214 qjelte' lia'qacqac. 



[BUREAU OF 

 ETHNOLOGY 



Atco'lXam: "Nakct ano'yam ka auxa'tako." Lo'ni aya'qxoya ka 



He said to her : "Not I arrived and I turned back. ' Three his sleeps and 



times 



niXatgo'mam. Xakct qa'da atcio'lXam Lia'mama. 



he came back. Not [any]how he said to him his father. 



Translation. 



My great-grandfather had the guardian spirit of the warriors. My 

 grandfather had seen the shaman's spirit, he liad seen the wolf, he 

 had seen the bitch, he had seen the morning star. Now he came to 

 be grown up and he thought : " I will take a wife. Now I have many 

 guardian spirits." The women went digging roots and camped [on the 

 beach]. His friends said to him : "Let us follow the women who are 

 going to camp out." He said : " No, else I shall be scolded." His friends 

 asked him again. Then he thought : 1 must accompany them. Now 

 he accompanied those young men. They reached those women. An 

 old woman said to him : " Does your father know that you came 

 here?" He said : "No, I shall tell him later on." The young men 

 slept there and he also slept there. He lay down near the fire. At 

 daybreak the young men returned. They arrived at home. Now he 

 stood outside. He was afraid to enter his father's house. He opened 

 the door. There were four fires on each side of the house. Eight tires 

 were in the house. Now he entered his father's house. He reached the 

 first fire. He thought : " When will he speak to me ?" He arrived at 

 the next fire and passed it. He came near the third fire, then his father 

 said : " Stay there ! Did you find all your guardian spirits and do you 

 want to take a wife?" He threw a cape at him: "Quick, climb that 

 mountain and [do not] come home [until] five nights [have passed]. 

 There is the female guardian spirit of your ancestors. There is 

 Ut; o'naqan." His aunt said to him : " When you reach the top of 

 that mountain, gather some grass for me." He took the cape and 

 went. He went, he went, and went a long distance. It became dark 

 and he slept there. He lay down and it became day again. He had 

 heard nothing and it became daylight. Now he went and went again. 

 He climbed that mountain. When it was nearly noon he had almost 

 climbed it. Now he heard something. He heard her howling. At 

 once he was chilled by fear and he went on for a little while, when he 

 heard her again howling. Now he heard the howling a little louder. 

 Then it became quiet again. Now leaves fell down. He thought: "O, 

 I shall meet the monster." He thought : " They intended that she should 

 devour me." He was on top of a tree and she howled. For a short while 

 it became quiet, then she howled again. Now she was quite near. The 

 howling stopped again. Leaves fell down again. Again she howled. 

 Then he turned back to go home. He thought : " I will go home." Now 

 Utj o'naqan pursued him. When he had gone some distance she came 

 near him. She howled and immediately he became weak. He thought : 

 "She will devour me." Then he thought of one of his guardian spirits 

 and he left her far behind. Then he became again tired. He threw 



