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Nass tribe took them into his house and asked them where they came 

 from and where, they were going. The two brothers told him that 

 they had fled because their two uncles had been slain. They told 

 ldm, furthermore, that they belonged to the Wolf Clan. Then the 

 Nass chief claimed them as his relatives. He made a great feast 

 and took the name Gus-xg-ain. He took the two young men to be 

 his nephews. 



Supplement: Three War Tales 



(1) FIGHTS BETWEEN THE GT-SPA-X-lA'°TS AND THE G-IT-Dzi'°S 



In the great tales of the olden times some very sad things occurred, 

 and some that were funny. 



There were two tribes — the G - i-spa-x-la'°ts and the G'it-dzl' s — and 

 these tribes were very expert warriors. In olden times it was custom- 

 ary for a great chief to take a princess from each tribe to be his wife. 

 Some had as many as sixteen or eighteen wives. 



So it was with Chief Dzeba'sa. He had many wives. His first 

 wife's name was Gan-dE-ma'xl, a princess of the G'i-spa-x-la'°ts; and 

 his second wife was called Ndze°dz-yu-wa-xsa'ntk. She was a Git- 

 dzl'°s princess. He had many other wives besides these, but the 

 names of these two great women were perpetuated through all gener- 

 ations. Gan-dE-ma'xl was seated at the right-hand side of Dzeba'sa; 

 and the other one, Ndze°dz-yu-wa-xsa'ntk, was seated at his left-hand 

 side; and many women were at the side of Gan-dE-ma'xl; and so it 

 was with the other princess, Ndze°dz-yu-wa-xsa'ntk. 



The first wife of Chief Dzeba'sa had three children. Her eldest 

 son's name was Hats !Eks-n !e'°x ; the second son's name was Xbl-ye'lk; 

 and her daughters' names were Nes-pdl'°ks, Wi-n!e'°x, Lu-xsmaks. 



The eldest son of Dzeba'sa's second wife was Gaina; her second 

 son was Gagayam n!e'°x; her third son, Gauga'°l; and her youngest 

 son, Wi-gwina'°t; and they had one daughter, whose names were 

 BElham n!e'°x (Abalone Fin), Wa-naga, and Dzl'ek. 



When these children were grown up to be men and women, the 

 old chief Nes-balas of the G"i-spa-x-la'°ts died; and the elder son of 

 Dzeba'sa's first wife, Gan-dE-ma'xl, succeeded his great old grand- 

 father, whose name was Nes-balas. Before he became the new chief 

 of the G'i-spa-x-la'°ts, his father made him great among his fellow- 

 chiefs as well as among all his brothers and sisters of his house. 

 Therefore all the tribes of the Tsimshian honored him, and his name 

 was famous all along the coast. Then when his own tribe took him, 

 they held all kinds of dances and gave many feasts every year. He 

 was greatly honored by the Tsimshian. He had many costly coppers, 

 many slaves, and many large canoes from different tribes, expensive 

 garments, dance-garments, garments made of sea otter, black fox, 



