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REPORT— 1900. 



gull 



fish 



crow 



owl 



squirrel 



snipe 



seal 



robin 



rabbit 



porcupine 



pigeon 



partridge 



mink 



grasshopper 



kingfisher 



spider 



swan 

 worm 

 bee 

 ant 



bat 



Marine Terms. 



salmon (' spring ') 

 „ (' sockeye ') 

 „ (' cohoe ') 

 „ ('humpback') 

 „ ('dog-salmon') 



Qais. 



Once there were four brothers ^ named Qais who went about the 

 country doing wonderful things. It was very long ago, when the animals 

 were human beings.'^ They usually travelled on the water in a canoe. 

 This canoe was not an ordinary vessel. It was the youngest of the 

 brothers transformed to this shape for the accommodation of the others. 

 One day they came upon Deer, who was filing a bone to make an arrow 

 point. They watch him at work for some time without speaking. 

 Presently they ask him why he is filing the bone. Deer replies : ' I am 

 making a sharp arrow point to kill a chief that lives some little way off".' 

 From this answer the brothers perceive that he is a wicked person and 

 deserving of punishment. So they straightway seize him and pull at his 



' The name Qais in the story seems sometimes to be applied to the four brothers 

 collectively and sometimes to the eldest only. 



- According to the traditions of the Sk-qo'mic the earliest beings were animals 

 with human or semi-human characteristics. In course of time the ' Great Spirit ' 

 brought the first true man into being, from whom are descended through many 

 generations all the Sk-qo'mic people (see the writer's paper on ' The Cosmogony 

 and History of the Skuamish,' Trans. Roy. Soc. Can., Section ii. 1897-98). 



