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17 the I chiefs of the various niimayms own j hunters. The seals are 

 all given to the | ehiefs by the hunters, for the moat of the seal is not 

 dried. !! 



20 Mountain goat hunters, when they get ten | goats hv liunting, give 

 five goats | to the chid' of the numaym, and the goat hunter keeps | 

 the other five goats and dries the meat. Sometimes ! the chief cuts 



25 up the goat meat for his numaym, when !| he wishes to do so. If he 

 wishes to dry it, | he does that way. When the chief is a good man, 

 he does not ! take the goat away from the hunter by force, and the 

 good chief never thinks | that one-half given to him by the hunter is 

 not enough. If | a chief is bad, he wishes more than half to be 



30 given || to him b}^ the goat hunter, and if the goat hunter does not 

 wish to give | more than half of the goats, then the bad chief will take 

 them away by force. | Then the bad chief may kill | the goat hunter, 

 but generally the goat hunter ] kills the bad chief, if he overdoes what 



35 he says to the || hunter. [ 



Now I have finished talking about the goats and | I will talk about 

 dry salmon obtained by the salmon-fisher. | If one hundred are 

 caught by the salmon-fisher, | he gives twenty salmon to the 



16 bEgwanEma g"igS,ma^ye. Wa, heEm lag'ilas ^naxwa^ma g'lg'Egama- 

 ^yasa alogwaq'.Es ^nal^nE^memas axnogwadEsa hanL!enoxwe. Wii, 

 lex'a^me megwate ^wFla la LJE^wEndEmxa g'lgama^yasa hauLle- 

 noxwe, qaxs k" !esae x'ilasE^we Eldzasa megwate. 



20 Wa, heEmLeda tE^wPnenoxwaxa ^mElxxo, yixs g'lHmae lastowa 

 ^mElxLowe tE^wFnenanEmsa tE^wPnenox" lae ts!asa sEk"!a ^me'mEl- 

 xLo lax g'lgama^yases ^nE^memote. Wa, leda tE^wFnenoxwe axelaxa 

 sEkMa ^me^mElxLo qa^s x'ileq qa xilx"Eldes. Wa, la ^nal'nEmp lEna 

 sakweleda g'igama^yaxa ^mEpmElq !a^ye qaes ^nE^memote, yixs ^ne- 



25 k"ae qa^s he gwex'^ide. Wii, lii g"ii^Em ^nex" qa^s x'ileq la heEm 

 gwex'^Idfiq. Wa, laLeda g'igslma^ye yixs ek'ae bEgwanEma k"!es 

 lenEmaxa ^mElxL5 laxa tE^wFnenoxwe. Wa, laxae k'les k'!oteda 

 ek"e g"igamexa nExsaakwe LlE^wEndEmsa tE^wFnenoxwaq. Wii, g'il- 

 ^mese LEmqeda g"igiima^ye lae ^nex" qa qiek'oltsla^yes LlE^wEndE- 



30 masa tE^wPnenoxwaq ^mslxLO. Wii, g'ilmese yiix"stosa tE^wPne- 

 noxwasa q!ek'!oIts!a^ye ^mElxLoxs lae lenEmaxa ^me^niElxLoweda 

 ^yax'sE^me g"igama^ya. Wa, he^me la k' !elax"^Idaatsa ^yax'sE^me 

 g"Igamexa tE^wPnenox"de. Wii, lii q!uniila hededa tE'wT^nenoxwe 

 k" lelax'^Idxa ^yiix'sE^me g"Igamexs sabEndaes wiiklEmaxes tF/wi^ne- 



35 noxwe. 



Wii, laEniLe gwiilaxg"in gwagwex"s-aleq hlxa ^inElxLo. Wii, li- 

 ^mesEn gwiigwex'sEX'-Idsl liixa xamsLliixa xa^masexi yiihiKk'.we- 

 noxwaxa k'lotEla. Wa, g'il^mese lak'lEnde yalnEgwanT^>mfisa yiihiK- 

 k'.wenoxwe hie tslasa maltsEmg"usta k"!otEla liixes g'lgSma^ye la.xes 



