BOAS] KATHLAMET TEXTS 195 
He knew it and said: ‘‘It is a whale.” Then the people cut it, but 
part of them were afraid. Then that chief made a potlatch. He 
made a long ditch. He put planks on top of the ditch and covered 
them with dirt. He made a door at the entrance of the ditch. Tt was 
a long hole. There the people went in to dance. They disappeared 
in the hole underground. They came out again at the door of the 
ditch. The people from all around went there. Then he became a 
chief, and P6’/XpuX became an insignificant man. His town was far 
away. He was the ancestor of the people of Nqjola’was.' His name 
vas Waqjawiya’s. 
Ingiuewlaqn. <A’qa itel’uxe ta-ftei té/ Xam, aqa/watike a’qa kjwac 
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He knew it. Then they cut it those people, partofthem then afraid 
itxe’xOx. A’qa ikjuanOd’m itci/yux ya’ Xi ikakjema’na. Lex iqi’yux 
they were. Then apotlatech he made it that chief. Dig it was done 
ya Ni GLX. Koela/iX ya’ Xi tex iqi’yux. A’qa aqé@’nXak iqa/ikXatk 
that ground. Far that dig it wasdone. Then planks they were put 
over it 
ya’ Xi naLjr/xpa ya’ Xi elX. A’qa wi iqlagr’tkiq wu Xi aqé/nxak. 
that hole at that ground. Then again they were coy- those planks. 
ered with dirt 
Iei’qépa Lxoa’p ya’ Xi el Xpa ig@’x6x, kja yaXi’ kwla/?X Lxoa’p 
The doorat a hole “that ground at was, and “there far hole 
ige’xdx. Ma’nix a/qa atgiuXta’mx ta-itci té/Xam, kopa’ ya’ Xi 
was. When then they wenttodance those people, there that 
aLxoa'p eLX a’aa kik Oxoa’/xax. Gipa’ ict’aé. qioa’'p ict’aé a’aa 
naLxoap el2 aqa Kj EM NOXOd xXax. mpa ierqge, qjoap ici qe aqa 
hole ground then nothing they became. Here the door, near thedoor then 
Lax noxoa’xax ta-ftci té1Xam. Ka’nauwé qa’xpa té1Xam igd’xoax 
come they did those people. Every where people came to be 
out 
kopa’. A’qa ya’xka ige’xOx ikakjema’na. A’qa Po’XpuX a/qa 
there. Then he became a chief. Then P6/XpuX then 
te’Itel igé’xdx. KelatX ia/lXam ya’Xka ita’qjedqt ita’qj;ulawas 
insignifi- he became. Far his town he their ancestor the people of 
cant Nqjula’was 
ia’xEleu Wagqjawiya’'s. 
his name Waqjawiya’s. 
1This isa branch of the Athapascan tribe which formerly inhabited the headwaters of Willapah 
river. 
