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Atce'xalukctgO ma'Lxole: " Ehebiu'2, qantsi'x'Lx tio'LEina ita'kole 



He threw it down landward; "Eheliiu, how then tlie supernat- their 1 



iiral beings whale 



ka aqeLxatema/ptck," TakE iie'k'iiu iqe'sqes: '' Eheliifi'!" TcXup 2 



and it is thrown ashore.'' Then he said bluejay : "Ehehiu'.' Extinguished 



a'Lax La/kjewax. Ljla'pL;lap a'yo iqe/sqes. TakE ayo'Xone 3 



it became the torch. Under water lie went bluejay. Tlien he drifted away 



iqe'sqes WeXt aLE'k-iL. Xa'k-iL weXt iLa'xak;'Emana. 4 



bluejay. Again they won. Ho won again their chief. 



A'lta aLi'xko. AkLo'lXam uLa'cinEiiia-iL: ''•x-ix-i'k e'Lan 



Kow they went home. She said to them their woman married among "This rope 



a foreign tribe; 



mcgiakXati 'o'ya ! Maiiix mci.c'o'tctainai, kj'aii mcgia'xo ka/sa-it 



coil up in canoe! When you will get across, tie do to it robin 



ia'ok." A'lta aqe'Lgax eitcxa'x qigo aLi'xko. A'lta aqca'kXatEq 



hisblan- Now it was made a storm where they went Xow it was put on the 



ket." against theiu home. edge of the canoe 



go Lia'aLxap'ukc ikaiii'm, ka aqe/Lgax eitcxa'x; Le2qc puc aLxE'la-it 



on its gunwale canoe, and it was made a storm; almost if thev were 



against them dead 



ka aLig'o'tctam. 



and tliey came across. 



Translation. 



There was a town the chief of which had died. His two children 

 were grown up; one was a girl and one a boy. Early every morning 

 the people went out to hunt sea-otters. The girl was always in the 

 stern of the canoe. At dark they returned home. Five times they 

 had gone hunting, then it grew foggy. Her hair became wet and she 

 swallowed the water which dripped down from her hair. A long time 

 the i)eople remained there. Then she became pregnant. Blue-Jay 

 was the first to observe it. He said: " Don't you notice it? He made 

 his sister pregnant." Robin said : " Be quiet, Blue-Jay, you will make 

 our chief's children ashamed." "■ Ha, he is the elder of us two and he 

 ought to know better than I." After some time she became stouter. 

 "Heh, we will run," said Blue-Jay. "I am ashamed because her 

 brother made her pregnant. We will leave them; we will move!" 

 Then, indeed, the people believed Blue-Jay. Again the brother and 

 sister went hunting sea-otters. In the evening they came home. Kow 

 there were no people and no houses. " Lo, they deserted us. Blue- 

 Jay advised them to do so." Then the brother continued : " Tell me 

 who made you pregnant?" She replied, '' I do not know. Once when 

 we went out hunting sea-otters a mist came up and I swallowed the Mater 

 which made me qualmish." Then they searched for fire. But the 

 people had poured water into all the fires. The last house was that of 

 their aunt, the Crow. It also was taken away. They walked about 

 and there they heard the crackling of fire. The brother said to his 

 sister: " Do you hear the fire?" After awhile it crackled again. They 

 found the place from where the sound appeared to come. They dug 

 into the ground and found a shell. In the shell there was burning 

 coal. " Oh," they said to each other, " our aunt pitied us; she put the 

 fire into the shell for us." Now they started a fire. The next day they 



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