ORIGIN OF SALMON. iff 
and Kareya gave him cunning, ten times more than before, so that he was 
cunning above all the animals of the wood. So the coyote was a friend to 
The Man and to his children after him, and helped him, and did many 
things for him, as we shall see hereafter. 
In the legendary lore of the Karok the coyote plays the same conspic- 
uous part that Reynard does in ours, and the sagacious tricks that are ac- 
credited to him are endless. When one Karok has killed another, he fre- 
quently barks like the coyote in the belief that he will thereby be endued 
with so much of that animal’s cunning that he will be able to elude the 
punishment due to his crime. 
ORIGIN OF SALMON. 
When Kareya made all things that have breath, he first made the fishes 
in the big water, then the animals, and last of all The Man. But Kareya 
did not yet let the fishes come up the Klamath, and thus the Karok had not 
enough food, and were sore ahungered. There were salmon in the big 
water, many and very fine to eat, but no Indian could catch them in the 
big water; and Kareya had made a great fish-dam at the mouth of the Kla- 
math and closed it fast, and given the key to two old hags to keep, so that 
the salmon could not go up the river. And the hags kept the key that 
Kareya had given them, and watched it day and night without sleeping, 
so that no Indian could come near it. 
Then the Karok were sore disturbed in those days for lack of food, and 
many died, and their children cried to them because they had no meat. But 
the coyote befriended tthe Karok, and helped them, and took it on himself 
to bring the salmon up the Klamath. First he went to an alder tree and 
gnawed off a piecé of bark, for the bark of the alder tree after it is taken 
off presently turns red and looks like salmon. He took the piece of alder- 
bark in his teeth and journeyed far down the Klamath until he came to 
the mouth of it at the big water. Then he rapped at the door of the cabin 
where the old hags lived, and when they opened it he said, ‘“(Ai-yu-kwoi’”, 
for he was very polite. And they did not wonder to hear the coyote speak, 
for all the animals could speak in those days. They did not suspect the 
coyote, and so asked him to come into their cabin and sit by the fire. This 
