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24 SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO ANTHROPOLOGY NUMBER 23
taken along with them a little something to go and
sell so they would look like traders. "Well, [I want
to] speak to our friends whom I see shut up here,"
they said.
"Okay, talk to them!" they said.
"Well, what's the matter, friends? What happened
to you?" they asked when they arrived.
"Nothing happened to us. We're shut up here,
because we're going to be killed, because we're
going to be turned into oil. They shut us up here.
Our balls have been cut off. But as for you, you'll die
here, too, because it's too late, now. We'll be together
now, because now we'll be together, because
we'll die here, since every one of our countrymen
who comes dies here. They are all castrated when
they die," said the others who were packed in the
jail.
"No, probably not, don't worry, we'll get out.
We'll get out of here in a little while. We'll go. We'll
knock the jail down. Don't worry!" said Thunderbolt
and Whirlwind.
"But are you telling the truth?" said the
[prisoners].
"We're telling the truth," they said.
"But what can you do? But we haven't been able
to win, ourselves. But who knows if you can!" said
the [prisoners].
"No, don't worry, because the jail has to be
opened today. You'll see what kind of game will be
played today," said Thunderbolt and Whirlwind.
"Okay," they said.
"Don't worry! Just watch the spectacle. Just don't
be scared," they said.
"Okay," said our other countrymen.
"Well, as for you, you're going to jail!" that
Thunderbolt and that Whirlwind were told.
"Okay, we can go in. Are we guilty of anything?"
they said.
"You aren't guilty of anything, but take a rest, join
your friends anyway!" said the soldiers.
"Well, okay, then. We can do it, but first [we
want] to sell our things," they said. They sold them.
And for as long as [they could] they chatted like
that, [but] they only had permission to chat with
those others packed in the jail.
After that, they were put in jail, stuck in jail.
As for Thunderbolt, a jug of strong cane liquor
was set down for him. But he dra—nk and drank
until he had drunk up that jug of cane liquor.
Another jug came. He finished it. Another one. He
finished it. "Well, but why doesn't he get drunk?"
they said. "But he must know something [special],"
they said.
k'usi chba xchonik 7une 7i yo7 ti jchonolajel 7o yilel
7une. "Bweno, ta jk'opon jchi7il H7e ti H7 makajtik
chkile," xi la 7un.
"Bweno, k'opono!" xi la 7un.
7Este, "Bweno, k'u xi 7un, jchi7iltaktik, k'usi
chapasik 7un?" xut la k'otel 7un.
"Mu k'usi ta jpas Ii7 bajalotikotike yu7n xa
chilajotikotik ta milel yu7n chi7ochotikotik ta 7asete,
Ii7 smakojotikotike lok'bil xa sbek' kattikotik pero li
vo7oxuke yu7n xa Ii7 chalajik 7uke yu7n xa mu
yorauk Ie7e Ii7 xa ta jchi7in jbatike yu7n xa H7
chilajotike k'u ti skotol ti buch'u chlaj taluk
jchi7iltaktike yu7n H7 chlaj lajuke naka lok'bil yat ta
xlaj," xi la taj yan te tzinil ta nail chukel 7une.
"Mo7oj nan mo7oj, mu k'u xal 7avo7on ta
xilok'otik, H7 ta j-likel chilok'otike chibattik, ta
jvok'tik komel tana li nail chukele mu k'u xal
7avo7onik," xi la ti chauke ti sutum 7ik'e.
"Pero mi yech 7aval?" xi la 7un.
"Yech xkal," xi.
"Pero k'usi xana7ik pero ti muk' bu jpastikotik
kanal ya7el li vo7otikotik 7une pero na7tik 7onox
tana!" xi la.
"Mo7oj mu k'u xal 7avo7onik yu7n ta persa ta
xjam tana li nail chukele xak'el k'u x7elan tana li
tajimol che7e," xi la ti chauke ti sutum 7ik' 7une.
"Bweno," xi la.
"Mu k'u xal 7avo7onik k'elik nox 7elav ja7 nox ti
mu me xaxi7ik 7une," xi la 7un.
"Bweno," xi la 7un ti yantik jchi7iltaktik 7une.
"Bweno, vo7ote cha7och ta chukel!" x7utatik la
taj chauk 7une taj sutum 7ik' 7une.
"Bweno, stak' xi7och mi 7u k'usi jmul?" xi la 7un.
"Mu k'usi 7amul pero kuxo yu7n ja7 yech chi7no
Iachi7iltake!" xi la ti solteroetik 7une.
"Bweno, teyuk che7e stak' pero ta jchon ba7yuk i
k'usuk ku7une," xi la 7un. 7Ichonolaj 7un, 7i k'u
sjalil 7ilo7ilajik taje ja7 nox permiso Io7ilajik xchi7uk
taj yantik te tzinil ta chukel 7une.
Bweno, laj 7une ja7 7o 7och ta chukel 7un tik'atik
ta chukel 7un.
Bweno, 7a ti chauk 7une vuchanbat la tal j-p'ej
limeton k'ixin trago, pero yu7n la yu—ch' ta bu nox
k'alal ta j-me—k 7asta ke laj la yu7un taj j-p'ej
limeton poxe, tal la 7otro j-p'ej laj la, 7otro j-p'ej
yu7un 7ilaj la. "Bweno, pero k'u yu7un ti mu
xyakube?" xiik la 7un. "Pero Ie7e yu7 nox te k'u
sna7," xiik la 7un.