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+[Illustration: THE LONE INDIAN]
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+INDIAN LEGENDS OF VANCOUVER ISLAND
+
+TEXT BY ALFRED CARMICHAEL
+
+ILLUSTRATED BY J. SEMEYN
+
+
+
+BY WAY OF INTRODUCTION
+
+
+The unsophisticated aboriginal of British Columbia is almost a memory
+of the past. He leaves no permanent monument, no ruins of former
+greatness. His original habitation has long given place to the frame
+house of sawn timber, and with the exception of the carvings in black
+slate made by the Hydah Indians of the Queen Charlotte Islands, and
+the stone hammers, spear and arrow points, fashioned in the days
+before the coming of the white man, the mementos of his sojourn in
+British Columbia are only relics in wood, bark or reeds.
+
+In the Alberni District of Vancouver Island there are two tribes
+of Indians, the Seshaht and the Opitchesaht. During the winter
+season the Seshahts live in a village which occupies a beautiful
+and commanding site on the west bank of the Somass River.
+
+Some thirty years ago when I first knew the Seshahts, they still
+celebrated the great Lokwana dance or wolf ritual on the occasion
+of an important potlatch, and I remember well the din made by the
+blowing of horns, the shaking of rattles, and the beating of sticks
+on the roof boards of Big Tom's great potlatch house, when the
+Indians sighted the suppositional wolves on the river bank opposite
+the Village.
+
+In those days we were permitted to attend the potlatches and witness
+the animal and other dances, among which were the "Panther," "Red
+Headed Woodpecker," "Wild Swan" and the "Sawbill Duck." Generally
+we were welcome at the festivals, provided we did not laugh or
+show sign of any feeling save that of grave interest. Among my
+Indian acquaintances of those days was Ka-coop-et, better known in
+the district as Mr. Bill. Bill is a fine type of Seshaht, quite
+intelligent and with a fund of humour. Having made friends, he told
+me in a mixture of broken English and Chinook some of the old folk
+lore of his tribe. Of these stories I have selected for publication
+"How Shewish Became a Great Whale Hunter" and "The Finding of the
+Tsomass." This latter story as I present it, is a composite of three
+versions of the same tale, as received, by Gilbert Malcolm Sproat
+about the year 1862; by myself from "Bill" in 1896, and by Charles A.
+Cox, Indian Agent, resident at Alberni, from an old Indian called
+Ka-kay-un, in September 1921. Ka-kay-un credits his great great
+grandfather with being the father of the two young Indians who with
+the slave See-na-ulth discovered the valley now known as Alberni,
+while "Bill" gave the credit to the sons of "Wick-in-in-ish."
+
+The framework for "The Legend of Eut-le-ten," was related to me by
+Rev. M. Swartout in the year 1897. Mr. Swartout was a missionary to
+the West Coast Indian tribes. He spoke the language of the natives
+fluently, and took great pains to get the story with as much accuracy
+as possible. A few years later, Mr. Swartout was drowned during a
+heavy storm while crossing in an open boat from the islands in
+Barkley Sound to Uclulet.
+
+In the making of the stories into English, I have worked in what
+knowledge I have of the customs and habits of the West Coast Indians
+of Vancouver Island. In a few instances, due to a lack of refinement
+of thought in the original stories, I have taken some license in
+their transcription. The legends indicate the poetry that lies hidden
+in the folk lore of the British Columbia Coast Indian tribes. For
+place names and other valuable information I am indebted to the
+kindness of Mr. Cox. The illustrations are original and are the work
+of Mr. J. Semeyn of Victoria.
+
+      ALFRED CARMICHAEL,
+  Victoria, B.C.
+
+
+
+CONTENTS
+
+  By Way of Introduction
+  A Pen Picture of Barkley Sound
+  The Summer Home of the Seshahts
+  The Legend of the Thunder Birds
+  How Shewish Became a Great Whale Hunter
+  The Finding of the Tsomass
+  The Legend of Eut-le-ten--in the following parts:--
+    The Witch E-ish-so-oolth
+    The Birth of Eut-le-ten
+    The Quest
+    The Death of E-ish-so-oolth
+    The Ogre
+    The Destruction of the Ogre
+    The Release of the Children
+  Further Adventures of Eut-le-ten including:--
+    The Arrow Chain to Heaven
+    The Two Blind Squaws
+    The Four Terrors Guarding the House of Nas-nas-shup
+    The Trial by Fire
+    Astronomy According to Eut-el-ten
+
+
+ILLUSTRATIONS
+
+  The Lone Indian
+  On Jutting Rocks the Black Klap-Poose, the Shag in Silence Sits
+  A West Coast Indian Wearing the Kut-sack
+  A Pictographic Painting--The Coat of Arms of Shewish, Seshaht Chief
+  The Bark Gives Way and Comes in Strips from off the Trees
+  We Dance Round our Fires and Sing Again
+  Next Day E're Mid-day Came They Had Set Sail
+  Brushing the Hemlock Boughs, he Walked Stealthily
+  Ka-koop-et
+  Stone Hammer Used by the Indians of Barkley Sound
+  He Shot an Arrow Straight Above his Head
+  Then Eut-le-ten Stood Within the Fire
+
+
+
+A PEN PICTURE OF BARKLEY SOUND
+
+THE ANCIENT HOME OF THE SESHAHTS
+
+
+To the lone Indian, who slowly paddles his canoe upon the waters of
+this western sound, each tree of different kind by shade of green and
+shape of crown is known; the Toh-a-mupt or Sitca spruce with scaley
+bark and prickly spine; the feathery foliage of the Quilth-kla-mupt,
+the western hemlock, relieved in spring by the light green of tender
+shoots. The frond-like branches and aromatic scent betray to him the
+much-prized Hohm-ess, the giant cedar tree, from which he carves his
+staunch canoe. These form the woods which sweep from rocky shore to
+topmost hill.
+
+Small bays with sandy beaches white with broken clam shells mark the
+shore, and if across the beach a stream of crystal water rippled
+to the sea, one Indian lodge or more was sure to be erected on the
+rising land behind; for Indians always choose to build their homes
+on sheltered sandy bays where pure fresh water runs, and so in years
+which are among those past and gone one could not fail to see the
+blue wood smoke of Indian fires hanging like gauze above the little
+bays; but most are now deserted and corner posts of old time houses
+alone are seen, and beds of stinging nettle cover ancient kitchen
+middens, and spirea and elderberry strive for space where once red
+strips of salmon hung in the smoke of punk-wood fires, and stillness
+reigns where once the Indians' mournful song was heard.
+
+Between the bays are rugged rocky points, where, by the constant
+wash of winter waves the rocks are carved in shapes uncouth and
+weird--giants in stone, whose heads are crowned with scrubby
+conifers, upon whose feet the wild seas break, or in the summer time
+the gentle wavelets lap. On jutting rocks the black Klap-poose, the
+shag, in silence sits, while circling overhead the keen eyed gulls
+watch for the shoals of fry on which they feed.
+
+[Illustration: ON JUTTING ROCKS THE BLACK KLAP-POOSE, THE SHAG IN
+SILENCE SITS]
+
+Come now with me and I will guide you to some beauty spots, unknown,
+unguessed except to those who have explored the sea creeks and
+sheltered passage ways abounding on that western coast. Perhaps
+between two rugged rocks we may find an opening where it cuts its way
+deep into the land. In many parts, the lichen-covered canyon walls
+approach so close together that our canoe can scarcely pass, and more
+than likely we shall find the passage bridged by some old fallen
+tree, its ancient trunk enveloped in soft moss and seedling forest
+trees. Reflected in the water's surface are flowering berry shrubs,
+which adorn the banks on either side. We see the glossy-leaved
+shalal, the fruit of which the Indians gather to dry for winter use,
+and clumps of maiden hair and other ferns rooted in old tree trunks
+and rocky crevices. Such is the picture of many a salt sea creek
+found in the regions round fair Barkley Sound.
