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take up the food with their hands || and bite off the ends of the long 
edges. After they have finished | eating it, they drink water, and 
they carry home for their wives what is left. | Then they carry it 
home when they leave the | house; and they wash their hands in 
their own houses. | No second course is given with this, for it is a 
valuable food for feasts, for || this kind is very costly; and they do 
not dip it into oil, for | it is very fat. That is all about this. | 
Roasted Halibut-Edges.—When | the (halibut-)skin is half dry, the 
edge is torn off. | Then it is tied in the middle with narrow strips of 
cedar-bark, and is hung up in the | rear of the house. Sometimes the 
woman and her || husband desire to eat of it. Then the woman 
requests her | husband to make roasting-tongs. Immediately | he 
shaves down a piece of red pine, and splits it in the same way as | 
fire-tongs (are split); only this is different, that below it has a sharp 
point | where the top of the fire-tongs is. Then the woman takes 
narrow strips of || cedar-bark and ties them around it one span of 
our fingers | from the sharp lower end. When this is | done, the 
woman takes the half-dried edges | and puts them in coils into the 
roasting- tongs, in this manner:' As | soon as they are all 
in the roasting-tongs, she ties a narrow strip of || cedar-bark 
around the top, so that the tongs may not spread when 
qa‘s q!px"ba’‘yéxa g‘i/Isgilt !@ xwa’xtisenxa‘ya. Wa, gi’/l*mésé gwat 
hafma’pqéxs la’é na’x‘idxa ‘wa’pe. Wa, la md’t!édxés n/nx’sityeé 
qae’s grgenk’mé. Wii, lan’m da’lagéxs la’é ho’qtiwels |a’xa 
go/kwe. Wi, a’Kmésé ts!e’/nts!enx‘wid la/xés gigd’kwe. Wa, 
lan’m k!és hé/lég-‘intse‘wa qaxs ‘wa’lasaé k!wé/ladzema qaxs 
1a/xtilaé gwe’x'sdemas. Wa, la k'lés ts!m’prla la’xa L!é’*na qaxs 
4/laé la tse’nxwa. Wa, lar’m gwal 1a’xéq. 
Roasted Halibut-Edges (L!0’/bek® xwa’xtisenxé®).—Wa, hé/?maaxs 
la’é k!a’yax*widéda L!é’saxs la’é xwaso’ytiwéda xwa’xtisenxa‘yé. 
Wi, la yiLo’yotsdsa ts!é’q!é dena’sa qa‘s téx*waLn’lodayowe lax 
0’gwiwalilasa g°d’kwe. Wai, la ‘na’t*nemp!enéda ts!nda’qé LE‘wis 
ta/'wiinemé ha‘maé’xsd laq. Wai, lé’da ts!eda’qé axk-!a’laxés 
la/'wtinemé qa L!0’psayogwiléséx L!0’psayé. Wa, hé’x‘ida‘méseé 
k!a’x¢widxa wtina’gulé qa‘s x0’x‘widé qa yu’wés la gwé’x'soxda 
k:lipra’lax. Wa, lé’x'atmés ogtiqalayoséxs &’x'baéda ‘br’/nba‘yas, 
yix 0/xtafyasa k'lipra’la. Wa, lée’da ts!mda’qé ax‘é’dxa ts!é’q!é 
drna’sa qa‘s yil‘i’dés la’xa ‘nk/mp!enké la’xEns q!wa’q!wax'ts !a- 
nafyéx, gi/gitpla 1a’xa 6’x'ba la’x be’nba‘yas. Wa, gi’l‘mésé 
gwa'trxs la’éda ts!ada’qé ax‘é’dxa k’!a’yaxweé xwa’xtisenxa‘ya 
1 See figure on p. 344. 
