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Therefore | tne Kuyo’kwe knew where she went. She had taken the 
fire. || There was a cliff, and she threw the torch down and jumped 45 
aside. | She lay down. Then the Kuyo’kwe | followed the old woman. 
Now the fastest runner had almost overtaken her. | He did not see 
that she had taken off the torch quickly, | and that she had just 
thrown it over the cliff. They thought it was still || the old woman. 50 
When the fire was falling, he just | jumped down. He did not know 
that there was-a cliff. Then the | many Kuyo’kwe jumped down. | 
All went down over the high bank. Then they were all | killed. The 
old woman got up again. She heard the Kuyo’kwe || below groaning. 55 
She went back to her tent. | There was nobody there. She had 
killed them all. | ; 
‘She thought: ‘‘My son is not a chief. Tl go to him. | He shall 
come.’’ Then she started. She traveled the way they had gone. | 
Then she arrived, and entered the tent of her son. |] She said to him: 60 
“Goon; goto mytent. I killed all the Kuyo’kwe. | Some of them 
are not dead. Kill them. Much is their property. | Take some 
good clothing. You are not a chief. | Then you will be a chief.” 
Then the youth started. | After a while the old woman told about 
what had happened. || Then all started. When they got there, the 65 
youth had already killed | all those who were not dead. He had killed 
them and | taken their property. Then the youth became | a chief. | 
Now, I have told how the old woman killed all the || Kuyo’kwe, | 70 
74. THe GREAT EPIDEMIC 
Well, I'll tell a story of what happened long ago. | 
The people were living there, and at once they had an epidemic. 
They died. | All died. Then they went about. They told one 
another the news. | Among all the Kutenai there was sickness. 
They arrived at one town, || and told the news to one another. It was 
everywhere the same. | At one town they did not see anybody. 
They were all dead. | Only one person was left. One day the one 
that was left was cured. | He was a man. He was alone. He 
thought: ‘‘ Well, | let me go around this world to see if there is any 
place where there is any one. If there is no one left, || I won’t see it 10 
again. There is.nobody. Nobody ever comes on a visit.” Then ! 
he started in his canoe. He went about in it. He started in his 
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canoe, and | came to the last camp of the Kutenai. When he arrived 
by the water where the people used to be, | there was nobody; and 
when he went about, he saw only dead ones, | no signs (of a living 
person). He knew that nobody was left. || There were no signs (of 15 
life). After the one who was alive had left, not having seen any- 
thing, | he went alongin hiscanoe. He arrived where there had been 
