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Q!â'nêqi?laxu begins his wanderings. 4

"Don't go away!" said Q!â'nêqi?laxu to Only-One. "I shall go to see the child of Gwâ'?nâlâlis." Q!â'nêqi?laxu started. He saw Shaman-Woman. Q!â'nêqi?laxu was afraid of Shaman-Woman, and he went past inland from Shaman-Woman. Q!â'nêqi?laxu started, and he saw

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something that was wrong. It was not a real man. It was not a real man, what was seen by Q!â'nêqi?laxu. He started, and he saw LExyâ'lik*a?layû. He was afraid of him, and went past inland from LExyâ'lik*a?layû. Q!â'nêqi?laxu started. He was Greatest-Shaman at Having-Dead-Ones, the place of Greatest-Shaman. He passed inland from Greatest-Shaman.


Footnotes

193:4 See Publications of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition, Vol. pp. 195, 210, 222.


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