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for tlie chief of the He'iltsuq. Que man by the name of Yeimats'alis 

 replied, "All these men are chiefs of the O'yala itx. That is the (3iistom 

 of the He'iltsuq when they distribute blankets, all their chiefs go 

 inviting. Now I will give you the names : This is 0'mx''it, this Wa'k-as, 

 this Ila'mts'it, this GoxsEmiia'kula, this La'qoag-ila, Wa'waxamis, 

 Do'koaya-isahi, Ha"masilak", Ya'kaL'Eiiala, Hanfi/yus, Quina, (iue'l- 

 tok", Ga'ide, Lfi'Lilila, and Kala'guynwis; they are all chiefs.'' Then 

 La/LaLnnam spoke ; "How do you feel now ? You said before you would 

 not have mercy even on your relatives. Now here are all the chiefs 

 of the He'iltsuq." Then O'mx-'it untied the cover of his box and took 

 out his whistles. He gave them to his son Wa'k-as, and O'mx-'it him- 

 self took the Lao'laxa' horn and blew it four times, and Wa'k-as blew 

 the ha'mats'a whistles. Then Ya'xLEu arose and said, "Don't let the 

 voice of the ts'etsaeqa sound too loud. You heard it. We cannot 

 hurt the red cedar bark that sounded before all of you. Let us meet 

 them with our ts'e'tsaeqa at the danciug season. We will rival with 

 tlie dances of our brother O'ts'e'stalis, 0'mx''it, Wa'k-as, and Quina. 

 We cannot kill the He'iltsuq. Let us go to war against the Bi'lxula." 

 He was just speaking so when the Ma'maleleqala came in sight arouud 

 the point of the bay. They saw the canoes drifting, and MaXua arose 

 at once and said: "Why do you let your canoes drift about?" And 

 Ya'yaqadalaL took up his lance and killed the steersman of one of the 

 He'iltsuq eauoes. As soon as he had done so he cried, "hup, hup, hup." 

 Then all the tribes attacked the He'iltsuq. Only O'mx-'it was not killed. 

 As soon as the lia'mats'a killed a man he cried, "hap, hap, hap," the 

 bear growled, and every dancer became excited as soon as he killed a 

 man. When all the He'iltsuq were dead, they took their freight and 

 divided it. But the red cedar bark and the whistles of the ha'mats'a 

 and of the Lao'laxa were given to the war chiefs. All the chiefs of the 

 He'iltsuq were ha'mats'a. Now, O'mx-'it was a slave of Ma'Xua, the 

 chief of the Ma'maleleqala. Then NEqa'p'Euk-Emsaid: "Friends, what 

 do you think'? Shall we go on to the Bi'lxula'? Think of it, friends! 

 We have done a great thing. The chiefs O'ts'e'stalis, Ba'salaL, 

 Wixwaqoqamaya, and Wii'yats'uLa have not come here. They are 

 near relations of those whom we killed. Are you not afraid of them ? 

 Then there are all the sons of O'ts'e'stalis. I think we ought to go 

 home." Then they all returned. They had obtained all the names and 

 all the dances of the dead chiefs of the He'iltsuq. Since that time the 

 tribes have the cedar bark ornaments of the He'iltsuq and their names. 

 They obtained them by spilling the blood of these men in war.^ 



I have given these reports in some detail, as aside of the light they 

 throw upon the acquisition of names and dances by war, they show 



•See p. 621. 



-See ii Bi'lxula version of these wars in the Seventh Keport of the Committee on 

 the Northwestern Tribes of Canada, British Association for the Advancement of 

 Science. 1891, p. 16. 



