On toke ktakomutomuloniya, elatkuhkasik ‘ci nilun nit Nalicuwok, neket tan kisi-pektuhut, etoli-pektuhut nit skicinuwok pahtoliyas kisankuwekhat skicinu.
And now i’ll tell you the story as it has been told among us, of Norridgewock, when they were all killed — when the indians were all killed there after the priest sold out the indians.
Nit-yaq-olu, nit utenehsis eyik. Tahalu pahtoliyas kis neke, yali-iyu skicinuwihkuk. On-te, yuhuht skicinu… ‘totoli-mihkuman naka wsukonopalan, ‘tokehkiman ikolisomanatuwemok, psi-keq. Am-te eluwe-te kisi, woli- ‘sotomuhtuwok.
It was where there was a village, they say. A priest was already living among the Indians at that time. And he was preaching to the Indians there and baptizing them, teaching them how to speak english and everything. Finally they could understand pretty well.
Nita, am-te neqt, ‘tiyan “Nita nit tuceyik, psi-te wen npawatomon, ‘peci-iyin, ‘peciyan naci-kuhpessewin, naka ‘kumoiniyewin. Naka, musa peciptuhkeq keqsey mikahkektasik., tomhikonossissol kosona kpeskuwatiwal. Ktoli-petapn.
Basiniya-te tahalu wen papahtok. Ma-te keq mikahkektaq peciptu”
Well, finally this one time he told him, “when the time has come, i want everyone to come and do something — to come for confession, and to take communion. And don’t bring anything that is used in fighting. Like hatchets, or your guns. You should all come like someone who is a Christian. (Such a person) doesn’t bring anything to fight with.”
Nita, am-te, timewik wot etuci-itokopon pahtoliyas maqahaniya yut skicinuwok imiyewikuwamok ‘kuhpessewultiniya naka wkuminiyewultiniya. Cel ska wen kiseltomuwawon peskuwat kosona mihkutanis ‘peciptun, kosona tomhikonossis. On-ehta-te keqsey mikahkektasik kat[tama] peciptu imiyewikuwamok. So when the time finally came that the priest had started, the indians gathered at the church to go to confession and to take communion. Moreover, no one was allowed to bring a gun or a knife, or a hatchet. Indeed, no one brought anything to the church that could be used in fighting.
On nit, am-te, kisacuwiw eci-itasikpon, ‘tolapasiniya. Wot-yaq-olu pesq nit miwiwoss kekesk wiku — wikuwok, nisuwicik. On-olu wis… nit-te eci-nomihqosit wasis. Cuwi wen itom-yaq, “Kat cu ktoliphawonewin wasis. Not pilsqehsis-oc ‘kossonuwiyal, kilun qeni-witimiyayoq.”
And then, finally, when the stated time came, they all went. A little way away lived this one — lived this married couple. And apparently there was a new-born baby. One (of the parents) must have said, “we shouldn’t take the child there. The girl will watch him while you and i go to church”.
Am-te naci-witimiyaniya. Am-te mace-imiyan… psi-cel peci mecimsokhasuwol iyol, khakonol weci skat wen kisi-nutahahq. Naka ‘kuminiyewultiniya.
Finally they went praying. Finally the mass began… Moreover, all of the doors were battened up as well, so that no one could go out. And then they went to take communion.
Am-te qelopessit pahtoliyas petimiyat weci-mihkukemit on mace-mihkuman yuhuht skciniu on, keqsey wapekok kosqep huci-nutehtun yut, eloqotat peskok, on… naka nit ‘toli-memhuwi-iyin, ‘sipelektestun nihi-kehs tahalu-hp weci-kisi-soniqit, kenuk-olu nit sign weci-al cipotu mace-peskhikhoticik yut somakonossok kisi-wiwonahpehtuhtit yut iyey, imiyewikuwam.
At that point, the priest turned and came forward praying, so that he could preach; and then he started to preach to these indians, and he pulled some sort of white cloth handkerchief from the clothes he was wearing and then… and at that point, he forcefully, oh, shook the cloth three times, as if to be able to blow his nose; but that was just a sign, perhaps for them to start shooting, the soldiers who had surrounded the place, this church.
Wot-yaq-olu pilsqehsis etoli-ksonuwiketpon nutiyapit yut, wikuwamok, on nomiyan weckuwamkuhselicihi somakonoss. On saku, tett oloqiw, eloqapqotehtek sipuhsisok, nit weci-nutetqihit naka wasisol.
