BARITEST HISTORICAL TINE S: wife in memory of his late brother. Messengers were sent who brought her back, and thenceforth she attended upon Chichanit, as was usual with widows preparatory to their being re-married to their late husband’s nearest kin. Meanwhile, Na’kwcoel was constantly smarting under the pain caused by the untimely death of his eldest son. Though he was now well advanced in years, he used to visit Chichanit’s lodge and reproach Chalh’tas with her crime, in which case blows would generally follow words, to all of which she had to submit with as much equa- nimity as her own haughty nature would allow. One day, when she was unravelling with a small stone knife the strips of willow bark, the filaments of which were intended as the material of a fish net, her father-in-law became so violent that, unable to stand his abuse any longer, she grabbed him by the hair, and, throwing him to the ground, stabbed him in the neck with her diminutive implement. Fortunately for her intended victim, her knife broke in the old man’s collar-bone before it could inflict serious injury, whereupon Na’kweel called for help in terms which are still recited for the sake of their quaint- ness, and his son, running to his assistance, killed the woman with his bow-point. Na’kweel was now aging considerably. After many years passed in the company of his only remaining son, he grew to be so old that, according to tradition and the accounts of eye-witnesses, his hair, after having been snow white, had become of a yellowish hue. He fell into such a state of decrepitude that his knees and elbows were covered with scaly excrescences, resembling a sort of para- sitic moss. His hearing failed him, and his eyelids drooped until he became the very picture of old age. Basking in the sun on a rock emerging from the shallow water, which is still shown near the outlet of Lake Stuart, he wouid at nS