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stand what he said. Therefore they called one of his female slaves 

 who understood the Tsimshian language to be his interpreter; and the 

 interpreter said, " The great chief asked for your name." She replied 

 through the interpreter, "My name is Daul. I am the niece of the 

 great chief G'it-xa'n and Nes-wa-na'°. They were all killed by the 

 enemy. He was the only one who made his escape from them. He 

 took me across the mountains, and at a river on the other side of 

 the mountain we found our relatives, who treated us well; and the 

 whole village loved my uncle and myself. When the olachen came 

 up the river, they moved down to their camping-ground; and they 

 did not want my uncle to work himself, so they gave him all their 

 children to take care of while the people went out fishing, and they 

 gave me the girls to take care of. I took them into a large hollow 

 tree which lay above high-water mark, and one night the high tide 

 carried it away, and we drifted away from there to this place." After 

 she had said this, she began to cry. 



Then the great chief said, "My niece, my son shall marry you." 

 She replied, " I will do so if you will promise to take care of my girls." 

 Therefore the chief said, "We will take care of them as though they 

 were our children." Then she sent the young men to bring them 

 down. 



The young men went and shouted; but the girls were afraid, and 

 ran away, for it was the first time they heard the Haida language. 

 The young men came to the chief's house and said that the children 

 were afraid of them. Therefore the princess went down with her 

 new husband to the hollow tree, and all the children were in there. 

 She called them; and before they left the hollow tree, the princess 

 asked them to put on their fur garments, and they all went into the 

 great chief's house. The chief ordered his men and slaves to give 

 them food; and after the food was served, the great chief said to his 

 new daughter-in-law, "I will take all these girls to be my own chil- 

 dren; and if any one wants to marry any one of them when they are 

 grown up, they shall come and talk to me; and if I agree, then they 

 may have them." 



On the following day his son was married, and the great chief 

 invited all the other chiefs to the marriage festival. 



The young eagle still loved the princess, and she always fed the 

 young eagle. Sometimes it went over to Nass River to visit her 

 grandfather. It would stay there awhile and then come back again 

 to the princess. 



After a few months had passed, the young princess gave birth to 

 a boy. A year passed, and another boy was born to her. Another 

 year passed, and she gave birth to another boy. There were, in all, 

 four boys and one girl, and then another girl. All her companions 

 married. They also had children. 



