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Yesu' xAt ya-ilidje/tc ceye'i. Tc!a go'naa goto yisati'ni teusu'ga 



You now surprise me, you Raven. Another Wolf when you 



see 



kina'q! ci'yika ke idjaqA'k. 



way up on branch up you want to 

 get. 



Dilqa'tkAX sa cxA'dzixAn? Na'odAnA kAX cxAdzixA'n. Icfi'n xAt 



For what ? do you think I To drink whisky I live. Pity me 



live? 



Xel Te'qoedi yA'tqli xAt yenaiga'x. 



Foam Te'qoedi's children me have on. 



(i\ town) 



You surprise me, you Raven. When you see a person of the Wolf 

 phratrv, you want to g-et way up on a branch. 



What do you think I live for^ I live to drink whisky. Have pity 

 on me, Foam Te'qoedi's children." 



(47) Composed for and given to Other-water (Gonahl'n) of the 

 Ka'gwAntan, who lived very long ago. He went to Prince of Wales, 

 island to marry a woman named Slelti'n. When he was ready to start 

 back, his father-in-law^ laid down a row of copper plates for his 

 daughter to walk dow^n on, and, as she went down, they .sang this song 

 and gave it to the Ka'gwAntrm. It is therefore called Sleiti'n 

 qlosiye'di, " Slelti'n's-return-song." 



The words are in Tsimshian and are tiie following: 

 Xelgayuwa hej^uwji' hayA'cgllnaxa, ha^^u'wacgllnAxa. 



(48) Composed b}^ Tslaka'k!, a DA'qL!ao-ca, about KultsU'xk of the 

 Koskle'di. 



QAtl'yi DAqLlawe'di yA'tqli nAq xAt gogAna'. Aj^^'x A'kwe ikdA's 



I am DAqLlawe'di's children for I am going Like it is nothing if 



(not having seen) to die. 



Ago'tx goxlaye'xtc. 



I lose lots of property. 



De'tciA ci3'a'ide dAga'x awe' At clx AxqIe'nAstltc. 



Jt is only about crying it is [in] song that comes to me. 



myself 



I am going to die without seeing DAqLlawe'dfs children any more. 

 That is nothing if I lose lots of propert3\ 



It is only crying about myself that comes to me in song. 



(49) Composed by one of the Llene'di a))Out Juneau when gold was 

 first found there. 



Lida'i ye qiayaika'q Llene'di yA'tqIi. Llngit-il'ni tu ({oa'ni 



Do not so talk Llene'di's children. World in people 



any more 



yaylLa'k. 



you are ahead of. 



Do not talk any more, Llene'd'fs children. You are ahead of all 

 the people in ihe world. 



a Evidently the Te'qoedi living at Foam from which the Xel qoan, or Foam i)eopU", also came. 

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