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out, II although they sang the whole song with fast beating. When j 75 

 the song-leaders stopped singing with fast lieating of time, Yox"- 

 yagwas came out j of the sacred room, and spoke. He said, "O j 

 shamans ! listen to what I am going to say ! I am very j uneasy on 

 account of the way the ghost-dancer, our friend Supernatural-Power- 

 coming-up, is acting. || She does not pay attention to us, although we 80 

 are singing for her. | It seems that she wants to go down into the 

 ground. It seems that she is held by something | invisible. Try to 

 sing again, friends!" | He meant the song-leaders. At once they 

 began and | sang the song of the ghost-dancer with slow time beat- 

 ing, II but she did not come out to dance while they were singing. 85 

 When I the song-leadere ended the song, Yox"yagwas spoke with a 

 loud voice. | He said, "The ghost-dancer is ah-eady going down into 

 the ground." Then | the front of the sacred room went down, and 

 Supernatural-Power-coming-up (V 4) was seen by the Sparrow 

 Society, j Her legs as far as her loins were in the ground. || Then 90 

 Yox"yagwas and his friends | talked aloud and told HoLehd to get a 

 long rope to j put a noose around the waist of Supernatural-Power- 

 coming-up before she had gone too deep into the ground. | Immediately 

 HoLeUd took the lasso and j put one end around the waist of Super- 

 natural-Power-commg-up (V 4). They passed || one end of it under 95 

 the two poles in the hole that had been dug, in which | Supernatural- 



yixs wax'^mae la labEndes q IsmdEme tsaxala. Wa, g'lI^Em-lawise 75 

 gwal dEnxEleda nenagadiisa tsaxalaxs g'axaa^l g"ax^ult!allle Yox"- 

 yagwase laxa lEme^latsIe, qa^syaq lEg'a^le. Wa, la^lae ^nek'a: "^ya, 

 pepExalai', waEntsos hoLelaxgin waidEniLEk", qaxgin L5ma^mek' 

 nolasox gwaelasaxsoxda lElolalalex laxEns ^uEmokwox ^nawalak'us- 

 talisex, yixs k"ets!Emaex qIasElaxEns wanena'ye q!Emtaq", yixs 80 

 ax'st !aax"^maex lalabEtallla yixs haex gwex's nexElaliltsowa yisE- 

 nu^x" k'!esa dogula. Wa, weg'a gunx'^Id edzaqwax ^ne^nEmok" 

 dEnx^idEx." HeEm gwE^yoseda nenagade. Wa, hex'^idaEm^lawise 

 sEk'od qa^s denx^Idesa uEqaxEla q lEmdEmsa lElolalale. Wii, laEm- 

 •laxae hewaxa g-ax^iilt!alllax wawasdEmas dEnxEla. Wa, glpEm^la- 85 

 wise q!ulbe dEnxena^yasa nen&gadaxs laa^lase hadzExstale Yox"ya- 

 gwase, ^nex" laqexs lE^mae labEtalilEleda lElolalale. Wa, he^mis la 

 tsaqaxaatsa lEme^latsle. Wa, he^mis la^l dox-'waLElatsa gwegtidziix 

 ^nawalakustalisaxs lE^maa^l ^wilbEtallles gogiguyowe lag'aa laxes 

 ewanolg'a'ye. Wa, laEm^lae Yox^yagwase LE^wis ^ne^uEmokwe 90 

 hadzExstala axk" !alax HoLelide, qa ax^edesex gilt!a dEUEma, qa^s 

 x'imoyodes lax ^nawalak'ustalisaxs k"!es^mae wtingEg'ila. Wa, 

 hex'idaEm^lawise HoLelide la &xe^dxa x'imayowe dEUEma, qa^s la 

 qEiioyots apsba^yas lax ^nawalakustalise. Wii, laEm^lae ts!ox"so- 

 yEwe oba^yas laxa dzengele lax ots!awasa 'labEgwelkwe lax la 95 



