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Rh Therefore | the Kuyo'kwe knew where she went. She had taken the fire. II There was a cUff, and she threw the torch down and jumped 45 aside. | She lay down. Then the Ktiyo'kwe | followed the old woman. Now the fastest rimner had almost overtaken her. | He did not see that she had taken off the torch quickly, | and that she had just thrown it over the cUff. They thought it was still || the old woman. 50 When the fire was falling, he just | jumped down. He did not know that there was a cliff. Then the | many Kuyo'kwe jumped down. | All went down over the high bank. Then they were all | killed. The old woman got up again. She heard the Kuyo'kwe || below groaning. 55 She went back to her tent. | There was nobody there. She had killed them all. |

She thought: ''My son is not a chief. I'll go to him. j He shall come." Then she started. She traveled the way they had gone. | Then she arrived, and entered the tent of her son. || She said to him: 60 "Go on; go to my tent. I killed all the Kuyo'kwe. | Some of them are not dead. Kill them. Much is their property. | Take some good clothing. You are not a chief. | Then you will be a chief." Then the youth started. | After a while the old woman told about what had happened. || Then all started. When they got there, the 65 youth had already killed | all those who were not dead. He had killed them and | taken their property. Then the youth became j a chief, j Now, I have told how the old woman killed all the || Kuyo'kwe. j 70

Well, I'll tell a story of what happened long ago. | The people were living there, and at once they had an epidemic. They died. | All died. Then they went about. They told one another the news. | Among all the Kutenai there was sickness. They arrived at one town, || and told the news to one another. It was 6 everywhere the same. | At one town they did not see anybody. , They were all dead, j Only one person was left. One day the one that was left was ciu'ed. | He was a man. He was alone. He thought: ''Well, j let me go around this world to see if there is any place where there is any one. If there is no one left, || I won't see it 10 again. There is nobody. Nobody ever comes on a visit." Then j he started in his canoe. He went about in it. He started in his canoe, and | came to the last camp of the Kutenai. When he arrived by the water where the people used to be, | there was nobody ; and when he went about, he saw only dead ones, | no signs (of a living person). He knew that nobody was left. || There were no signs (of 15 life). After the one who was alive had left, not having seen any- thing, I he went along in his canoe. He arrived wb^re there had been