BOAS] KATHLAMET TEXTS Z 
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51 
Many people died. Sometimes five died in one day, sometimes four, 
sometimes three. The epidemic killed them. 
Then the seers learned what he had seen when he went to the 
country of the ghosts and saw everything there. Formerly the seers 
did not know it, but when he had been dead they learned about it. 
Oxoeta'it ta-Ttei té1Xam; aqoii’nemike nuxoara/itx eEXt 
They died those people; five died one 
we'koa; @’ XtemaxiX ala’ktike, @’XtemaxiX avo/nike. Akrma’ta-it 
day; sometimes four, sometimes three. The cholera (?) 
iktote’nax. 
killed them. 
Ko’pa a/qa a’qanuwe aqugodmaLo’Noa-it gita’kikelal ya’ Xi 
There then indeed they knew it ~ the seers ~ that 
igatctr’tqamitck, ya’Xi tjo’tsniX née’te wa temaxa’t, 
what he had seen, that first he came there the country of 
the ghosts, 
qatctr’tqamitck ka’nauwé ta’/nemax. A’nqa niict aqugdmaLoxoa’-itx 
he saw them all things. Long ago not they knew it 
gitvkikelal,  qa’neq  ya'Xi  ne’temat, teXua a/qanuwe 
the seers, when that he died, then indeed 
aqugomaLo’xa-it gita’kikelal. 
they knew it ~ the seers. 
