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were l-eady Kos invited his guests to partake of them, begging them at the 

 same time to set the bones carefully aside and not lose or destroy any. 

 The visitors accepted the invitation and soon disposed of the cooked 

 salmon. After they had finished their meal some of Kos's people came 

 and carefully gathered the salmon bones together, which each of those 

 who had eaten of the fish had piled in a little heap by his side, and took 

 them down and threw them into the sea ; whereupon the bones were 

 immediately transformed back into the four young people again, who 

 presently came up out of the water and joined the others. The salmon 

 chief entertained his visitors with salmon-feasts for four successive days. 

 Now the care which Kos took over the salmon bones excited the curiosity 

 of one of Qais's followers, who, on the second day, stealthily hid and kept 

 back some of the head bones of the salmon he was eating. After the 

 meal was over the bones were gathered up as before and cast into the 

 water, but when the four young people came out of the water this time it 

 was observed that one of the youths was covering his face with his hands. 

 This youth went up to Kos and told him that all the bones had not been 

 thrown into the water, and that he was in consequence lacking the bones 

 of his cheek and nose. When Kos heard this he inquired among his 

 guests if they had thrown away any of the fish bones while eating, and 

 pointed out to them the condition of his young man's face. The youth 

 who had kept back the bones, alarmed at the consequence of his act, now 

 brought them forward, pretending to have just picked them up from the 

 ground. The day following the seagulls were seen to be gathering in 

 great numbers about some object that was floating on the water a little 

 distance from the land. Kos sends some of his young men to see what 

 the attraction is. They presently discover it to be the corpse of a young 

 man. When Kos is informed of the nature of the floating object he asks 

 Qais if any of his party had been drowned ; Qais answers that one of 

 his young men had fallen into the water on the other side of the island 

 and been drowned. Upon hearing this, Kos bids his young men bring 

 the floating corpse ashore with ropes. This they do, and Qais discovers 

 that the seagulls have pecked out its eyes. Now although Qais had 

 power to restore the corpse to life, he had no power to replace the lost 

 eyeballs. So when he observes their absence, he asks the salmon chief 

 if he could supply him with new ones. Kos answers that he can, and 

 offers him a pair of Tsick-ai-saimon eyes. Qais tries these and finds them 

 too small. Kos then offers him a pair of Tsd win- saAmon eyes. But these 

 also are too small. The chief then hands him a pair of Kod'k-Enis- 

 salmon eyes, and these are found to be just the right size. Qais now 

 sprinkles the corpse with some of his medicine, and the young man is 

 immediately restored to life. On the fourth day Kos makes a great 

 Kld'acEn (feast), and gives to every one of his people a little of the 

 medicine which Qais had presented to him. They were overjoyed to 

 receive it, having seen its virtue exercised upon the corpse of the drowned 

 man. During the feast Qais spoke thus with Kos : ' I have come to visit 

 you for the purpose of asking you to let some of your people come to 

 mine. They are very poor and wretched, and have scarcely anything to 

 eat,' ' Very good,' replied Kos, ' I will do as you request, only you must 

 take care of them and be careful not to allow any of their bones to come 

 near a corpse.' Qais promised compliance with this request, and next 

 day set out with his followers on his return. To Qais the time spent 

 with the salmon people seemed only four days, but it was really a whole 



