1«77.] 



635 



[Gatschet. 



<lespues siempre Virgen ? 



Si, perpetuamente fue Virgeu. 



enoma, etabualunimate nanerai aquis- 

 atique cumeuu yaqualebi ? 



O, naiiemi aquita cumenu yaqua lii- 



buabila. 



Tlie following interrogatories mainlj^ refer to the Superstitions, vices 



and heathen practices of the natives, wliom the Spanish priests had come 



to reform and civilize ; they are of uncommon interest to the investigator 



of American ethnology. 



Questions addressed to Chiefs and Governors. 

 (Confessionario, pages 137, 128, 129.) 



When intending to join a hunt- 

 ing party, did you order prayers to 

 be said over the tobacco beforehand V 



On arriving on the mountain, did 

 you order to lay the arrows together 

 and let the conjuror say prayers over 

 them for your benefit ? 



Did you say that the first deer 

 killed should belong to the con- 

 juror? 



Did you order that over the lake 

 prayers should be recited before fish- 

 ing in it? 



In the same manner, did you or- 

 der that of the fish caught for the 

 purpose of eating, the conj uror should 

 get one-half, after having prayed 

 over them ? 



The first fish caught did you or- 

 der prayers to be said over it and then 

 to throw it into the provision-house 

 (barbacoa) ? 



Did you before tilling the field re- 

 cite the ancient ceremony to the 

 conjuror? 



Did you [think it sinful not to] 

 pray over the first maize of the crop ? 



The first time when the corn-crib 

 was opened, did you make any flour 

 for food ? and after pounding flour 

 did j'ou pray over it? 



In gathering chestnuts and pal- 

 metto berries, did you perform with 

 the laurel and while praying, the ce- 

 remony which had come out of use 

 (que solia deshazer) ? 



Emiso haueleta 

 cho? 



hinino ituhusobi 



Hurima minonomano atuluraa ho- 

 rocoqe naribama ituhuaue mobi cho ? 



Honoso nihe qibema itufama ho- 

 nomi lehauele mobi cho? 



Camapatama hibinoma ituhu chi- 

 caqe quelano-lehaue mobi cho ? 



Acuqueleta hiquinomano ituhuso- 

 ta cuyumono itufama isaqita ohono- 

 lehaue mobi cho ? 



Cuyupona qibema inti uquata itu- 

 huta oquono-lehauele mobi cho ? 



Pile pulunu-lehauema ituhusuta 

 hibuata bechata pulubi cho ? 



Tapolabaca qibema ituhusuta 

 hebi cho ? 



Abopaha falino qibema ipita huyo- 

 sota ituhutaqere hebi cho? 



Afatacb si apuco quenema hebeta 

 nali qui iribosota ituhusobi cho ? 



