they travelled on and stopped again at night-time. Thus they travelled for many days, steering towards sunset. Finally they saw the land at the other side of the ocean. They found a kind of wood which they did not know. It looked like reed, but was as tall as a tree. They went ashore, and the man who had escaped from the canoe said: "I will go alone and look for my brothers." He went along the beach and finally found a house. He waited until the following morning, and then he saw smoke rising from the roof. He opened the door a little way and peeped into the room. He saw a few old blankets. There was no living person to be seen. Cautiously he entered, and saw that something was stirring under the blankets. He was frightened and was about to fly, but he took heart and looked more closely. He found the bones of his brothers under the blankets. They said, "Have you come, brother? You cannot help us now. We cannot move, and you cannot restore us to our former lives. But let us take revenge upon these people. Take some of them back with you across the ocean. Every day their women go out to gather skunk-cabbage. Two go in each canoe, and when they return they will all come ashore and carry the skunk-cabbage up to the house. One only will stay in her canoe. She is the chief's daughter. Her garments are covered with dentalia." The man left the house, returned to the canoe, and told his people what he had seen and heard. On the following day they hid in the woods. The women returned from gathering skunk-cabbage, and one girl only remained in the canoe. Then they launched their canoe, bailed it out, ran up to the girl, captured her and left the shore. They put her in the bottom of the canoe. She said, "Treat me well. I shall not attempt to run away." They returned across the ocean, travelling in the daytime and resting at night. They had been unable to take along the men whom the LXuin′ē had captured, as they were nothing but bones, which would have brought ill-luck to their canoe. On the third day at nightfall they began to see the mountains at the mouth of Salmon River, and on the fourth day, at the time of sunset, they reached their village. There the man married the daughter of the LXuin′ē chief.
After a short time she was with child. She used to go out to the beach, look towards sunset and say, "Where the sun sets is my father's house." Every day she did the same thing. One night the people went out to see what she was doing. They did not find her at the place where she was accustomed to sit, and on coming toward the spot they saw her walking down the river on the surface of the water. She reached the sea and went over breakers and over waves back to her father's house. They were unable to bring her back.
After she had arrived at her father's house she gave birth to