The young girl who had been taking care of the baby happened to look out of the house and saw a line of soldiers marching in her direction. So on the opposite side (of the house), where there was an open doorway by a brook, she jumped out with the baby.
Naka ‘cuwapotoqhin yut sipuhsisok yut eli iyey, pasitaksahak tuhpiyol samaqanok. On nit neqiw mace-neqihpusin, weci ska nomiyamuhk kosona kisaphamuhk, tokki tahalu tepi-akuwiw weci-kisi-nattokassit apc naka, macephuwan.
And she jumped into the water of the brook just where some alders hung over the water. And then beneath them she set out, ducking down underneath so that she could not be seen or tracked, until she was about far enough out of sight that she could come ashore again and run away. Yut-olu, somakonossok, neke pahtoliyas kisi, ‘qosqepossis kis… kisi, macihputaq nit, weci-nomihtuhtit somakonossok, on nit-te-na mace-peskhikhotiniya naka mace-maqeyawotahsultiniya psi keq kispahtek yut wiwoni iyok imiyewikuwamsisok.
As for the soldiers here, when the priest had finished shaking his handkerchief for the soldiers to see it, then right away they started shooting, and they started piling together all kinds of dry wood around the little church.
Yut-olu, tan wen keti-nutetqihits yut, imiyewikuwamsisok nit etolihteluwut yuhtol possiyanteskil. Nita, seksultuwok pomawsuwinuwok. Kis kehsuwok etolihteluwucik yut possiyanteskihkuk.
But now anyone who thought of jumping out of the little church was shot right there at the windows. Oh, the people were terrified. Already a great many had been shot here at the windows.
Katama-tahk-ote. Ma-te kisiphuwhotiwiyok. Kis-na ‘posqolenomoniya imiyewikuwam, on psqolehtasu nit. Psi-na yukt pehki kisacultuwok somakonossok weci-peskhikhotihtit psi wiwoniw.
No indeed. They could not escape. Already (the soliders) had set fire to the church, and it was burned down. And all of those soldiers were fully prepared to shoot, all around it.
Not-yaq pilsqehsis tan kisiphuwets, nutuwa ‘polatalom naka sistalomol naka mihtaqsol naka wikuwossol mete-sehsaqosilicil. Eci-ktomaktaqsultihtit-yaq. Yukt et… etolaqosut etoli-psqolehtasik imiyewikuwam. Kisi, spamkolenucik. The girl who had gotten away, she heard her brother and her sisters, and her father and her mother, crying from the pain of the fire. They all cried out most pitifully. They were being burned to death as the church was burned down. They were burned up along with it.
Wot-yaq-olu pahtoliyas kis keti-nutephuwet, kis– ma-te somakonoss te-na ‘kaptuhuku. On saku ‘toliphuwan yut kci-cipiyahtoq tan nit esehkets. But when the priest had been about to run out — the soldiers didn’t kill him with the others. So he ran toward wehre a big cross was standing.
Wot-olu pesq skicin, ‘kisi-komuci-maceptuness tomhikonosssis. Mec-kahk-yaq-olu cik-te eli-miyawteluwu ‘totomihkuwal pahtoliyasol mesq cipiyatkuk peciphuwelihq, ‘kisi-wolatpehtahan naka ‘siktahan. Nit-ote, nit-te-na nekom, nit-te-na nekom iyey, etolihteluwut.
But this one indian had secretly brought a hatchet. Even though he had been wounded, he was able to catch up with the priest before he ran over to the cross and he hit him over the head and killed him. And there, right there, he too was shoot and killed.
Cu-al-lu nit, wen ‘takonutomoness. Psi-kahk-olu pektuhut skicinuwok. Cu-al-lu wen, cipotu somakonossok pesq wen nit ‘kiskonutomoness. Nit-kahk-olu yut, elikok atkuhkakon, nil kisankonutomuwimk neket ‘ciw skicinuwok. Nit-te-na.
Of course, someone must have told about that. ye t all of the indians were killed. But someone, perhaps one of the soldiers, must have told about it. In any case, that’s the kind of story that was told to me a long time ago about the indians. So that’s it.
Aki, on-yaq-olu wot pilsqehsis yut oloqi huckuwi-kskomiyan. Esqonatek kehsukoniw anak hesi-tpuhkomikiw pomiye. On-yaka yut ‘pe… ‘peciyan yut oloqahkomikiw.
So! Then the girl came on across in this direction. For nine days and nights she traveled. And then she arrived over in this area.
