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that if they should shoot at their enemies thej- would think them brave 

 and be afraid. The child that was taken captive is still living, and the 

 dan»;hter of the brave man is also alive." 



" Queen North again. — After the battle the Colcines went out to search 

 for their enemies, whom at last they found. Then they made a great 

 shelf over their own beds. Their enemies came and were placed under 

 the shelf, and one of them took a wife from the daughters of the Col- 

 cines. After a long time they laid themselves down on their beds, and 

 the Colcines cut the ropes which held up the shelf. It fell down on the 

 heads of the Queeu Xorth Indians, and none of them escaped. Once 

 the Colcines bored some holes in the bottom of their canoes when their 

 enemies came to see them. As they went home the Colcines started to 

 take them across the bay. When they were in the middle of the bay 

 they took out the sticks, the water came into the canoes and filled them. 

 The Queen Forth Indians were drowued, but the Colcines were saved, 

 because their neighbors went to them and helped them. So the Col- 

 cines prevailed over their enemies, and there was peace." 



^^ Story of another family. — There was a man with his wife and chil- 

 dren. One woman, who was very fair, was walking with a babe and 

 some boj'S and girls. This was the daughter of the sick man, but when 

 she came home she found some other Indians slaying the family, and 

 her father was killed. These took hold of her; one wanted her, another 

 wanted her, and all wanted her, and so they killed her, and none had 

 her. The man's wife dug deep in the ground, put one of her daughters 

 there and covered her over; she did also the same for herself, and an- 

 other person climbed a tree, and none saw her, so three were left alive. 

 The man was sick, and yet they showed him no mercy." 



'■^ A Jif/ht icith a grizzly hear. — A long time ago a man came to the 

 canal to marry a wife. He found one, and gave some things to her 

 father. The woman loved the man, but her father did not like his son- 

 in-law, but threw away the things which the num gave him, hence the 

 man went home. After awhile this woman and some others went to 

 gather berries. My mother's mother was among them. The woman 

 had a companion, and the two weut away from their comrades where 

 they saw the bear, but they did not fear it, they simply talked about it, 

 and made fun. The bear went off, but after a time they saw it again, 

 wher. they talked just as at first. The bear went around to the woman 

 who wished to marry the man and suddenly jumped at her. The other 

 woman went to help her, but soon received some wounds, so that she left 

 and went to tell her other comrades, while the woman kei)t fighting 

 with the bear. Poorwoman! Shecalled aloud to her companions to help 

 her, but they ran home to tell the news. She was soon killed, but her 

 friends told her parents, and that night very many people gathered 

 toj>ether with spears, arrows, aiul knives to fight the bear. When they 

 reached the place they told the woman's parents to stand on a fallen 

 tree, so that they would be safe. Then they surrounded the bear and 



