stiU seen unto this day. Then he crossed the bay 

 and came to the beach. On looking northward again, he saw a man 

 (Raccoon) working and piling rocks out toward the ocean. He went 

 to the man and asked him, "What are you doing this for ? " And the 

 man answered, "I am trying to make a bridge across the ocean in 

 order to enable the people to travel back and forth." But S^u'ku 

 kicked the rocks apart and told the man to desist, whereupon he 

 called this place Simtui's. Then he went to the other side of the 

 cape, where he found a number of people playing shinny. He watched 

 them a while. Pretty soon two men began to fight. Then S^'u'ku 



1 See p. 90, note 5. 

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