^"BOAr] FIRST SHIP SEEN BY THE CLATSOP. 277 



LE'qatat. A'lta fi'tge Tia'k;elake ka'uauwe. Tkwinaiu'Lukc a'tge, ^ 



the Klickatat. Then tliey went to Clatsop all. The Quenaiult went, 



GiLa/ts;xeEls a/Ld, GiLa'XuilapaX a'Lo. Ka'nauvve tElame/ma 2 



the Chehalis went, the Willapa went. All tovius 



ii'tge. GiLa'xicatck aLE'tctco, Gita'qauelitsk atgfi'tctco, LE'qatat 



went. The Cascade.s they went down the Cowlitz went down the thoKlickatat O 



the river, river, 



atga/tctco. Ka'nauwe iau'a k"ca'la ne'maL atga'tcteo. Atgate'mam 



went down the All these up the river the river they went down. They came to 4 



river. 



Tifi/kjelake. Mokct kci iwaXo'mit LJi'Xat Lla'etix* ska nix'a'omx 



Clatsop. Two tinger.s copper one slave and it met [goes O 



[wide] around] 



go iLa/pote. Goye' a'yaLqt iqewe'qxe Le'Xat Lla'etix*. Gdye' 



at the arm. Thus [half the long iron one slave. Tlius 6 



length of the 

 radius) 



ia'qa-iL mokct kci iqekjE'c Le'Xat Lla'etix'. Aqio'niElxnx- 



large two fingers Ijrass one slave. ihey were bought ' 



[wide) 



itsusa'qama, qia'x ctlo'kti cptl'yix tcx-i qautse'x- aci'XLa-itX. 



nails, if a good carried deer then some they exchanged g 



skin them for them. 



AqE'x'ctgoax, Qia'x iu'Lqta iqauwik; e'Le, tcx-i tcex aci'xLaitx 



It was bartered. If long long dentalia, then several theyexchanged 9 



them for it. 



10 



qix- itsusa'qEma. Atgio'mEl qo'tac te'lx-Em. Tkana'Ximct no'xox 



those nails. They bought those people. Chiefs [rich | became 



them 



La/k;elak. la'xkate ka q;atsE'n aqe'^ElkEl iqewiqe'ma. IqekjE's 



the Clatsop. There and for the first it was seen iron. Brass H 



time 



ia'xkate q;atsE'u aqe'^ElkEl. A'lta na'ko aqE'ctax qo'ctac .^ 



there for the first time it was seen. Now keep they were done those 



cgoLe'lEXEuik, go e'Xat ika'uax e'Xat; go-y- ayo'ktiite ^o 



persons, at one chief one; at point of land 



Tia'k;elake e'Xat uE'ko aqa'yax. ... 



Clatsop one keep ho was done. -*■* 



Translation. 



The son of an old woman had died. She wailed for him a whole year 

 and then she stopped. Now one day she went to Seaside. There she 

 used to stop, and she returned. She returned walking along the beach. 

 She nearly reached Clatsop; now she saw something. She thought it 

 was a whale. When she came near it she saw two spruce trees stand- 

 ing upright on it. She thought, "Behold! it is no whale. It is a 

 monster." She reached the thing that lay there. Now she saw that 

 its outer side was all covered with copper. Ropes were tied to those 

 spruce trees and it was full of iron. Then a bear came out of it. He 

 stood on the thing that lay there. He looked just like a bear, but his 

 face was that of a human being. Then she went home. Xow she 

 thought of her son, and cried, saying, " Oh, my son is dead and the thing 

 about which we heard in tales is on shore." When she nearly reached 

 the town she continued to cry. [The people said,] "Oh, a person comes 

 crying. Perhaps somebody struck her." The people made themselves 

 ready. They took their arrows. An old man said, "Listen!" Then the 

 people listened. Now she said all the time, "Oh, my son is dead, and 

 the thing about which we heard in tales is on shore." The people said. 



