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send you (away). The two (people) related as man and wife will, 

 on their part, go to that place. I will always call (out) the name (of 

 the place) wherever I will send (two people) mutually related as 

 husband and wife. I am now going to call the name of the place. 

 Are you (ready) to go now? Wherever I will send (the people), they 

 will mutually understand their language. Two tribes (at a time) will 

 I thus create (of) you, (so that) you will mutually understand your 

 language." 



And thea, verily, he sent two (people) related as husband and wife. 

 "You two will go to Yakwma in order that you two may beget 

 children there. You two wiU multiply there; you two will beget 

 children there. Your (dual) children will likewise beget offspring 

 there. And now those (other) two will, on their part, go to Alsea, 

 they two will beget offspring there." And then they two went, 

 indeed. "You wiU mutually understand your language." And 

 thus (it is) that the (people of) Yakwma and Alsea have one language. 

 "Your (dual) children wiU likewise beget offspring, when you two 

 will live (there). (People) will also live across (the river). Thus 

 you will live after you shall have multiplied. You will do aU sorts of 

 things when (there) will be many of you." Then they, indeed, acted 

 accordmgly. And then he sent (people) also to Yahach. "Two 

 (people) will go there likewise (and) will also beget offsprmg there. 

 Your language will be one (and the same). On three j^laces will 

 your language be one (and the same)." And they, mdeed, under- 

 stood mutually their language. 



And then he sent next two (people) to Siuslaw related as husband 

 and wife, whereupon, verily, they two went there. "You two will 

 beget children there." And they two did so, indeed. "Those 

 (other) two, on my part, I will send to Umpqua; they two shall go 

 to Umpqua. They two will settle there; they two will beget off- 

 spring there. You (and) the two Siuslaw people will understand 

 mutually your language. They will understand mutually their 

 language. They will beget children there, (and) their children will 

 likewise beget offspring there. Thus you will do it, whenever you 

 will multiply at a (certain) place. You will do aU sorts of things. 

 Whatever I have been tellnig you, you will do it thus, whenever 

 summer and winter will come unto you. Thus you will act. You 

 will spear the salmon. Thus you will live. I have created you 

 (to do) thus. And then the Siuslaw people and also their children 

 win likewise beget offspring. Thus you will multiply, when you will 

 live (m your allotted places). I wiU give you (various things so that) 

 you will use them thus. All sorts of things will I grant you. You 

 will habitually do thus whenever you will multiply. One person 

 (there will be who) will know how to hunt, and he wiU likewise spear 

 the salmon. I wiU grant you everything whenever the seasons of the 



