[3] Humar is boy; the sound ng does not occur in Mohave speech, but is frequent in the distorted forms which words assume when sung. Hang is also the Mohave idea of the reverberating sound produced by beating or scraping a basket set in front of the mouth of a jar—the proper accompaniment to certain song-series.
[4] The first song of the four is: humīk pi'ipaik nakwiδauk, now-both being-alive we-sit-here.
2. Then they said to each other: "My brother, we will leave this place. We grew here. We came out of the corner here, but now we will leave it." So they started from their corner, crawling forward on their bent legs a short distance, four times: but they thought they were walking. Then they began to talk of cane-buzzers[5] which they had. There was no cane there then. Nevertheless they had cane, both ahta-hamaka and ahta-hatšima, large cane and small cane. They said: "I hear canes swaying in the wind in the west and in the south." They heard it rustling. That is why large cane grows in the south below Yuma, and in the west; but not in this country. They sang twice each. (4 songs.)
[5] A toy, a piece of cane as large as a finger, through which a string is passed on which it is revolved against the teeth.
3. Then they said:[6] "Listen to what we tell. We have dreamed well. We can divide the dark and the stars.[7] You do not know it, but you will have war. We did not learn that from Matavilya: we dreamed it. We are telling what is so: You will see. We are brave and tell of things which we have dreamed." (4 songs.)[8]
[6] "Said to me," in the narrator's words.
[7] Referring to wars of the Mohave against the Halchidhoma and Cocopa.
[8] The words of the first of these songs about dreaming are: sumāk imank akanavek.
4. Now as they sang, they had no gourd (rattles). They said: "We have no gourds. That will not do. When people make war and kill an enemy and dance, it will be well that they have such things." Now they were about to make a gourd to give to me.[9] They said: "We have none yet but we can make it." Then the older one stood up, turned to the west, to the north, to the east, and to the south.[10] Then he had a gourd in his right hand. He said: "It will be well, when a man sings, to use that. Everyone will like to hear it." (4 songs.)[11]
[9] Viz., to the narrator.