+
+Perhaps our fancy leads among the islands of the sound. It may be
+that a storm has lately spent itself, and long deep swells are
+rolling in from the wide ocean lying to the west. Our staunch canoe
+is lost in the deep green waters of the heaving main. It climbs only
+to descend and climb once more, and thus we slowly cross the Middle
+Channel and reach calm water.
+
+Soon what at first appeared to be unbroken shore breaks up into many
+passage ways. By one of these we enter, to find ourselves among a
+hundred isles. Each one is wooded to the water's edge, which often
+the trees overspread with outstretched boughs. Entranced, we paddle
+on until we leave behind all trace of ocean swell, and if the tide
+be low so that old sea-soaked snags are seen upon the shore, and
+boulders thick with barnacles and varied coloured sea-weeds in shades
+of brown and red, and here and there great clusters of blue mussel
+shells, these all, if the water be calm and undisturbed by wind, are
+mirrored on the surface of the stream, forming pictures most rare
+and beautiful. Thus for hours with ever fresh delight we thread the
+calm passage-ways between those isles. Beachlets of white sand and
+powdered shells are found where ocean swells at times may reach. On
+these we stroll and gather abalone shells and empty sea eggs and
+other relics up-thrown by winter storms. At evening we may reach
+a sheltered nook where years ago Indians built a little shelter
+in which to sit and watch the sun descend into the western sea.
+Perhaps we may conjure up the Indian's thought, who built that
+little shelter, and night on night in glorious summer time, squatted
+and watched the sun go down.
+
+Such is the setting for the following tales. Amid such scenes as
+these, the Indians lived and died.
+
+[Illustration: A WEST COAST INDIAN WEARING THE KUT-SACK]
+
+
+
+THE SUMMER HOME OF THE SESHAHTS
+
+
+There is an island larger than the rest, called Ho-moh-ah, where once
+the tribe of Seshahts made their summer home. It lies well out to
+sea, and on the sheltered side the Seshahts lived. The chief of the
+tribe was Shewish. His house was large, so large that when he called
+his people to a great potlatch, they all could find within its walls
+an ample space to feast and dance. His house like all the old time
+dwellings was built on simple lines, the three great roof-logs each
+of single trees, upheld by posts of ample girth. The sides and roof
+of wide-split cedar boards were adzed to lie close, and fastened
+into place by twisted cedar rope. Within, on either side was raised
+a wooden platform two feet high. This platform and a portion of
+the floor adjoining it in sections was partitioned off by screens
+of cedar mats. Each section was the home of such as claimed close
+kinship with the chief. The centre of the lodge for its whole length
+was common to all who lived therein. The people cooked their food
+upon the common fire, the smoke of which curled up and found an exit
+through the smoke hole in the roof. The section tenanted by the
+family of Shewish lay furthest from the door. No feature except one
+marked it as different from the homes of lesser men. A pictographic
+painting--the Coat of Arms of the great family of Shewish hung upon
+the wall. The picture told in graphic form how came the name of
+Shewish to be famed among the hunters of the whale. It also told
+the legend of the THUNDER BIRDS.
+
+[Illustration: HAND ADZE MADE AND USED BY INDIANS OF BARKLEY SOUND]
+
+
+
+THE LEGEND OF THE THUNDER BIRDS
+
+
+NAMES OCCURRING IN "THE LEGEND OF THE THUNDER BIRDS"
+
+Kulakula is the [1]Chinook word for Bird.
+
+Tee-tse-kin or Tootooch is the name given by the Barkley Sound
+Indians to the Thunder Bird, a mighty supernatural bird in
+Indian mythology.
+
+Howchulis, the land of the Howchucklesahts, is better known by the
+name Uchucklesit, a safe harbour on the west side of the Alberni
+Canal at its junction with Barkley Sound. Uchucklesit is now the
+centre of an important fishing industry.
+
+Quawteaht, is a great personage in Indian mythology, a beneficent
+being, and considered by many to be the progenitor of their race.
+
+[1] CHINOOK, is a jargon or trade language still used on the coast
+of British Columbia both by the white men in conversing with the
+Indians, also by the latter when talking to members of a tribe
+speaking a different dialect. Chinook is a combination of English,
+French and Indian words.
+
+
+THE LEGEND OF THE THUNDER BIRDS
+
+
+The figure at the base of the pictographic painting represents the
+mammoth whale upon whose back the whole creation rests. Above the
+whale are seen the head and wings of the giant Kulakula the
+Tee-tse-kin the Thunder Bird which dwells aloft. When he flaps
+his wings or even moves a quill the thunder peals. When he blinks his
+eyes the lightning strikes. Upon his back a lake of large dimensions
+lies, from which the water pours in thunder storms. He is the lone
+survivor of four great Thunder Birds which dwelt upon the mountains
+of Uchucklesit. These mighty birds sustained themselves on whales,
+which they would carry to the mountain peaks, where Indians say, the
+bones of many whales have been found.
+
+One time the "Great One," Quawteaht desiring to destroy the mighty
+Thunder Birds, entered the body of a whale, and swimming slowly
+approached Howchulis shore. The Thunder Birds espied it from their
+high retreat, and sweeping down made ready for the fray. First one
+attacked and drove his talons deep into the whale's back, then
+spreading his broad wings he tried to rise. Then Quawteaht gave
+strength to the great whale, which sounded, dragging the Tee-tse-kin
+beneath the waves. Up came the whale; a second Thunder Bird with all
+his force drove his strong claws deep into the quivering flesh. Then
+Quawteaht a second time gave strength and down the mammal plunged
+dragging with him the second Thunder Bird. A third was drowned in
+manner similar. Thereat the fourth and last Tootooch took wing and
+fled to distant heights, where he has ever since remained.
+
+This is the story of the Thunder Birds.
+
+[Illustration: WOODEN SCOOP FOR BALING THE WATER OUT OF A CANOE]
+
+
+
+HOW SHEWISH BECAME A GREAT WHALE HUNTER
+
+
+NAMES OCCURRING IN THE LEGEND OF SHEWISH
+
+The Killer Whale or Ka-Kow-in has a large dorsal fin shown in a
+conventional manner in the pictograph between the Thunder Bird and
+the face of the Indian girl, sister to Shewish. The Killer Whale
+was often used as a family emblem or crest and as a source from
+which personal names were derived.
+
+Klootsmah or Kloots-a-mah plural Klootsmuk the Indian word for
+"married woman" but used in the legends for girls as well as women.
+According to Gilbert Malcolm Sproat who lived in Alberni in the
+early "sixties" the term used for a young girl or daughter was
+"Ha-quitl-is" and for an unmarried woman "Ha-quatl."
+
+Toquaht--the home of the Toquaht tribe of Indians, an old
+settlement on the north shore of Barkley Sound between Ucluelet and
+Pipestem Inlet.
+
+The Kutsack, or Kats-hek is a loose cloak or mantle woven from the
+soft inner bark of the yellow cedar tree. Indian mats were made from
+the inner bark of the red cedar.
