Boas] PRESERVATION OF FOOD 247 
heated by the heat. || The meat-side of all of them is upward. 
This is the way that the Indians call | “turning up the back.”” Then 
she takes a rest, for she will | split the halibut that is to be dried 
on the following day. | 
This is the way the Indians do when they catch the first halibut. | 
Everything is steamed by the women, for it is said that the halibut 
know || that the one who caught them first is thankful for it. There- 
fore | it is steamed at once when it is first caught; and it is said, that, 
if | the one who caught halibut first does not cook it right away, he 
will not | have another bite. The fisherman will go out in vain 
trying to | fish halibut. Therefore they do this way when halibut is 
first caught. || The woman does not do thus when | more halibut is 
caught by her husband. When they first take out the stomach of | 
what is next caught by her husband, then they throw it all into the | 
sea, with the guts and the heads | and the backbone and the apron- 
part. Often they also || throw the fins into the water. Sometimes 
they | hang up the fins at the drying-place of the halibut, so that they 
get half dry. | As soon as they are half dry, they boil them, and eat 
them with spoons | with the liquid. But the woman only now and 
then eats | roasted fins, when she takes a rest from splitting her hali- 
but, || the four that are being roasted while she is steaming the 
stomach and | the other parts. | 
‘na/xwapm 6é’k‘!adza‘yé E’lsadzpfyas. Hé’rm gwe‘yé’sa ba’k!umé 
nelena’‘yéda hé gwii’té. Wa, lan’m x°0’s‘id 1a’xéq qaxs a’iméLé 
t!n/Isalxés k-!a’wasilasdLaxa la’La ‘na’x"‘idetxa tn/nsza. 
Wai, hé’em gwé’g'ilatsa ba’k!timé aperre g-alé lo’gwanem p!a‘ya, 
yixs k:!e0’saé i és hé’x‘idarm nek‘a’sdsa ts!eda’qé qaxs qla’la- 
‘maa‘laéda p!i’*yaqéxs mo’lole‘maaxs g‘a’laé 1i’Lanema 1a’g‘ilas 
hé’x“‘idakEm neEx“i’tsE’wa, yisa ga/loLag. Wai, qa‘lad k 1a’ slax 
hé’x‘idaEm lax ha‘mé’x‘silasdlax yis lo’gwanEmiiq la’‘laxé k:!é’slax 
la’lax é@’t!éd lax q!ek-a‘so laxexs la’é wax: é@’t!éd 10’qwéda. 1d’- 
q!wénoxwaxa p!a’*yé. Wa, hé’*mis la’g-ilas hé gwé’g'ilaxés g-a’lé- 
Ale. 
LanEmé p!i’fya. Wa, k'lé’stla Ja ne gwe'gileda ts!Eda’qax la : 
é’t!éd lo’gwanrmsés 14/*wiinemé. Gi’/maé la’ WEYOdEx mO’qilliisa 
a‘lé lo’gwanrmsés 1la’‘wtinemaxs la’é a’em_ ts!mxsta’laq la’xa 
db/msx’é, ‘wifla LE‘wis ts!Byi’/mé, Lo‘ma ma/légrmanowe. Wa, 
hé’*misa him6’mowé LE‘wa tsii’plédzatyé. Wa, q!tina/lanmxaawisé 
ts!pxstalaxa peta’ la’xa de’msx’é. Wa, la ‘na’fnemp!ena gé’x- ‘ 
‘walisxa pELa’ la’xa Ie’mx"demaxa k-!a’wasé qa k‘!a’yax‘widés. 
Wa, gi’l'mése k-!a’yax*widexs la’é hi’nx'Lendrq qa‘s yod’séq 
LE‘wis ‘wa’pala. Wa, la’Léda ts!mda’qé 1lé’x‘anm himx-‘i’/dnaxwa 
la’xa L!6’bekwé pELa’, yixs la’Lé x’d’s‘idmxs la’é t!n’Isaxés Kk !a’- 
wasexa m0’wée L!0’pasdséxs la’x'dé nek‘a’xa mo’qiila LE‘wis 
wad’kwe. 
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