DORSEY-swANTON] THE BILOXI AND OFO LANGUAGES 97 



10. i^xMdusasa (sa). 



16. anksi Mdexyi; 27-28. Ma sa'^ hi^; 52. jtta Tca^; and 53-54. 

 Jtta saP' i'ka'^. In each case some verb must be supplied, either " I 

 desire," or "fetch." 



28. et passim, ketcana kiya, "a second time again:" one of these 

 words appears superfluous, according to English ideas of style. 



30. kankd^ narikl, literally, " making strings he sat," he sat sing- 

 ing magic songs to trap the ducks; duktax kal^ {duktahi^ ka^). 



31. He-he + ha< ! the second syllable is prolonged, the third is pro- 

 nounced forcibly. 



33. i^no'^de-k {nd^dl^ X^a'^ "when"). The Thunder being's uncle 

 knew of all these dangers; but he sent his nephew thither, hoping 

 that he would be killed. 



35-36. fikadud ed—nkaduti {th)-\-ed {eda^). 



36. Aya'^-toho xaninando-ya^^ the name of a place supposed to be 

 well known to the Thunder being as well as to the Old Man, " Where 

 they roll logs." 36. nkix {Jd). 38. duko{tko'^). 



40. i^kix kide^ act of the Old Man; xe refers to the Thunder being. 



41. sdde^ act of the Thunder being. 



62. ya'^ka'^, the object, put for yandi^ the subject. 



75. kiye (act of the eagle); kldedi (act of the Thunder being). 



78. </(g<i'^ (said of the eaglet). 80. uxeheye {xehe). 81. ta'^ = nitani= 

 nita^yoP'. 82. ant=ande^ refers to the Thunder being. 83. sup = supif 

 black, i. e., had gone out. 



83. kide: the Thunder being started back toward the bank of the 

 stream; kidi, he reached the bank. 



86-89. uksaki, the uncle cut the bowstring in two. 



91. puspus: see jys^, night. 



93. 6, refers to the Sapsucker; 95. kiye (the Thunder being) ; the sec- 

 ond kiye refers to the Sapsucker; 96. e (the Thunder being); kmawiye^ 

 "the act of the bird; " 97. dusi^ " the act of the Thunder being." 



124. kaioakeni{k^ negative prefix; kawake^ "what;" e^ to say; -ni^ 

 negative suffix). 



132. yank—ya^ka^; e refers to one of the women. 



135. Udupi drops -pi before ka'^. 



137. akutudi instead of akutu {yaku)^ but perhaps because di here 

 may mean "when." 



138. tax {ta) before uwedi^ though a'^ya in the preceding line does 

 not become a'^yax before mvedl. 



141. max refers to the recumbent Thunder being. 



