Boas] PRESERVATION OF FOOD 271 
doing this with the other cleaned salal-berries, and | only stops when 37 
they have all been pounded. She does not make them into cakes 
quickly, | but leaves them for two nights in the dish, covered over 
with a mat, before | making the cakes. | 
Now I will talk about the long strips of dried salal-berries. When | 40 
the woman gets ready to dry them, after leaving them two nights 
covered | over with a mat, so that no soot will drop into them and | so 
that they will get thick,—for she can not make them into cakes 
immediately | after pounding, because the berries are full of juice, 
and therefore || she leaves them for a long time to dry up,-—then she 45 
takes up the drying-frame, | the (same) one as she used when she dried 
elderberries mixed with salal-berries, | and also the heated skimk- 
‘tabbage. She puts the heated | skunk-cabbage leaves down flat the 
whole length of the drying-frame. She puts them on very | smoothly; 
and when they are all down on the drying-frame from end to end, || she 50 
takes herstraight knife and cuts the curved edges | of the skunk-cabbage 
leaves that hang down over the two side-pieces of the drying-frame | 
(this is called by some people ‘‘stiff edge of the drying-frame)’’. | 
After cutting them all off, she takes a large horse clam-shell | and a 
large spoon, and she takes the pounded-salal-berry dish || and puts it 55 
down by the side of the drying-frame. She | takes the ladle, dips 
it in, and stirs it until they are well mixed | with the juice; and when 
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lex‘édeq. Héda la matexsé ganores ‘naktiyalaxa 1é*watyaxs laé 
lpx‘édnq. 
Wai, la‘mésen gwagwex's‘Ex“idel laxa héyadzd nrgtidzdxs laéda 40 
ts!edaqé xwanalid qa‘s Inqéq liqéxs laé malexsés ganoLé naxtim- 
litxa lé'watyé qa k:!ésés q!wap!eqrlaso‘sa q!waldbrse. Wii, hé‘mis 
qa flak lalés genx*ida qaxs k !eAsaé gwéx‘‘idaas Iex‘édgéxs g-alad 
owal Inselgéq qaxs alak-!alaé q!énemé saaqas. Wa, hémis lag-ilas 
hé gwaeté qa lemlemox"dés. Wii, lii &xtedéda ts!edaqaxa k:litk:!p- 45 
dése, yixés klitelax-dixs g-aléx'dé Inqaxa ts!éts!pnqrla negitdzo- 
wa. Wi, hé‘misa penkwe k'!ek'adk!wa. Wai, lai pagedzotsa penkwe 
k-Ipk-!adk!wa lax ‘wisgemasasa k‘litk'!edésé. Wii, lawm aék:!axs 
laé hamelgrdzaétya k:!ek:!adk!wa paprqod‘naktilaxs labendalaé. Wa, 
li ixcédxes nexx‘ila k!awayowa qa‘s t!osiléxa kilk-rlx-enxa- 50 
fyasa k!nk:!adk!wiixs laé k:!esita lax kak Etenxatyasa kitk: !edése; 
yixs Léqrlaéda wadkwas L!aL!expnxé lixa k‘ak'rtenxa‘ya. Wa, 
gil'mésé ‘witla t !osewakiixs laé ix‘édxa ‘walasé xalaétsa met !ana‘ye. 
Wa, hé‘misa ‘walasé kats!mnaqa. Wa, lai ax‘édxa Ing-ex"ts!dliixa 
nek!ite loq!wa qa‘s gaxé hinenxelilas laxa klitk:!pdésé. Wa, li 5 
dax‘idxa k-ats!mnaqé qa‘s tséqés laq qa‘s xwet!edéq qa lrleowés 
LE‘wis saagé. Wa, g ilfmésé alak: !ala la lElgoxs laé tséx‘itsa k-ats!p- 
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