A bunch of young people, including a couple of Humpback Salmon, went to the beach and sand at Sumas Lake to go swimming. They took a lunch of a couple of fish. When they ate, they took the dried fish, cut them up and divided it between them. When they divided the fish, they left the tail part of the fish to Humpy. The tail is the hardest part of the salmon. Humpy started hollering for the giant - saskts. Humpy didn't mean any harm. The giant wasn't very far away that day and he heard the hollering. Saskts ran to his home and got his big basket. His basket was supposed to have been made of snakes and frogs woven together. When the giant got there, he put Humpy in the basket first. (He was sure to have him, anyways.) When the giant put someone else in, Humpy kept climbing up and getting to the top again. When the giant was on his way home, he happened to pass a limb that was a little low, and Humpy got a hold of it. The giant just stooped and didn't think the basket would catch the tree, but little Humpy got out. When the giant got to the camp, he told his children, "Oh! I've got something extra special for you today." He started taking the children out one by one. He was looking for Humpy, but Humpy was gone. When he got to thinking about it, he remembered bumping that limb and thought that that must have been when Humpy got out. When the giant got back to the beach again, Humpy was quite a way out in the water. The giant picked up rocks, threw them at Humpy, and broke his paddle. Everytime the giant would break Humpy's paddle, he'd get another one. Humpy's last paddle was one with a lot of knot holes in it. The giant couldn't break that one because the rocks just went through the knot holes. The giant gave it up and went home. When the giant got home, he built a fire in a great big pit and a rock in the fire got hot. (That's the way they used to do their cooking.) Before he had gone to chase Humpy he instructed his children to put pitch on the other children's eyes and behind the knees of the young people so they couldn't run away, or see. When the giant's children were putting on the pitch, the older children closed their eyes tightly so the pitch couldn't affect their eyes and they could open them again. When the rock was ready, they were all sitting around and the giant started doing the Feast Dance. They let him dance until he got worked up and wasn't expecting anything. When he got close to his fire, the bigger boys and girls shoved him into it. They shoved him in there, put in more dried wood and burnt him. When he was burning, the giant said, "I won't be killing or eating anybody else." The children said, "We'll not destroy you altogether. We'll have something to remember you by." The leader of the bigger boys said to the sparks that were going up, "You'll be mosquitos." He said to the bigger sparks, "You'll be sandflies." That's it.

Gus Commodore, "Mosquito I(Sumas Lake)," Lower Fraser Indian Folktales, (unpublished typescript), 1950-51.