176 POETIC TEXTS. 



173; 6. The wind, while entrusted with the search for the disease, is blowing 

 through the skies and sweeping over the earth. 



174; 7. The mythic elks who .sang this were said to be endowed with human 

 faculties. Allusions not traceable. 



174; 8. This is an incantation which would seem to proceed rather from a duck or 

 goose beating its wings wliile clia.sing another, than from a fisher. First line Modoc, 

 second, Klamath Lake. 



174; 9. The animal had found the disease iu the water and chased it out to the 

 shore; when there it set the shore on fire and the ground was shaken up under its 

 destructive, ravaging steps. 



174; 11. The weasel, returning from its errand, reports to the conjurer, that having 

 found the cause of the patient's disease to, be a wicked sku'ks's heart, this was brought 

 by the weasel to the spirit land and breathed out, to be left there. This is the most 

 probable interpretation of all those suggested, for song 11. is said to form a sequel to 

 the weasel's song 10. 



174; 13. The kiuks had sent tbe red headed woodpecker to jirospect for his 

 patient's disease in the atmosphere. Alliteration and assonance iu profusion. 



175; 14. Meaning: My eyes are well fitted for the discovery of the patient's disease, 

 hovering in the air, for they are acute, being those of the owl ; I am just stepping up 

 my lodge-ladder, the speckled bark of a tree, ou the search for the disease. Allitera- 

 tion is a prominent feature in this incantation. Of Note to 122, 1. 2. 



175; 1.5. Sent by the conjurer, the spider goes up iu the web to prospect for the 

 disease. The verb shows the prefix 1-, because the body of the spider is round-shaped. 



175; 16. On falling sick, a spirit orders the patient to sing and repeat this Earth- 

 song line foi' hours. 



175; 17. "1 have recovered the use of my senses." 



KAkasdam kiuksam shuish. 

 INCANTATIONS. 



GrvEN BY KXkash or "Doctor John" in the Klamath Lake Dialect. 



Kdlo. Kdlo nil na sha'shatk, slii'wish nu na sha'shatk, iiu kdlo p'ldi ml 

 wftsa. 

 3 Kdila. Kaila ai n<i shui'sh gl; kaila ai ni w41ta, kaila nn ai shawalta. 

 Lu'Tc. SMshapsh na sha'shatk; shdshapsham g^nuish, g^-u g^nhuish rui 

 g^na. 

 6 Witd'm. Nii ai wita'm gi, nil ai shuina wita'm; nu ai na sha'shatk an, at an 

 g^na: g^na an atf, g^mpSle an. 



