Lower Umpqua texts ; and, Notes on the Kusan dialects / by Leo J. Frachtenberg.

  • Leo J. Frachtenberg
Date:
1914
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Credit: Lower Umpqua texts ; and, Notes on the Kusan dialects / by Leo J. Frachtenberg. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ^^7 said thus; “1 wonder where he will stop! We are J4'oino- to arrive at a good place.” So the seal (and his pursuers) came to that place where he lived. Although the place was large [much|, it was nevertheless full of seals. “Now we (have come) far.” Thus the su])posed chief of that place kept on saying. “Don’t ye be small-hearted!” Idiere at last the seal was (going to) be killed. “Now we will go ashore, no matter what kind of a place we (have come to).” So that multitude looked ashore, while the chiefs kept on saying thus: “Perhaps near the creek live many seals, we will just go ashore.” So they paddled (in that direction until they) perceived the alleged mouth of that river. The weather was not bad, that is why they could see well the supposed mouth of that river. So they arrived at the mouth. And the chiefs of that boat kept on saying thus: “We will go ashore now. Then we will go back along the shore.” So at last they entered (the bay). After they had entered the mouth (of the river), they came upon people. They went ashore there, and the boat was (soon) approached (by people). People assem- bled there, and (the chief) was asked thus: “Whence do you come?” Thus he was asked. “I am doing very poorly. I was spearing a seal when he took me way off, and I don’t know the place to which I came. I shall go back along the shore, for I don’t know this place. I am returning along the shore. For ten days I shall be going homewards.” Thus they were going to start off. ddien, whenever they came to a creek, where they would find many people, (the chief would) always be asked, “Whence do you come?” — “I am going home. I am going home to my place.” Thus would say he who was being asked. So they went homewards, and kept on going. They had almost arrived. They were always