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La'^lae/"' LEx^e'deda ^^^ maa'inx^enox".»« GTi'xnae'^ G-e'xdEn, 



Then it is started the liiller-whale. He came it G'e'xdEn, 



said is said 



na'^nak"!" la'xes^° g-ok".i LaE'm^^ sEk-a'xa^'* gw6'yi'm^°^ le^we^^^ 



going home to his house. Then he speared ' whale and the 



whole 



qla'sa;^^"' la'g'Iltse ^^"^ g'i'gamex'^Ida.^" 



sea-otter; that was his oli'ief he became, 



reason 



122 LEX- TO START BY CANOE; -r'Hd TO BEGIN. 



123 na'^naka is here independent of G-e'idEn and begins a new clause. 

 i^*sEk-- TO harpoon; -xa prenominal object. 



■26 q.'as- SEA-OTTER. 



126 la TO go; -gU reason; -se (after I it becomes -tsc) of his. 

 ^^T gVgamc' chief; -x-Hd to become. 



[Translation.] 



Heat lived in the upper world. Heat came with his children,— 

 Shining-Down and First-Speaker, a woman, and G'e'xdEn, and his 

 youngest child. Seen-from-Corner-to-Corner. The wnfe of Heat, Sun- 

 Woman, did not come, for she is the one who makes the sun go. 

 Heat and his children came straight down to O'manis. At once 

 G'c'xdEn went to Bent Bay. There he discovered ten canoes on the 

 beach. He hid behind them landward from the canoes. Then 

 G'e'xdEn jumped out of the woods. Then one person spoke. 

 "What are you doing on the beach, G'e'xdEn T' Thus G'e'xdEn 

 was told. Then he replied, "1 am trying to get a magical treas- 

 ure from you." Then G'e'xdEn asked the man, "To what tribe 

 do you belong C The man answered him, " We are Killer- Whales. 

 The hunting-canoe of our chief is split."" Then G'e'xdEn was 

 asked what he used to sew his canoe with when it was broken. He 

 mentioned cedar-withes. "Go and get cedar-withes!*' G'e'xdEn 

 was told. He started, and it was not long before he came, cariTing 

 cedar-withes, which he gave to the man. Then the man tore to 

 pieces the cedar-withes. " Why are the}^ so weak ? " Then the 

 man sent a person to go and get "twisted on beach," The man ran 

 away; and it was not long before he came, carr3nng " twi.sted on 

 beach." Then the man sewed the canoe. He rubbed the outside of 

 his sewing with gum. Then it was tinished. Then the chief of the 

 Killer- Whales, Moving-AU-Over-the- World, — that was the name of 

 the chief of the Killer- Whales,— (said), "This, my quartz-pointed 

 harpoon, will go to G'e'xdEn; and the names Place-of-getting-Satiated 

 and Feeling-Satiated, and your house with a killer-whale (painting) on 

 the front, will be your house; and your dish will be a killer-whale dish; 

 and the death-bringer and the water of life and the quartz-edged 

 knife, which is to be A^our butcher-knife (shall be yours)." Then 

 the Killer- Whale started. G'e'xdEn came and returned to his house. 

 Then he speared whales and sea-otters. Therefore he became a chief. 



