Never before in his life had he seen anything like it never such a large thing – away off somewhere melting into the horizon was its gigantic body. He quickly hid himself in the grass and gazed at it. From there he came along up and over the ridges. There he tied himself with rope to three mountains. Along the way he took a good bath saying to himself, “Lest I make myself repulsive to his taste,” and then dressed himself all up, “Lest he will vomit me up or spit me out.” He was busy at this when someone shouted to him, “Why are you bothering with that? All of the people are gone” “Well,” said Iceye'ye to himself, “then I’ll stop doing this because I was doing it for the people, and now I’ll go along too.įrom there he went along upstream, by way of the Salmon River country. Iceye'ye (pronounced 'it-see-yi-yi') was building a fish ladder at Celilo.
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