230 THE GILA UNALX. [Sol^ogt 



and] look after your grandmother." He walked downstream and saw 

 two fish ducks. He took his arrows but thought: -'I will not shoot 

 them, else they will carry my arrows away from the land." He took a 

 stone. When the ducks dived he ran to the water and when they 

 emerged he threw his stone. He hit the head of one. Then he took 

 oft' his blauket [and went into the water]. He reached them. The 

 water reached to his armpits; then the ducks fluttered and flew away. 

 He went ashore. Then they drifted again, the belly upward. Again he 

 went into the water and swam. When he nearly reached them they 

 fluttered again. He went ashore. Five times he swam to get them. 

 Then he reached them. He turned round and fainted. Now he saw a 

 supernatural being; he saw Iqamia'itx [the helper of the flshermenj. 

 When he awoke he was on the shore and held the ducks in his hands. 

 He left them and went on. Now he reached Tongue point. When he 

 came near his grandmother he saw smoke rising where she was deserted. 

 He reached her and said: "Behold! you are alive! " She said to him: 

 "I am alive." She was going to give him food, but he said: " I am not 

 hungry." He slept there. On the next day he gathered fuel for his 

 grandmother. He gathered many sticks aud went home. He left his 

 grandmother. In the evening he came home. Then the people said to 

 him : "Are you hungry ? " He replied : " No, I am tired." He lay down. 

 Early the next morning he arose and went a long distance. He went 

 to play. In the evening he came home. After he had been there a 

 short while he lay down. For three nights and three days he did not 

 eat. Then on the fourth day he ate. He grew up. 



Now he had a friend, a youth. They grew up. One day they went 

 out in a canoe. When they were in the middle of the river he said to 

 his friend: "Who is your guardian spirit?" He replied: "Iqamia'itx 

 is my guardian spirit, and who is yours?" The other one said: "My 

 guardian spirit is also Iqamia/itx." The one said: "What are you 

 going to do when our relatives shall be hungry?" The other replied: 

 "I shall let smelts come;" and he asked his friend: "Aud what are 

 you going to do?" He said: "I shall let salmon come when our rela- 

 tives get hungry. Put your arm under water; I shall put mine also 

 under water." They put their arms under water. The one who had 

 the guardian spirit helping him to obtain smelts lifted his hand first. 

 Now a smelt hung at his hand. After some time the other one lifted 

 his hand. A small salmon hung at it. Then he said to his friend: 

 "Indeed! Iqamia'itx is your guardian spirit." 



The youths went home. The one who had a guardian spirit helping 

 him to obtain smelts married first. Now the GiLa'unaLX were starv- 

 ing. They had only skunk-cabbage to eat. Then the young man whose 

 guardian spirit helped him to obtain smelts became rich. 



One day his wife went to gather skunk-cabbage. In the evening when 

 she came home she heated stones and warmed herself. Tlie winter 

 was cold. When she was warm she dozed away and fell down at the 



