Note 145 — II. War-Song of The Nootka Tribe
Reading edition
That is not quite true. They have several of a vague order: one, for example, is that all the Indians are sprung from Quawteaht and the Thunder Birds. Another is that all the tribes on the West Coast come from the west; the different tribes having sprung from the canoes full of migrants stranded by a storm here and there, and so forth.