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supernatural chiefs had not been invited by the messenger. There- 

 fore all the other chiefs had not come. Thus said the supernatural 

 chief to Ids grandson. He led his grandchildren to the place of the 

 supernatural chief who had been missed by the first messengers. 

 Then the two young people went back to Nass River, where they 

 had come from. 



On the following morning they saw a great dark bar at Crabapple- 

 Tree Point, below their camp. The prince said to his people, "Go, 

 and flee into the woods, and don't come down when floods of water 

 swamp our houses and when floods of foam come! When the flood 

 comes a second time, then you will know that they have left." Then 

 all lus people went into the woods on the hills behind the houses. 



Now all the monsters came up Nass River; and storms of wind 

 were blowing that day, and floods of water came, and floods of foam 

 covered the houses of the young chief and of his mother and sister. 

 Only these three remained in the camp. The fire of the great young 

 chief who had invited the supernatural beings could not be extin- 

 guished by the flood. The people who were in hiding behind the 

 camp on the hill heard the voices of the young chief and his mother 

 in the houses below, in the flood of water and foam that covered the 

 houses. Then the wind and rain storm ceased, and the floods 

 decreased, and the houses appeared out of the waters. 



Then- the young chief said to those that were high in the woods, 

 "Let all the young men come down and help me serve food to these 

 chiefs!" Therefore all the young men came down to their master; 

 and when all the young men came into the chief's house, they saw 

 strange forms sitting around. Two of them were very ugly. The 

 names of the ugliest two were Spagait-an-a'tk and K-knaaze. The 

 name of another one was Kuwa'k. He was very good to look at. 

 He always smiled when looking around. He was bald-headed. 

 Another one was called K-lgu-a'l. His hat and his blanket were full 

 of arrows. Another chief was called Lax-an-batsa'xl. He wore a 

 hat made of twisted cedar branches. Another chief was called 

 Long Hands (Wut! E-an'6'n) ; another one, Drift Log Enemy (Wll-n- 

 lEba'1-g'al-soks) ; another one, Short Nose (Lgu-dzak). Others were 

 named K-spE-ha'walk, K-nE-dEp-wa'n, K-wil-g-ig - a'mk, K-wtl-dza'n, 

 Txam-a'x, Nlaks and Ms grandfather, K-ts'.Em-a'us, K-wi-tshi- 

 wanxl, G - adEm nagai, Wa-mEdi-a'ks, K-sana'il, K-sbaxl, K-gwilax- 

 la'k, (Wil-g-ig-a'mk), Wil-g-amk-ga-a'ks, K-n-tsIaho'mt, K-sbaMl, 

 K-gutisga't. 



All the supernatural beings wore their crests on their heads and 

 on their garments. Therefore when all the young men came into 

 the house, they saw the wonderful things that the guests of the 

 young princess had. The young chief took bis new name, Down 

 The Useless River (Y ! aga-watkda wa-mEdi-a'ks), and his sister took 



