BOAS] KATHLAMET TEXTS 253 
her back. Finally he sends the Panther, who marries the woman. 
Then the Beaver cries, and produces a deluge. The animals save them- 
selves in their canoes. Finally they dive to bring up some mud. Blue- 
jay, Mink, Otter, and Muskrat try; the last succeeds. Then the waters 
begin to disappear, the canoes are left on the dry land, and the animals 
jump out of them. They all knock off their tails at the gunwale. 
Those that do not return to get them have short tails. 
3. Myru or THE Sun—A chief has many pairs of moccasins and leg- 
gings made, and walks eastward to visit the Sun. After ten months, 
he reaches the Sun. He sees war implements hanging on one side of his 
house, dresses and shell beads on the other side. The sun is hanging 
near the entrance. He sees a girl, who tells him that all these things 
are her grandmother’s property. The sun is carried by this old 
woman, who leaves the house every morning and returns late in the 
evening. He marries the girl, and asks the old woman to give him 
her blanket. Finally she gives it to him, and it fits his body like a 
shirt. She gives him a stone ax and sends him home. As soon as 
he sees people, he loses his senses and is compelled to kill them. After 
he has killed all his friends, the old woman visits him. She takes away 
the garment and the ax and leaves him. 
4. Myrx or THE Swan—The Swan marries a chief’s daughter, and 
during a famine gives her pounded salmon bones to eat, while he him- 
self eats dried salmon. Then she goes home. She goes to bed and 
lies for five days on one side, then she turns over and lies for five days 
on the other side. All her hair comes off. Then she conjures the 
smelt which the people catch. Then she makes the river freeze so 
that the Swans cannot obtain any food. The Swans go to visit her. 
She orders the people to roast smelt over a fire of pitchwood; then 
she lets the Swans come in and they dislike the smoky taste of the 
fish. She curses them, saying: ‘* You shall fly away when the smelts 
arrive.” 
5. THE Coprrr IS SPEARED—A bright piece of copper is seen at 
sea. All the people try to spear it, but are unsuccessful. Finally 
two girls, who disguise themselves as youths, hit’it. They instruct 
their father to invite the people, and produce the copper. They cut 
it to pieces and give it to the people. It has many different colors, 
and they put it onto their garments. These people are the birds, and 
this accounts for their different colors. The Blue-jay was given the 
best part of the copper. He showed it to the Clam, who took it away 
from him, and since that time has the mother-of-pearl color, while 
to Blue-jay was given what little remained of the copper. 
6. Myra or tHE Corore—Coyote and the Snake go up the river. 
He is instructed by his excrements in the taboos referring to the 
vatching of salmon on the upper part of the river. 
