[2] Downstream from Hatšioq-vaṭveve.
[3], [3a] The narrator stated that he usually omitted the songs credited to pars. [1] and [2] and began with those referring to the Providence mountains. Iθava is arrowweed.
2. Then they went up on the mesa, and from there into the mountains at Iθave-kukyave. (2 songs.)[3a]
3. Then they went on to the large mountains, Avi-kwe-havasu,[4] the Providence mountains. (2 songs.)
[4] "Blue mountains," as they appear from the Mohave country.
4. They had found that land and kept it for their own. They lived there a year. Now Umas-kwitšit-patše was a Mohave, and his relatives were Mohave in this country. He said: "I want to go back to my relatives." Then he returned by the way he had come, going back to Aha-kwa'i with his people. When he had returned, all the Mohave said: "I think he has come to make war." They talked of war. They were afraid of him, for he was very large. Then he went back to the Providence mountains with his people. Now he was a man who dreamed well.[5] He knew what the people were saying about him: he dreamed it. They were saying: "I wish Umas-kwitšit-patše would come again. We would cook wheat[6] for him, and put meat into it, and make good food for him." No one sent for him to come but he knew what they wished. Then he was ready to come to make war. So he started with his people, but he did not go straight. He went past Hatalompe[7] far down to Aha-kwatpave.[8] (An indefinite number of songs.)[9]
[5] Sumatš-ahotk.
[6] Frequently considered native by the Mohave.
[7] Six miles south of Beal, the point at which the Santa Fe railroad leaves California on its way east.
[8] On the Colorado on the east side, below Ehrenberg. He had to cross the river to reach it, of course.