BOAS] KATHLAMET TEXTS 31 
gave him a stone ax. She said: **Now go home.” Now he went 
home. 
He did not see a town until he came near his uncle’s town. 
Now the thing which he carried in his hands shook, and said: ** We 
shall strike your town.” Then he lost his senses, and he broke his 
uncle’s town and killed all the people. Now he recovered. He had 
broken all the houses. His hands were full of blood. Then he 
thought: ‘*Oh, what a fool I was! The thing I wanted is bad.” Ie 
tried to throw it away, but it stuck to his flesh. Then he went. He 
went a short distance and again he lost his senses. He came to the 
town of another one of his uncles. Again the thing said: ** We shall 
strike your town.” He tried to keep quiet, but he could not doit. He 
tried to throw it away, but his hands closed. Then he lost his senses, 
and broke all the houses. He recovered and the town of his uncle 
was destroyed. The people lay there dead. Then he cried and tried 
to strip it off in the fork of a tree, but it did not come off at all. It 
ige’lo6x. Aga ige’lot igewa’exewae. Teid’ Xam: ** Mr’ Xkjoa a’qa!” 
she did it Then she gave a stone ax. She said to him: “Go home now!” 
on him. him 
Io’pa, aqa id/ya, ige’Xkjoa. Néct itcid’qunitck GLX. Qjoa’p itcid’xam 
Hewent then he he went home. Not he saw it a coun- Near he arrived 
out, went, try. 
ia’mot ia@/1Xam. Aga ige’Xelta yaXi qtcigelga’t. Aga ige’kim 
hisuncle his town. Then it shook that what he had on. Then it SOE 
yaXi qtcigelga’t: ** Atxilea’mita ime’l Xam, atxilea’mita ime ‘Xam,’ 
“that what he had on: ‘We shall: strike it your town, we anal strike it your town, 
yaXi qtcigrlea’t ige’kim. Kjrm igd’xax tia/xatakoax. — Itci/yux 
that Ww hat he had on spoke. Nothing became his reason. He did it 
ial Xam ia’mot. Ljman, Liman, Liman itel’yux. Ka’nauwe te’) Xam 
his town his uncle's. Break, break, break he did it. All people 
itcto’tena. Ljpaq ige’xox. Ka’nauwe taXi tque’max Ljme/nLjmeEn 
he killed them. Recover “he did. All those OER broken 
dguake’x. Pan rqa’wulqt téiakei. IRgixnd’xoa-it: ‘*O, nai’ka ne/tjala. 
~ were. Full blood his hands. He thought: “Oh, it fool! 
Koangé’rj ia’lko-ile gi tanki qa ei tqjéx iq@nxdx.” Kenuwa 
Thus behold bad that eee and that like I did it.” Try 
Liq igéxd’lalemtck ka G’yanq nixkja’Xitx. Aga wi id’ya, as 
take off he took it off and his flesh it pulled. Then again he went, and 
no“jixX id’ya, aqa wi kjem igo’xoax tid’xatakoax. Qjoa’p 
alittlewhile he went, then again nothing became his reason. Near 
itcid’xam igd’nax iamot ia’}/ Xam. Aga wit’ax igé’kim: ‘* Atxiflea’mita 
he arrived another hisuncle his town. Then again it spoke: “We shall strike it 
ime’IXam, atxilea’mita ime) Xam.” Ke’nuwa pet qatcid’xax. 
your town, we shall strike it your town.” Try quiet he did it. 
Niict qa’ntcix prt nixo’xoax. Keé’nuwa qatcixé’max, gwa’nisum 
Never quiet it was. Try hethrewitaway, — always 
taXi telakci noxo-itxé’yux. Aqa wi kjem ig0d/xax tia’/xatakoax 
those _ his fingers bent. Then again nothing became his reason. 
Aqa wi itel’yux ia’mot 1a/1Xam. Ka’nauwé Ljme/ntjmen itcl/yux. 
Then again hedidit hisunele his town. All peas he did it. 
Lipaq ige’xOx. Kjem ia’lXam ia’mot. Ka’nauwé 0’xoaxt 0Xoa‘La-it 
Recover he did. Nothing histown his uncle. All there were they were dead 
t’lXam. Aqa_ igign’tea Kenuwa keigenyje’qikiXpa @’mxEq6, 
the people. Then he cried. Try branch in tree, 
