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The. girl heard it wlule she was in the pit. After a little while, she 

 heard another voice coming along. So she pushed away the cover, 

 and, behold ! she saw a chief tainess holding a cane in her hand. There 

 was a live frog at the lower end of the cane, and a live person on top 

 of the live frog, and a live eagle was at the upper end of the cane; and 

 the clueftainess was wearing her large hat made of spruce roots 

 painted green. She walked slowly along, talking with the aged 

 woman. She said to the old woman, "Don't you know that Asdikla 

 cast my only child into the fire ? Therefore I burned up this village." 

 She sang — 



Yea lio yea ha 

 Dzila'°gan3 ya, 



yea ho ySa ha 

 Dzila'°gana ya, 



ayea a yea-ha 

 ayea a yea-ha 



ye ho yea (three times) 

 ye a ye 



And she went along all alone, crying while she was walking. 



After she had repeated her song three times, she put her child's 

 name into the mourning-song, in the last line of her song. Her name 

 was Dzila'°gans. This was the name of the frog that had been 

 thrown into the fire by the prince while he was on his way to fish trout. 



While the chieftainess was going away, the girl Omen came out 

 from her hiding-place. She had learned well the mourning-song of 

 that cldeftainess who had just gone. As soon as she was out of her 

 pit, she looked around, and with deep sorrow she saw that nobody 

 was saved, that the whole village was burned. 



She went along, not knowing which way to go; but before she 

 went, she put on her garments of sea-otter and of marten skins and 

 the chief's woven dancing-blankets; and she put in order the costly 

 coppers and the elk skins, which she left in her hiding-place. Then 

 she went off full of sorrow, and singing her own mourning-song. It 

 is as follows: 



1. Na dEm maige sint gima'dii gan-walda; a yi yi 

 Na dEm maige sint guna'dil gan-wa'lda; a yi yi. 



2. Nil wil ga-xbESEm-laxla'xl gul-hauts guna'dil ga 

 Gan-lu-gaxl wi-gal-ts!abEm Dzi'gwa; a yi yi. 



3. Gan-lu-gaxl na-gal-tsla'pgES guna'da; a yi yi. 

 Gan-lu-gaxl wi-gal-ts!a / bEm Dzi'gwa; a yiyi. 



4. Nil wil ksi-latkl gus-likla'k"; a yi yi. 

 Gan-lu-gaxl wi-gal-ts!a'bEin Dzi'gwa; a yi yi. 



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