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gave him an elkskin shirt and put feather ornaments on his head. 
He put him into a swamp. Then they continued going up the river. 
They went some distance, and another person spoke: **Oh, at last 
my brother’s son arrived, whose buttocks are full of maggots. If it 
had not been for me, all your people would be dead.” ** Who is 
talking there? Let us go ashore.” ‘*Oh, your uncle, the peal 
talking.” They gave him five raccoon blankets and placed him on the 
bank of the river. 
Then they met a canoe. The Salmon said: ** Ask the people in that 
canoe.” There were three people in the canoe. A man was in the 
stern, a woman in the middle of the canoe. She said: *‘——.” The 
Salmon replied: ‘* What does that woman say?” And the man in the 
stern of the canoe answered: ‘*Oh, she said: ‘They went up with the 
flood tide and arrived at the Cascades; they came down again with the 
ebb tide.’ ‘*Stop the canoe. Why does she lie? How do the people 
who go up to the rapids come back?” They stopped them. The 
** Alxe’gela-tX,” ige’kim igu’nat. Iqelte EXt ige’lugte. Tia’kjéeckrla 
“Let us go ashore,” said the salmon. Itwasput one elkskin A feather head 
on to him shirt. ornament 
iqt@l6x. Iqit’tXemitam Lime nLjmeEn el Xpa. 
was put on He was placed soft ground in. 
to him. 
Aqa wi ito/suwulX. Qa’xpa iLo’yam aqa wit’ax iLn’xaltcu 
Then again they went up the When they arrived then again he spoke 
river. 
rgoate’ 1X: ‘* Koala cteaiqa qayd’yamx itcd’wulX ia’pote ga’yamoa. 
a person: “At last he arrived my nephew his anus having mag- 
gots. 
Qa niiketx nai’ka inb/x6x ngoane'lX, pan qigoXua’La-it tme’l Xam.” 
If not I I had been I person, (then) ~ had died your people.” 
* Alxe’oelaiX. ra’n LaXi a’kua LXO'la/” * A, tqana’peupet ime’mot 
“Let us go ashore. Who that thus talking?” “Ah, (a root) your uncle 
yaNi a’kua ixd’la.” Qui’nEm iqn’telte tqand’qoake. Qiura’eteEmitam 
that thus talking.” Five were put on raccoon They went to place him 
to him blankets. 
tkma’epa. 
shore line at. 
Aga ibo/suwulX ca’xalfX. Lqjap irgi’yéx ikn/nim. Ige’kim 
Then they went up the up. Meet they did it a canoe. He said 
river. 
iow nat: ‘* Amegiqn’mtcxogua yaXi ike’nim.” Ta’kjanonike ta-itei 
the salmon: “Ask them that canoe.” Three in the canoe — those 
té1Xam. e’kala Ln/qéyamit. ILn’xaltcO LaXi ka’teak q7a’guxt: 
people. A man in the stern. He spoke that middle being in the 
canoe: 
“Taqjalakiawa’,  Laqjamo’eqjamoc,  Laqjapa’ wapawa.” joe’ kim 
Us ae He said 
igunat: ‘Qa igElxoxd’/la wuXi aqagelak?” Itz’kim taXi 
the salmon: “What ‘does she say that woman?”’ He said that 
Le’qéyamit: ‘SA, axod’lal, into’witck, aqa iLo/sowulX, iLo’yam 
the one in the “Ah, she says, it got flood tide, then they went up, they ar- 
stern: rived at 
ike’catck, aqa igiLxé@’takua,aqa wi-iLE’stso.” “‘Lqjup imege’LxoxiX. 
Cascades, then  thewatersre- then again they went “Stop do them. 
turned, down the river.’ 
Qa'teqe itjme’nXut tcoxtx? Qantsi/X po nuXuata’kam _ ta-ftci 
Why lies she makes? How many if they return those 
