Lower Umpqua texts ; and, Notes on the Kusan dialects / by Leo J. Frachtenberg.
- Leo J. Frachtenberg
- Date:
- 1914
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Lower Umpqua texts ; and, Notes on the Kusan dialects / by Leo J. Frachtenberg. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Ol thinks so, because he has killed the ])eople. ddiat’s why he is shrewd.” Thus said that man (messeiy^er). “He was (evidently) told (by some of his friends) that a dance would be arranged for him in order to change his (mean) disposition, and that everybody hates him. ddiat’s why he replied, that, if something were given to him, he would come. Thus he told me.” Then the messenger went again. “You tell him thus: ‘A knife will be given to you.’ Thus tell him. ‘You shall start right away, you are invited. Many people are playing (there), and it is desirable that you should come.’ d'hus you tell him.” That man who was about to be sent kept on thinking. “ I will speak to him. I know vaYxahc ha^'.” ^ Atsdtc waa ants hitc: “ Atsftc “Thus waakxam : ‘MEq!ehiaT^^ Huyakiltx ha^\ TsiTlya plan- he is told; dance will be arranged for him. Changed (will be) his mind. Very sorry for ya^d!yun hake.’ ^ S^atsbte waa^k Ats tE‘q waY^yaxa^mE him is con- tinually mind his.’ Thus he says. If some- thing be given to him (conditional) ^1 Liditux. S^atsbtcin wa^M^ts.” then he will come. Thus me tells he-me.” H wan qadchit ants hitc wahak “S^atsftc^nx waVsun. Then now starts that man again. “Thus thou tell him repeatedly. Atsbtcinx Llona^yun. Ti^mqanx Thus thou tell him. '^Right away thou HutcT^^ L!a^^^ ya^Ya\ SiTH- Play (pi.) they many. Wanted yu‘nanx LiTtux.’ Atsbtc^nx Llona'yun.” CfnAyatlya ants art thou come shalt.’ Thus thou tell him.” Thinks continually that hitc LloxaT^h “Onadian waa^yun. Lixu^yun qnadian man sent will be, “I say to him. Know it I (who) ‘Waxa^yimanx qanbnak’ Us given to thee knife.’ qadcTtux, k!aha^yu‘nanx. start shalt, invited art thou. ' That is, “he is shrewd.” 2 That is, “everybody hates him.”](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28984821_0027.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