+
+[Illustration: PICTOGRAPHIC PAINTING, THE COAT OF ARMS OF SHEWISH,
+SESHAHT CHIEF (Drawn by J. Semeyn from original sketch by the author)]
+
+
+HOW SHEWISH BECAME A GREAT WHALE HUNTER
+
+
+The centre figure in the pictographic painting is a wolf grotesquely
+drawn. Within her body four young wolves are seen. Above the wolf is
+a killer whale surmounted by a second picture of the Thunder Bird,
+and in the left top corner of the pictograph is seen the face of
+a young klootsmah or Indian girl. How strangely are her features
+pictured. With upturned hands she gazes in a blank unvarying
+stare. She holds the key to this old tale which the great scroll
+perpetuates. One time this Indian maiden, daughter of a chief of
+great renown, with her two sisters left their home on Village Island.
+They went in search of yellow cedar bark which grew in quantity upon
+the mountain top above the village, of Toquaht. The cedar bark is
+highly prized, and when the sap ascends in May to feed the new born
+green, the bark is loose and easily removed, and when the klootsmah
+cuts the bark through to the sap half round the tree and pulls with
+all her strength, it comes in strips from off the tree till the first
+branch is reached, and then it breaks and falls obedient at her dark
+feet. The klootsmah rolls it up and puts it in the basket on her
+back, and when she reaches home she splits the bark, and pounds it
+between stones, with water softening it, and after long and tedious
+work the fibres being separated, she cleanses them and weaves them
+into cloaks, and then with true artistic taste, trims them with
+pretty fur.
+
+[Illustration: THE BARK GIVES WAY AND COMES IN STRIPS FROM
+OFF THE TREES]
+
+The daughters of the Village Island chief took with them food to last
+for three whole suns. They started early, for many miles of paddling
+lay between them and the Toquaht shore. At length they reached the
+beach, and hiding their canoe beneath a giant spruce, they followed
+where a little trail beckoned them on and up the mountain side. For
+hours they climbed, wending their way through lonely, silent woods,
+the twittering wren the only life they saw or heard. At times they
+lost the trail, as it was overgrown with fern and berry bush. But
+once the leading klootsmah stopped and signed to her companions to
+keep still. Halting, they waited while she pointed to the root fangs
+of a cedar tree, where well within the hollow butt a western timber
+wolf had made her lair. Gone was the mother, perhaps in quest of deer
+with which to feed her four young pups who calmly slept within that
+sheltered cave, awaiting her return.
+
+The Indians are a superstitious race, and one of the old fetishes was
+this: that if by chance they could secure the young of a wolf from
+which to take some precious inner part, to rub upon the outer side of
+their canoes, it gave great luck in whaling, and thus it came to pass
+that when the klootsmuk found the she wolf's lair, they formed the
+plan of taking to their brother the four wolf pups, in order that he
+might become the chief of all whale hunters. Cautiously they placed
+them in the baskets on their backs and then retraced their steps. In
+time they reached the beach, and entered their canoe, when just as
+they pushed off, with giant springs and angry howl leapt the great
+mother wolf from the woods, but the klootsmuk were safe with their
+strange prizes, and soon their canoe cut gleefully through the waves,
+while their songs were wafted landward by the western breeze.
+
+Upon an isle not far from home they hid the young wolf pups. This
+done, they squatted on the shore, and thought how best they might
+inform their brother of their lucky find. They were puzzled as to how
+this might be managed without awakening jealousies among the other
+members of the tribe, and they were fearful to face their father's
+wrath who surely would expect their craft well laden with the cedar
+bark. They reasoned long and then decided on a stratagem. One of the
+three would cut her foot with a mussel shell, and mark her tunic with
+the blood, and tell the story, that when they landed on the Toquaht
+shore an open mussel shell had cut her foot, therefore they could not
+go for cedar bark. They carried out this plan, and paddled slowly to
+Ho-moh-ah. The people saw them come, and wondered much what evil had
+befallen them, but when they saw the blood upon the kutsack of the
+youngest girl and saw her bound up foot, they guessed the trouble.
+Before the sun had set, the brother had been told of the wolf pups,
+and secretly that night he had taken from them the precious parts,
+and when he went hunting, he rubbed the medicine on his canoe, and
+had such wondrous luck he soon became the chief of all whale hunters.
+Such is the story told by that weird painting, which could be seen
+some years ago adorning the dark walls of the great potlatch house
+of Shewish, Seshaht chief on Ho-moh-ah but better known as Village
+Island, Barkley Sound.
+
+[Illustration: HALIBUT HOOK AND CLUB FOR STUNNING FISH]
+
+
+
+THE FINDING OF THE TSOMASS
+
+
+NAMES AND WORDS OCCURRING IN THE LEGEND "THE FINDING OF THE TSOMASS"
+
+Alberni, the valley at the head of the Alberni Canal, a wonderful
+cleft or fjord which almost splits Vancouver Island in two. This
+fjord has its outlet in Barkley Sound on the west side of the
+island. The Alberni Canal was named by the Spaniards after Don Pedro
+Alberni, captain of infantry in charge of soldiers stationed at
+Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island, during the Spanish occupation.
+
+Tsomass River--spelt and pronounced by the "Whites" Somass, a
+fine river formed by the confluence of the Stamps and Sproat or
+Klee-coot rivers, draining Great Central lake and Sproat or Klee-coot
+lake respectively. The Tsomass river flows through the Alberni Valley
+into the Alberni Canal.
+
+The E-coulth-aht, is one of the many divisions of what Gilbert
+Malcolm Sproat called "the Aht tribes" inhabiting the west
+coast of Vancouver Island.
+
+Po-po-moh-ah, is now known by the Spanish name "San Mateo Bay"
+situated on the east side of Barkley Sound, not far from the entrance
+to the Alberni Canal.
+
+U-chuck-le-sit, is a small but safe harbour on the north side
+and near to the entrance to the Alberni Canal. The cannery, cold
+storage plant and village of Kildonan are built on the harbour.
+
+Klu-quilth-soh, is the Indian name for a rather forbidding passage
+in the Alberni Canal, and known for strong winds and choppy seas. It
+is named by the white people "Hell's Gate."
+
+Chehahs were Supernatural spirits or influences; there were good
+and bad chehahs.
+
+She-she-took-a-muck was a ferocious whale supposed to have lived
+at Hell's Gate, and to have swallowed Indians and their canoes. The
+whale was killed by the aid of Quawteaht.
+
+Kah-oots was supposed to be one of the deities of Seshaht mythology.
+
+Tsa-a-toos,--(Copper Island) is a large island situated in
+Barkley Sound and near to the entrance to the Alberni Canal.
+
+Toosh-ko, Hy-wach-es, Wak-ah-nit, (Copper Mountain) Tin-nim-ah, and
+Klu-quilth-koose (now known as Coos Creek) are place names on the
+Alberni Canal.
+
+U-ah-tee--the north wind, Yuk-stees--the south wind.
+
+O-lil-lie and Il-la-hie, are Chinook for berries and land
+or country respectively.
+
+Ah-tooch is the Indian name for deer.
+
+Lup-se-kup-se or Nooh-see-cupis, is a small piece of cleared land
+on the left bank of the Tsomass river and about half way between the
+towns of Port Alberni and Alberni.
+
+Kleet-sa, is a high mountain rising from the waters of Taylor Arm,
+Sproat Lake, so named because of its white or chalky appearance.
+
+Kuth-kah-chulth, is the Indian name for Mount Arrowsmith, a
+splendid peak rising directly east of the town of Port Alberni. Mount
+Arrowsmith is one of the highest mountains of Vancouver Island; it is
+5976 feet in elevation.
