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"Kla-how-ya, tillicum!" I greeted. He glanced round, and half smiled. "Kla-how-ya, tillicum!" he replied, with the warmth of friendliness I have always met with among the Pacific tribes. I drew my deck-stool nearer to him, and he acknowledged the action with another half smile, but did not stir from his entrenchment, remaining as if hedged about with an inviolable fortress of exclusiveness.

The rising tide was unbeaching the canoe, and as Maarda stepped in and the klootchman slipped astern, it drifted afloat. "Kla-how-ya," nodded the klootchman as she dipped her paddle-blade in exquisite silence. "Kla-how-ya," smiled Maarda.

"Kla-how-ya, tillicum!" I greeted. He glanced round, and half smiled. "Kla-how-ya, tillicum!" he replied, with the warmth of friendliness I have always met with among the Pacific tribes. I drew my deck stool nearer to him, and he acknowledged the action with another half smile, but did not stir from his entrenchment, remaining as if hedged about with an inviolable fortress of exclusiveness.

The rising tide was unbeaching the canoe, and as Maarda stepped in and the klootchman slipped astern, it drifted afloat. "Kla-how-ya," nodded the klootchman as she dipped her paddle-blade in exquisite silence. "Kla-how-ya," smiled Maarda.

"Kla-how-ya, tillicums," I replied, and watched for many moments as they slipped away into the blurred distance, until the canoe merged into the violet and grey of the farther shore. The Deep Waters

"Kla-how-ya, tillicums," I replied, and watched for many moments as they slipped away into the blurred distance, until the canoe merged into the violet and grey of the farther shore.

"Kla-how-ya, Tillicum," I greeted, dragging her into the warmth and comfort of my "den," and relieving her of her inseparable basket, and removing her rain-soaked shawl. Before she spoke she gave that peculiar gesture common to the Indian woman from the Atlantic to the Pacific.