*^"Bor^'^] COYOTE MYTH TRANSLATION. 101 



^•aLri'k;auk;au, ("''ka Liiie'mEloet kqkqocgri'liL, e'ka Lqelfi'wulX, ^ 



a muiderer, tbus torpst-s who takes [themj thus girl first men- •*- 



always, struatiiig, 



^'ka LqLU'Xit, e'ka LE'pL'au, Ka'naii"^'^ v e'ka tgu'kMLau te'lx'Em „ 



tlTus menstruated thus widow ami All thus their taboo people •^ 



woman. widower 



nuxuiia'xEnitEma te'lx-Ein. 3 



i^eneratious ot people. 



Tr((nslati(m 



Coyote was coming. He came to Gdt'a't. There he met a heavy 

 surf. He was afraid that he might be drifted away aud went up to 

 the spruce trees. He stayed there a long time. Then he took some 

 sand aud threw it upon that surf: "This shall be a prairie aud uo surf. 

 The future generations shall walk on this prairie." Thus Clatsop 

 became a jjrairie. The surf became a prairie. 



At Nia'xaqce a creek originated. He went and built a house at 

 Nia'xaqce. He went out and stayed at the mouth of Nia'xaqce. Then 

 he speared two silver-side salmon, a steel-head salmon, and a fall 

 salmon. Then hr threw the salmon and the fall salmon away, saying: 

 *'This creek is too small. I do not like to see here salmon and fall 

 salmon. It shall be a bad omen when a fall salmon is killed here; 

 somebody shall die; also when a salmon is killed. When a female 

 salmon or fall salmon is killed a woman shall die; when a male is 

 killed a man shall die." Now he carried only the silver-side salmon 

 to his house. When he arrived tnere he cut it at once, steamed it and 

 ate it. On the next day he took his harpoon and went again to the 

 mouth of Nia'xaqce. He did not see anything, and the flood tide set 

 in. He went home. On the next day he went again and did not see 

 anything. Then he became angry and went home. He defecated and 

 said to his excrements: "Why have these silver-side salmon disap- 

 peared?" "Oh, you with your bandy legs, you have no sense. When 

 the first silver-side salmon is killed it must not be cut. It must be 

 split along its back and roasted. It must not be steamed. Only when 

 they go up river then they may be steamed." Coyote went home. On 

 the next day he went again and speared three. He went home and 

 made three spits. He roasted each salmon on a spit. He had three 

 salmon and three spits. On the next day he went again and stood at 

 the mouth of the creek. He did not see anything until the flood tide 

 set in. Then lie became angry and went home. He defecated. He 

 spoke and asked his excrements: "Why have these silver-side salmon 

 disappeared?" His excrements said to him: "I told you, you with 

 your bandy legs, when the first silver-side salmon are killed spits must 

 be made, one for the head, one for the back, one for the roe, one for the 

 body. The gills must be burnt." "Yes," said Coyote. On the next 

 day he went again. He killed again three silver-side salmon. When 

 lie arrived at home he cut them all and made many spits. He roasted 

 them all separately. The si)its of the breast, body, head, back, and roe 