+
+Toh-a-muk-is, is the land fronting on the little bay just north
+of the foot of Argyle Street, Port Alberni.
+
+Kok-a-mah-kook, is a place close to the stream known as Dry Creek,
+and near to the railway round house, Port Alberni.
+
+Kwa-nis, Kam-mass or Gam-mas as it is variously known, is a species
+of lily which comes into flower about the middle of April and remains
+in flower till June. It is gathered, roasted and preserved whole in
+bags for winter use.
+
+
+THE FINDING OF THE TSOMASS
+
+
+Near thirty miles from where Alberni pours her crystal stream out to
+the mighty fjord that cleaves Vancouver's Island nigh in twain, a
+tribe of Indians lived. Their village nestled at the foot of wooded
+hills, which everywhere on this indented coastline, rise straight up
+from out the North Pacific. They were a powerful tribe, E-coulth-aht
+by name; seven hundred strong, with many fighting men, and many
+children who played upon that shore. I think even now I hear the echo
+of their voices round the bay, and how marvelously clear an echo may
+be, among the inlets of that rockbound coast! I have heard my call
+flung back from side to side alternately, till it was lost among the
+rocky heights and ceased to be.
+
+Across the bay from where the Indians lived, ran a stream, called
+Po-po-moh-ah. Here every autumn, when the salmon came, they stayed
+and caught the fish for winter use. Yet strange to say these
+ancient E-coulth-ahts seemed unaware that at their very doors, a
+nature hewn canal had its entrance. One fine September morning
+Ha-houlth-thuk-amik and Han-ah-kut-ish, the sons of Wick-in-in-ish
+or, as some say Ka-kay-un, accompanied by their father's slave
+See-na-ulth were paddling slowly to Po-po-moh-ah, when half across
+and near to Tsa-a-toos they saw dead salmon floating on the tide.
+
+The salmon had spawned, and is it not strange to think that this, the
+king of fish should struggle up the rapid tumbling streams for many
+miles, against strong currents, over falls where the water breaks
+the least, perchance to fall within the wicker purse of Indian traps
+placed there so cunningly to catch them if they should fall back; and
+even if they escape the Indian traps and find the gravel bar where
+they four years before, began their life, and having spent themselves
+in giving life, sicken and die, their bodies even in death give
+sustenance to gulls and eagles circling round those haunts.
+
+"These fish have come from where fresh water flows, so let us follow
+up from whence they come. Let Quawteaht direct our course, and we
+shall find new streams where salmon are in plenty and win great glory
+in our tribe." Thus spake the sons of Wick-in-in-ish, and they turned
+the prow of their canoe upstream, and followed where the trail of
+salmon led, to the broad entrance of that splendid fjord.
+
+Soon they paddled by the harbour U-chuck-le-sit, long famed for its
+safe anchorage and quiet retreat, when winter storms lash the waters
+of the sound. Leaving this quiet harbour on the left, they followed
+where the wider channel led to Klu-quilth-soh, that dark and stormy
+gate, where Indians say the dreaded Chehahs dwell among the rocky
+heights--"The Gates of Hell," and when men seek to pass those gates
+the Chehahs blow upon them winds of evil fates from north and south
+and east and west. The water boils in that great witches pot, while
+Indians seek a sheltered beach in vain--no beach is there, no shelter
+from the storm. The mighty cliffs frown down relentlessly; the whale
+She-she-took-a-muck opens his great jaws and swallows voyagers, at
+which the chehahs laugh, and their wild laughter, Klu-quilth-soh's
+heights re-echo far away.
+
+On this eventful day the evil chehahs were absent from their home and
+the Yuk-stees wind blew not too strong to cause the waves to dash
+along in wild commotion, and after paddling uneventfully through
+Klu-quilth-soh, the three E-coulth-ahts stopped beside Toosh-ko.
+Looking back they could not see Nob Point which hid their home from
+view,--it was as if the mountains which formed those stormy gates,
+had closed and barred them in.
+
+"What chehah" they cried, "has lured us within this inland sea and
+shut those gates? A-ha A-ha!" they called with anxious cry, and
+prayed Kah-oots to save them from all dangers. To the Saghalie Tyee,
+the chief above, they also prayed to potlach kloshe to them, and
+guard them from the evil chehahs hovering round. After the relief
+of prayer, their spirits rose, and once again the splashing of their
+paddles marked their onward progress.
+
+Soon they glided by Hy-wach-es Creek and rounding Wak-ah-nit they
+came in view of the great valley where the Tsomass flows. At once
+they ceased from paddling to gaze with pleasure on that favoured
+land, and as they looked they heard the sound of song from up the
+river valley.
+
+The evening fell, the pleasant Yuk-stees wind blew more faintly, and
+as it passed away, over those calm inland waters swelled again the
+sound of many voices chanting Indian songs.
+
+"There are people dwelling there," they said. "It would be well if
+we delayed until morning." Agreeing to this plan they crossed the
+channel and camped at Klu-quilth-coose.
+
+Next morning while the grass was damp with dew, and long before the
+U-ah-tee wind had ceased, the sons of Wick-in-in-ish, hearing again
+the quaint alluring song, took their canoe and paddled on, to where
+between two grassy slopes, the Tsomass ends. When they approached
+the river mouth, they saw extending from the bank a salmon trap, and
+even to-day, the Indians will show at Lup-se-kup-se some old rotten
+sticks, which they affirm formed part of that same trap. The land was
+green, the wild duck's quack was heard among the reeds which edged
+the river bank, while flocks of geese were feeding on the grass
+which grows thickly upon the tidal flats, the flats the Indians call
+Kwi-chuc-a-nit.
+
+Upon the eastern bank the young men saw a wondrous house, which far
+surpassed their father's lodge at home beyond the hills in Rainy Bay,
+in size of beams and boards. The sons of Wick-in-in-ish were afraid
+and would have turned the bow of their canoe home-bound, but that
+from the house they heard a woman call. "Oh come and stay with us, go
+not away. Our land is full of all the riches nature gives; our woods
+are bright with o-lil-lie most luscious to the taste; on yonder hill
+the nimble ah-tooch feed; in every stream the silver salmon swim so
+come within our lodge with us and stay awhile." Ha-houlth-thuk-amik
+was mesmerized by the sweet welcoming and entered in, whereat the
+klootsmah said to him, "We welcome thee strange one unto our lodge,
+for we have never seen a man before. Come and join us in our song and
+dance, for when above great Kuth-kah-chulth the morning sun in glory
+rises, we chant this song."
+
+[Illustration: THE INDIAN MAIDEN'S SONG]
+
+and when he sets over Kleetsa's snow white crown, we dance around our
+fires, and sing again, and our hearts are happy in this our land."
+
+[Illustration: "WE DANCE ROUND OUR FIRES AND SING AGAIN"]
+
+Now Han-ah-kut-ish was alarmed and much afraid that if his brother
+listened to the klootsmah and was attentive to her blandishments, he
+would forget the mission in which they were engaged, therefore he
+called to him to come, and after much persuasion the elder brother
+left the lodge and joined the younger and the slave See-na-ulth,
+and together they paddled up the stream to Ok-sock-tis opposite the
+present village of O-pit-ches-aht. Across the river there were houses
+in which more klootsmuk lived, but at this time they were employed in
+gathering Kwanis in the land behind, and when the young men sought
+them out they were afraid and all but one took flight escaping to the
+woods. This one had no fear but coming near to Ha-houlth-thuk-amik
+besought him with favour to look on her, but Han-ah-kut-ish again
+reminded him that they had not as yet attained the object of their
+quest.
