2. NLi' kEsentem
(cont.)While conducting the salmon up a small tributary of Columbia River, he met a family who had a weir across the stream for the purpose of catching very small fish (about four inches long) that descended the stream. This family consisted of a man, his wife, and two daughters, the elder of whom had lately finished her training, while the younger one had just become pubescent. Coyote entered their house, and they offered him these small fish to eat. He asked them why they cooked these fish for him when there was plenty of large salmon in the creek. They said that was all they had; and they would not believe him, that large fish were to be found in the creek. He took them to the bank, and showed the man how to use it. The caught salmon, and cooked and ate them. Coyote said that henceforth salmon would ascend the stream every year, and the people would always be able to catch plenty at this spot. He asked to have the two daughters for his wives, and their parents readily assented. They both became pregnant, and in a few days each gave birth to a child. The younger one bore a male child, and the elder a female. As soon as the children were born, they could walk. This was the way with all of Coyote's children. copyote left there, taking with him his daughter and her mother, and camped at a place on Columbia River. He had forgotten about the girl he had made sick at Lytton; but that night he either remembered about her or dreamed of her, for in the morning he made up his mind to go to see her. He said, "I do not wish to be encumbered on the journey with my wife and daughter. I will leave them here." So he threw his wife into the Columbia River, and transformed her into stone. She may be seen there yet, leaning over on her back, and forms a kind of pool between her legs. He said, "Henceforth this will be a great salmon-fishing place, and the people will take their food from between my wife's legs." Hes daughter, who stood watching him as he transformed her mother, was changed into a rock on the bank of the river, which may also still be seen at this place.
When Coyote reached Lytton, he was dressed allover with dentalia, and the people wondered at his fine rich clothes. The tried to talk to him in several languages, but he pretened to talk a different language and not to understand them. The sent for Short-Tailed Mouse who had been married to men of all tribes and could talk all languages but she could not make him understand. Then they had recourse to sign-language. They asked him if he was a shaman, and he said "Yes." They told him that they had a sick girl; and he made signs to them to erect a sweat-house and put her in it, and he would cure her.