Boas | BELIEFS AND CUSTOMS 609 
done with the peucedanum-seeds. Then the sea-monster sinks at 
once, | when it smells the hellebore-root. Therefore it is kept in 
the box. | 
Customs RELATING TO SALMON-IISHING 
Dog-Salmon.—(When the first dog-salmon of the season has been 
caught, the wife of the fisherman goes to meet her husband when he 
comes home from fishing.) ~ : 
As! soon as he arrives at the beach, his wife goes to meet him; | and 
when she sees what has been caught by her husband, | she begins to 
pray to it. The woman says, as she is praying: | ‘‘O Supernatural- 
Ones! O, Swimmers! I thank you that || you are willmg to come 
to us. Don’t let your coming be bad, | for you come to be food for 
us. Therefore, | I beg you to protect me and the one who takes 
mercy on me, | that we may not die without cause, Swimmers!”’ 
Then! the woman herself | replies, ‘‘Yes,’’ and goes up from the bank 
of the river. || 
As? soon as they finish cutting up the speared salmon, | the woman 
at once gathers the slime and everything | that comes from the 
salmon, and puts it into a basket, and pours | it into the water at 
the mouth of the river; for it is said that | the various kinds of 
salmon at once come to life when the intestines are put into the 
water at the || mouths of the rivers, and therefore they do this; and | 
they break off the intestines at the anal fin of the speared salmon 
ewexidxa q!exméné qa‘s héx‘ida‘marl wiins‘idéda ‘yag‘imaxs 
laé mésatelaxa Axsolé. Wéa, hé‘mis lag-ilas géts!& lax odzaxsas. 
Customs RELATING TO SALMON FISHING 
Dog-Salmon.—Wii,! gil'mésé la’g-alispxs la’é genen’mas 1a’lalaq. 
Wa, gi/lmése do’x‘warelax ¢!a’t!aq!wanemasés [a/*wtinemaxs la’é 
ts!p/lwax‘ideq. Wa, lan’m ‘neé’k-éda ts!eda’qaxs la’é ts!n’/lwaqa: 
“A keason ‘natnawalak". A’k‘asOL mé’/meEyOdxwan, gé@’lak-as‘laxs 
SEX"ts!aaqas g’ix g’A/xenutx". Gwa'lax'i ‘yi’k'ayés g‘Axéna‘yés 
qaxs hé‘maaqés g‘a’xélaxs g‘d’lilaaqas g’a’xenu‘x". Wa, hé’‘mis 
qa‘s da’damfyiLés g’a’xEn Le‘wti’n hawaxa’lotéxwa wa’x‘édé qa‘s 
k:!é’sads wit/lalésema meyo’xwan.” Wait, la q!tléx'strm waxéda 
ts!mdaqaxs laé lasdésa. 
Wi,? hé:mé’séxs g'i/lfmaé gwat xwa’Lasp‘wa seg iné’taxs la’é 
hé’x‘ida‘ma ts!eda’qé ql!ap!é’x“idxa k:!é’lé Lefwa ‘na/xwa 
gayo't la’xa k'!0’tEla qa‘s lexts!o’dés 1a’xa lexa’‘yé qa‘s lé qrp- 
ste/nts li’xa 0/x"siwafyasa wa, qaxs ‘né’x‘sowaé hé’x‘‘idarm la 
qtila’x‘idéda k-!o’kliitelixs la’@ axsta’nowés ya’x'yigilé 1a’xa 
0/x"siwafyasa wi’wa. W4, hé’‘mis la’g‘ilas hé gwe’gilé. Wa, hé’- 
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