NORTHERN INTERIOR OF BRITISH COLUMBIA with Chalh’tas, which resulted in the latter accusing him of the death of her two children, but lately deceased. Upon this blows ensued, when the woman, falling on him, called upon Atéte to help her kill him, under pain of being herself done to death if she refused. Then they shame- fully mutilated his remains, which they conveyed to the mouth of a stream emptying on the opposite side of the lake, and buried them in the sand. Then, hiding his quiver among the rocks of the Stuart River, near the water’s edge, they hastily fled to Fraser Lake, where they declared that, after one of their usual disputes, A’ke’tces had tried to put them to death, when they had made off with his canoe, whereupon he had _ pur- sued them in the water and gone beyond his depth. On the ground of that story, canoes searched for days every nook of the river, where only the missing man’s quiver was found, until later on his mangled remains were acci- dentally: unearthed, whereupon the anger of old Na’kweel and of his son Chichanit knew no bounds. Several years elapsed, when Atéte, who had been but an unwilling accomplice in the murder, tired of her exile, and resolved upon returning to her native land and telling the whole truth. But as she neared Stuart Lake her return was revealed to Chichanit, who sallied out and killed her with his bow-point—a sort of spear affixed to one end of his bow, a weapon quite common among the ancient Carriers. Then, repenting of his act, committed just when the woman endeavored to explain that she was innocent, he decided to spare her surviving co-partner on condition that she would come back and allow him to take her to 1. As the imagination of the natives must mix the marvellous or extra- ordinary with the common and ordinary, the Indians do not fail to say that a rainbow, one end of which plunged where the body had been buried, was instrumental in causing its discovery.