So 2 chiefs & a priest travel to Europe, part 6
“…keeps changing direction, always angry, always
making noise; gets as white as snow, keeps jumping up and down…”
– – and they’re not even talking about The White Man! 🙂
Iaka chako aias son alta. <x> Wik saia lakit tintin, nsaika
It got to be full daylight then. <x> Near four o’clock, we
stop kopa iht ilhi iaka nim Bivir, klunas ayu bivir kopa ukuk
stopped at a place called Beaver, maybe there were lots of beaver at that
ilihi ankati. <x Golden.> Kwinam tintin nsaika tlap Goldin,
place in the past. <x> Golden. At five o’clock we reached Golden,
iawa mitlait oihat pus klatwa kopa Kutni ilihi. Mitlait ayu
there’s a road there to go to the Kootenays. There are lots of
tlus haws kopa Goldin, iaka drit tlus tanas tawn.
nice houses in Golden, it’s a really nice little town.
<x>
<Kicking Horse.>
Chi nsaika mash Goldin pi nsaika nanich Kiking Hors Chok:
Once we left Golden, we saw the Kicking Horse River;
klunas ikta pi ukuk ilihi tlap nim Kiking Hors …. klunas iht kyutan
who knows why that place got the name Kicking Horse…maybe a horse
mamuk kik iht mula, pi ukuk mula fol dawn kopa chok, pi klaska
kicked some sawmill, and the mill fell into the river, so they
mamuk nim ukuk chok Kiking Hors.
named that river Kicking Horse.
Pi drit aias masachi ukuk chok: iaka ayu kuli kopa ston
And that river is really nasty; it’s always running over rocks
pi kopa mawntin, ayu oihoi iaka oihat; iaka ayu saliks, ayu
and mountains, changing its course; it’s always angry, always
wawa; iaka chako tkop kakwa sno, ayu chomp kopa kikuli. <x> Stim kar
yelling; it gets as white as snow, always jumping up and down. <x> The rail-
oihat ayu fait kopa ukuk Kiking Hors Chok, mamuk ayu ston
way is always fighting against that Kicking Horse River, building lots of rock
wals, ayu ston kalahan; ayu brich, pi ayu hol kopa mawntin
walls, lots of stone fences: lots of bridges, and lots of holes through the mountains,
pi lili iaka kanamokst ukuk masachi chok: <40> mails nsaika
because it’s together with that nasty river for a long ways. 40 miles we
kuli kanamokst ukuk Kiking Hors Chok: nsaika klatwa sahali pi
traveled along that Kicking Horse River: we climbed and
ukuk chok chako kikuli. Wik kata nsaika aiak kuli, drit
that river descended. We couldn’t travel fast, it was really
stīp nsaika oihat: tlun awrs nsaika kuli <44> mail, pi nsaika
steep, our path was: in three hours we went 44 miles, and we
tlap <2600> fut sahali. Ukuk mawntin kah nsaika klatwa alta
gained 2,600 feet in altitude. The mountains where we were going along then
iaka nim Roki Mawntin.
were called the Rocky Mountains.
<Field.>
Taham tintin pi sitkom nsaika tlap kopa iht ilihi iaka nim
At six-thirty we got to a place called
Fīld. Iakwa nsaika nanich iht aias makmak haws, drit aias.
Field. Here we saw a big hotel, a huge one.
Pi kimta kopa ukuk makmak haws mitlait iht drit aias sahali
And behind this hotel was an extremely tall
mawntin, iaka <10500> fut sahali kopa oihat; pi oihat
mountain, it was 10,500 feet above the railway: and the railway
iaka <4050> sahali kopa solt chok. <x> Kimta wiht mitlait iht
was 4,050 [feet] above the sea. <x> Further behind was a
mawntin <12000>, pi iht <13000> fut sahali kopa kah nsaika
mountain that was 12,000, and one that was 13,000 feet above where we
mitlait.
were.
I think makmak haws meant hotel and not restaurant. Perhaps a moosum haws would mean house of ill repute. Chok means water. I thought kuli chok meant river. Or stalo. I also thought mula meant mill. I am not sure the difference between a ston wals and ston kalahan.
Now we had a big day. Around 4 o’clock we stopped at a place called Beaver. Perhaps there were a lot of beaver in this place years ago. At 5 o’clock we reached Golden where there is a road that goes to the Kootenays. There are many beautiful buildings in Golden; It’s a nice little town.
We have just left Golden and we see Kicking Horse Water. I’m not sure why this got the name Kicking Horse. Perhaps a horse kicked a mule and the mule fell down into the water. So they named this water Kicking Horse. And this was really nasty water. It rolled over the stones and the mountain. It often crossed the tracks. It was really angry and noisy. It became white like snow, going down many falls. The railway tracks were really very difficult on the Kicking Horse Water. They had made many rock walls, many stone fences, many bridges and many tunnels along the mountain and eventually it came together with this fierce water. 40 miles we traveled beside this Kicking Horse Water. We went up and the water went down. We couldn’t go fast so steep were the tracks. It took us three hours to go 44 miles. And we reached 2600 feet high. The mountain where we went is now called Rocky Mountains.
At 6:30 we reached a place called Field. Here we saw a big hotel, really big. And beyond this hotel there was a really big mountain, it was 10,500 feet above the tracks. And the tracks were 4050 feet above sea level. Even beyond was a mountain 12,000, And one 13,000 feet above where we were.
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