+
+Still further up the stream they went, until they came to where
+they found the Ty-ee salmon spawning on the gravel bars. Believing
+they had found the object of their search they camped the night at
+Sah-ah-hie. All through the darkness they listened to the rushing
+of the fish, when the gaunt and savage males with flattened heads
+and upper jaws curved like a hook about the lower, and armed with
+dog-like teeth, fought for the females of their choice. With great
+satisfaction they heard the wallowing of the fish, as, with their
+heads and tails, they formed the elongated cavities in the gravel
+in which to lay their eggs. Then Ha-houlth-thuk-amik declared that
+this the Tsomass River was the source from which the dead fish came
+which they had seen when paddling to Po-po-moh-ah.
+
+To Lup-se-kup-se they returned next day, and there they saw,
+among the women in the lodge, the girl who spoke to them, when
+they had landed on the river bank opposite Ok-sock-tis. Then
+Ha-houlth-thuk-amik, desiring to convey her home with him, took her
+aside and said, "If thou wilt come with me, say not a word, but
+unbeknown make haste and leave the house, and run across the point
+which forms the eastern bank where this the Tsomass river joins
+the inland sea, then hide thyself until we take thee in, as we are
+paddling home."
+
+The klootsmah did as she was told and as the young men passed she
+jumped within the canoe, and was away with them. That night they
+stayed at Chis-toh-nit not far from Coleman creek, so named because
+in later days a white man of that name took up some land and dwelt
+there some little while.
+
+Next morning the klootsmah said to Ha-houlth-thuk-amik, "I am
+Kla-kla-as-suks and I am now thy rightful wife and therefore I
+desire to make of thee a famous hunter of the whale, so come with
+me and climb the mountain called Kuk-a-ma-com-ulth where high above
+the timber line the green grass grows, and I will get for thee an
+Ow-yie medicine."
+
+They climbed the mountain and she secured for him the medicine so
+desired by all who hunt the whale, and early next morning, blown by
+a strong U-ah-tee wind they started for Po-mo-moh-ah and when they
+came to Klu-quilth-soh they found the gates wide open and passed
+safely through between the frowning cliffs, arriving home before
+the break of day.
+
+Then Ha-houlth-thuk-amik aroused his father who was still asleep,
+and bade him light a fire, and when the fire was lit he told him how
+they ventured up the unknown way, between high cliffs, where they had
+lost all sight and sound of Rainy Bay. He told of the Tsomass land,
+and the salmon stream which far eclipsed their own Po-po-moh-ah, and
+then described the great and wondrous house, where the klootsmuk
+dwelt, and how they sang to him "Yah-hin-in-ay." He told him also
+of Kla-kla-as-suks, the klootsmah who had left her home to be his
+rightful wife.
+
+[Illustration: NEXT DAY E'RE MIDDAY CAME THEY HAD SET SAIL]
+
+Then Wick-in-in-ish sent for all the tribe, and when they were
+assembled in his lodge, he told to them the story of the Tsomass
+land. Among the braves was much talking; and after speeches from
+the lesser chiefs, it was decided that next day before the sun had
+cast his shadow north and south, with Yuk-stees wind, they would
+set sail for Tsomass land.
+
+That day in every house, in varied occupation, each family was
+busied. The cedar boards, which form the sides and roof of all their
+homes, were piled upon canoes. Atop of these were set their household
+goods, the mats of cedar bark, the wooden tubs in which they boiled
+their fish, the spears of flint, their hooks of bone, their fishing
+lines of kelp, and mattresses of water reeds. Large quantities of
+clams and mussels, also salmon cured by smoke they took with them,
+for Wick-in-in-ish planned to give a great potlatch to the strange
+tribe of Indian girls, from which his eldest son had chosen one to
+be his wife.
+
+Next morning long before the sun had reached the zenith they had set
+sail for Tsomass land. It truly must have been a sight to see that
+fleet of dark canoes, piled high with all the wealth of that great
+tribe, as with the sails of cedar bark filled with the Yuk-stees
+wind, they glided by the green or rocky shores which led them inland
+to the pleasant Tsomass land. Before the shadows of the night had
+spread among the gloomy conifers, the dark canoes had rounded
+Wak-a-nit, when, taking down their sails of cedar bark, they paddled
+silently close to the shore.
+
+When near Tin-nim-ah, where the Indians say they find good stone for
+sharpening arrow points, they rested on their paddles, and first
+heard the women singing in their cedar lodge. Then Wick-in-in-ish
+addressed his tribe. "My children we have sailed for many miles,
+and our little ones are hungry and weary. Let us sojourn near this
+old spruce."
+
+Thus they encamped near the conifer, and called the place
+Toha-a-muk-is after the spruce they were afraid to touch. Water they
+carried from near Kak-a-mak-kook, named from the alders growing round
+the stream. All through the night they heard the salmon splash to
+free themselves, so many Indians say, from sea lice clinging to their
+silver sides, and their hearts were happy with that refrain, which
+spoke to them of great supplies of food.
+
+Early next day, before the forest trees were gilded by the glorious
+rising sun, the people heard the call of many birds, and looking
+northward where the Tsomass flows, forth from the mist, which in the
+early morning hangs like a veil of gauze among the trees, they saw a
+flock of Sand Hill cranes appear. They flew far above their heads and
+gradually ascending to the sky, vanished from their sight. These were
+the maidens, so the Indians say, who left behind them all this lovely
+land for regions unexplored, taking with them both clams and mussels.
+This is the reason Indians give for the lack of these shell-fish now,
+upon the shores of the great inland sea. The maidens also took the
+Kwa-nis bulbs, but as they flew they dropt a few upon the ground,
+hence the Kwa-nis bulb is still found in Tsomass land.
+
+Wick-in-in-ish, with his sons, now made haste to paddle to the
+river mouth, but lo, the house was gone, no sign of it was left,
+and with it all the klootsmah tribe had fled. Then he turned to
+Ha-houlth-thuk-amik and said, "This is thy land, and this thy future
+home shall be; thou and thy chosen one Kla-kla-as-suks shall dwell
+therein, and may thy children be many."
+
+
+
+THE LEGEND OF EUT-LE-TEN
+
+
+EXPLANATION OF "THE LEGEND OF EUT-LE-TEN"
+
+As stated in the introduction, the details for this story were
+given by the late Indian missionary, Mr. M. Swartout, who received
+them direct from the Indians of Dodger's Cove, Barkley sound, in
+the year 1897.
+
+The reader will recognize in this legend the Indian equivalent for
+Hansel and Gretel, Jack the Giant Killer, Jack and the Bean stalk,
+and other stories of childhood days.
+
+It is not likely that the exploits of Eut-le-ten were considered
+by the older Indians to be the product of imagination, and most
+probably they believed that some time in the distant past, a
+supernatural being called Eut-le-ten was born and lived and
+performed extraordinary feats and taught them wonderful things.
+
+This is an Ohyaht Indian story. The chief village of the Ohyahts
+was at a bay called Keeh-him between Bamfield and Cape Beale,
+Barkley Sound.
+
+
+THE LEGEND OF EUT-LE-TEN
+
+
+THE WITCH E-ISH-SO-OOLTH
+
+Long, long ago, in the gloom of deep and silent woods there lived a
+witch or evil chehah. The Indians called her E-ish-so-oolth. So tall
+was she that, stalking through the forest, her head would brush the
+lower branches of the giant fir.
