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tire. She fell asleep sitting there and burned ber arms. Then all the 

 GiLa'unaLX said: "Our chief's wife is starving. Your relative's wife 

 will die, she fell asleep sitting. She is starving." Thus spoke the people. 

 The woman said : " I fell asleep, and my husband says he has Iqamia'itx 

 [for his guardian spirit]." Now her husband was ashamed because 

 both her arms were burned. He did not sleep, while all the other people 

 slept. He said to his younger brother: "Eise!" His younger brother 

 arose. [He continued:] "Take this basket." Now he took his dipnet 

 and they went to the water. It was winter. They came to a willow and 

 he took its leaves. When the basket was full they went to the water. 

 He stood in the water up to his waist. He said to his younger brother: 

 "It is ebb tide. Pour these leaves into the river above me. Then 

 take this dipnet and say: 'Ehe', 1 .broke my dipnet.' Lift it and pour 

 it out again above me. Then say once more : ' Ehe/, I broke my dip- 

 net.'" Three times he poured it out and said: "I broke my dipnet." 

 He lifted the dipnet. Then the elder brother said to the younger 

 one: "Now look at them." The youth looked at them, now they were 

 leaves at the tails and smelts at the heads. He poured them out the 

 fifth time. Theyjumped into the water. He dipped them up the sixth 

 time and poured them out again. Now smelts swam on the surface of 

 the water. He said to his younger brother: "Let us launch our fish- 

 ing canoe." They launched it and took a rake. Now they fished with 

 the rake and the canoe was half full. He said: "It is enough." Then 

 they went ashore. " Bring five large mats." The youth brought them. 

 The people were asleep. They carried the smelts ashore and carried 

 them all up to the house. He said to his younger brother: "Rise 

 early, make a fire and go to bathe. Open the smoke hole of our 

 house. Stand up there and shout. Say: 'Ah, GiLfi/unaLX! are you 

 dead? News has come.' Thus speak twice." The younger brother 

 did so. He arose early, made a fire and went to bathe. He went up, 

 opened the smoke-hole of their house and shouted: "Ah, GiLa'unaLX, 

 are you dead*? News has come." He shouted twice. Now the people 

 arose. They took their arrows, their bone clubs, and their lances. Now 

 they went to the house of their chief. The people said: "What is 

 if? Where did news come from ! " The youth said : " There, in these 

 five baskets is the news." Now the smelts stood there. One of the 

 men wore an elkskin armor; he carried some away in a fold of the skin. 

 Another wore a ground-hog blanket; he wrapped them up in his blanket. 

 Still another wore a raccoon blanket; he wanted to wrap them up in 

 it, but they fell through it. All the people did thus. Now they ate. 

 Now one young spruce tree was placed downstream and one upstream. 

 Only the GiLa'unaLX caught smelts. Their houses became full and 

 they dried them. All the people caught them. 



Another year the GiLa'unaLX were again starving. They had only 

 skunk-cabbage and rush roots to eat. Their chief heard that the houses 

 of the people at Rainier were full. They caught smelts. Then he carved 



