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language, in Tlingit; and, since no one answered, they fled in their 

 hunting-canoe. Thus the G"it-dzl'°s gained a victory over the 

 Tlingit. They took two large canoes and pursued the four men, but 

 the small canoe was faster than the large ones. 



Therefore the two large canoes went into the next bay, and as 

 they went farther in they saw smoke rising in front of them. In the 

 evening they went ashore on the beach, and they found there a camp 

 consisting of six houses. 



The chief sent two scouts. These went there secretly, and they 

 found nobody in. Fires were lighted, and everything was left in the 

 houses; and all the houses were full of garments and vessels and 

 coppers, which the Tlingit had thrown away in their haste, for they 

 had fled from their camp. The four men in the little canoe had come 

 to the camp and told them to flee before their enemies. Therefore 

 these people had gone and crossed the mountains. When they arrived 

 on the other side of the mountain, they found some Tlingit camping 

 at K-ts !Em-adI'°n Creek, fishing salmon and hunting. They also 

 took to their canoes, which they loaded with dried salmon, mountain- 

 goat meat, tallow, and dried seal, and they moved away to Alaska. 



Therefore the Tsimshian now owned the whole country, because 

 they had gained a victory over the Tlingit. Many times the Tlingit 

 tried to regain this side, but they could not do it. 



The last war with the Tlingit was when the Tsimshian were coming 

 back from Nass River. This was in the generation of my grand- 

 mother and my grandfather, the second year after the white men 

 arrived on this coast. They knew then how to use guns. The 

 Tlingit were the first to meet white men at Old Tongass. Therefore 

 they knew how to use guns at that time. 



When the Tsimshian were going down from Nass River, and they 

 were halfway down, a hunting-canoe came to meet them, and shouted 

 that Tlingit warriors were coining along to fight the Tsimshian. 

 Then the Tsimshian warriors took twenty good-sized canoes and 

 went ahead of all the other canoes that, were coming down from Nass 

 River. They joined in battle on the shore at K-lip-g - anlin, half- 

 way between Nass and Skeena Rivers. Then one of the Tlingit 

 warriors came forward from a Tlingit camp, and said to the Tsim- 

 shian, "Who will come and fight with me? Let. him come forward 

 to fight with me before the battle is to begin!" The name of this 

 man was Lax-duxat. Then one man of LEg"e'°x's tribe said, "I 

 will meet you. If you kill me, then you will have won the victory 

 over the Tsimshian. If I kill you, then we shall have won the 

 victory over your people." Therefore the Tlingit ran forward 

 against the man who had spoken to him, and said while he was run- 

 ning, "I wdl take off your head today." He had tied his dagger to 

 Lis left wrist, and held his gun in his right hand. He wore a red shirt, 



