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now g'oing to start on singing the song that they had sung when they 

 left home. The. morning of the day after they started away. And 

 they started the song they used to sing up on Copper river. At that 

 time they wore nose pins. When they were about to start from that 

 place thoy put on weasel hats and coats. All mourned together over 

 the friends tho}' had left behind and over those who had been lost in 

 the fog. When they were through mourning they arose and started otl'. 

 The Athapascans did not know about the sea, and they called one an- 

 other together. They said, " What is that so very blue ? '' They said, 

 " Let us go down to it. We have saved ourselves," they said. Com- 

 ing to the lower end of the glacier, they traveled very fast down to the 

 sea. They crossed a river boiling out from under the mountain and 

 almost as large as Copper river. They went down to the sea along- 

 side of the big river. Afterward they stayed down there at the 



AkA't kaosida'gea ci 



away from they started song 

 it (each when they 

 other) went 



tsluta'dawc ax gonaye 



next morning from it 'started 



cakq! qaiu'q! yete'xqiun. 



up in they used to use. 



ka'odudzinl. 



awe' akA't gonaye' Aqgwaa't. Atx qt^'naa 



that on it to start away they were After that day it 



going. was 



they wore. 



Agaawe'tsa 



At that time 



qaxo'nqli. 



friends. 



dustr 



was 



awaA't. Le kc kaoduwaci', Yu'eq-hc'ni 



tliey went. Tlien up tliey started the Copper river 



song, 



TA'qIxe agaawe'tsa lu'nAx ke ye 



Nose pins at that time in their noses \ip thus 



Ax gonaye' Aq"gwaA'di yuda' s!ax" qa yukludA's!. 



From it starting they were going the weasel liat and eoat [tliey put 



eax 



(|akA'(i! VAX wudjixe'n tuwunu'k, yunA'({ awaa'de a 



there lilce togetlaer tliey all mourned, behind these they left 



Dade' kaayu' qoga's! tuq! qot wuade' adade'ayu. Yen 



And about those fog in were lost about them. There 



awe' tsa fix wudu'wanaq. Gonaye' awaA't. 



then indeed from it they got up. Starting they went. 



3'ue'L! qostiyiye' yu'gonanatc. Le yAti'yi yeq! 



mourn 

 ing 



Lei wudusku' 



Not knew the sea water tliere was the Athapascans. Then there being there 



wudjxA'ndi wLicduxo'x. Ye wucda'yAdoqa, " Dfisayu' lax ye s!u 



together they called. As follows they said, " What is it very so blue 



yAx yati'. Kle yen kAx dusnu'k"," Le 3^uqoya'waqa. 



like is? Well there out to we go," then they said. 



"De cwutudzine'x," ye wucda'yAdoqa. Yusi'tlqAUAx eq nAX 



'Now we have saved our- 

 selves," 



so thev said to one another. 



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From the glacier beach [at on 

 lower end] 



aya'Agaa't ayA'xawe Le Ltlk" awaa't j^uc'l! ya'xde. Le Aka'nAx 



and below it like it very fast they went the sea down to. Then across it 



water 



ya'waat yuhl'n Len yuca' tayinA'x wuduwaqo'q. Lei unala' 



they got a river large a mountain from under- was boiling, not (scarcely) 



neath 



Eq-hi'ni vax qoge'yi. Le eL! ya'xe yaa'waat wehl'n Len ya'xnAX. 



Copperriver like was larger. Then sea down to they came the river big alongside. 



water 



Atxawe' Le a'yeq uwate' wehl'n yax. TcIulc' qaA'dix wusite' 15 



After it then down there they stayed the river at mouth Then the first thing thev did 



of. 



