?nEm'gwis travelled northward, coming from Seymour Narrows. He made war upon the people and destroyed many villages. Finally he went up Nimkish River, and came to the mountain Ts!Ex*'waku. There he acquired supernatural power. A goose (nEla') came to live with him, assumed the form of a person, and became the ancestor of his tribe. They lived in Foundation (Xulku). When the goose assumed the shape of a person, his wife also became a human being, and they had many children. They came to be a bad people. ?nEm'gwis and the goose are the ancestors of the S'sEnL?.
?nEmx*'lik is also given as the name of the ancestors of the S'sEnL?.
Footnotes
473:1 See Boas, Indianische Sagen, etc., p. 166; also p. 7 of this volume.