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house. || Then 1 took the hind-feet of the other one, | and I chewed 
them also with the food. | Now I had finished four mouthfuls. | 
Now they were on the floor of the house. Then IT called my wife, 
and I | asked her to eat what had been chewed; and she chewed it 
and ||she ate it up. Deinde | in cubiculum vocayi uxorem meam. 
Deinde nos in lecto collocavimus. | Ego iacui ei in dextra parte et 
cum ea concubui. Postquam | perfeci, non sivi || uxorem meam se 
illo die commovere et sivi eam femina illo die distinere | et supinam 
illa nocte recumbere. Menstruare quidem modo destiterat. | Num- 
quam rursus menstruavit. Tum | facta est praegnans. Then she 
had a little boy. | She first had a child when I had been married }j 
five winters to my wife; | and now I had this child, Melnéd.” 
Thus said the chief, | speaking the Koskimo language. | 
At once I went home, and I was already looking for | lizards on 
the trail of Gwadzé. I found two—a || female and a male lizard, 
At once | I tied them together, chest to chest, and I tied them to my 
belt | and put it around my waist, and I kept them on my right 
side. | I went home to Newettee. I arrived there where | I had left 
my wife. For two days I kept the lizards || on my waist. Statim 
Wi, la’k'asen a&x‘e’dk'aspx a‘lemxa’‘ya g'0’g'Egtifyo’sé ‘ne’mée 
qak-a’smn @’t!édé ma’lexfwidqéne Lokwa’s¢ ma’malék!wema. Wi, 
la’k-as gwa’ta, la’keas‘emxaéné mo’sgemé ma‘léx"sE‘makwé 1a’k-as 
ixétkasa. Wi, la’kasen weka’litxen genr’mé. Wii, 1i’k-asen 
ixk !a/lak‘asqéné qak-a’saés ma’lextwidxé ma‘légikwe. Wii, 1a’ 
k'aséné mia’léxtwidk'asqené. Wa, la’kasene ‘wilq!esaqéné. Wii, 
la’/k‘asen Lé’Its!Alilak‘asxen genk’mé. Wi, 1a’k'asenu'x" kii’)x-fid- 
k'as Lefwe’né. Wii, hé’k-'asen kti/Ix‘idk:asé hé Hk: !6taga’ wa‘lita- 
sEn genk’mé. Wii, la’k'asenufx" gex‘wi’da. Wa, gi/Ik‘as'*mésen 
gwa'tkas gexwa’ Lefwe’neé; wi, la’k'asen k'!é/tyas ‘nex’ qa 
Lé’/kilitésen gene/maxé ‘na/la qa o’kwas‘méséné se/nba ‘yili’/laxe 
‘na'la tle’git Letwe né/gikwe, yi’xé hé’kas‘maéné a/lék'as gwal 
katte. Wa, la’k-as hé’hék-a @’t!éd k-lake’da. Wii, li’k-as*méné 
qelxk'!aé’s‘idk'asa. Wii, la’k-as*meéneé qp’lxélax“‘id, yik-a’tsé ba’ba- 
gtimé. Wii, a’ikas qr’lxadex“‘idk‘asg‘anu®x" la’k‘asaéx’ sek: !a’ 
xfenxélaxé ts!efwt/nxe ga’kfila Lokwa’skn géne’mk‘aséx. Wai, 
la’k-astmaég'in qr’/Ixadk‘atsox Mn/Inédéx,” ‘ne/k-éda_ gri’giimatyé 
la’xés g0’ts!alaéna‘yé." F j 
Wai, hé’x‘idafmésen g'ix nii/‘nakwa. Wii, gwa’lela‘mésen a/lixa 
gwa’lase la’xa t laxiliis Gwadzetye’. Wii, len q!a’xa ma‘té’, ‘ne’ma 
ts!eda’qé, ‘ne’ma begwa’nemé la’xa gwa’lasé. Wii, hé’x*‘ida‘mé- 
sen ha’qodeq qrn ya’Lodéq. Wa, len yile’nts la’xen witsé’g-and, 
len wuse’x“its. Wii, lan’m axa’la la’xen hé’tk:!odenddzatye. Wi 
len ni/nakwa lax Xt’mdasbé. Wii, la‘men la’g-aa liq, yixs 
a’mléxwarn gene’mé lag. Wii, la ma‘tp!n’nxwa‘sé ‘na’liisa gwa’- 
1 The following is again Kw ig-ul dialect. 
