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to pick cranberries and crabapples; and he gave order to the Gid- 

 wul-ksE-ba'° to make many hundred score of dried, cakes of hemlock 

 sap; and he gave order to the G'its lala'sEr to dry many bundles of 

 berries; and he gave order to the tribe of G'its lEinga 'Ion to dry 

 many hundreds of salmon, and to the women to make mats of the 

 bark of the red cedar. 



This was two years before he gave the great feast to all the monsters 

 or supernatural beings in the water. At the end of two years all 

 the Tsimshian tribes brought the things they had made. The Gi- 

 spa-x-la'°ts brought ten boxes of carved spoons, the G'it-la'n brought 

 ten boxes of carved wooden dishes, the G'inax'ang'i'°k brought many 

 carved boxes, the G'id-wul-g'a/dz brought ten large boxes filled with 

 deep carved wooden dishes, and the G'it-dzi'°s brought ten boxes 

 of carved horn spoons, and the G'inada/°xs brought many boxes 

 filled with dried meat and tallow, and the G'i-lu-dza'r brought many 

 boxes of cranberries and many boxes of crabapples mixed with 

 grease, and the G'id-wul-ksE-ba/° brought many hundreds of bundles 

 of dried cakes of hemlock sap, and the G'its lala'sEr brought many 

 hundreds of bundles of dried blueberries and many boxes of cran- 

 berries mixed with grease, and soapberries, and the G'its lEmga'lon 

 brought many hundred bundles of dried spring salmon and many 

 hundred bundles of silver salmon. 



He sent word to the tribe of the Git-qxa'la to shred bark of the 

 red cedar and to bring eagle down and tobacco, and he sent word to 

 the G'it-q !a'°da to make blankets of yellow-cedar bark and to bring 

 burnt clamshells. Now, the tribe of G'it-qxa'la brought many boxes 

 filled with shredded red-cedar bark, ready to make into headdresses 

 and necklaces; and the G'it-q !a'°da brought many boxes filled with 

 yellow-cedar-bark blankets and cloaks ready to wear, and burnt 

 clamshells; the G'it-qxa'la also brought many boxes of tobacco. 

 His own tribe, the GidzExla'°l, took down their canoes and loaded 

 them with all these goods. Many canoes were filled with the goods 

 made by all the Tsimshian tribes. All these tribes used the same 

 language. 



Now this young chief moved from the old town of Metlakahtla up 

 to Nass River; and when he arrived there, he built two large houses 

 just above the rock of Algusauxs. He built also another house for 

 his mother. Then he sent out his young men and his sister with 

 them in a canoe as messengers to invite all the supernatural beings 

 of the rocks and from the water from all over the world. The canoe 

 was away for ten days, and then came home. The days passed on, 

 and not one of the guests had come to his feast. 



Then he and his sister went to their supernatural grandfather to 

 ask him why all the supernatural beings had not come. The super- 

 natural chief replied that they had not come, because one of the 



