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of the Wolf Clan would go down first almost every morning. There- 

 fore the chief of the Eagle Clan was angry with his brother-in-law's 

 tribe, and war began between them. 



The Eagle Clan gamed the victory over their enemies, and the 

 chief killed all his wife's relatives. Then he took the weir as his 

 own. Therefore his people went down every morning and brought 

 up sometimes seals or halibut or other kinds of fish. 



In the other village only women and girls remained. No men 

 were there. After a while a princess, the wife of the chief, gave birt h 

 to a girl. So the chief asked the women who nursed his wife, "What 

 kind of a baby is it?" They told him that it was a girl, and he was 

 glad of this. He said to his slaves, "Keep her in good health." 



After a while the young woman was again with child; and when 

 the time came, she gave birth again. The chief asked the women 

 again, and they told him that the child was a boy. Then the chief 

 ordered his attendants to kill his own son, and they did as he had 

 ordered them. His wife's grief was almost too much to bear. 



Again she was with child; and when the time came, and she gave 

 birth, the chief asked again his wife's nurse, "What kind of a baby 

 is it?" They told him that it was a boy, and he ordered them to 

 kill him. They obeyed and killed him. 



Now, the girl grew up. She looked into the sun, and her eyes 

 became sore. Therefore her father named her Ya°l. 



The mother was with child again; and when the time came, she 

 gave birth. When the chief asked the nurses, they told him that the 

 child was a boy, and he ordered them to kill him. They killed him 

 also, and the young princess's grief was almost too great. 



She was with child again; and when the time came, she called her 

 own maid, and said to her, "When I give birth again, and the child 

 is a boy, do not tell the chief when he asks you, but tell him that it is 

 a girl, else he might kill him also." The maidservant promised her 

 to do so; and when the tunc came and she gave birth, a boy was born. 



The chief asked the princess's maidservant, "What kind of a baby 

 is it?" and she deceived him, and said, "It is a girl." So the chief 

 said, "Keep her in good health." The child, however, was a boy. 



The princess, the chief's wife, kept her boy and trained him. 

 The boy grew up to be a youth, and the father learned that his wife's 

 maidservant had deceived him. Therefore he was angry with her, 

 and one day killed her. 



The boy, however, grew up. His mother was always with him, 

 for she knew that his father sought the child's life. She told her 

 son that his father had slain all her relatives and all her sons. 



Now the chief's hatred of his wife and of his son was so great that 

 his wife and her son fled. The young man called three youths, his 

 friends. Every day they went and hunted birds. The young prince 



