Boas] BELIEFS AND CUSTOMS (G6 
heart of him to whom she referred as her lover was bad. She only 42 
laughed | and said, ‘‘ His heart is bad, because I am married to | 
‘max"meEwes.” Thus she said. Then Yayaxityéga said, “We are 
always || walking along with the souls of the Salmon in the night. | 45 
for they are all human beings.”” Thus she said. Then I asked her 
about | the seat of the soul of the Salmon, and also of man. | She 
laughed again and said, ‘‘Why, don’t you | know? It always sits 
on the head, and the || souls of the Salmon also sit on the heads; but it 50 
is different with the souls of the sea-hunters. | They immediately go 
into their killer-whale masks, | and they go hunting seals.” | 
Then I questioned her again, and I said to her, ‘‘Go on, tell me, 
now, | that I may believe that you really know what you are talking 
about. What || becomes of our souls when we sleep in the night? 55 
Doesn’t the soul also go to | sleep?” Thus I said to her. Then she 
laughed again and said, ‘You are a | foolish man, really you are 
foolish that you think the soul | of man, and of woman, goes to sleep. 
No, the soul never | goes to sleep at night, nor in the day. In the 
day it stays together || with us, and keeps watch over us. But when 60 
night comes, and we go to sleep, | then our soul immediately leaves 
us, and goes to a distant | land. And then we dream of the place to 
which our soul goes, | and what it is domg. Now the person is not 
dead when he sleeps, | only he has no strength when he is asleep, for 
‘yag'imas naqa‘yas gwr‘yas waLElés weq!wa. A‘mésé dalida. Wa, 42 
li ‘nék'a: “Hérm‘el ‘yag'imsdx naqafyasoxgiin lik: latwadErsox 
smax"merweésax”’, ‘nék'ox. Wi, lampm ‘néké Yayaxtiyégaxgins 
hémenata‘még'ins qaqesala Lefwa bex‘tna‘yasa k:!ok'titeliixa gaga- 45 
noLé qaxs ‘naxwatmaé bébegwanema,” ‘nék'é. Wi, laren wittaq 
lax k!walaasas bex‘tinafyasa k-‘!ok!titela LO*meEnsaxgins bébE- 
gwanemek. Wa, laxaé daltida. Wa, li nek‘a: “Kostas k:lés 
q!atelaa? yoOmaas k!walens oxiiifyéx. Wai, liixaé héem k!walé 
bex‘tina‘yasa k'!ok!ttelé Oxiityas. Wai, lata ogtiqilaxa beEx‘tima- 50 
fyasa es‘iléwinoxwé, yixs 4*maé héx"‘idarm lats!4 laxés maxemlé 
qa‘s li iléxwaxa mégwaté. 
Wa, laxarn ét!éd wtiag. Wi, len ‘néknq: ‘ Wég:a gwas‘idex 
qen Oq/!iis‘idadL, Alaem q!Atelaxds waldemitlilag-ilitéx. Wiens 
bex‘tna‘yéx, yixg‘ins lig'ins méx‘édxa ganoré k'!ésaé dewaqarm 55 
méxaa,” nek'rntaq. Wa, laxaé dalida. Wa, li ‘néka: “ Yaraxs 
nenolaéx begwanema, Alas nendld, yixs ‘nék'aaxenqdsaq mé*xéno- 
xwa bex‘tina‘yasa begwainpmé Lefwa ts!edaqé. K-!é; yixs k !ésaé 
mé*xénoxwa bex‘tinafyaxa ganoLé LEfwa ‘nala, xa ‘nala la q!ap!éx'si 
LE‘wEns qaés q!aq!alalaé g'axens, wix'é ginolida liig'ins méx‘éda, 60 
wi, héx’ida‘mésens bex‘iina‘yé bawens qa‘s li laxa qwésala 
aiwinagwisa. Wii, hé‘mésens g'ax méxa‘yé lililasasens bEx‘tinatyé 
LE‘wis gwegilasé. Wa, larm k-!és tn‘léda begwanrmaxs méxaé. 
La 4em k:!éas la lixwés, yixs méxaé qaxs laé q!anéstés bex‘iinatyé. 
