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13 hand and rubs it with the left | hand. When it is all over her hands, 
she | rubs it on her face, so that a thick layer of tallow is on her | 
15 face, and so that the mosquitoes cannot bite through it. || This is 
called “tallow sitting on the face.” | 
After she has done so, she takes her salal-picking cedar-bark hat | 
and puts it on. On her back she carries the baskets, and | she also 
takes her paddle and goes down to the beach where her | salal- 
20 berrying canoe is. She launches it and goes aboard. || She sits in the 
stern, and puts the baskets into the canoe. Then | she paddles, 
going to an island where salal-berries grow, for these are the only | 
places where salal-berries grow well. Whenshe arrives there, she 
ties a stone to her | small canoe, carries the baskets on her back, and 
goes into the woods | to pick salal-berries. When she reaches the edge 
25 of the salal-berry patch, || she puts down her baskets, takes her belt | 
and puts it round her waist. After that she takes her | front-basket, 
the smallest one of her baskets, and hangs it in front of her chest. 
She puts her | two baskets upright on the ground, | and she picks off 
30 the salal-berries and puts them into the front-basket. || When it is 
full, she pours them into the swallowing-basket, the largest one | of the 
salal-berry baskets. She continues picking them into her front-bas- 
ket. When | it is heaping full, she pours them into the medium-sized 
basket; and | as soon as it is full, she pours them into the swallowing- 
12 natye. Wa, gil’mésé la hamerlgedzE‘we lax e‘eyasiséxs laé dzn- 
dzekEmts laxés gogiima‘ye. Wa, lanm wikweéda yasekwe lax 
gogima‘yas, qa klésés laxsiwé q!ek-rlisa Léstena lag. Wai, 
15 hépm Légades k!wak lixtimakwasa yasekwe. 
Wa, gil'mésé gwalexs laé Ax‘édxés nektimté dentsem Letemlia 
qa‘s LEtemdés. Wai, li oxnig‘intsés nénEgwats!é lanlxatya. Wa, 
la dagilx'Lalaxés sé*wayowe qa‘s li Imnts!és lax hanédzasasés 
nEgwats!éLé xwaxwagiima. Wai, li wifx'stendrq qa‘s la laxskq. 
20 Wa, lazrm k!waxiagéxs laé hang-aalexsaxés lazlxatyé. Wa, li 
séxwid qa‘s li laxa negwadé laxa ‘makala qaxs léx‘amaé éx° 
q!waxatsa lenemx'dé. Wa, gvil‘mésé lag'aaxs laé modgwanddxés 
xwaxwagtimée. Wi, li OxLig‘intsés lanlxa‘yaxs laé aLé‘sta laxés 
nEgwasLaxa nek!ite. Wa, gil’mésé lenxendxa q!éq!axilixa 
neEk!tiaxs laé OxLEga‘saxés lanlxatyé. Wa, li &x‘édxés witség-a- 
nowé qa‘s wiiséx‘idés. Wi, g*il'mésé gwalmxs laé ax‘edxés nana- 
agEméxa imayaga‘yas lexelis qa‘s tek !ipEléq. Wa, la héh‘lailax 
eae hats!éna‘yasa maltspmé lanlxatya qa dlak tales tlet !laxEsa. 
Wa, la klilp'idxa nek!ilé qa‘s li k!ilpts!alas laxés nanaageme. 
30 Wa, gilfmésé qodt!laxs laé giiqisas laxés niig’é*xa ‘walég-atyas 
ar Ie lexatya. Wa, li hanal k!tlpts!alaxés nanaageme. Wi, 
gilnmaxwa'mésé qgot!axs laé gtiqnyints laxés nigatye. Wa, gil- 
‘mésé la Llak“emalaxs laé é@t!éd gtixts!dlaxés hélomagems. Wi, 
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