^"boas'^] the salmon myth TRANSLATION. 79 



He made five bays, tlieii be gave it up. The people crossed all five 

 bays. Coyote and Badger, who were amoug the i)uisners, became tired, 

 aud Coyote said to his friend : " My friend, I am getting tired. What do 

 you think if I enchant my arrow?" Badger replied : "All right." Then 

 Coyote blew on his arrow [singing] : " Strike his head, strike his head." 

 Three times he sang to his arrow : " Strike his head, strike his head." 

 And five times he blew on it. Then he shot ujiward and the arrow 

 went "Halnlululululalu." The arrow struck the young man right in 

 the nape and he fell down dead. The wolves were first among the 

 pursuers, and tliey took the woman. The people devoured the salmon. 

 They gave coj^ote the salmon's bow. Then an egg fell down from him 

 into a hole in the rock. Then the people went home. Now the Crow 

 learned that her nephew had been killed. She went away and cried. 

 She cried. IS'ow she arrived at the place where he had been killed. 

 She [looked for his remains,] turned over the stones, cried, and turned 

 them again. Then she found one salmon egg. She carried it to the 

 river, made a small hole [m the bank of the river] and in\t the egg into 

 the water. In the evening- she went home. 



Early next morning the Crow went again to look after that egg. It 

 had grown a little. Then she made a larger hole [and put the egg into 

 it]. In the evening- she went home again. She reached her house. 

 She did not sleep at all, aud it grew day again. Early in the 

 morning she went again [to look after the egg]. She cried while going. 

 She arrived at that salmon egg. N"ow a small trout was swimming- [in 

 the hole]. This gladdened her a little. She made a still larger hole. 

 In the evening she went home and slept a little. Early in the morning 

 she went out again the fourth time. She arrived at that salmon egg 

 and saw a large trout swimming there. Then the Crow was really 

 glad. She made a large ho'.e. Early in the afternoon she went home. 

 She arrived at home. When it grew dark she fell asleep. Early ip 

 the morning she awoke, arose, and went to look after the trout. She 

 arrived and saw a small salmon swimming there. Now she made a 

 still larger hole and left it again. At noon she went home. She arrived 

 at home. She thought only of the salmon. It grew dark. Early the 

 next morning she went again. She arrived and now there swam a 

 large salmon. She took it, threw it ashore, and it was transformed 

 into a tall boy. Now the Crow was happy. They went home together. 

 fcJhe said to her grandnephew: "Bathe, that you may see spirits." He 

 bathed. First he bathed in the river and after that in the sea. Every 

 night he bathed. After he had finished bathing in the sea, he bathed 

 in [ponds on] the mountains. Now he became a young man. 



Then his grandaunt told him: "Coyote and his friend Badger killed 

 your father. If it had not been for that woman they w^ould not have 

 killed him. They took her to the wolves." He replied: "I will go 

 and search for Coyote." "Do not go, else they will kill you." Aftei' 

 a while the Crow told him: "They gave your father's bow to Coyote." 



