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Hao î'sîñ a-a-a-a L'gua'-a-a-a giê'stA li'mAn XA'ndjusgê
Again | perhaps | from where | hide of some mainland animal |came around
dAñ xatga' ai+ dAñ gaLgâ'ndA[ga] dAñ galgâ'lao
your father you look around at new things you be taken care of sitting
lîña'-us.
expect to be.
Aiyañê'-ê-ê-A ê-ê-êyañ â'-a-a aiyañê' q!o'ldjatga'+.
Be careful, | be careful, | chief-woman.

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Hao î'sîñ a-a-a-a L'gua'-a-a-a giê'stA gu'lxas xA'ndjus gê
Again | perhaps | from where | big variety of abalone | came around
dAñ xatga' ai+ dAñ gaLgâ'ndA[ga] dAñ galgâ'lao
your father you look around at new things you be taken care of sitting
lîña'-us.
expect to be.
Aiyañê'-ê-ê-A ê-ê-êyañ â'-a-a aiyañê' q!o'ldjatga'+.
Be careful, | be careful, | chief-woman.

Again perhaps you expect to sit up high in your father's canoe, 1 chief-woman, and look around upon all things in front of Upset-Canoe.
Be careful, be careful, chief-woman!

Again perhaps you expect to sit up high in your father's canoe, chief-woman, and look around the place whence coppers come.
Be careful, be careful, chief-woman!

Again perhaps you expect to sit up high in your father's canoe, chief-woman, and look around the place whence li'mAn-hides come.
Be careful, be careful, chief-woman!

Again perhaps you expect to sit up high in your father's canoe, chief-woman, and look around the place whence abalones come.
Be careful, be careful, chief-woman.

Footnotes

24:2
A place north of Cape Ball.
25:1
Chiefs' children used to be placed high up on blankets in the centre of trading-canoes so that they could look about. Here the baby is reminded of what she used to do in a former existence.

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