BOAS] KATHLAMET TEXTS ia" 
out, were burned.” Then the girl’s mother said to her: ‘*T always 
told you that people were burned long ago.” And the girls spoke: 
‘If we had not gone into the water we should not be alive now.” 
Then they went to see the dead ones. They were carried away in two 
large canoes. All the corpses were put into the canoes and were 
carried into the town. 
Not long ago a band of elks were burned in Klatsop. A woman went 
to dig roots. She went a long distance to the prairie. Then she 
saw something red. She went to look at it, and approached. She 
thought: ‘* Perhaps these elks are asleep.” She thought: ‘*I will tell 
the hunters to shoot them.” Then again she hesitated. She thought: 
**T will not tell them.” She crept toward them secretly. She was 
quite near, but the elks did not rise. They did not rise at all. She 
threw her digging stick. There was one elk quite near the woman, 
but it did not move. She threw her digging stick again against its 
ikanacpr’q  tgé’wula.” Igd’lXam = wa’qaq = wu'Xi_—aha’tjau: 
huckleberries mhoy.eathered She said to her her mother that maiden: 
them.” 
*Qayaxamelk"Lélalemx gwa’nisum. No’ XumatXa té’1Xam a’nqa.” 
“T told you always. They were burned people long ago.”’ 
Ici’k‘tm cta’Xi cha’tjau: ‘*Qé neéketx Lteu’qoapa intxé’la-it, ta’/ntxo 
They two those two two OTE not water in we had been, — therefore 
said maidens: 
inta’Xanaté.” A’qa iqtogoa’lemam ta-itci tmémelod’ctike, iqd’k"La 
our life.” Then they were fetched those bodies, they were 
carried 
moket gitea’qa-inax — ake’nim. Iqta’kXatq  ka’nauwé _ ta-itci 
two large canoes. They were put all those 
into the canoes 
tmémelo’ctike. Iqn’tuk"1 ina’ Xampa. 
bodies. They were their town to. 
carried 
Niiet a’nga a’qa wi kopa’ Tia’ kjélakiX né’XematXa imd'leEkumaX. 
Not longago then again there Klatsop they were burned elks. 
EXt ia’ Xtamala imo’ekumax. QatLo’ix tqage’lak.  IRqjarxoée’ma 
One herd elks. She went a woman. Roots (sp.?) 
qaLigEloix. QatLo’tx é’wa kela‘?X ta’ Xi temqa’emapa. <A’ga ta’nki 
she went to She went there far that prairie to, Then some- 
gather. thing 
@xOxt = Lpr’lemax. QaLoix qaLgid’qstamx. A’qa — qjoa’p 
there was red. She went she went to see. Then near 
qaLgio’xoamx. QanXtoXoa’itx tqage’lak: ‘‘tXuan ikqé@’witrm gi 
she arrived. She thought the woman: “Perhaps they sleep these 
imo'lekumax.”  QaLXtLoXoa’-itx: ~ Anxk"be’teguama, — tia’maq 
elks.”’ She thought: **T will tell them, shoot 
atktelo’xoa tga’xéqiax.” A’qa wi mdket qatkto’xoax La’xataguax. 
they will do the hunters.” Then again two became her mind. 
them 
Qat Xo Xoa’-itx: ** Qa tx6 nict anxk"Le’teguama.” QaLxikjenukLuwa’x 
She thought: “How per- not T tell.” She crept near secretly 
haps 
qjoa’piX; nict nixela’tckoax  ya'Xi — imd/lekumax. Nivegé 
near; not they rose those elks. Not at all 
nixeEla’yutckoax. QatgigEltce’mx ya' Ni e’Lange. Niict nixela’lalemx 
they rose. She threw at them that digging Not it moved 
stick. 
