ON THE ETHNOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 5i9 



Te Smai'lEtl, or Wildinen Story. 



Once there was a chief who had an only daughter. He possessed also 

 a male slave. Now this slave was accustomed to sleep at the foot of the 

 daughter's bed, his bed lying crosswise at the foot of hers. One night he 

 crept to her side and ravished her while she slept. Some little while later 

 she found herself with child, but was wholly ignorant of the person who 

 had brought this shame upon her, not knowing that the slave had lain 

 with her in her sleep. AVhen she once realises her condition she is 

 anxious to find out who had visited her, and suspecting that the intruder 

 would pay her another visit some night, she takes some paint and smears 

 it all over the palms of her hands. Shortly after the slave pays her a 

 second visit. As it is dark she cannot discover who he is, but before he 

 leaves her this time she presses her paint-smeared hands upon his shoulders 

 and leaves thereon an impression of them without his knowledge. In the 

 morning she is greatly surprised to find that it was the slave who had 

 visited her and whom she had painted on the shoulders. When the chief 

 became conscious of his daughter's condition he was overwhelmed with 

 shame. And, on learning who it was who had caused this disgrace to fall 

 upon him, he took both the guilty slave and his hapless daughter away in 

 his canoe, and, arriving at a certain lofty clifi" which overhung the water, 

 he landed them at its base and left them there to perish together. But, 

 although the cliflf ' was always regarded as inaccessible, in some mysterious 

 way the pair managed to climb it. After they had reached the top they 

 travelled inland amongst the mountains till they came to a lake. Here 

 they stopped and built themselves a house, and here the girl gave birth 

 to her child. In course of time many other children were born to them, 

 and when these had come to maturity, as there were no others with whom 

 they could mate, they took each other to husband and wife, and in time a 

 large community grew up around the lake. Though living in a wild state, 

 without proper tools or other utensils, they never forgot their mother's 

 speech, but always conversed together in Sk-qo'mic. The men were ex- 

 ceedingly tall and very keen of scent and great hunters. They always 

 dressed in garments made from the untanned skins of the animals they 

 had slain. From this habit they were called by the Sk-qo'mic, Smai'lEtl, 

 or wild people. 



APPENDIX III. 



The Hurons of Lorette. By LltoN G^RIN. 



Two distinct races of aborigines were found by the French explorers 

 at the opening of the seventeenth century occupying the basin of the 

 St. Lawrence : 



1. The Algonquins, nomadic hunters, roving over the lower valley and 

 the northei-n highlands. 



2. The Huron-Iroquois, more sedentary, having some development of 



version as a borrowed form wliich has crept up the river. It is doubtful if the frog 

 is much known within the limits of the ' Dry Belt ' in which the N'tlakapamuQ, for 

 the most part, reside. It will be remembered that the events in the N'tlakapamuQ 

 version took place near Spuzzum, the lower boundary-line of the tribe which is 

 immediately contiguous to the upper divisions of the ' Stalo,' or lower Fraser tribes. 

 ' The cliff, at whose base the girl and the slave are said to have been left by the 

 irate father, is on the right-hand side of the North Arm of Burrard Inlet. Some 

 way back in the mountains there is a beautiful little lake, now well known to trout- 



