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Now, Haimas's wife, the daughter of Nes-y!aga-ne't, went up to 

 her father's house, to the place were the G - it-dzI'°s were encamped. 

 Nes-y!aga-ne't's warriors advised her to take some excrement 

 and put it on her husband's pillow, and then to come back again. 

 They said, "If they come to kill you, we shall slay them to avenge 

 your father." Therefore the woman went down again. She took 

 some excrement and put it on the pillow of her husband, the chief 

 Haimas. Then she went back to her father's house. 



Then the chief went into his house and saw the excrement on his pil- 

 low, and he asked all his wives whether they had done it. His wives 

 did not know who had done it. Finally they said that his chief wife, 

 Di°ks, had done it. Then he called his two brothers, Wi-ha.' and 

 Gwina'°t, and asked them to go to the camp of the G-it-dzi'°s, and to 

 bring Dl°ks back. He said, "I will give her this excrement to eat." 



The two princes went up to the camp of the G"it-dzi'°s, and came 

 to a place where a man was making a new canoe. They stood 

 behind him, and said, "Your new canoe shall be ours." The man 

 replied, "Yes; this new canoe that I am making shall be yours, but I 

 will sell it." 



"While these princes were talking to the man who was making the 

 canoe, some of Nes-y!aga-ne't's warriors were ready to slay both of 

 them. One man was sitting on the roof of the chief's large house, 

 holding a long spear; and two others were in hiding on each side of the 

 door, each holding a war-club. 



Before the two princes went in, they asked Am-dzi'°sk, the man 

 who was making the canoe, "Is DPks, the wife of Haimas, in the 

 house?" — "Oh, yes!" they replied, "she is in there. What do you 

 want of her?" — "She put some excrement on her husband's pillow, 

 and we come to take her back by order of our brother the chief." They 

 went in; and as Wi-ha'° entered and stood in the doorway, he asked, 

 ' ' Where is Di°ks ? " The princess was seated in front of her late father's 

 coffin. She said, "Here I am! What do you want?" At that mo- 

 ment the man who was on the roof of the house thrust his spear into 

 Wl-ha'°'s back just between the shoulders, piercing his backbone; 

 and when Wi-gwina'°t saw his elder brother fall, he ran out. The 

 two men at the door tried to kill him with their clubs, but they 

 missed him, and he ran as fast as he could right down the beach and 

 on the ice towards his own village. 



Haimas was looking towards the camp of the G - it-dzI'°s, and he 

 saw a person being pursued on the ice, and said to one of his men, 

 "Look here! Wl-ha'° is driving the G - it-dzI'°s before him on the 

 ice." At that time the man who was making the canoe took his 

 tomahawk and threw it at Wl-gwina'°t's feet and struck him in the 

 bend of the knee, so that he fell down on the ice; and all Nes-y!aga- 



