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and a helmet of white weasels on his head. He ran over a fallen log; 

 and when he came to the middle of it, his enemy came to meet him. 

 His name was HadagEm l!l'; and Lax-duxat fired his gun, but 

 HadagEin l!l' shot him right in the forehead, and he fell down dead. 

 Then the noise of the discharge of guns was heard. The Tlingit were 

 vanquished on that day, and they fled before the Tsimshian, and the 

 Tsimshian pursued them. Very few canoes returned to their home 

 in the north. Many were killed that day, and their heads were cut 

 off by the Tsimshian. This was the last great battle between the 

 Tsimshian and the Tlingit. 



Our grandfathers and grandmothers have never forgotten this war, 

 when the warriors of the Tlingit were coming up to fight against the 

 Tsimshian, on their way from Nass River. My grandmother's uncle 

 was killed in this war. 



Two years later the Tlingit sent a message to Chief LEg'e'°x, asking 

 to make peace between them. LEg - e'°x replied to them that there 

 should be peace : therefore the Tlingit came south when the Tsimshian 

 were in camp on Nass River. One day a great number of canoes 

 covered the water on Nass River. They stopped in front of the camp 

 of the great chief LEg - e'°x. Then LEg-e'°x's tribe assembled in the 

 chief's house. The people shouted, and the Tlingit also were shouting 

 in their canoes. This was to show that peace was made between 

 them. Then LEg - e'°x's people came out and went down the beach 

 with elk skins, which were held at each corner by one man. They 

 went toward the canoes, and one of the great princes put on all his 

 crests. He wore his uncle's dancing-blanket over his crests, and a 

 headdress. Then the people from the chief's house lifted him up. 

 They placed him on the elk skin, and shouted " Wo!" while they were 

 lifting him. Thus they carried him back to the chief's house. Two 

 men from the canoes followed the high prince into the house. They 

 seated him by the side of Chief LEg'e'°x in the rear of the house. 

 Thus all the Tlingit came up to the chief's house. Then the Tsim- 

 shian came in from all sides of Nass River, where all the tribes were 

 scattered. Two great princes were seated one on each side of the 

 great chief LEg - e'°x. His own nephew was on his right-hand side, 

 and the great Tlingit prince on his left-hand side; and the Tlingit 

 stood there shouting, and they all went to the rear of the house, 

 toward the seat of the great prince, LEg'e'°x's nephew; and they 

 lifted him up on an elk skin and carried him to their side, and seated 

 him at the right-hand side of their own chief. They were shouting 

 while they earned LEg'e'°x's nephew on the elk skin. 



These two great princes represented the two tribes which were 

 making peace. 



Now the Tlingit danced first. Theirs was a sorrowful dance. 

 They lifted their faces toward heaven, and they lifted both hands 



