Gatschet.] 



490 



[Feb. 20, 



To preclude young women from 

 dancing did y<>u have some of them 

 insulted, or inflicted punishment on 

 them? 



K illy in the sowing season did you 

 cause six old men to eat [a pot of frit- 

 ters] ? 



Just before becoming chief did 

 you order a new fire to be made for 

 six days in the cottage, and to have 

 it closed up by laurels or other things? 



Did you desire the chief's death 

 to succeed him ? 



Having fallen sick, did you con- 

 struct a new house, declaring " Here 

 I shall live and die?" 



Did you order laborers to be pun- 

 ished so as to have their arms broken, 

 not for the sake of work, but for be- 

 ing angry ? 



For what other reason, but for be- 

 ing angry, did you have anybody 

 punished ? 



Ela nia muquano iquimi iquiti 

 mosobota hachibueno nabalusobota 

 mosobi cho? 



Echerosota ano miso marecama 

 hesobi choV 



Holata ichi qihabeleta tac i chaleca 

 alata itorita ela mareca hutanolehaue, 

 acu tolalehecote hachibuenolehecote 

 viro paUama naquiluta mosonolehaue 

 mobi cho? 



Nihitaruqe honihe holatalesiro 

 manibi cho? 



Chiquilabotanimano paha chaleca 

 ucunuleqe fata orobinihale caqua 

 fanomano ninihihauele mobi cho? 



Anoco inonino narooquatlma ma- 

 la ine eyo nayuricomita chacali 

 carema tuchemaca mo chi aboto- 

 moque yabi vichubi ? 



Anoco ineca luba ticote hochie yu- 

 ricono yebueta iqimileqe ineco na- 

 hiqe abotosiro-manda quosta nasi- 

 sobi cho ? 



INDIAN PROGNOSTICATIONS AND PAGAN CEREMONIES STILL IN PltACTICE. 



Anopirn hachicare isinomiti httinacumelenomatequene cantela. 



(Confessionario, leaf 123 r. and v., 124 r. and v.) 

 When somebody was crazed, did Isucu echa, hebuatema nocomile- 

 you believe [his] words would be- minda bohobi cho? 

 come true ? 



Did you believe that it was a sign 

 of somebody's arrival, or that some- 

 thing new would happen, when a 

 jay was chattering to another bird, 

 and when my body was trembling? 



Did you believe, that by making a 

 new fire in a separate spot, the sick 

 would recover? 



When you were sick, did you have 

 a fire (eandela) made separately so 



Hachipileco cacaleheco chulufi 

 eyolehecote nahebuasota, caqueni- 

 haue qestela, mota unayaruru cate- 

 mate, caquenihaueqe intela manta 

 bohobi cho ? 



Ano iqilabamabuetaleqe taca cha- 

 leca arecotana baluhauele-inanta 

 bohobi cho? 



Chiqilabotaqe, taca chaleca nalasi- 

 nolehaue bono iutico tacama echeqe 



thai they may cook victuals to be your ninihihauela-manda mosobi cho? 

 food, for otherwise you would die ; yanacu ano eyocobueta motaqe bo- 

 did you believe in Ibis? hobi cho? 



