CULTEE’S GRANDFATHER VISITS THE GHOSTS (TOLD 1891) 
My grandfather wanted to take a woman from Oak point for his 
wife. They tried to give him another girl, but he did not like her. 
He used to make canoes. As soon as he had finished a canoe, he 
bought a slave with it. He had many slaves. Then an epidemic came. 
He had a pretty slave girl. She looked just like a chieftainess. Now 
he heard that the girl whom he wanted to have for his wife had died. 
The epidemic took the people away. Two days they were sick, then 
they died. Sometimes they died after three days’ sickness. Now his 
people also were attacked by the epidemic. Several died each day, 
sometimes three died, sometimes four. Now my grandfather felt sick. 
After three days he died. 
Then he went to the country of the ghosts. He reached that trail. 
He saw two people carrying a stick. When he came near, he saw that 
AéXa/t qjaxs: qayaxa’kXatx, Qa’niak itca//Xam wu'Xi 
One wanting to he wanted her, Oak point her town that 
marry 
aha’tjau. Kée’nuwa aqtéelo’tx wha’tjau  itel’kjakjo, néct tqjéx 
i I \ jak) {i 
maiden. Try she is given a maiden my grandfather, not ike 
to him 
qateLo’xoax. Gua’nksum ake’nim gatcuxd’lalema-itx. Acqrmd’L 
he did her. Always canoes he always made them. Kathlamet 
canoes 
qatcuxo'lalema-itx. EXt qatcnigd’Lkax icqamo’L, LeXa’t rla’etiX 
he always made them. One he finished it a Kathlamet one slave 
canoe, 
aqixamela’lemx.  Ta/xotckjéna, ka Lea’prlatike  tia’qeXultgeuke. 
he was bought. He worked, and many his slaves. 
A’qa iotx @meqjt. AeXa’t aya’la-etiX atjd/kti, Lja LkakjEma’nate 
Then it went the One his slave girl pretty, just a chief 
epidemic. as 
itea’Ikuile. Naéxeltcima’koax wu'Xi qjaxs qiaxa’k6x, n6’mxqt. 
she resembled. He learned that wanting to who was she was dead. 
marry wanted, 
Akema'ta-it ikto’ktean ta-ftei té7Xam. Ma’ketiX  qaLuqd/tX 
Cholera (?) took them those people. Twice they slept 
ina’teqeEm = niLxElO/xoax, Galo muedux: E/XtemaxiX 1Lo’niX 
their sickness was on them, they died. Once three times 
qaLogotX gaLo’meqtx. A’qa Laitike ina’teqam  niLxeElo’xoax, 
they slept they died. Then those their sickness was on them, 
aqa’watike nuXoara’itx @Xt @’koa; ana’ axo/nike, ana’ ala’ktike. 
several died one day; some- three, some- four. 
times times 
A’qa  ia/teqem ~—snixElo’xoax. LoniX  qayuqdiX  ia’teqem 
Then his sickness was on him. Three times he slept his sickness 
nixElO’xoax qayo’mEqtx. 
was on him he died. 
A’qa id'tx @’wa tremémeld’ctike. Qatcugoata’qoamx  té’/Xam 
Then hewent there the ghosts. He arrived at them people 
wu’ Xi aeXatkpa. Itgiuqoa’nat é’mqo. Teé’lXam qatctugola’qiqax, 
those the road at. They carried it a log. People he aoe them from a 
distance, 
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