+
+She dwelt in a huge lodge, the walls of which were built of cedar
+logs as thick as men are high. This evil chehah was the dread of
+young and old alike, for all believed that boys and girls and even
+men and women, who left their homes, not to return again, were
+taken to her lodge, there to be devoured at leisure. Therefore
+mothers often said, when children misbehaved, "Be good or I will
+call E-ish-so-oolth."
+
+One day some Keeh-hin village children paddled from their home and
+landed on a nearby shore. Then something happened causing one to
+cry, and all the others scolding, threatened to call E-ish-so-oolth.
+The threat had no effect and the child cried on, till one in teasing
+spirit called loudly, "E-ish-so-oolth! E-ish-so-oolth! Oh come
+E-ish-so-oolth!"
+
+Then forth from the woods a figure stalked, a tall gaunt form of
+terrible aspect. She leaned upon a gnarled and knotty stick and
+scanning the beach with cruel eyes she cried, "Who called me by
+my name E-ish-so-oolth?"
+
+The children screamed and tried to run away; the chehah laughed one
+awful fiendish laugh, then caught them one by one with her lean
+hands. With the sticky gum of Douglas fir, she sealed their little
+jet black eyes so that they could not see which way led left or
+right, and threw them in the basket on her back, starting for home
+along the lonely forest trail.
+
+As I have said, E-ish-so-oolth was tall, and many times bent her head
+to pass beneath low and spreading branches, and so it happened when
+stooping under a tree which brushed the basket top, four little hands
+gripped tightly hold of a kindly branch and held on fast.
+
+When E-ish-so-oolth had gone on further not missing the two children,
+they clambered down, and partly freed their eyes from the vile pitch,
+running for home as fast as they could go. To their mothers they
+told the story, and how their playmates of that very morning, were
+now perchance within the witch's lodge, and no help to save them
+from a bloody fate. Then all the mothers of the kidnapped girls
+chanted the weird and doleful death lament. Four days and nights the
+dismal song was heard, beyond the blue wood smoke of Indian fires.
+Weeks of mourning passed, and all but one were comforted, but she
+sat all alone, and every morning she squatted on the sea grass at
+the shore, chanting that drear and mournful song.
+
+
+THE BIRTH OF EUT-LE-TEN
+
+Early one morning as she sat and cried, her tears flowed down and
+formed a little pool, a very little pool among the grass, the lank
+sea grass stems on which she crouched. Surprised, she saw a movement
+in the sand, the pool of tears was being changed into a child, a very
+little child, so small that when the mother picked up a mussel shell,
+she could cradle the small form within its pearly curve. Gently she
+carried it to her dark lodge, and set it in a safe and quiet place.
+Next day within the shell, there lay a wonder-child, in face and form
+most beautiful.
+
+The little creature grew so fast that every day his mother went out
+to find new shells and larger shells in which to cradle him. She
+called him by the name of Eut-le-ten, and in all the village there
+was none so fair; in wisdom and in beauty none excelled. The child
+was observing beyond his years, and felt deepest sorrow at his
+mother's constant weeping. One day he inquired in tender tones,
+full of love and sympathy. "My Mother, tell me why you cry so much;
+why unconsoled you chant the death lament?"
+
+Then the mother drawing him to her side told him of the tragedy which
+had befallen his sister. "The chehah came and carried off my girl,
+carried away your little sister to the woods, the dark and gloomy
+woods, and since that day her shadow has not crossed my mournful
+path," she said.
+
+Then up spake Eut-le-ten and bravely said, "My Mother, I will seek
+your daughter, my little sister. I will save her from that awful fate
+you fear. Direct me now upon the lonesome road the dread witch took
+and I will seek her out."
+
+And the mother knowing him to be a spirit-child, rejoiced and blessed
+his errand. They next sought out the little ones who saved themselves
+by clinging to the low branched tree, and from them they learned the
+trail the old witch took. Then sallied forth brave Eut-le-ten alone,
+off to give battle to E-ish-so-oolth.
+
+
+THE QUEST
+
+[Illustration: BRUSHING THE HEMLOCK BOUGHS, HE WALKED STEALTHILY]
+
+Eut-le-ten started with no arms but his courage, to face the dread
+witch who had spirited away the children. The trail lay long, unknown
+and untrodden, save by the timber wolf, panther and black bear. It
+was feared by the Indians for dangers most dreadful--the greatest
+of all the chehah E-ish-so-oolth. He broke through dense shalal,
+fringing the green woods, making the shore line all but impenetrable.
+Into the thick woods, under the silvery spruce, brushing the hemlock
+boughs he walked stealthily. Salmon berry thickets impeded his
+progress, scratched his round limbs with the thorns on their canes.
+He passed white helebore, so tall and so handsome. He saw how the
+black bear had fed on swamp lily, tramping the glossy leaves into the
+black mud. He spurned the devil's club with berries so red and with
+poisonous thorns on stem and on leaf. Such was the trail as it led
+him far inland, inland away from his home by the sea. At last by a
+cool stream, the path lay before him. Hard by the stream a lodge was
+erected, a house of such size the boy stood dumbfounded, and he knew
+that this must be the dwelling of the children's dread captor.
+
+Night time had come, the shadows had fallen and Eut-le-ten was tired
+with the long weary trail. Should he proceed or wait until morning?
+He climbed a tree which grew by the water, and hid in the branches
+to keep vigil, there to crave strength from the Saghalie spirit, the
+Hyas Tyee who dwells in the heavens, to grant him the strength, the
+wisdom, the courage to kill the dread witch. The night was long and
+the vigil lone, soundless except for the night hawk on wing, or the
+howl of the wolf in the quest of the red deer, or the splash of the
+salmon in the stream underneath.
+
+Early next morning, before he descended, he plainly saw the form of
+the witch, coming to wash in the stream just below him. The water was
+clear reflecting her visage, fearsome in its hideous detail. Up in
+the tree brave Eut-le-ten saw her, he thought himself safe from her
+fierce prying eyes; he forgot that he too was mirrored below in the
+still water which lay at her feet. When she had finished her morning
+ablutions, she filled her vessel with water and turned to depart,
+when she saw just below her, the features of Eut-le-ten in the still
+water. Upturning her eyes to the branches above her, she saw there
+the boy half concealed in the foliage, and she smiled with a smile
+triumphant and cruel, thinking once more her fortune had found her,
+and brought to her lodge the boy she was wanting.
+
+She greeted him, "Come, why tarriest up there? Come to my lodge,
+perchance thou art hungry; the fire has been kindled, the water is
+boiling, a welcome awaits thee, why tarriest longer? Descend from
+the tree and let me behold thee".
+
+Down climbed Eut-le-ten nothing affrighted, but filled with the
+knowledge no harm could befall him.
+
+"Why hast thou come, and whence dost thou go? Why didst thou leave
+thy home by the sea?" Such were the questions E-ish-so-oolth asked
+him. Then struck by his fairness and beauty of limb, she questioned
+him thus, "Why is thy skin so fair, and why are thy limbs so
+beautiful?"
+
+Then Eut-le-ten answered her, "When I was a boy my Mother laid me
+upon the bare ground with my head on a stone, my Father placed a
+large rock on my forehead. Thus I was given the gift of the fair."
+
+E-ish-so-oolth was envious of Eut-le-ten and much desired to look
+as young as he, so that with face so comely and so fair, she could
+entice the children to her lodge, wherefore she asked with evil
+ill concealed, "Can I by any means obtain this gift?"
