BOAS] FAMILY HISTORIES 1253 



lost the bear, because he had transgressed the rules laid down by his 

 father. He felt very sorry for having lost the bear. 



Then he thought that he had once seen a very pretty girl, a daughter 

 of the cliief of the DzawadEenox", whose name was Leader-of-all 

 Warriors (Waleba^ye) . Ex' sokwi^lak" wished to marry her. There- 

 fore he asked her father's consent. When the chief saw that he 

 seemed to be a good-natured young man, he let him marry his 

 daughter. 



Ex' sokwi^ak" had a brother-in-law, Born-to-be-a-Spearsman 

 (Ale^winoxwi^lak") , who was a sea-otter hunter. He used to go out 

 early every morning to spear sea-otters, and sometimes he would kill 

 many, sometimes he would not get any. So one day Ex'sokwi^lakn 

 asked his wife if he might accompany her brother. When she had 

 given her consent, he got ready and went aboard the spearsman's 

 canoe. Then they started for Moving-Island (^makwi^ala ^mEk'ala). 

 Ex'sokwi4ak" saw many sea-otters on the island, and asked his 

 brother-in-law to put him ashore, for he wanted to kill them with 

 his club. When his brother-in-law had put him ashore, he found a 

 fine club which his father had put there. He ran towards the sleeping- 

 place of the sea-otters, and killed every one of them. His brother-in- 

 law, who had not killed any, became angry. Therefore he deserted 

 Ex's6kwi4ak", who had to stay on the island without food and 

 water. On the fourth day, while he was sleeping, some one came 

 and said, "I have been sent by the chief to call you into his house;" 

 and when he woke up to see who was speaking to him, he did not see 

 anyone. Then he covered his head with his cedar-bark cape; and 

 he was just about to go to sleep again, when he heard the same voice 

 saying to him, "I have been sent by the chief to call you into his 

 house." Then he looked about again to see who was calling. Since 

 he did not see anyone, he thought, "I am going to die, for I am only 

 thinking of what I am wishing to see." Then he lay down to sleep 

 the third time; and as soon as he began to doze, the same voice 

 spoke, and said, "I have been sent by the chief of this island to caU 

 you into his house." He tried to open his eyes while this soft voice 

 was speaking, but he could not do it until it stopped. Then he said 

 to himself, " I will bite a hole through my cedar-bark cape aind look 

 through it, I will not go to sleep this time." He bit a piece out of his 

 cedar-bark cape, through which he could look. Before long he saw 

 the top of the island open. A small man came out towards him, 

 pushed him, and said, "I have been sent by the chief, Qlomogwe, 

 to call you into his house;" and before he disappeared, Ex'sokwi- 

 ^lak" spoke to him, and said, "Ah, friend! I saw you long before you 

 spoke. Now, wait, and let me follow you into the good chief's 

 house!" And then he got up and followed him into the house. He 



