The amount of discursive detail in this version is moderate. The number of songs in the series is around 90. No two statements by the narrator, as to how many he sang at each point, agree altogether; as is customary for the Mohave. But the subjoined table shows that a scheme is adhered to. The narrator probably intends singing about 4, or 7, or 1, or 3, or 8 songs on a given episode, and perhaps approximately remembers sets of words for each song in a group. The blanks in the first column of the table presumably mean only that the teller had not yet got started in mentioning songs. If we supply the omissions from the next column, the addition of these 23 makes the total 90, as compared with totals of 90 and 88 in other listings.
VARIATIONS IN SONG SCHEME
Number of Songs Mentioned by Narrator
| Place in Story | In Original Dictation | In Review at Conclusion | In Attempt to Reconcile |
| "Dark-mountain" in the west | .. | 4 | 4 |
| Hoalye-kesokyave | .. | 8 | 10 |
| Avi-kitšekilye | .. | 4 | 3 |
| Ava-sa'ore | .. | 4 | 4 |
| "Sandbar-willow-water" | .. | 3 | 3 |
| New York Mountains | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| Avi-kwinyamaθave | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| Avikwame (Dead Mt.) | 3, 13, 1 | 3 | 14 |
| Iδô-kuva'īre | 7 | 7 | 9 |
| Qara'erva | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Selye'aya-kumitše | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| Kamahnulya | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| "Raven's house" | .. | 3 | 3 |
| "Excrement-sand" | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| "White-water" | 2, 9 | 9 | 9 |
| Avi-kwaθanye | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Walapai Mountains | 7 | 11 | 7 |
| Hoalye-ketekururve | 5 | 9 | 7 |
| "Land-blood-have," near Hackberry* | 6 | 8 | 1 |
| — | — | — | |
| Total | 67 | 90 | 88 |
| * Sung by the cats—the rest by deer. | |||
WORDS OF SONGS
The following are the words of some songs:
1. The very first song of the cycle, where the Deer are made at Dark-mountain far in the west (par. [5]). Deer sings: inyahavek tinyamk kanavek, west it-is-night, tell.
2. First song at Hoalye-ketekururve (par. [25]), next to the last step in the journey, and the last at which the Deer sing. Hatekulye kanavek, Mountain-Lion tell-(of).
3. Same place, second song. Ipa amaimiyak kanavek, Arrow from-above tell.