+
+Then Eut-le-ten divining her base thought and much desiring to make
+an end of her, declared that if she would lie down, and on the stone
+which lay beside the creek recline her head, he would place upon her
+forehead the stone which would both mould her features like to his,
+and make her skin as fair. The witch determined to try the charm at
+once, stretching her great length upon the ground, placed her head
+upon the stone.
+
+Then Eut-le-ten lifted a great rock and hurled it down upon the
+witches head. "Die dread E-ish-so-oolth," he cried. "No more with
+evil charms wilt thou entice the children to thy lonely forest home."
+
+So died the witch, and nevermore do mothers say when children
+misbehave. "Be good or I will call E-ish-so-oolth."
+
+
+THE OGRE
+
+E-ish-so-oolth's husband was a mighty man, greater than any Indian
+on the coast. His limbs were rugged as the wind-swept fir which
+grows upon the stormy outer shores. His thick and matted hair fell
+in tangles over his great shoulders, and his sullen eyes looked from
+out his forehead with angry stare. Cruel as the gaunt and hungry
+timber wolf, such was the mate of dread E-ish-so-oolth. Beside him,
+Eut-le-ten had no length of arm or strength of limb with which to
+fend himself, still less attack this giant of the gloomy forest
+track, but he possessed weapons more potent than the brutal strength
+of this vile chehah man. A spirit child he was, a heaven sent boy,
+whom no evil ever could destroy.
+
+
+THE DESTRUCTION OF THE OGRE
+
+The Ogre was at work cleaving a fallen tree, using wedges formed from
+the hardest, toughest wood the Indians know. It was the Kla-to-mupt,
+the western yew. With mighty blows of his stone hammer, he sunk a
+wedge deep in the log, rending it open, split to the centre of its
+giant heart.
+
+The thunderous blows were heard by Eut-le-ten, who with fine courage
+followed up the sound, until he came in view of where the huge man
+worked with all his might.
+
+Blow upon blow fell upon the wedge, deeper it sank into the log.
+The split grew wider. The sides of the great rent pressed hard upon
+the wedge, so hard that if the wedge were hit a glancing blow, it
+would fly out.
+
+Thus it was, when the Ogre saw the wonder boy approach, and his great
+frame was filled with rage, because the boy betrayed no fear of him,
+that his dark face lit up as with a flame.
+
+[Illustration: THIS IS NOT THE OGRE, BUT A PORTRAIT OF KA-KOOP-ET
+(MR. BILL) Drawn by J Semeyn from photograph by Joseph Clegg of
+Port Alberni]
+
+Taking his sledge of stone he struck a blow, as if upon the wedge,
+but let it drop; deep in the crack it fell far out of reach.
+
+"Come here my boy," he called, "I crave your help, I have lost my
+hammer within this mighty tree, I cannot reach it, so, jump in and
+get it, for I want it back."
+
+Eut-le-ten climbed upon the log, and dropt within the split as he was
+bid; the Ogre gave the wedge a sudden jog and out it sprang, and the
+sides came together like the jaws of some great trap.
+
+"Ha! Ha!" the Ogre cried, "Oh! what a joke! with but a single stroke
+I have ground him small. E-ish-so-oolth that gentle little fey, will
+dine on mince-meat."
+
+The ugly Ogre made his clumsy jest, little knowing of the fate his
+spouse had met, when suddenly he saw upon the ground before him, an
+awesome thing, a little pool of water from which there came a quite
+unearthly sound. Then from the pool, with fear and awe, the Ogre saw
+brave Eut-le-ten uprise. Nothing could lay low this boy of wondrous
+parts, who could resolve himself to mother earth, and from the primal
+pool of tears arise to save the helpless and destroy their foes.
+
+"Most wondrous boy, I feared that when the wedge slipt out you died;
+instead, my heart is filled with joy to see you live when I had
+thought you killed. Tell me from whence you draw your mystic power,
+and I will seek the place this very day. When I have found it out,
+I will repay you in ways more certain than I can now command."
+
+Thus spake the ogre, and Eut-le-ten replied, "'Tis easy done. This
+gift is yours as well as mine. Test it but once, and you will see
+that you have powers as great as I."
+
+The giant's bulky frame was filled with pride. "You're right," he
+swore, "the thing that you can do, by all the Tyee salmon, so can I."
+
+Once more the wedge was driven to the heart, until again the sides
+were spread a-gape. In climbed the giant,--he did not think the fit
+would be so tight.
+
+"Are you all ready?" Eut-le-ten called out.
+
+"Yes!" roared the giant, with a thunderous shout.
+
+"Die then!" cried Eut-le-ten, as he took the hammer up, and struck
+upon the side the great yew wedge. Out sprung the wedge, the sides
+snapped together, crushing within the ogre's ponderous frame.
+
+Ignoring his wild shouts they crunched to powder all his giant bones.
+
+The ogre and his mate were thus destroyed, and never more have
+children been led astray by E-ish-so-oolth's dread and magic craft,
+to suffer death in ways too sad to tell.
+
+[Illustration: STONE HAMMER USED BY THE INDIANS OF BARKLEY SOUND]
+
+
+THE RELEASE OF THE CHILDREN
+
+Then to the lodge sped brave Eut-le-ten to that great lodge of giant
+cedar logs, the home of the dead witch E-ish-so-oolth. The house was
+dark, for only through the door and the great smoke hole in the roof,
+did the pale light find its dim way. It was gloomy, and for the full
+time it takes a man to wake from a deep sleep, Eut-le-ten saw nothing
+but just the darkness of a moonless night, then slowly as if the day
+was dawning, objects were seen within the hall. In the centre was a
+smouldering fire, and in the hot ashes, some heated stones with which
+to boil the water in the wooden box in which the food was cooked.
+There beside the wooden box he saw two little forms, prepared by that
+old witch to satisfy her cruel appetite, and that of her bad chehah
+man. Then Eut-le-ten was very sad indeed, to think that he had come
+too late to save the little girls from such an awful fate, and as he
+looked and moaned within himself believing that his sister lay there
+dead, he heard a sound which seemed to come from the further end of
+the dark lodge, and turning round he saw some children imprisoned
+in a wicker cage. Then he spoke and told them to be brave, that he
+had come to save them from the witch; but they were frightened at
+the very sound of his strange voice, and cried aloud with fear.
+Eut-le-ten whispered softly, and with grease from the great whale
+he rubbed their eyes free from the pitch with which E-ish-so-oolth
+had closed them. Afterward he told them that his name was Eut-le-ten,
+who had killed E-ish-so-oolth, and how he had crushed the ogre within
+the log.
+
+The frightened children were much comforted and followed Eut-le-ten
+from out of the lodge away from the dark house of E-ish-so-oolth
+into the sunlit woods, along the trail which led for many miles to
+the small bay. Then there was much rejoicing in the homes of all
+the children saved by Eut-le-ten, and joy unspeakable in his own
+lodge, when he gently led to his sorrowing mother the little sister,
+safe from the clutches of E-ish-so-oolth.
+
+Then all the tribe did honor to Eut-le-ten. He was found in the
+councils of the chiefs, and tribes with homes on distant shores heard
+the great news--the news of how this wonder boy had killed the ogre
+and his dreaded wife, E-ish-so-oolth.
+
+
+
+FURTHER ADVENTURES OF EUT-LE-TEN
+
+
+THE ARROW CHAIN TO HEAVEN
+
+Some time passed by, and Eut-le-ten conceived a plan to reach the
+land above the sky, which he believed, like all the Indian race, to
+be the roof of this our world, and hiding from our view the Illahie
+where the great chief--the Sagh-al-lie Tyee, Nas-nas-shup, the chief
+of all the chiefs abode. Nas-nas-shup had a daughter, far famed for
+her exceeding beauty, and the tales of her attractions were often
+related among the younger braves, and Eut-le-ten became enamoured of
+the thought of winning her, although the stories also told of dangers
+and death most terrible to him who strove to undergo the tests the
+old chief set for all who would desire his daughter's love.
