^10^8°^] CKULKULo'l myth TRANSLATION. 189 



Then he arose. " Your name shall be Hummiug-Bird. Henceforth 

 you shall not eat steel-head salmon." Then she went away and left 

 him. 



She went and went. She went a long distance. Then she saw a 

 house. She entered and roasted ten roots in the ashes of the fire. 

 Then she took a salmon roe and ate it. Then a man arrived who took 

 her and struck her [on the nape]. The salmon roe fell [out of her 

 mouth]. She was ashamed and went out of the house. She went again 

 a long distance. Then she saw another house. She went and opened 

 the door. The house was full of dried salmon. When she had stayed 

 a little while a steel-head salmon fell down. She took it and put it 

 back. It fell down again. She took it and put it back again. Now 

 she roasted ten roots in the ashes of the fire. She lost two of them. 

 She searched and searched, but did not find them. Now a salmon 

 roe fell down. She took it again and put it back. After some time a 

 man arrived. Then the fire crackled. He said, "Ah." The fire 

 crackled again, and he said once more, "Ah. Heli, why did you not 

 take the food which she offered to you? She took two of your roots 

 and you searched for them in her mouth. Do yOu think the man whom 

 you met was a human being? Fish-hawk is the name of that danger." 

 Now she became pregnant. She gave birth to a boy. Now the child 

 cried and the man put it on top of the fire. She gave one jump and 

 took the child. "Ah, why do you put our child into the fire?" "Why 

 do you take it away from the old woman? She will look after it." He 

 continued : " When you gather wood go only this way. Do not go down 

 the river." Now she did so, and gathered wood only above the house. 

 Now one day there was no wood above the house. She had taken it 

 all. Then she went dowu the river. Slie found a long stick and broke 

 it. It was red where she had broken it. She broke it again and it 

 bled. Three times she broke it and it bled profusely. She went home. 

 When she opened the door she saw her husband lying there. He had 

 three [deep] wounds. Now her child cried. She blew the fire, but it 

 was extinguished. Then she took her child and left. 



After she had gone a long distance she became tired. " I will desert 

 my child," she thought. " I will leave it here." She carried it to a 

 maple and left it. Then she went far away. Now a nuxn was working 

 at a canoe [near by]. He heard a child crying and searched for it. He 

 found it and carried it to a place near his house. Then he went into the 

 house, and said to his wife: " I found a child. Feign to be pregnant." 

 Thus they deceived their daughter. They said to her: "Your mother 

 begins to be in labor. Perhaps she will give birth to a child."' Then 

 their daughter stayed there. But when it was almost morning she fell 

 asleep. Then he fetched the child. [ He said to his daughter : ] " Arise, 

 your brother has been born." Then his daughter arose. "Ah, my 

 brother," she said. Now, the boy grew up, and [his father] made arrows 

 for him. He went about following his sister. She was bad and said: 



