232 THE GILA'uNALX. [Soloov 



ten pieces of cedar. He made five fish-ducks and five shags. He said 

 to his relatives : "Make yourselves ready. We will go upstream to 

 get food." They went in a large canoe. They went up until they 

 arrived at Tongue point. He sang his conjurer's song while they went. 

 He said to his companions: "If they should give us food, do not eat!" 

 They arrived at Lia'ecaLxe. They landed at the town and went up to 

 the houses. He said: "Where are those smelts caught?" "Ah, they 

 are caught below Eainier." They were going to roast the smelts and 

 when they were nearly done he said to his companions: "Let us go up 

 the river." The people said to them : " These smelts are nearly done." 

 But he said: "We will go at once. To-morrow we shall stay for a 

 while." They went upstream. Now they came to tlie people who 

 caught smelts. They were near them. One person said : "My dipnet 

 is full. It will soon burst. Ha ! The GiLa'uuaLX are starving." The 

 one whose guardian spirit was Iqamia'itx said to his companions: 

 "Paddle slowly." When they had passed all the canoes he said to 

 them: "Paddle toward the middle of the river." They paddled from 

 the land. He put five of those birds into the water on each side of the 

 canoe. Each five were tied to a long rope. Then he said to his rela- 

 tives: "Paddle." Now his companions paddled. These wooden birds 

 swam just like birds. When it was nearly day they came home. Gulls 

 were seaward from them. When it grew dark he said: "Go to the 

 water. See if I did not bring the smelts." The people went to the 

 water and launched their canoes. After a short time they were full. 

 The GiLa'unaLX dried the smelts and their houses were full. The 

 people upstream searched as far as Cowlitz, but the smelts had disap- 

 peared; there were none. The people heard: "Ah, the houvses of the 

 GiLa'unaLX are full. That one whose guardian spirit is Iqamia'itx 

 carried the smelts away." Now they scolded that person: "Ha! this 

 person said : 'Ah, the GiLa'unaLX are starving, although one of them 

 says that he has Iqamia'itx for his guardian spirit.'" Now the people 

 upstream were starving. The smelt had disappeared. Only the 

 GiLa'unaLX caught smelt. 



Now the other man who had Iqamia'itx for his guardian spirit mar- 

 ried. In spring the GiLa'unaLX were again starving. They tried 

 to catch salmon in the dipnet, but they did not kill anything. They 

 carried fern (Pteris) roots and rush roots to Clatsop and exchanged 

 them. Then they received a little dry salmon and salmon skins. 

 They went often to exchange it. Then a person said: "When the 

 GiLa'unaLX come again to exchange we will cohabit with [their 

 women]." Thus said a Clatsop man. Now the GiLa'unaLX went again 

 to exchange [roots for salmon]. They received dry salmon and salmon 

 skins. They went to the water and went home. That person said again : 

 " Quick, let us follow them. We will follow them and cohabit with the 

 women." The GiLa'unaLX women heard it. The wife of the man who had 

 Iqamia'itx for his guardian spirit was with them. They came home and 



