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Ginseng hunting (1)
{a} ila-ni=tene kepte-mule bi:-ni, xai xutase: ise-kt'e ila-ni.
{but} flower-3SG=CONTR slanted be-3SG but red see-DEC.PF flower-3SG
{но} flower-3ЕД=CONTR slanted быть-3ЕД но красный видеть-DEC.ПРФ flower-3ЕД
The flowers were bending, but still you could see bright red berries.
А цветы наклонно, но все-таки видны ярко-красные ягоды.
The word ilani 'flower' was used by mistake here. The narrator meant berries instead of flowers: in midsummer, the plant produces inconspicuous greenish-yellow clustered flowers. The mature fruit is a pea-sized crimson berry.