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Finally the villagers quarreled, formed two parties, and made war 

 against each other. The inhabitants of the surrounding villages had 

 hated these people for a long time on account of their overbearing 

 manner, and when they began -to quarrel among themselves the out- 

 side people united to make war upon them. These enemies were so 

 powerful that they were able to defeat the divided forces of the villagers 

 • in a battle, and those who survived became separated into three parties 

 and dispersed. 



One party stopped at the village of Kushunuk, near Cape Van- 

 couver; another party went to Nunivak island, and another traveled 

 on until it reached Bristol bay, and settled near where Nushagak now 

 stands. The people on the great island of Kodiak, having heard of 

 the strangers near Nushagak, sent a war party across from the island 

 to attack them, but the newcomers on Bristol bay succeeded in almost 

 exterminating them. After this the Aleut, on the island of Uminak, 

 heard of the strangers, and of their having defeated the Kodiak men, 

 so they sent out a war party against these i)eople. This time the Yukon 

 men were defeated and lost half their number. Those who were left 

 then joined with some of their friends from Nunivak island and attacked 

 the people living at Goodnews bay, below the mouth of Kuskokwim 

 river, killing them and burning their village. 



The victors then built themselves a village in the same locality, 

 where they were living at the time the Russians came to the country. 

 When the Russians came the people on Goodnews bay resisted them for 

 some time, but finally they scattered, some going back to Bristol bay 

 and others settling with their people on Nunivak island. Since then 

 the descendants of these people have gradually returned to Goodnews 

 bay, where they are now living. Daring the last few years the people 

 on Bristol bay have been gradually working along the coast toward 

 the mouth of the Kuskokwim. 



During the time of the migration from the Yukon all of these people 

 spoke one tongue, but having settled at three widely separated places, 

 tlieir languages gradually became different, the people living at Bristol 

 bay and on Nunivak island being nearest alike in speech. 



ORIGIN OP THE PEOPLE OF DIOMEDE ISLANDS, AND AT EAST CAPE, 



SIBERIA 



An old man from the Diomede islands told me that it was believed 

 among his people that the first human beings who came to Big Diomede 

 island were a man and a woman who came down from the sky and 

 lived on the island a long time, but had no children. At last the man 

 took some walrus ivory and carved five images of people. Then he 

 took some wood and made five more images from it and put all of them 

 to one side. The next morning the ten dolls had become transformed 

 into ten people. Those coming from the ivory dolls were men, being- 

 hardy and brave, and those from the wood were women and were soft 

 and timid. From these ten people came the inhabitants of the islands. 



