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ever he goes out hunting. | Therefore they only knock it off with the - 
tongs, so that the singed hair | comes off.! || 
(The? hunter) always pushes his( paddle) right over his fire, because 
he wishes| it to become very black; and also that no | young woman 
may step over it, and no young man, for they never do right; | and 
also that a menstruating woman may not give bad luck to the hunter. | 
His canoe-box also hangs in the corner of the house. He also puts || 
just over the fire the two mats on which (hunter and steersman) sit; 
but he leaves | his harpoon-shaft in the hunting-canoe; and | also 
the bladder-float is hung up at the same place where the canoe-box 
is. | 
Customs Reratine to Porprorse-HuntTING 
Blue-hellebore root and | peucedanum-seeds are kept in the canoe- 
box of the porpoise-hunter, and also back-sinew of the porpoise, which 
is dried || for tying up the spear if it should break. | Blue-hellebore 
root is put into the canoe-box, and the peucedanum-seeds, | in case 
that a sea-monster should come up in the night when they are 
spearing | porpoises, It is said that often the sea-monsters show 
themselves. ‘Then | the hellebore-root is taken out and chewed, and 
spit || overboard on each side of the hunting-canoe, and | the same is 
laxa mégwaté Le‘wa k'!olot!asa Sléwimoxwaxs hélayaagq. Wa, hé- 
‘mis lag‘itas dem kwéxeltsemésa ts!ésLila liq qa lawilatsa ts!ax’- 
mote.' 
Hémenala? Lés*arelod lax neqostiwasés lngwité qaxs ‘nék'aé 
qa‘s hémenata‘mésé q!wagwa‘naktla. Wa, hémis qa k-!ésés gaxa- 
sosa ealostagase ts!édaqa Le‘wa ha‘yala qaxs k !ésaé nénagolkwila. 
Wi, hémis qo éxentalaxo qaxs aEmsaé lixa és‘Eléwinoxwe. Wii, 
laxaé tégwila Odzaxs laxa oOnegwilasa g’okwe. Wa, laxaé gila- 
Leléda k!wek!wa‘yé mal férlwé laxa ék:!a‘yasa legwilé. Wa, lana 
mistowas héx'siinm g’éxsa dléwaseLela xwaxwagtima. Wa, héem- 
xaéda poxtinsé tégwil lax ixisasa ddzaxse. 
Customs RELATING TO PorpotsE HuNTING 
Wi, hé'mis géts!4 lax odzaxsé gildatsa ilewinoxwa Axsolé LESwa 
q!exméné. Wii, hé‘misa at!emasa dwig'atyasa k-!olot!ixs lemo- 
kwaé qa‘s yilédaydlaxés Legikwe qo Ekédrlaxo. Wi, hé‘misa 
axsolé yixs hé‘maé lag ilts gé@ts!4 lax Odzaxsas Le‘wa q!exméné 
qo q!axwasdlaxsa ‘yagimaxa ganoLaxs negtirayalaé aléxwaxa 
klolot!e. Wa, laflaé q!inala q!axwasdsa ‘yag'imé. Wii, hé‘mis 
la ixtwittts!odaatséxa Axsolé qa‘s maléx‘widéq qa‘s kwéstalés lax 
30 ‘wax'sddgiwafyasés aAléwats!@ xwaxwagtima. Wa, laxaé hérm 
1 Continued on p. 452, line 25, 2 Remark inserted on p. 175, line 9. 
