Wishram texts / by Edward Sapir ; together with Wasco tales and myths, collected by Jeremiah Curtin and edited by Edward Sapir.
- Edward Sapir
- Date:
- 1909
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Wishram texts / by Edward Sapir ; together with Wasco tales and myths, collected by Jeremiah Curtin and edited by Edward Sapir. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![he took out; and one (arrow) besides, the fifth, he took out. He took with him the five arrows in order that he might kill them. And then they slept over night. Day- light came, and he finished the (arrows). And then he gave the arrows to (the wolves). Then he transformed himself back entirely to his original form. Now the wolves came back home in the morning, and he went out of the house. And then Salmon looked all over the land. [He said,] thus he thought: “Now this day I shall kill the wolves who have slain my father.” And then he exercised his magic power upon the water. The sun rose and it became warm ; the sun shone strong. Then all the water dried up. There was no water to be found. And then Salmon made just one spring of water among the mountains; at WaNcam,^ indeed, he made the water. Just one spring of water Salmon made, plainly seen by all. Now, then one of the wolves became thirsty. So he went to a certain small river to quench his thirst, but in vain. He did not get any water; the river was dried up. And then the wolf caught sight of the water (that Salmon had made). Now he was thirsty, so he went to the water. And then Salmon made some small trees, a few bushes; near to the water he made them. Then Salmon sat down well prepared in the bushes near to the water. Now the wolf went on and saw the water. Straiofht on to the spring he went. The wolf went to drink the water; then started in drinking it. Salmon exercised his magic power upon the water. So then the water sank down a little, and the wolf’s eyes just disappeared from view. Then he shot at the wolf, and the wolf fell down ; he was dead. And then Salmon took hold of the wolf. He had killed him, and threw him away. between Fort Simcoc and Block House,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24877852_0075.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
