BOAS] HANDBOOK OF AMERICAN INDIAN LANGUAGES 669 



ktoguila'le:" "Lo'nas nakct" LE't!oix®° ka^'' LcVmEqta.''^^ 



those who treat them: "Perhaps not it comes between and he will die." 



Niktco'ktixe.**^ Qe'xtce''** aqe'tElot*^ iLa'xanate. ^® Aqa'tElotx,^^ 



It gets day. Endeavoring some one gives it to hi.s life. Some one gives it to 



them them 



qloa'p^^ ka'iiauwe®^ e'LaL^a*^ ka^" aLo'iiiEqtx.^^ NiLgEng-a'gux^* 



nearly all his body and he dies. It is too small 



iLa'xanate.^^ 



his soul. 



[Translation.] 



The seers go thus to the ghosts. When there are three of them, 

 the one who has a strong guartlian spirit is phiced first, and one who 

 has a strong guardian spirit is placed hist. One who has a small 

 guardian spirit is placed in the middle. The soul of a chief is pursued 

 when the chief is sick. When the trail is bad, the first one utters his 

 shaman song. When the trail is bad behind, then the one there 

 behind utters his shaman song. And it is night for a little while, 

 and they treat him; but when the morning star comes, the soul of 

 the sick one is overtaken. His soul is taken. The guardian spirits 

 of the seers return. Sometimes his soul is given to him two nights, 

 sometimes one night, after the guardian spirits return. Then the 

 sick one becomes well. 



When the soul of a sick person is pursued, the seers go, when the 

 soul of the sick person is pursued. There it went thus on the trail to 

 the left. Then the seers say, "Oh, he will die, anyway!" when the 

 soul went there thus to the right, ''Oh, he will become well!" 



It is reached where there is a hole in the ground. There the ghosts 

 are in the habit of drinking. When the sick one has drunk of that 

 water, he can not be made well at all. All those who have shaman 

 songs trv to treat him, but he is not made well. 



The soul of one who has drunk of that water is found. It is taken. 

 That soul is large. The guardian spirits of the seers return. That 

 soul is large. It is taken here, near to the Indians, and it grows 

 small. Those who treat them say, "Perhaps it will not be one night 

 before he will die." It gets daylight. The attempt is made to give 

 him his soul. It is given to him. It nearly (fills) his body, and he dies. 

 His soul is too small. 



'9 See note 31 . fc- personal noun. 



80 See note 41. Presumably with directive -t- to come, which is strengthened by the elision of q (§ 6.3). 



81 n- aorist before vowel; -i- masculine subject; -k is a prefix. The origin of the sufRx is not clear. 



82 o rhetoric lengthening of e (see notes 43, 72). 



Me- masculine pronoim; -La- neuter possessive; -L^a stem body. 



*♦ n- aorist; -i- third person masculine intransitive subject referring to the soul; -l- neuter otiject, referring 

 to the owner of the soul or life; -gEn probably for -gEl on account of (§ 25.4); -g- probably stem; -ago 

 ABOUND, or part of stem; -i usitative. 



