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72 seal’s breath is at an end. | As soon as it stops moving, the hunter 
rises in the canoe | and stands in the middle of his canoe, a little 
towards the stern. | He holds the nose in the right hand, and with 
75 the left hand || he takes the fore-flipper. He pushes the seal down, 
pulls it up suddenly, | and hauls it aboard. He lays it crosswise in 
the stern of the hunting-| canoe. | 
Then he twists out the harpoon-heads and washes them; and when | 
the blood is all off, he puts them back at the end of the harpoon. || 
80 When this is done, he starts to paddle. | 
Late at night he knows that the seals | finish swimming among the 
islands, for they all are then on the sleeping-rock. | The hunters know 
all the sleeping-rocks | of the seals. As soon as he comes near the | 
85 sleeping-rock, he paddles strongly in his hunting-canoe; and when he 
comes in sight of | the sleeping-place and the seals tumble into the 
water, then | the hunter stands up in the canoe, grasps the end of his 
harpoon, and | spears the seals as they swim under water, where they 
are seen by the phosphorescence; | and he does the same as I de- 
909 scribed before. || When his hunting-canoe is full of hair-seals he goes | 
home. | 
1 Catching Flounders.'.—When it is a fine day, the | wife of the man 
gets ready in the morning to go and get clams | and cockles for bait; 
72 mégwate. Wi, gil'mésé neq!ox‘widexs laé Laxtlexsa aléwinoxwé 
qa‘s g’axé lax gwak:!odoya‘tyasés AléwasELEla yeaa tae Wi, 
la daté hétk !otts!anafyaséx xindzasas. Wa, li dalé gmmxolts!a- 
75 nafyaséx gelq!a‘yds laé wigiinsaq qa‘s ddax“ide néxodstodEq qats 
néx‘atexseq. Wii, li gryaxs lax gwak:!odoyawélexsasa dléwasrE- 
LEla xwaxwactima. 
Wii, 18 splpddxés Létegikwé qa‘s ts!ox‘widéq. Wa, g il'mésé 
‘witlawéda Elkwiixs laé xwélaqa Axbrents laxés miistowé. Wa, 
80 gilfmésé gwalexs laé séx‘wida. 
Wi, lazm giila ganura. Wai, larm q!oLElaxa mégwataxs InSmaé 
ewal mixlala laxa ‘marmk-ala qaxs le‘maé ‘wilg-aala laxés k!wé- 
klwisé. Wa, la ‘naxwaem q!oreléda éseléewinoxwax k!wék!wiisasa 
mégwaté. Wa, li gilfmésé lag'aa laxa la ‘nexwala laxa k!wiisaxs 
85 laé Alax‘id séxtwida qa yix'és AléwasELeléséxs laé téktlodxa 
klwisé. Wa, ge il'mésé Lléx'stéda mégwataxs laé Laxtitpxséda 41é- 
winoxwé xapstewéx xabats!mxsda‘yasés miistowé. Wii, hé‘mis la 
sEx‘idaatséxa mégwataxs lae béx'semala maxt!ala laxa ba‘né. 
Wii, laxaé héem gwégilagés gwegvilasaxen g‘ilx-dé gwagwex's‘a- 
90 lasa. Wa, gilfmése qit!a aléwasEveliséxa mégwataxs laé nifnak" 
laxés g'okwe. 
Catching Flounders.'\—Wa, gil'mésé éka ‘nalixa gaaliixs laé 
gEnEmMasa brgwanrmé xwanal"da a8 lai tatélaxa g aweq linzmé 
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1 Continued from p. 159, line 49. 
