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But I didn't bring anything. Now they want me to go again but 

 I don't want to go because they won't pay me. I toll them to 

 find someone else, for I don't want to go because it is very far. 

 Maybe some other year, if I don't die! And if I die, ■ then I 

 won't go! 1 want to see if they will give me a wife, our kindred; 

 the girls are very pretty. On this account 1 would like to go! 



They asked mo, "Where do you conic from?" and I told them, 

 "Prom Az(|iieltan." Then they asked me, "How far distant?" and 

 I told them that it is very far. Then the Tepehuanes conversed 

 with me; they speak just the same; they are our people. It was 

 extremely cold; the ground was white with ice. The head man 

 wanted me to go to work hut 1 didn't want to. for I was very 

 tired. They were building the church when I walked there with 

 our kindred. 1 noticed what they were doing and they wanted 

 me to work too! 



They do not call the tortillas as we do; they call them "DcWkirr 

 mi ten . 



ANALYSIS 



1. varxo'k'va\ r-, euphonic interpolation. -<//•-. substantive, -ho-lr, 



adv. -nt\ possibly completive. 

 nanitxi'mdk'. lu'-iu, stem GO, -olr, past simultaneous. 

 kidadam. -dam, postposition, in. 



2. pinampuptunidk\ pi-, locative relative, WHERE, -am-, 3d plu. 



pron. shj. -pup-, probably -pu-'6jp-, thus-also. -in-, indefinite 



inanimate obj. niok, stem spkak. 

 hbgathdhcrcduN. -/-, 1 st plu. poss. pron. (i of -it- is absorbed 



in a). haha'cdun : redup. plural of hcrdun, (c is unexplained 



intrusion). 

 hapumictunidk: hapu, adv. thus, similarly. (Generally found 



in shorter form -pu-). -///-, 3d plu. shj. pron. -ic-, positive. 



-tuniok't cf. § 2. 



3. avemicmok'O'r. a-, 3d sing. pron. shj. -r-, euphonic interpolation. 



-nu-ic-, heard variant of -i<nn-i<--, negative ■{- positive, super- 

 lative. VERT, mdk'i adv. DISTANT. -0*r, phenomenal. 



civgo'k. Cardinal seven, (lit. "Ptwo"). 



tono'rho'kdD. ton, stem denoting heat, -ot, phenomenal suflix. 



thus totwr^ SUN, DAT. -Iio'ho'h, instrumental postposition. 



4. nanitgamahi. -ga/m-, progressive, -a-, completive. hi, pret. of 



hi in, (.<>. 



