swanton] TTJNGIT myths AND TEXTS 391 



When he came down to the beach, his friends were all destroyed, so 

 that he saw no one. He saw something just inside of LAqlA'sgi point. 

 '* Do not let me watch the little stones or 1 might get bewitched.''' 



(3) A second song of Qake'q!"te composed when he caught a frog 

 instead of a ground hog. (See story lO-t, p. 330.) 



Slfixo'x g'A tcucLi3'e'x hedixi'xtc!, qa'dji kAngahe'n. 



Becoming- a into miglit have made that frog, or it might have flug a hole 



groundhog itself under my trap. 



That frog might have turned itself into a ground hog, or it might 

 have dug a hole under my trap. 



(4) Tiiis was sung by IvAka' after he had been brought up from the 

 south by the land otters (stories .5 and 31). The words beh)w were at 

 the end of the two parts, and wlien they were uttered he drifted out 

 to sea or asliorc, as tiie case might be. 



DA'qde iul'de qfido'. 



Seaward let me drift. 



Ye'nde lul'de qfide'. 



Shoreward let me drift. 



(5) Song composed ))y QaqlAtcgu'k after his dream on the island. 

 (Stories GT and iDl.) 



A'clvAt aoiixfi'dji qa ye tcuc nAdatcu'ntc. Axanrq! qoxoagage' 



About him- that tliought the thus dreams. To my home I got" 



self he had per- man 



ished 



yu-Axtu'natltc. 



is how I always feel. 



The man, who thought he had perished, dreams thus about himself. 

 I keep feeling as if I had gotten home. 



(6) Composed about the GanAxie'di woman (GruiA'xta-ca) who reared 

 the woodworm. (See pp. l.")l-152.) 



DesgwA'tc gi nAxagu't, nAna' yis nAxtVgut. DesgwA'tc gi 



Already I am going, die to I am going. Already 



nAxa'djun Axyl't. 



I have dreamed ( f my son. 



Already 1 am going, I am going to die. I have dreamed of my son. 



(7) A spirit song composed by a shaman called LuswA't belonging to 

 the Ka'gwAntan. 



L AnA'x kc qagudiyA' Djilqa't kina'nAx qo'a ke qagudi'. 



Not through it up I come Chilkat through, however, up I come. 



Lxodc't kina'uAx ke gagu't duyalia'yi aga'x. 



Exode't through up I will come " and ' cry. 



Not having any place to come up through (i. e., shaman to spcuk 

 through), I think I will go to Chilkat and come up there. 

 1 will come up tlirough Lxode't and cry. 



