boas] TSIMSHIAN MYTHS 385 



One great man, Qanas by name, the first one who had licked the 

 oil from his fourth finger in LEg'e'°x's house in the war feast, was 

 a strong warrior. His arrow passed through two men when he shot. 



Now the Haida were subdued by the G - i-spa-x-la'°ts, and one of the 

 brothers of the chief who had married Wi-n!e'°x was shot by the 

 enemy. He ran to his brother, who was seated in his house with his 

 wife Wl-n!e'°x. The chief tried to break the arrow of giam wood, 

 but he could not do it: therefore he called his wife, and asked her, 

 "What kind of an arrow is this?" Wi-n!e'°x replied, "This tree 

 grows neither here nor in my home in Metlakahtla. It grows only 

 way up Skeena River. It is the tree of the people who live in the 

 mountains far away. They are people who are able to run very fast. 

 Tell your people to run away and save themselves." 



Therefore the young chief ordered his men to flee; but before they 

 left, the chief put his own dancing-blanket on his wife, Wl-n!e'°x, and 

 gave her four of his coppers. He put the four coppers around her to 

 defend her against the weapons of the enemy, and the chief escaped. 



When the G - i-spa-x-la'°ts entered the houses, they saw Wi-n!e'°x 

 sitting between four valuable coppers, and two men-slaves by her side. 

 She said to her people, "Take these four valuable coppers, and give 

 them to my brother." The men did so, and they destroyed every- 

 thing, and made many Haida womfen and children captive. They 

 captured also a great old chief named Wl-suqans. 



On the following day they were ready to start home. They had 

 many heads in their canoes. They broke up the new canoes of the 

 Haida and burned the village. The great chief LEg'e'°x gave each 

 man a slave. He had nine coppers, and gave two coppers to his 

 fellow-chief Nes-dzakagul; and Chief LEg'e'°x gave forty elk skins 

 to their guide Anamik. So they started across the sea; and when 

 all the canoes approached Dundas Island, the man who served as the 

 guide of the canoes said, ' ' Shout to all the canoes, that they may keep " 

 close together, because there is going to be a strong wind." There- 

 fore they kept together and they paddled hard. Then a southerly 

 gale began to blow, and they came ashore at the point Lax-gulwal. 

 There they camped for a few days and started again. They arrived 

 at the mouth of Skeena River, and began to sing their war-songs. 

 They put up many heads on poles; and as they passed the village of 

 the G'id-wul-ga'dz, the people of the village shouted to them, railing 

 at them, and said, "People of G - i-spa-x-la'°ts, what village have you 

 destroyed?" They replied, "Git-lelguin." The people told them 

 that they had taken Wi-suqans alive. Then the people in the village 

 raised their war-cry; and their chief, Las, took a copper under his 

 right arm, broke it, and threw it clown on the beach. 



Then all the war-canoes stopped in front of the village and uttered 

 their war-cry. Chief LEg'e'°x broke one of his coppers and threw it 

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