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their guide said, "Let every one put on his spruce-root hat; and if 

 any one has no such spruce-root hat, let him close his eyes as long as 

 we are passing through the sea, else he will become blind." 



Then they started. The sea was calm; and late in the evening 

 they reached the south side of a sandbar near a point, and they built 

 a fort there. On the following day they finished the fort, and all 

 the old men were kept inside. When the sun had nearly set, all the 

 young warriors went to search for the Haida village. They walked 

 about in the woods. One man named Qanas was among these young 

 men; and when the sun set in the west, they heard the noise of a 

 stone ax in front of them. One of the warriors said to his fellows, 

 "Let us wait here! I will go on alone." They staid there, and the 

 man went on alone to see Avhere the noise came from. 



When he came near the village, he heard the Haida speaking very 

 loud. The warrior concealed himself in the bushes, and saw a tall 

 man striking his slave with a piece of wood, and the poor slave lay 

 there almost dead. The Haida man took up a larger piece of wood 

 ■End struck him again. Then the warrior shot him with his arrow, 

 and he fell down dead. He went to the place where the slave lay 

 half dead, and asked him, "How are you V The slave opened his eyes 

 and saw the man of his own tribe. He arose, and said, "This was my 

 master." Then the other one said, "Go down to the village and tell 

 all our people — men, women, and children — not to sleep tonight, 

 because we are going to burn the village before daybreak. Where 

 is Princess Wi-n!e'°x? Is she here?" The other one replied, "Yes; 

 she is married to the nephew of the great chief Wi-ha'°." — "And 

 where is the boy Hats!Eks-n!e'°x?" — "A chief of the Eagle Clan, 

 Sdi'lda, is keeping him in his house as a free boy, but Chief Sdi'lda is 

 not here. He has gone to his own camping-ground." 



After this conversation the slave went down to the village. His 

 name was Sa-g"iba'yuk. He was one of LEg - e'°x's people. He 

 whispered into the ears of all the captives that LEg-e'°x's warriors 

 had come to burn the village before daybreak. 



Wi-n!e'°x heard this also, and she was ready to leave. At mid- 

 night the G - i-spa-x-la'°ts warriors came up and killed many Haida, 

 and some of the Haida came out and fought against them, and there 

 was a hot battle. Then all the captives ran away to their people, 

 and the battle was being fought the whole day. 



The men in the fort looked into the distance along the sandbar, 

 and, behold! the battle was being fought on the beach of the sandbar. 

 Then another group of warriors came out of the fort. They ran 

 toward the Haida and shot them with their arrows, made of g-arn 

 wood. These arrows can not be broken. 



