"I dreamed this night of Mr. Hall," said εmaxu.lag.Ilis to me. It may be two years since he told me this dream. He said,

"I dreamed I was sitting in a house, not mine, and I thought in my mind who might be the owner of the bad house in which I was sitting. Then a man behind me spoke and said, 'Oh brother εmaxu.lag.Ilis, what are you doing in this house?"

I turned around and looked at him and recognized Mr. Hall, the former missionary at Alert Bay. He wore a long coat and a black hat covered his head. His black cap was embroidered all around with gold. On his forehead he wore gold which shone like the sun.

Then I arose and stretched out my hand, intending to take his hand. Then he said, 'Oh no! I am now different, for as I used to preach to you at Fort Rupert I am dressed thus because I am now in the world above. I can not take your hand because you did not obey what I preached to you," thus he said and disappeared.

When the month of April was almost gone a letter came from England telling of Mr. Hall's death on the twenty-seventh day of the month of February. The only point that makes me believe the dream of εmaxu.lag.Ilis is that he came at once and told me about his dream in the morning, he had dreamed about Mr. Hall dressed up in this way. That is what is called by the Indians a true dreamer, and a good dream.

A footnote says "This man is known as a dreamer. He belongs to the SenL'.EM."

SOURCE: The Dream in Primitive Cultures edited by Jackson Lincoln, 1935, p.312 in 1970 reprint. PRIMARY SOUCE: Contributions to the Ethnology of the Kwakiutl, Boaz & Hunt, 1925, v.III, p.54 (dream 66). SPELLING: Boaz & Hunt. Don't ask me what sounds the x or ε or ' or . or random capitals represent. YEAR: I assumed "two years since" means before publication. DAY: for consistency, the WDB dates all dreams as part of the previous night; Boaz dates this one as happening the morning it was told.

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