The guardians of the Columbia, Mount Hood, Mount Adams and Mount St Helens . channel, east of Dalles City. The river, crowded into a narrow flume,flows here at a speed often exceeding ten miles an hour. tale of Ulysses, buffeted by the breezes from the bag given him by the wind-god Aeolus. Five Chinook brothers, said the Yakima tradition, lived on the great caused the warm winds toblow. Five other brothers lived atWalla Walla, the meeting place ofthe waters. They caused the coldwinds. The grandparents of themall lived at Umatilla, home of thewind-blown sands. Always there waswar bet
The guardians of the Columbia, Mount Hood, Mount Adams and Mount St Helens . channel, east of Dalles City. The river, crowded into a narrow flume,flows here at a speed often exceeding ten miles an hour. tale of Ulysses, buffeted by the breezes from the bag given him by the wind-god Aeolus. Five Chinook brothers, said the Yakima tradition, lived on the great caused the warm winds toblow. Five other brothers lived atWalla Walla, the meeting place ofthe waters. They caused the coldwinds. The grandparents of themall lived at Umatilla, home of thewind-blown sands. Always there waswar between them. They swept overthe country, destroying the forests,covering the rivers with ice, or melt-ing the snows and causing people suffered much because oftheir violence. Then Walla Walla brothers chal-lenged Chinook brothers to wrestle. Speelyei, the coyote god, should cabbage RocU, a huge freak of nature standing in. • o 7 ^jjg open plain four miles north of The Dalles, judge the contest. He should cut Apparently, the lava core of a small extinct 48 THE GUARDIANS OF THE COLUMBIA off the heads of those who crafty Speelyei secretly ad-vised the grandparents of Chinookbrothers that if they would throwoil on the ground, their sons wouldnot fall. This they did. ButSpeelyei also told the grandparentsof Walla Walla brothers that if theywould throw ice on the ground, theirsons would not fall. This they the Chinook brothers were thrownone after another, and Speelyei cutoff their heads, according to the bar-gain. So the five Chinook brotherswere dead. But the oldest of them left aninfant son. The childs motherbrought him up to avenge the killingof his kinsmen. So the son grewvery strong, until he could pull upgreat fir trees as if they were Walla Walla brothers chal-lenged Young Chinook to should judge the should cut off the heads of thosewho fell. Secretly Speelyei advisedYoung Chinooks grandparents tothrow
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