+
+Now Eut-le-ten was skillful with the bow, for many times he had
+brought down the deer as they were bounding through the forest
+glade, and with his arrow he had often pierced the silver salmon
+when they jumped from out the rushing waters of his native stream,
+and he had shot down from off the tallest tree, golden eagles or the
+great fish hawk.
+
+Eut-le-ten called the men together, for he was highly favoured in
+his tribe, and counted as a chief because he killed the evil chehah,
+dread E-ish-so-oolth, and he directed them to make a multitude of
+arrows, straight and strong, and have them ready by a day he named to
+them. Forthwith they followed his instructions, and fashioned many
+arrows, long and straight and strong, and each one tipped with bone
+or flint, so sharp that it would pierce the thickest hide of the
+great elk which roamed in bands among the hills and in the open
+lands.
+
+[Illustration: "HE SHOT THE ARROW STRAIGHT ABOVE HIS HEAD"]
+
+The arrows were completed in four suns, when Eut-le-ten went out upon
+the beach taking with him his strongest bow of yew, and shot an arrow
+straight above his head, high into the vault of heaven, far out of
+sight. Again he shot, and again, until at last an arrow line was
+formed from the earth beneath to heaven above, for his first shaft
+had fixed itself into the roof of this old world of ours, and the
+second arrow aimed with such great skill, had caught the end of it.
+The third, the fourth, and each succeeding one had attached itself,
+until a rope of shafts was made, for Eut-le-ten to climb into the
+world above--the Illahie, where Nas-nas-shup, the Sagh-al-lie Tyee,
+the chief of chiefs, and his fair daughter dwelt.
+
+Then Eut-le-ten took leave of all the tribe and climbed the rope
+of arrows to the sky, beyond the peoples' sight, until at last he
+reached the portals of the land above.
+
+
+THE TWO BLIND SQUAWS
+
+First, Eut-le-ten saw two blind and ancient squaws preparing simple
+food for their repast, and when it was all ready they began to help
+each other to the food, not hearing Eut-le-ten who quietly watched
+until impelled by thoughts of mischief or of jest, took the food
+away from them.
+
+Soon each old squaw accused the other of taking all the food and
+giving none, and angrily they talked and quarrelled much, each
+upbraiding the other for a misdeed of which neither was guilty,
+while Eut-le-ten stood by enjoying their discomfiture. Presently
+he spoke however, and at the sound of his young voice they stopped
+their noise, and ceased to wrangle more about the food. Instead they
+asked him to tell from whence he came, and who he was, and what had
+brought him there.
+
+"I am a being from the lower world, and I have come to ask from
+Nas-nas-shup, the love of one, of whose great charms long tales
+are told among the young men of the world below." Thus Eut-le-ten
+answered the questions put by the old squaws, and when they heard
+his words, they were alarmed, and warned him to desist from his bold
+quest which was full of peril, as many men had found before, for none
+had yet returned who dared essay to win the daughter of Nas-nas-shup.
+Eut-le-ten would not be turned away from his resolve by any craven
+fear of perils or of dire calamity. Had he not killed the witch
+E-ish-so-oolth, and also her much dreaded chehah man? But before he
+left to go upon his quest, he asked the aged squaws what he could
+do to make amends for playing tricks at their expense.
+
+"Oh stranger, give us sight, that we may see," they said, "for we
+have long been blind."
+
+Eut-le-ten then bored a little hole into each eye of both the ancient
+squaws, and when they saw the pure white light of day after their
+long darkness, they were overjoyed, and thanking Eut-le-ten, they
+told to him the secrets of the house of Nas-nas-shup. They gave him
+charms to overcome the fire, in which he would be made to stand
+alone, and last, a stone of wondrous power to break the spikes which
+were set round the resting place of her he sought to win.
+
+
+THE FOUR TERRORS GUARDING THE HOUSE OF NAS-NAS-SHUP
+
+Before the house of Nas-nas-shup there was a lake in which there
+lived great demon frogs, which croaked loud warnings when any dared
+approach. Inside the outer door a codfish lay, of size enormous,
+ready to devour the bold intruder who might gain entrance there, and
+if the stranger safely passed the cod, his body would be entered by
+two snakes which waiting, sought to kill the fearless one. All these
+were safely passed by Eut-le-ten, who changed himself, when danger
+pressed too close, to that small primal pool of tears from which
+he sprang.
+
+Within the house he saw chief Nas-nas-shup clothed in his robe of
+prime sea otter skins. He also saw the spikes which surrounded
+the sacred place where lay the daughter of the chief.
+
+The spikes were hidden in the ground, just where a stranger would be
+asked to rest awhile, but Eut-le-ten remembered what the old squaws
+said to him, and taking the stone charm he broke them down. The chief
+was astonished to see the power of Eut-le-ten, and forthwith asked of
+him from whence he came and what his errand was.
+
+Then Eut-le-ten declared himself and said, "I come from that great
+world beneath the sky where many people live who do not know the land
+where dwells the Tyee Nas-nas-shup. I come to see the wonders of his
+lodge, and learn the many secrets hid from man, so that returning to
+my home below, I may be able so to teach the tribes, that many things
+of which they do not dream, may be revealed, and made as plain as
+day. But there is one of whom great tales are told among the young
+men of the world below, it is of her that I would speak to thee. Thy
+daughter, chief, I come to ask of thee, to be the mother of my little
+ones."
+
+
+THE TRIAL BY FIRE
+
+[Illustration: THEN EUT-LE-TEN STOOD WITHIN THE FIRE]
+
+Then Nas-nas-shup gathered many sticks of wood and built a fire so
+blazing hot that none could bear the heat, and turned to Eut-le-ten,
+"Stand in the fire that I may see if you are brave and strong enough
+to be worthy of her, my daughter."
+
+So Eut-le-ten stood within the fire, and with the charms provided him
+by the old squaws, reduced the heat, and came thereout alive and none
+the worse.
+
+Now Nas-nas-shup proposed that they should seek some firewood upon
+the steep hill-side close by. Eut-le-ten consented, and next morning
+they went to gather firewood. While thus engaged Nas-nas-shup rolled
+a giant log down the steep hill toward Eut-le-ten, who never moved or
+sought to escape. The log rolled over him, but once again he turned
+into the pool of tears and sprang to life when danger passed away.
+Thereat the chief became convinced that he was more than mortal man,
+and gave his leave.
+
+Thus Eut-le-ten was wed, and lived sometime within the higher realms,
+until one day he thought to visit those he left below. Then down the
+rope of arrow shafts he climbed, until he found himself upon the
+earth among his people, and to them he told wonderful things of the
+world above.
+
+
+ASTRONOMY ACCORDING TO EUT-LE-TEN
+
+The sun and moon emerge from out the house of Nas-nas-shup. The giant
+codfish guarding the entrance to the house, attempts to catch them
+passing. He often fails, but there are times when he succeeds, then
+there is darkness--an eclipse of the sun or moon the white men say,
+but that is false, it is the cod. The many stars which sparkle in the
+skies are Indians, who dwell above the earth. Such things and many
+more were told by him, and Eut-le-ten was counted as a chief more
+learned than any that had ever been.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Indian Legends of Vancouver Island
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