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My own mind is very hard to me. It is just as if I were carr\nng 

 my mind around. 



What is the matter with you 'i 



(65) Composed by Saxa' on the same subject as the song next preced- 

 ing. A man named Klultle'-ic, belonging to the Chilkat Kii'gwAntan, 

 ran away with Sfixa^s wife, but the latter was afterward killed by 

 K!u}t!e'-Ic's first wife whom he had abandoned. 



DesgwA'tc gi gesitl'n ke yAgAdida' yA'diyel. 



Already "you have up going to the this Raven, 



seen spirit world 



Acdayl'n iiyA'x uwagu't doqodji'. NA'na yis aositl'n dogodji'. 



To see her out to her has come her Wolf Death for she has seen her Wolf 



[phratry]. [pliratry]. 



You have already seen this Raven going up to the ghost country. 

 Her Wolf phratry has come out to see her. She has seen her Wolf 

 phratry for death. 



(66) A man named Nu'slni composed this song and immediately 

 afterward sta])bed several of his friends. 



Ye/kitckAcaxwe'q!-ye'gitc nAdateu'n yu'ya-kuLmu'tsk. 



Ye'kitckAcaxwe'q! spirit he was dreaming of always smiling around. 



He was dreaming of Ye/kitckAcaxwe'q! spirit always smiling around. 



(67) Song said to have been sung by Wrangell Indians on the way 

 to Sitka when they felt sure that they were going to be killed. 



CtAqlhl'n yix ye'uAlxac dutu'wu ya'diyel Tl-hit-ta'ni yA'tqli 



Stikine down from floating his feelings this Raven Bark-house people's children 



dutuwu'di. 



his feelings [are toward]. 



QfiqlAse'gu dakAcu' At uwaya' da yututA'nk, Tl hit tan yA'tqli. 



About their lives they do that it is like about thinking, Bark-house children. 



people's 



Floating down from the Stikine, the feelings of this Raven are 

 toward the Bark-house people's children (i. e. , he worries about his 

 famil}'). 



He thinks about the lives of the Bark-house people's children. 



(68) Dorsal-tin-of-killer-whale-seen (Guc-dutl'n), one of the Nan- 

 yaa'yi, almost died when on the way to Victoria, and composed this 

 song about his old friends. 



Yel ani' A'kya Adade' xaga'x. AxII'}k!"-hAs ani' ay a' Adade' 



Raven's town that [not] about I am crying. My grandfather's town that about it 

 XAgfl'x. 

 I am crying. 



Icfi'n Gucdutl'n WAkta'ni qinq! gogana'. 



Poor Dorsal-fln-of- Victoria before he he will die. 



killer-whale-seen gets to 



It is not Raven's town I am crying about. It is my own grand- 

 father's town I am crying about. 



