BOAS] KATHLAMET TEXTS 261 
them. The boy becomes a warrior by seeing the thunderbird. He 
invites the people to a great feast, and outdoes his father so much that 
the latter loses his rank. 
6. P&’LpeL—Pe'Lpet is a chief on North river, who robs the people 
farther south. A young man trains to become a warrior. When 
Pe'Lper attacks him, the young man kills him. 
7. Tur Nisa’L—A man has a wooden figure representing a super- 
natural being, which he makes dance. Two young men hide near the 
door, and strike the figure with a club when it is passing. Then snow 
begins to fall and it gets very cold. Two eagles are seen drifting 
down the river on an ice floe. The two young men try to catch them 
and are drowned. Thus is the spirit revenged. 
8. THe Sprrir or Huncer—There is a famine. Two friends are 
starving. Both have the Famine for their guardian spirit. One of 
them sees her coming and entering all the houses. Then the people 
die. The other one is not able to see her, except froma distance. The 
first goes to meet the Famine and has a struggle with her. He takes 
away her mat, in which she carries bones and shells. He shows them 
to the people, and from that time on there is plenty of game. 
9. WINTER ALL THE YEAR ROUND—A boy plays with his excrements, 
although it is forbidden to do so. As soon as he has done so, a cold 
winter sets in. The people propose to expose the boy on the ice, but 
his parents protect him. A bird is killed which carries a strawberry 
in its beak, from which the people conclude that it is cold only in 
their country. Then the parents give the boy up. He is exposed on 
the ice, where he dies. Then it rains, the snow melts, and it becomes 
summer, 
10. THE GIRL WHO WAS CARRIED AWAY BY THE THUNDERBIRD— 
The Indians used to hunt elk on Saddle mountain near Astoria. They 
frightened them and drove them down a certain trail which ended in 
a precipice. Girls are forbidden to pass over the prairie at the foot 
of this precipice. A girl disobeys this law and is carried away by the 
Thunderbird. The people search for her and see many birds flying 
around the rocks. The girl has become a supernatural being. 
11. THE MAN WHO WAS TRANSFORMED INTO A SNAKE—The wife of 
a canoe builder finds a very large root. He eats it and is transformed 
into a large snake. The roots are transformed into small snakes, 
which follow him when he leaves the house. Hence people do not 
now eat large roots. 
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