CHINOO 



BOAS 



"] CULTEE's grandfather — TRANSLATION. 215 



away his cape. She reached it and went arouud it often. He looked 

 at her and he ran again. He looked for a cedar which he intended to 

 climb. Then he thought of his guardian spirit, the wolf. At once he 

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

 looked back at her. Her teats were along her belly, like those of a 

 bitch. They reached down to the middle of her legs and struck them 

 often. When she went down hill she went a little slower ; when she 

 went up hill she ran quickly. She approached him. Then he thought 

 of his guardian spirit, the bitch, and left her far behind. In the after- 

 noon he reached a small but deep creek. The water reached up to here, 

 near his armpits. He walked down stream in the water. Then he went 

 ashore. It is said that Ut; o'naqan is afraid of water. Now he saw her 

 coming down to the creek. If she was really afraid of the water, she 

 would not step into it. Now she arrived at the creek. She made a°, 

 a", a", and blew upon the water like a deer that is about to drink. She 

 stayed there and howled : " Ua," and he fainted and fell asleep. Now 

 he saw that she was a human being. She spoke to him : " I am the one 

 whom your family and whom the Indians call Ut; o'naqan. I come 

 from tlie top of that mountain. I like you. Look at me, Indian !" Her 

 throat and her body were full of arrow-heads. '' You will be just as I 

 am [when you return to the country of] the Indians." Her body was 

 full of [arrows which had been shot at her]. " You will be just as I am 

 [when you return to the country of] the Indians." He slept. On the 

 next day he awoke when the sun was high up in the sky. Now he saw 

 nothing-. He bathed in that creek and went home, and he came home 

 quite naked. He entered the house. His aunt said to him: "Did 

 you gather grass for me?" He said to her: "I returned before I 

 reached there." Three days he stayed away. He did not tell his father 

 [what he had seeu.l 



