BOAS] TSIMSHIAN MYTHS 365 



pers were given away, many skives, and many large canoes, and all 

 kinds of valuable tilings. 



After this feast the great chief Dzeba'sa gave a great feast for his 

 son Nes-balas, and so did the fathers of all the other princes and 

 princesses. Then all the Tsimshian tribes were glad because the 

 G"i-spa-x-la'°ts had new chiefs. 



Many years had passed by. Haimas had not come back once. 

 Since he had slain all the chiefs of the G"i-spa-x-la'°ts in his house, he 

 had never shown himself among the Tsimshian chiefs, and no chief 

 remembered him in any feast. 



Now, after many years had passed, before the people were moving 

 to Nass River, Haimas made a village at the mouth of Nass River, at 

 G"in-go'li, to prevent the Tsimshian from going up Nass River to 

 fish; and the Tsimshian, therefore, did not move to Nass River. 



The new chief Nes-balas invited all the tribes to make war against 

 the Wuts ten-a/luk on Nass River. All the chiefs agreed to do so. 

 The G - it-dzI'°s moved, and the G'it-qxa'la, and they camped at 

 K-quma'wut; and the G - it-dzi'°s went right on and camped at 

 K-lgu-sgan-ma'lks. This was above Haimas's new village. 



On the following day one of Haimas's brothers-in-law, a G - it-qxa'la 

 prince named Watk, went across to Gin-go'li to visit his sister, one of 

 the great chief Haimas's wives. Six young men accompanied him; 

 and when he arrived at G - in-g5'li, at Haimas's village, they were 

 invited in. So they went in. 



These men were very much afraid. They were asked to sit down 

 on a wide thick board. Watk had his small dagger hanging around 

 his neck; and Haimas pointed at the small dagger that was hanging 

 around his brother-in-law's neck, and he said to one of the men, 

 "Let me have a look at my brother-in-law's dagger!" Then bis 

 brother-in-law took off the small dagger from his neck and handed it 

 to the young man, who gave it to Haimas. The great chief took it, 

 and said, "Oh, my brother-in-law is a warrior! — Are you going to kill 

 any one with this dagger?" The chief was laughing when he saw 

 the dagger, and he said to one of his warriors, calling him by name, 

 "Take this dagger and throw it into the fire!" So his attendant 

 threw the small dagger into the fire. He said, "I will give daggers to 

 my brother-in-law and his men;" and he called one of his first war- 

 riors by name, and said, "Come and show me your dagger!" and he 

 who was called came to him. He gave him his war-knife, saying, 

 "This is it, sir!" The chief replied, "No; that is not the one. Let 

 the warriors show me their knives." So these men lifted up their 

 daggers, and the chief looked at them. He said also, "Go and see if 

 you can find any in that box!" They opened the box, and showed 

 that it was full of daggers; and he said, "Open another box!" They 

 opened it, and showed him every dagger. The great chief Haimas 



