Boas] PRESERVATION OF FOOD 267 
and after | she has done so, she takes an elderberry-cake that has not 
been tied up in bundles with | shredded cedar-bark, and puts it up 
on edge over her fire. | It gets brittle quickly, and she goes down to the 
beach in front of her house || to look for a flat sandstone; and when 
she finds one, | she takes it up and puts it down by the side of the 
box in which | the salal-berries are being cooked. She takes her 
husband’s stone hammer and | places it on the flat sandstone. When 
the elderberry-cake is quite | brittle, she takes down the elderberry- 
cake and she takes a new || mat and spreads it out. She puts the flat 
sandstone on the | mat and takes up the cake of elderberries, places 
it | on the sandstone, and she takes the stone hammer and pounds | 
the elderberry-cake so that it breaks im pieces. When it is all broken 
up, | she takes up the pounded elderberry-cake with both hands, 
rubs it together || so as to make a powder of it, and she only | stops 
when it is all like flour. After she has broken up | one of the elder- 
berry-cakes, she takes others, for generally | they break ten cakes of 
elderberries for making the | salal-berry cakes. After ten elderberry- 
cakes have been broken up, || she takes off the mat that has been 
spread over the salal-berry box, for | they are done when they stop 
boiling. She takes a ladle | and a large dish and puts them down 
by the side of the low salal-berry box. | Then she takes the tongs 
gwalexs laé ix‘édxés ts!éndzewats!é, yixa k'!ésé yaéltsemalaxa 
k-adzekwé qa‘s li prlkemgaarelots lixa neqodstawasés Ingwilé 
qa halabalés tsds‘éda. Wa, li lents!és lax L!ema‘isasés gdkwée 
qa‘s li alix prgedzowa de‘na tlésema. Wi, gvilfmése q!aqéexs 
laé ixsédeq qa‘s gaxé pax‘alilas lax Apsandlitasés t!eqag-ilasE*wé 
neklila. Wa, la &x‘edex pelpelqasés laswinrmé qa‘s li megt- 
dzots lax prgedzowe de‘na tléspema. Wa, gil‘mésé Alak lala 
la tsdsaxs laé Axaxodxa ts!éndzowée. Wa, li Ax‘édxa rldzowe 
lféwafya qa‘s Lep!alilés. Wa, li pagedzotsa de‘na t!ésem laixa 
fewatye. Wa, li ax‘edxa ‘nemxsa_ ts!éndzowa qafs pax‘alodés 
laxa de‘na tléspema. Wa, li &x‘édxa prlpelqé@ qa‘s leseldzodés 
laxa ts!endzowe qa q!wéq!tlts!és. Wai, @ilfmésé ‘witwelx’sexs 
laé gox‘witsés wax'sdlts!anatyé efeyasd laxa q!welkwé ts!éndzowa 
qats hélox"sendéqéxs laé dzakddxés efeyasowe. Wa, altméséa 
gwalexs laé yoOrm gweéx'sa qiixéx. Wi, g@ilfmé@sé ‘witwelx'séda 
‘nemxsa ts!éndzowa laé é@t!lédxa waokwé qaxs hémenala'maé 
nEqaxsé ts!endzowé q!wélasE‘wasa ts!edagé qas axEgEmxés t!Eqa- 
oilase'we nek!iita. Wii, gilfmeésé ‘wila la q!welkwa neqaxsa ts!én- 
dzowa laé axddxa lé*wa‘yé LEpEmilitasa t !eqag Tlats!é@ beng'Ele qaxs 
ln‘maé L!opaxs laé gwal meEdelqtla. Wii, li ax*édxa k-ats!enagé; 
wi, hé*misa ‘walasé loq!wa qa‘s li k-anolilas laxa t!eqag-ilats!é 
beng‘Ela. Wis, li &x‘@dxa tsl!ésnala qa‘s klap!nlés laxa t!ésp- 
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