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dispatched after a chipmunk, struck a log oi- tree, glanced oflt" from it and came very 

 near killing Weasel's little son. 



110, 11. 21. gubAsbktclia instead of guluLlshlctcha, cf. Dictionary. 



110, 17. vu'sbo, breast, chest, is also pronounced wu'shu, fi'shu; fi'shutala, in the 

 chest, k'lekljfdtko is the distributive plural of k'lokdtko ; k'leka, to die. 



110, 18. ma'nshaktch, so long ; stands for ma'ntcbak tchi. The terminal -ak has 

 to be taken here and in 110, 14. in the sense of the diiuiuutive suffix: "a little long". 



110, 19. kii'la to do or act in the sense of amusing oneself, playing, gesticulating, 

 or acting in a loud, noisy, or grotesque manner. 



111, 1. tiinepanti. The partitive case in -ti, if it stands for tiinepanta, is used 

 here, because the bags of neckwear brought by Sk^lamtch were counted on the digits 

 of one hand, while those of Weasel were counted on the fingers of the other. 



Ill, 3. wewilina. Beads were left over to Old Marten, because he had brought 

 more than five sacks full to the tchpinu or family burj ing ground, emptying only five 

 sacks on the child's pjTe. This was a fabulously extravagant expenditure, the beads 

 standing high in price and the sacks or wiUishik being rated at more than one bushel 

 each. 



Ill, 4. Mu'sh and Y4msh, syncopated from Mu'ash and Y^mash. 



111,9. ei;^ishtok Mu'shash. The South Wind had put his head out; that is, a 

 south wind had been blowing when Little Weasel died and hence was supposed to be 

 the real cause of his death. 



Ill, 12. Lem^-ishash. From the following it appears, that the five Thunders re- 

 ])resent more the flash of the lightning (luepalsh) than the roll of the thunder. There 

 are many of them, because the thunder, when rolling over mountains and valleys, often 

 increases again in loudness after having almost died out, and five is the often recur- 

 ring "sacred" number of the Oregonian and other Xorth western Indians. The radix 

 of lfim6-ish is lam, which indicates a circular, whirling motion. The five Thunders are 

 brothers, living in a wniter-lodge or earth-house: Lemeisham tchl'sh, thought to be 

 a dark cave ; their parents, the two Old Thunders, live in a kayata or low, small hut 

 covered with buUush mats. The short episode 111, 12-17 does not reier to all the 

 five Thunders, but only to one of their number. 



Ill, I'.i. tii'tash is the long white marine shell, known as dentalium ; it is one ot 

 the most common Indian body-ornaments. The white resin flowing out of pine-trees 

 seems to be symbolized in this myth by the dentalium-shell. 



Ill, 14. wak ish shii'tii, for wak shiita i nish : ''somehow do (something) for me." 



Ill, 20. In wa'shin are combined two locative particles: i and n (for ua). 



111, 22. maklaks tii'm (fin- tii'ma). The Thunders brought home as food many 

 human beings struck by lightning. 



112, 1. wanunga, the distributive pluial of iVnak ; explained in the Dictionary. 

 112, 1. wennini a tua gatpa etc. Here and throughout this paragraph tuii means 



" some kind of." 



112, 2. 3. shkaini combines the meaning of strong with that of bad or mischievous, 

 and answers to onr demoniac ^ shkainiak or shkainihak stands for our comparative: 

 stronger. The -tcli, -s, -.sh appended is an abltrevintion of fclia, noir, and shkayent 

 stands for shkaini at. 



112,3. G^kansha. <-)ld MarUn had f-iitfivd tln' solid •■cartli house" ol' rlio Tlinn- 



