1. NLi'kisEntem (cont.)
He is carrying his penis on his back rolled up in leaves. He takes it off and throws it, etc. The other girls tried to cut it off from the girl in which it was, as she was unable to walk with the weight; but although they used sharp stones and knives, they were unable to cut it. Then Coyote cried out across the river, "Cut it with swamp-grass (a variety with sharp edges)." They did as directed, and only the point was left in.
[From here the story is just the same, with the following additions.]
When introducing the salmon into the Okanagon1 country, he met Wolverene, and asked him for his daughter. His wish was granted, and she became his wife. After some time she gave birth to a daughter, who accompanied her father when travelling about on the Upper Columbia. He threw her into that river, where she lay down on her back and was turned into stone. This rock forms part of the Falls of the Columbia, and the salmon ascend the river on either side of it.
[The last part of the story (pp. 23, 29), relating the wonderful feats of Coyote, and the incident with the Grisly Bear, are not told by the Utamqt.]
2. Coyote and his Guests.2
(Lower Uta'mqt.)[Coyote's guests were Black Bear, Kingfisher, and Magpie. This story is told exactly the same as No. 8 Coyote story on pp. 40-42 of the "Traditions of the Thompson River Indians," but has the following additional details. At the beginning of the story, Coyote was hungry and naked, being clad only in an old (woven) rabbit-skin blanket: so Black Bear, taking pity on him, invited him to her underground lodge, and so on. The beginning of the magpie incident is a little different.]
Coyote thought he would visit the Magpie. So he repaired to the latter's house, where he was kindly treated. Magpie went out and netted a deer, and Coyote watched him from a distance. After bringing home a deer, Magpie treated Coyote to a hearty meal of fresh meat. On leaving, Coyote invited Magpie to his house on the morrow. On his arrival, Coyote said,. "I will go out and catch a deer, so you may have a good meal." He went out and tried Magpie's tactics of deer-catching, with the result as told in the Upper Thompson story of this incident.
[The following is additional at the end of the story, after the Magpie incident.]
Coyote thought he would visit Wood-Tick (Kitse'in),3 who lived in a house under a high rock. Wood Tick lived on deer,1 which he obtained by striking2 this rock with his magic staff. If he desired one deer, he went up to the rock and struck it once; and if he wished four deer, he struck the rock with his staff four times; and immediately that number of deer fell down from the top of the cliff.
1 Some say Similkameen.
2 Compare the end of this story with No. 4 Coyote story, (Traditions of the Thompson River Indians, p. 31), and also with the Upper Uta'mqt Coyote story (p. 2 11 of this publication). The corresponding Shuswap story 1. c. p. 627 does not show close correspondence with the present one.
3 Kitse'in or Kitsa'n ("wood-tick"), -- a tick that lives on deer and horses in the winter-time, and sucks their blood.
