64 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS. 



HuMASHT lalIki ne-ulakta Kakashash. 

 DOCTOR JOHN TRIED BY THE CHIEFS. 



Obtained in the Ki-amath Lake Dialect. 



I. ACCOUNT OF DAVE HILL, SUBCHIEF. 



Shillalsh hu't gu'ta. Tchiii sa tchu'ta nanka kukiaks, Tatematchf sh 



a disease bim invaded. Then they treated several conjarers, (and) Aant Snsie 



(him) 



tchuta ; tchiii samtsal;(a Doctor John a geii tawi ; tu' tiiwipk, tata Doctor 



trented then (she) discovered (that) Dr. John him bewitched; over he bewitched ^vhen Doctor 



(biin) ; there (bim), 



3 Jolmam snawedsh shi'la. T/mkt tawi'pk; tcbi hunk s^mtsal^ Tetgraatsis, 



John's wife was sick. That time he had be- so it found out Aunt Susie, 



witched (him) ; 



nd-ast s^mtsal;^. Tsui Doctor John: "ki-t-A a nen Tdtematsis ", na-ast 



thus she discovered And Doctor John (said): "this lies Aunt Susie", so 



(it to he). 



Doctor John hemkank. Sdkamka: " hu'nk kd-i mat pfsh siiikat; ki'ya 



Dr. John spoke. He denied it: "that man not him I killed; lies 



6 mat hu'nk Tetematsis!" na-ashtak Doctor John hemkank. 



this Aunt Susie!" so again Dr. John said. 



Tsiii sa spu'lhi lap'ni ilWlash ; nanuk hu'nk maklaks l(31a Tetematsi- 



Then they locked (him) for two years; about all the Indians believed Aunt 



up 



shash Tsui vuKi laUki, tsui hemkank Doctor John, tu'm hemkank na-asht: 



Susie. Then inquired the chiefs, and said Dr. John, at length bespoke thus: 



of (him) 



y '* Tua ni wdk giug shiukuapkf Tfdshi a hu't hfshuaksh, ka-ituAlash shish- 



"I wherefore should have killed Honest cer- that man (was), with nobody quar- 



(bim)? tainly 



tchakt'nish; wdk lish fk \6\i a nen Tetematchishash? At hihiki hu'ntsak 



relliui; ; how is it ye all believe Aunt Susie? Now (ye) chiefs without rea- 



HODS 



i nen 161a, keMmtsank si'tk lu'dshna ; ka-i nu hu'nk siiigat. Katak ni nen 



ye believe, closing your eyes-alike walk along; not I bim killed. With vera- T 



city 



12 hemkank, plaitalkni nu'sh shla'popk hii'mkankst. Tua ni shuta-uapk 



speak, the Mnst High me sees, as I speak. What 1 would have profited 



shiugok? nil ya k4-i ni a kukamtchish gi'-uapk shiugok; tua ni tdla i'shka? 



by murdering 1 cer- never I an old man would become, had I killed what I money made? 



(him)? tainly (him); 



tua ni a tdla ya i'shka shlugokf Tidsii'wank tchfa, kA-i ni kants shiuksh 



what I money ever made by killing (him) I I am •; lad to be liv- not 1 anybody to kill 



i"g. 

 15 sanaho'li ; ha' ni klii'kuapk, humashtak i ts6kuaj)k klakui'sh gint nu'sh. 



desire; it I shall perish, equally ye will perish as I have died. 



Kd-i na'd tehussui'ni mAklaks n4nuk kaila-ndkant. Uu'ndsak tchi insh 



Sot vre (are) immortal men till world all over. For no cause thus mv 



