1880.] 



491 



[Gatschet. 



When a woman was in travail, did 

 you think it sinful to approach the 

 fire Humbre) just burning? 



Did you consent that a herb-doctor 

 should cure you by reciting over you 

 demoniac words? 



Did you offer to this purpose at the 

 door of the house the maize to the 

 Devil, as you were in the habit of 

 doing before? 



The ceremony of the laurel, per- 

 formed to [serve] the Demon, did 

 you perform it ? 



[When collecting] acorns or other 

 fruits, did you not eat the first [gath- 

 ered] ? 



When lightnings struck into the 

 clearing (roca) or maize-field, did you 

 not eat of it? and did you advise 

 anybody not to eat of it? 



Did you advise not to eat the first 

 maize of the newly-cleared field ? 



When the water is flooding the 

 new fish-pond and the first fish is 

 caught, did you order not to throw it 

 into hot water, lest no others would 

 be caught? 



Did you place the first fish close 

 to it (the new fishpond), to make come 

 a large quantity by the next tide ? 



When flooding a new fish-pond, did 

 you desire that the conjurers pray 

 over it, believing that many more 

 fish will enter it ? 



(Same sentence, the inland term 

 puye "weir" being substituted for 

 ichali, used on the coast.) 



Vilu tacaco inti uquata ibiretaco- 

 co inti uquata quosobi cho? 



Isucuma chorobonima hiti hebu- 

 ata ituhuta choroboqe nate mani- 

 bi cho? 



Tapolama ucuchua easota hitima 

 tacatosibinaqechu naquosobi cho? 



Tola ucuchua nacaquibinaqechu 

 naquosobi cho ? 



Ahano calama qibemate, hachi- 

 bueno eyo calama qibemate inti 

 uquabicho ? 



Pilema numa hebuama nabotoqe, 

 tapolamano inti uquabicho ? yanacu 

 ano eyo, inti uquasota, mosobi cho ? 



Auara ele tapolama ecano qibe- 

 mano inti uquata mosobi cho ? 



Ichali ele iribosobinaco, cuyuma 

 ubuata qibenco melasonolehabetile 

 cuyuma naqua ubuahauetile naquo- 

 satiqua nimaca mobi cho ? 



Cuyu ubuata qibenco yuquisotani- 

 qua, cuyu arota ubuahauele-manta 

 quosobi cho? 



Ichali ele iribosota, hiti hebuano- 

 maniituhusinoleqe ubahauele man- 

 ibi cho? yanacu ituhubi cho? 



Puyeca quibinaco hiti-hebuano- 

 mani ituhusinoleqe hubuahauele 

 manibi cho? yanacu hoqua ituhubi 

 cho? 



(Confessionario, leaf 127 v.) 



All these things, all these abuses, 

 the tremblings of the body, the 

 omens from the birds, from the 

 beasts, nothing of them must be be- 

 lieved in. 



Una caremaqua hachibueno, care 

 nayalacota, caque nihaue yatala mue- 

 nomate isticoqe namota bohonole bi- 

 tima chisisotamano bohatiquani 

 hach(e?). 



