Myvi or tHe Cororr (roip 1891)' 
When he had finished on this side of the river, he went up the river. 
He arrived up there. Then he and his younger brother, the Snake, 
went fishing salmon with their nets. They fished with their net, but 
did not catch anything. They went home. Coyote was angry; he 
defecated. ‘* Why did those salmon disappear?” ‘Oh, that bandy- 
legged one. Do you think the custom is the same here? It is another 
country. These people speak another language. Untie your net, take 
out two meshes, and turn around the buoys.” Coyote said: ** You 
have told me enough.” Thus he spoke to his excrements. THe said to 
his brother, the Snake: *‘Quick! Let us untie it!” They untied the 
net and took out two meshes. Then they tied it again to the buoys. 
Then they finished. The following day they went to catch salmon. 
Inja'Lapas [A'KjANE 
Coyote His MytH 
Iiii’eXorq kata @nat e’mat. Agqa wi icto’suwulX.  Icto’yam 
They two fin- there oneside the river. Then again they went up the They arrived 
ished it river. 
sa’xaliX. Aqa wi icxénauwa'itgémam. Ke’nuweé  ici’xenauwaitgé. 
up. Then again they went fishing with their Try they fished with the 
net. net. 
Ni2ct tan iegé’waq. Ici) Xkjoa. IgiX®/L Xa itja/lapas. Ite1d’tsjatsja: 
Not any- theykilled. They went home. He was angry coyote. He defecated: 
thing 
“Qateqi kj gi tgu’nat?? ‘SA taya’x tia’qo-itqux itkji’yuktax. 
“Why nothing these salmon?” 1A that ris legs erooked, 
Amxto’Xuana_kjoanqii’ yaXi qi’eqamiX? LIxelo/ita gi eX 
Do you think [int. the same as that down the river? Another this coun- 
part.] try 
é’wa axelo/ita ata’wawa tata’-itci té’1Xam. Stu’XstuX  th’xa 
therefore another their language those people. Untie do them 
tata’X  temé’nauwa-itk. Moket wekia’kux = aq? ~~ amLo’/xoa. 
those your nets. Two meshes out take them. 
Amuiktqoa’yayaXtiX wmé’kolaq.” Ige/’kim  itja/lapas: ‘‘ Kopr’t 
Turn them round your buoys.” He said coyote: “Enough 
aqa imxankleu’titck,” itcio’|Xam ia’qexalé.  Itcid’1Xam ia’mXiX, 
then you told me,” he said to them his excre- He said to him his younger 
ments. brother, 
aqio Xam itci’yau: ‘*Ai’aq stu’ XstuX atxktd’xoa.” Stu’ XstuX 
he was told the snake: “Quick untie we will do it.” Untie 
icgrh’t6x cta’nauwa-itk; mdket Lkara’qux Lago icei’Léx. Aga 
they did it their net; two meshes out they did them. Then 
wi ickiawe’xétq ~—cta/nauwa-itk. Ickio’koanq — cta’/nauwa-ith:. 
again they tied it to the their net. They finished their net. 
buoys 
Pp a awe a 
Tgdné’oua fextnauwaitgemam. Led’prla ickto’tena. IeXkjoa/mam. 
Another day they went fishing with their Many they killed them. They came home. 
net. 
1 Continuation of the Coyote myth told in ‘‘ Chinook Texts’ (bulletin of the Bureau of Ethnology), 
Washington, 1894, pp. 92-106. 
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