"That is how the Thlinkits came to our island, and so we say when the snow breaks, that now comes the blue jay."

"Thank you for telling us such a dandy story," cried Ted, who had not lost a word of this quaint tale, told so graphically over the camp-fire of the old chief Klake.

FOOTNOTES:

[3] Kooshta, a spirit in animal's form which inhabits the body of sick persons and must be cast out, according to Thlinkit belief.

[4] Shaman, native medicine-man.

[5] Hut.


CHAPTER III

TO THE GLACIER