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to the island. Then the}' took their things up. They stayed there 

 one year. When a 3^eaT and a half was completed, the man slept, 

 thinking about himself. 



One morning he awoke with a dream. He dreamed that he had 

 gotten home." And one morning he said to his younger brothers, 

 "Get up quickly. Let us head the canoe shoreward at random. The 

 sun alwa^'s rises from behind Mount Verstovaia." So they headed 

 shoreward. When it became dark they lowered their anchor into the 

 sea in the direction of the sunrise, and after the}^ had been out for 

 many nights they saw a sea gull swimming about. It was really 

 Mount Edgecumbe that they saw. When they got near to it they 

 saw plainly that it was Mount Edgecumbe. "Head straight for the 

 mountain,''' said QfiqlAtcgu'k, and toward evening they came near it. 

 They named the place where they came in (knoe-resting-place. There 



aohtA'q! yuqlfi't! daq!. Has At qa'wadjeh Le'qia trd<" aye' hAs 



drifted theishmd onto. They things took all up. One year on it they 



wute'. IvAndAkle'tl yuLe'ijI tfik" (pi acilwu'. Wute'x yuc{ri' 



stayod. Was completed the one year and a half. .Slept the man 



tcuc-ctfi't. 



about liimself 

 [thinking]. 



Leq! tsluta't an ko 



One morning with it up 



5 AdA'xayu LiH\\ tsluta't duki'k! hAs ye ayaosiqa', " Ca'idaqe'de. 



.\nd then one morning his younger brothers thus hesaidto, "(Jet up [quickly]. 



Yri'k"yi At kAihiga'. Tcakilge'yi ye'nde hayak"gwatfL'n. CiAga'n 



Canoe things load up. .\ny where to there let us be heading. Sun 



Kane'sdica cakl'nAx kc xixtc." AdA'xayu yen hAs ya'watAn. Qo'ka 



Cross mountain on the up always rises .Vnd then there they were heading. Dark 



(Mount mountain <]ni<'kly." 



Verstovaia) 



wucge'di liAsducayl'nayi hlnq! hAs anatl'tc gAgJi'n anA'x ke 



[when] it got their anchor into the water thev always lowered sun wherefromit up 



itself 



xixtctya'. lax qlan hAs uxe' sayu' liAs aosTtd'n ke'Ladi 



always rises. Very many [nights] they stayed out it was they saw sea gull 



10 yadji'ndahen. Xatc l!ux Asiyu' liAS aoslte'n. AxA'nga ya liAs 



was swimming. It was Mouiit that they saw. Near to it when 



Edgecumbe 



gaqo'xayu hAs aoslte'n l!ux klidc'n. "Yucti' adatcu'n" yuyawaqa' 



they Were com- they saw Mount plainly "The moun- (head) straight what said 



ing [Edgecumbe] (or well) lain at it," 



QaqlAtcgu'k, "adAtci~i'n yAua-i'satAn." AdA'xayu xa'nade aua'x yen 



QaqlAtegil'k, "straight toward beheading." And then toward even- near it there 



it ing 



hAs uwaqo'x. Ye hAs a'wasa Yfik^-qAlAsegA'k". Tan a akawati' 



they came in. Thus they called Canoe-resting-place. Sea lion he pounded 



out [a 

 figure of] 



o For the song composed by him at this time, see song 5. 



