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Rh for not going with us, that there was a very dangerous goblin in the Coast mountains, whose awful name was Chuchonnyhoof. When we expressed no fear, saying we would shoot him if we found him, just as we would a deer or a bear, they said, "Wake klietan kokshot. Skin hyas kull kahkwa chickamin," that is, "His hide is bullet proof; it is as hard as iron." Our parents did not seem to regard this story as of any consequence; they said it was only an Indian superstition. But my training in the school at the Old Mission had developed the bump of curiosity in my head and I absorbed this story eagerly. I had been taught that there was an evil spirit roaming about this earth, and I thought this goblin the Indians told us of might be he. I interviewed many Indians on the subject, but gained little information. I discovered that the low caste native had faith in the existence of the goblin and that it was greatly feared. Their priest, Dickadowdow, said it would be a fearful thing to fall into the hands of Chuchonnyhoof.

Although slow in making the discovery, I eventually learned that there was among the natives a professional class possessed of all the learning not considered necessary in the ordinary affairs of life. These professors were known in the Chinook language as Lamachin, that is, Medicine men or doctors. The Klamath and Modoc name for these learned men was Keyox, meaning one skilled in healing by the use of natural remedies or by magic. They were supposed to be learned in the law, and in every branch of a religious or superstitious character. I became acquainted with two or three professionals. But when I introduced Chuchonnyhoof as a text to be expounded, I found them averse to discussing the subject without the assurance that I was not prompted by idle curiosity or other unworthy motive.

Of all the men of the priestly order the patriarch of the tribe we found inhabiting the country between the south Yamhill and north Luckyuke was probably the deepest learned in mythological and mystic lore. This was Dickydowdow. His forehead had been flattened when he was an infant; it retreated in a line from his brows to his crown and was as flat as the board against which it had grown. The flattening process had made his head unusually high above his ears. He had numerous wives, as poligamy was not prohibited by the Kala-