II. Child-of-Hog-Fennel (Kokwe'laha'it).
(Lower Uta' mqt.)Then he said, "I will have revenge on the rocks for killing my father." So he went to the precipice and asked it why it slew his father; but the precipice answered, "Your mother has told you a lie. I never saw your father.' He returned home and told his mother what the cliff had said: so she told him that his father fell from a tree many years ago and was killed. He said, "I will have revenge on all trees." So he took his bow and arrows and went to interrogate the tree; but the latter answered, "I know nothing of your father. Your mother must have told you a lie. Returning, he told his mother what the tree had said. Then she told him that his father had been drowned in the river. He said, 'Then I will have revenge on the water." Taking his bow and arrows, he went to kill the water for murdering his father; but the water said to him, Those whom I kill I know, but your father I never saw. Your mother has told you a , lie." Returning home, he told his mother what the water had said, and was very angry at her for telling him lies, but she was ashamed to tell him the truth.
He left his mother and travelled over the country. Wherever he went, the hog-fennel plants shook their leaves with gladness; and when he trod over them, they embraced his legs. As he was jumping over a stream, Bull-headed Catfish (tsena'tz) saw him, and cried out, " Nkokwe'lahä' it !" He turned back three times to look for the person who had called him names. On searching the fourth time, he found him, and was going to kill him, but, changing his mind, he transformed him into the bull-head catfish and threw him into the water, saying, "You shall be the catfish, and shall never again call people names.'
Now he thought he knew who his father was, and, returning to his mother , he asked her if the hog-fennel root was his father. She acknowledged having had intercourse with the hog-fennel root, and told him that it was his father . Then he killed her,1 and said, "Henceforth women shall not have intercourse or be made pregnant by roots."
Now, Child-of-Hog-Fennel travelled over the country again, and did many wonderful things. He travelled as far down as the upper borders of the Uta’mqt country, whence he turned back. At last he came to a large river, where very many people lived. He staid with these people2 four nights, and each morning on awaking found his belly wet. He told the people who assembled all the women, and asked which of them had slept with the stranger. They all denied having had any intercourse with him. It was noticed that Frog was absent. Presently she came in, and they asked her the same question. She answered, "Yes, I visited him, and I wish to marry him.' the people said, " No, we cannot allow you to become the wife of so great a man. He must have a better and a prettier wife than you."
1 Some add that he transformed her into a stone.
2 Some say he told the chief.