278 FIRST SHIP SEEN BY THE CLATSOP. EnoSjgt 



" What may it be ? " They went ruiming to meet her. They said, "What 

 is if?" " Ah, something lies there and it is thus. There are two bears on 

 it, or maybe they are people." Then the people ran. They reached the 

 thing that lay there. Now the people, or what else they might be, held 

 two copper kettles in their hands. Now the first one reached there. 

 Another one arrived. Now the persons took their hands to their 

 mouths and gave the people their kettles. They had Mds. The men 

 pointed inland and asked for water. Then two people ran inland. 

 They hid themselves behind a log. They returned again and ran to 

 the beach. One man climbed up and entered the thing. He went down 

 into the ship. He looked about in the interior of the ship; it was full 

 of boxes. He found brass buttons in strings half a fathom long. He 

 went out again to call his relatives, but tbey had already set fire to the 

 ship. He jumped down. Those two x)ersons had also gone down. It 

 burnt just like fat. Then the Clatsoj) gathered the iron, the copper, 

 and the brass. Then all the people learned about it. The two persons 

 were taken to the chief of the Clatsop. Then the chief of the one town 

 said, "I want to keep one of the men with me." The people almost 

 began to fight. Now one of them was taken to one town. Then the 

 chief was satisfied. Now the Quenaiult, the Chehalis, the Cascades, 

 the Cowlitz, and the Klickatat learned about it and they all went to 

 Clatsop. The Quenaiult, the Chehalis, and the Willapa went. The 

 people of all the towns went there. The Cascades, the Cowlitz, and 

 the Klickatat came down the river. All those of the upper part of the 

 river came down to Clatsop. Strij)s of copper two fingers wide and 

 going around the arm were exchanged for one slave each. A j)iece of 

 iron as long as one-half the forearm was exchanged for one slave. A 

 piece of brass two fingers wide was exchanged for one slave. A nail 

 was sold for a good curried deerskin. Several nails were given for long 

 dentalia. The people bought this stud the Clatsop became rich. Then 

 iron and brass were seen for the first time. Now they kept these two 

 persons. One was kept by each chief; one was at the Clatsop town at 

 the cape. 



'''> 



