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old, and has an Indian’s head for every year of her life. It is probable that 
this legend refers to some poisonous spring or other natural phenomenon. 
Though game abounds in that locality they carefully avoid it. 
For the following I am indebted to Mr. Chase : : 
THE FOXES AND THE SUN. 
The toxes once upon a time gathered together and laid a conspiracy 
against the sun, from whom they had cause of grievance. Twelve of their 
number were selected from the bravest to avenge the wrongs of the race. 
These foxes procured stout ropes of sinew, and watched until the sun in his 
descent toward the ocean touched the brow of a certain hill. Thereupon 
they caught him and bound him down with the ropes, and would no doubt 
have kept him there to this day had not a party of Indians perceived the mis- 
chief and killed the foxes with their arrows. They then liberated the sun; 
but he had in the mean time burned a great hole in the ground. You can see 
it to this day. 
It is quite probable that this story refers to some ancient volcanic erup- 
tion or other disturbance. It is the aboriginal way of accounting for a huge 
rent in the hills near the Klamath, which is surrounded by lava, tufa, ete. 
A YUROK’S REVENGE. 
A certain Yurok went down to the sea-coast with his family, and in 
one of his hunting excursions he quarreled with a man of his tribe and 
shot him unto death. The brother of the murdered man, in accordance 
with the custom of the tribe, demanded a ransom or blood-money. He 
asked $60, but he finally offered to compromise the matter upon the receipt 
of 510 in hand paid. The slayer refused to pay him anything whatever, 
and after a fierce wrangle he gathered his family about him and returned 
to his home near Klamath Bluffs saying nothing to any one of the cireum- 
stance. 
Soon afterward the owner of the Klamath Bluffs trading-post observed 
a strange Indian prowling about the vicinity in a manner that excited his 
curiosity. He was always alone, was always fetching quick stealthy 
glances around him, was never separated one moment from his bow 
