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