Tsunami Story

This is a story called "The Water Got High."  These pages are from Melville Jacobs interviewing Annie Miner Peterson in 1934. 

It is a recollection passed down many generations about the 1700 Cascadia Fault Tsunami in the Miluk language. 

the water got high                                                    tƚə‿há•p! hɛ•́ wi

Long long ago there was (once) a continuous rain,       tƚɛ‿hɛ•́ •niyɛ gu•s‿mi´n i´l•ɛ•́ q,

not large raindrops,                                                  án‿wá• i´l•ɢ̣ɛs,

fine small raindrops.                                                ɛ•č'i´li‿i´l•ɢ̣ɛs.

It rained a long long time.                                        hɛ•́ •niyɛ i´l•ɛq́ •

Then the ocean became higher,                                 hɛi‿má•tsi báldi•´məs phwi•´lá•t’,

and the waters rose.                                                 wɛń ‿kwi‿hɛ•́ wi tƚə‿há•p!.

The people who had canoes got into them there,         i´‿n0tƚgwə́lsɛ•‿k’áʰ wi´‿ɢ̣ɛ`́ ‿iƚxƛ̯ ʼú•təm,

all the people dashed towards their canoes,                gú•s‿k’áʰ tƚgwə́licdʒa'iƚdə‿yaɢ ̣áda