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men took ten of the late Nes-balas's people who were captured in the 

 battle a few days before, and cut off their heads right before the ene- 

 mies' eves. Then they threw them into the water. Therefore Haimas's 

 people were shouting; and Haimas took one of his costly coppers and 

 threw it on the water, shouting, "Now, child, come, and let us throw 

 away valuable coppers!" 



Then all the Tsimshian tribes assembled at this place to see who 

 would win. Therefore the remaining G"i-spa-x-la'°ts shouted, and one 

 strong man represented the young prince. He took down a very 

 large expensive copper and threw it down on the beach, and said, 

 "It costs four small Tlingit coppers." Then the people in the canoe 

 shouted, and Haimas took a copper much larger than that of Prince 

 Hats !Eks-n!e'°x. He threw it on the water, and said, "This copper is 

 larger than yours ; " and while the G - i-spa-x-la'°ts were waiting a while, 

 all the Tsimshians were shouting and laughing and clapping their 

 hands, and they said, "Haimas's valuable copper is swimming on 

 the water! Behold, that wooden copper is floating on the water!" 



Then the young prince threw away another valuable copper, and 

 said, "It is worth many mountains full of wooden coppers." He 

 said this in order to mock the great chief Haimas. Then all the Tsim- 

 shian were glad to see that Prince Hats !Eks-n!e'°x had beaten Haimas. 

 The value of two great coppers were not paid back by the Wuts ten- 

 a'luk to the G - i-spa-x-la'°ts until this day. Therefore the chiefs of 

 all the Tsimshian tribes encouraged the G"i-spa-x-la'°ts. 



Now, Haimas was wandering about in the country to hide some- 

 where, because he was afraid of his enemies, and because he was 

 ashamed that his wooden copper that was like a copper was floating 

 on the water in front of the G*i-spa-x-la'°ts's camp on Nass River. 

 The whole tribe of Wuts ten-a/luk went with their proud master. 



In the following winter the G'i-spa-x-la/°ts gathered together all the 

 princes and princesses of the family of Nes-balas — three boys and two 

 girls, the children of the great chief Dzeba'sa; and two boys, the chil- 

 dren of Nes-lo'°s, the great chief of the G'idzExla/ ! tribe; and also two 

 girls. Other princes were the children of the great chief Gadunaha' 

 of Tongass, three boys, and three girls, very beautiful princesses; and 

 six boys and three girls, the children of the great chief Nes-y !aga-ne't, 

 the uncle of Chief Haimas. This was the father of Nes-balas's niece, 

 the wife of Chief Haimas; and many others were the children of several 

 chiefs from all the tribes. 



In that winter, while the G - i-spa-x-la'°ts gave a great feast to all 

 the tribes, they took all their princes and princesses and gave them 

 all the princes' and princesses' names. The eldest son of Dzeba'sa, 

 Hats!Eks-n!e'°x, succeeded Nes-balas, and the fathers of these 

 princes and princesses helped in the great feast given in honor of 

 their children. This feast ended after fourteen days. Many cop- 



