Bi'As] ADDENDA 1369 



when we go and sit down in our war canoes. | Then you shall all come 28 

 down to the beach wearing your belts. | You shall go to the place 

 where the war canoes are || and there you shall take off the breath- 30 

 holding kelp neck rings of your husbands, | and put them round your 

 necks. Then | you shall wear them round your necks going up the 

 beach and do not look back at us | when we paddle away; and when 

 you go into your houses, | take off the breath-holding kelp stems and 

 hang them up at the head ends || of your beds and never touch them 35 

 again | while we are away, and as soon as one of them bursts, you will 

 know that | one of us is killed, he to whom the kelp belongs in which his 

 breath is, and which burst; and also | I say that we will go quickly; 

 for I wish to start | to-morrow morning, so that the tribes may not 

 know that we are going to war." || Thus he said and told the crew of 40 

 warriors to go ahead and to lift | two canoes from the beach, then to 

 put crosspieces under them; to burn the bottoms and | to rub off 

 the charcoal. "And after rubbing it off with old mats, | take tallow, 

 rub it on | to the height of the water line at the bottom of the canoes. 

 Now II go out of the house!" said he, and they all went out of the 45 

 house in which the secret meeting | about the war was being held. | 

 Then the crew did what they had been told to do to the | canoes, 

 and it was not yet evening when they finished. Then they put | thin, 



da^xoL qEnu^x" lal ^wPlal k Iwadzaxsalal laxEnu^x" wPnatsIeLex xwa- 27 

 k'.una. Wa, g"axLEs ^wi^lamalal yaeltsEmalal hoqunts'.es laxa 

 LlEma^ise qa^s laos he^nakula laxEnu^x" ha^nedzasasEnu^x" wPnats!e 

 xwak!una. Wa, he^mis lal axo^daasltsos lela-wunEmaqosaxwa hasa- 30 

 yaats !ex ^wa^wada qa^s qeqEnxodalesox lax'da^xoL. Wa, g'll^mets 

 ^wi=la la qeqEnxEwakwa g'axaaqds dzElx^usdesa k"es mElexLa g'axE- 

 nu^xwaxg'anu^x" lax' sex^wida. Wa, g"il^mets hogwiL laxes g'ig'o- 

 kos laaqos qEX"6dxwa hasayaats'.ex ^wa^wada qa^s gex^walilaSsaq 

 lax ogwaxta^yases ku^le4as6s. Wa, hewaxa^mets et!ed Laba^aq"- 35 

 XEnu^x" ^wa^wasalaase. Wa, g'il^mesox kwax'^ida la^s qlalaxg'anu^x" 

 la^mek lE^lnuk" yis hasenukwasa g"Its!awaxa kwax'^Ide ^wa^wada. 

 Wa, he^meq laxEns yasyaxwamolt laena^ye qaxg'ln ^nek'ek" qEnu^x 

 LExa^meLEx lEnsLa qa wlsomaleso^ q'.aloxda lelqwalaLa^yaxgins 

 wineLEk"," ^nek'Exs lag waxElaxa klwenlLasa bababak'.wa qa lalag"is 40 

 wJg'a^isaxa ma^ts'.aqe xwaxwaklilna qa gegebalises qa tsenapeseq; 

 wa, he^mis qa xulx^sEmdeseq. "Wa, gil^mets gwal xiilqwasa 

 k"!ak'obane lax osgEma^yas las ax^edxa yasEkwe qa^s yasEx^wi- 

 daosaxa ^walalaasa t'.Epala lax awaba^yasa xwaxwak!una. Wa, 

 weg'a hoquwElsEX," ^nek'e. Wa, la^me ^wi^la hoqiiwElsa k!wal qaes 45 

 winaeneLe. 



Wa, la^me aEm nEgEltayeda k!wcmax gwE^yo qa gweg'i^latsexa 

 xwaxwak'.una. Wa, k"!es^mese dzaqwaxs lae gwala. Wii, la pag'a- 



