Language and Folklore. 22,97 
Burden of the song. 
isimawale wa to: we: 1 I hope very much 
nerewe latino to'iwe: 2 That Toowee shall get nothing to eat, 
isimawale' wa 3 I hope very much 
pip'ise: ta: tino 4 That Toovee shall get no opportunity, 
isimawäle wa lo: we: 5 I hope very much 
iwile niarnane 6 That Toowee shall not sing of me, 
I hope very much 
Не isn’t able to avenge my slain opponent, 
istmawate wa e-i’ara 7 
akiniarner ajortor 8 
isimawale wa toqutara 9 I hope very much 
0 
akiniarner ajortor He isn't able to avenge him I slew. 
NOTES. — 2 and 4. -tatiyo is presumably connected with WGr. -fa‘‘liwa 
‘hinders him or it from one. 7e {Tara must be equal to toqutara, 1. 10, 
answering to WGr. in‘utara (though in'u is not otherwise shortened to e: 
in EGr.). For the rest, Kuannia thought that e’t”ara might mean ‘my comrade’, 
‘my companion.’ 
No. 121. Qoniarnersaa — The Well Worth Seeing. 
Ajukutoog. 
A naked man makes his appearance with drum in hand, and 
dances (tiwawon) while the following colloquy takes places between 
him and the onlookers: 
qaner gopiarnerse woa ‘Am I worth looking at?’ 
ha gopiarnega”tit ‘Oh! you are very well worth looking at!’ 
Шт аа qoniaquyeqa wa заё ша‘ itaragawit ‘I am not more worth looking 
at than you, you ass! — who are always in the habit of lying.’ 
He who first answered is hereby reduced to silence. The uaa- 
jeertoq addresses each of the men and women in a similar manner. 
Another may answer him thus: gopiarniyega”tit “you are very little 
worth looking at.” 
No. 122. Turter”naq — А Stone-crop! 
Ajukutooq AX. 
Here we have, in a way, a double rôle. In the first instance the 
man represented has to entertain the company with drum-dancing 
and song, but he realizes that he knows neither his art nor his rôle, 
and therefore becomes embarrassed. He stands and fumbles with the 
drum, singing the refrain in an uncertain manner, and without being 
able to devise any words which may be woven into his song. At 
last he comes to think of the word turter’naq (a sort of edible plant, 
