Still further up the stream they went, until they came to where
they found the Ty-ee salmon spawning on the gravel bars. Believing
they had found the object of their search they camped the night at
Sah-ah-hie. All through the darkness they listened to the rushing
of the fish, when the gaunt and savage males with flattened heads
and upper jaws curved like a hook about the lower, and armed with
dog-like teeth, fought for the females of their choice. With great
satisfaction they heard the wallowing of the fish, as, with their
heads and tails, they formed the elongated cavities in the gravel
in which to lay their eggs. Then Ha-houlth-thuk-amik declared that
this the Tsomass River was the source from which the dead fish came
which they had seen when paddling to Po-po-moh-ah.

To Lup-se-kup-se they returned next day, and there they saw,
among the women in the lodge, the girl who spoke to them, when
they had landed on the river bank opposite Ok-sock-tis. Then
Ha-houlth-thuk-amik, desiring to convey her home with him, took her
aside and said, "If thou wilt come with me, say not a word, but
unbeknown make haste and leave the house, and run across the point
which forms the eastern bank where this the Tsomass river joins
the inland sea, then hide thyself until we take thee in, as we are
paddling home."

The klootsmah did as she was told and as the young men passed she
jumped within the canoe, and was away with them. That night they
stayed at Chis-toh-nit not far from Coleman creek, so named because
in later days a white man of that name took up some land and dwelt
there some little while.