He went to Salmon River and hired a powerful shaman, whom he asked to break the rock under which the Killer Whale lived. All the people who lived on his river accompanied him when he went out to the rock.
They had four canoes lashed together and covered with a platform of planks, on which the shaman was dancing. When they approached the rock, the shaman ordered the people to hide their faces and to turn backward. They turned the canoes, and the shaman began his incantations, singing, "Throw up! throw up! throw up!" The rock began to shake, and finally jumped’ out of the water, and falling, killed the monster. The latter, however, had two young ones, which stayed at the bottom of the sea and were not hurt by the falling masses. After the rock had settled down, they returned to it and continued to live there.
A year had elapsed; the people did not know that the young ones were still alive. One day they went out hunting seals and sea-lions. When they came to the rock, the two Killer Whales came out and devoured all the people; only the chief’s son escaped by hiding under the bailer of one of the canoes. Peeping out from it, he saw one of the monsters swallow his father. He cried for fear, and pushed his canoe out into the sea, hoping to make his escape. He had no paddles, and drifted about helplessly. After a while some people who had remained in the village saw the canoe drifting by, and went out to secure it. They found the chief's son, who was so badly frightened that he was hardly able to speak. When he had recovered he told them what had happened.
4. XÎ′LGŌ.
There was an old woman named Xî′lgō, and an old man who lived far up Nestucka River, The old man lived a little farther up than the woman. He had no wife, and she had no husband. The old woman said, "I will go and try to find some children." She went down to the shore and sat down near a small lake, where she knew children used to go bathing. While she sat there waiting, two brothers and their sister came to the shore and began to play. After a while they took a bath, returned to the shore, and fell asleep. Then Xî′lgō, who carried a basket on her back, took one of the boys first, the girl next, and finally the other boy, threw them into her basket, and carried them away. After a while the boy who lay in the bottom of the basket, and whose name was Taxuxcā, awoke, and, on finding where he was, scratched a hole in the bottom of the basket, through which he escaped. He ran away, and for fear jumped into the sea, where he has lived ever since that time.
Xî′lgō did not notice his escape. When she reached home, she
