308 W. THALBITZER. 
so‘kaje: ipvitsartikaliaqa’ 13 What in the world — he ought to set 
out on a drum contest journey! 
qanenarteqa 14 He is constantly very consequential. 
kise pavsinartiwninve:na 15 What! is there something difficult to 
be understood with me? 
uki ät-ama:rter 16 It will soon be winter — 
ip'iner а kernane 17 Не has not come on drum contest 
against me. 
kise "na artoru,n'in e"na 18 Whatis the matter! do you find some- 
thing unsurmountable with me ? 
ukiäta:marler дачтапе LOSTVIINSOONn be winters... 
tu'sartiwaliarpana:ta 20 (There was a time) when we else were 
wont to hear 
iwiler se'galiag 21 That there was one who would hold 
drum contest. 
lo: weeq ta ma kiy’llagin 22 Hurry up! I have not given you up. 
'niy’ercima'ritutit plera win 23 You who for a long time have been 
seriously angry — 
käl-ersertorniartutit 'pilera win 24 You who wished to be a healer and 
comforter when you began, 
la ma tik”ajawin 25 When you turn out to be one of that 
sort 
akit argaja juwin 26 You should (come here and) take 
revenge ! 
NOTES. — 1. na‘itualin. Kuannia said that the drum contest songs some- 
times begins thus. Meanwhile I only know the word from this song and my 
translation rests on pure guess work. Cf. WGr. па:р:04 ‘is arrested in a for- 
ward motion, is caught or hooked by something.’ Another explanation would 
be this: ‘Would that he (it) would show himself here’, cf. WGr. na-“tsuwoq 
‘orows Slowly out of oneself, develops little by little’ and na“tsiwogq in the 
Labrador dialect (Erdman, dictionary) ‘he or it shows itself.” — 3. See line 8 
cf. no. 1862. — 5. The word taken down seems meaningless in the context. 
Kuannia proposed to correct it to maga'naqim’an-una, cf. WGr. maqa‘‘pog 
‘is away, with derivations which means ‘misses the absent one. — 7. The 
infix -tap‘iwa- I have interpreted like WGr. ау’ ua- (< -tarpog and -y'uag); 
perhaps, however, the first syllabe is identical with -zar(pog) ‘quickly, at full 
speed. Likewise in line 10. — 8. Cf. WGr. tarriwog ‘idles about’ or {a rqorpoq 
‘is silent’. — 11 (cf. 13). so‘kaje: = WGr. 50:4 ta:wnakasik (Sufia) — if it is not 
to be taken as a personal name as in по. 168. — 12. pa:sineq ajorsimawa: 
(Sufia). — 14. ?< qaniwog ‘is humble, modest’, + -ip'oq + -in-ar- = ‘is always 
without modesty. — 15. (Cf. 18). In -iun‘im'e‘”na, -run‘im'e‘”na I see the ver- 
bal -ga' or -ra’ suffix combined with -ner(pog), verbal question, and -im'a- 
possessive suffixes (thou— те’) followed by -una ‘this one’ in juxtaposition. 
