342 THE NISHINAM. 
food, as acorns are now pounded, the deer’s two children enticed the bear's 
children away to play, and persuaded them to enter a cave beneath the 
ereat rock Oamlam (high rock) on Wolf Creek, near Bear River. Then 
they fastened them in with a stone, and made a fire which roasted them 
to death. When the bear came and found them, she thought they were 
asleep and sweating, but it was the oil on their hair, and when she pawed 
them the hair came off. Thereupon she flew into a great passion, tore them 
to pieces, and devoured them. 
Then she pursued the deer’s two children to destroy them. She called 
out to them that she was their aunt and would do them good, but they fled 
and escaped up the great rock Oamlam, and it grew upward with them 
until the top of it was very high. The bear went round belind the rock 
and found a narrow rift where she could crawl up, but the deer’s children 
saw her coming, and they had a stone red-hot, which they cast down her 
throat and slew her. Then they took this same stone and threw it to the 
north, and manzanita-berries fell down; to the east, and pine-nuts fell down; 
to the south, and one kind of acorns fell down; to the west, and another kind 
of acorns fell down. ‘Thus they had now plenty of food of different kinds, 
and they ate earth no more. 
After this, while they were yet on the rock, the deer’s children thought 
to climb into heaven, it had grown so high. The big one made a ladder 
that reached the sky, and, with bow and arrow, he shot a hole up through, 
so that the little one could climb up into heaven. But the little one was 
afraid, and cried. So the big one made tobacco and a pipe, and gave them 
to the little one to smoke as he went up the ladder, whereby the smoke 
concealed the world from him, and his heart was no longer afraid. And 
this is how smoking originated. So the little one climbed up through the 
hole into heaven, and went out of sight; but presently he returned down 
the ladder, and told his brother that it was a good country above the sky, 
with plenty of sweet browse, and grass, and buds of trees, and pools of 
water, and flowers for them to sleep on. Upon that they both climbed the 
ladder and went above the sky. 
Presently they saw their mother by a pool of water cooking, and they 
knew it was she, because she had no eyes. Now, the big brother was a 
