CHINOOK 

 BOAS 



^] CIK^A MYTH — TRANSLATION. 21 



good." " Give me your knife." He gave it. " Give me the otlier one.'' 

 He gave it also. "Now put your Lead sideways." He put liis head 

 sideways. Now they fastened one knife to one side of his head. " Put 

 your head to the other side." He did so, and they fastened the other 

 knife to the other side. They fastened two to his head and one to his 

 backside. "Now jump!" tliey said to him, and he jumped. "Turn 

 round ! You shall be called deer. You will not kill man ! " 



They went on and came to Uq;o'nexon. "What are you doing?" 

 they said. " I play." Then she took a child at its, forearm and threw 

 it into the depth. " Let our dogs tight together," said the two men. 

 She replied: "Oh, their bitch is a monster. She devoured even her 

 husband's people. She will certainly kill my bitch." " What is the 

 name of your bitch," they said. "Her name is Head-eater. What is 

 the name of your bitch?" " Her name is Flint-eater." Now tlie two 

 dogs fought together and Cikla's bitch cut off the head of Uq; 'o'nexon's 

 bitch. Then one of the young men said to her : " Now throw me down 

 the preciiHce." He had said to the boys [down below] : " When she 

 throws me down you must say ' Eeturn to the land,'" She took him. 

 Flint i^ieces stood upright [at the foot of the precipice]. She took him 

 at his forearms. She swung him around five times; then she threw 

 him down. She said to the boys: "Say 'Stay always away from the 

 land.'" He, however, said to the boys: "Say 'Keturn to the land.'" 

 [When throwing him down TJq;'o'nexon said:] "Now come these two 

 people, your fathers !" He fell down and lay there [at the foot of the 

 precipice]. He arose whole. He was not hurt. He saw that down 

 below there was a multitude of boys. He took water and blew it on 

 all of them. Then they all arose. He said: "Watch her [when she 

 comes down]." They took stones. He went up and arrived on the top 

 of the rock. Then he said to Uq;'o'nexon: "O, aunt, look! These 

 people whom you threw down are not dead. I saw them down there. 

 I was there awhile. They dance and sing; they play itlukum and 

 disks. Now I shall throw you down." Now he placed his j)ieces of 

 flint upright. He took her at her hair and swung her around five times. 

 Her belly burst. Now he threw her down. She fell and lay there. 

 Then the boys pelted her with stones and cut her to pieces. Her body 

 was scattered in all directions. Her legs were thrown to Nehelim, her 

 hair was thrown inland, her ribs were thrown up the river [therefore 

 the Nehelim have strong legs, the Cowlitz have long hair, and the 

 tribes of the upper river have bandy legs]. 



