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invite my brother Sdl'lda!" So they beat the drum; and two men 

 ran down to the beach, and said, "Come in and warm yourself, chief ! " 

 They repeated these words twice. Then the two canoes came ashore, 

 and LEg - e'°x said, "Let all my people run down and take off my 

 brother Sdl'lda' s cargo!" This was in accordance with the old 

 customs among chiefs. So all the young men ran down, took the two 

 canoes while the strangers were still aboard, lifted them up, and put 

 them down outside of the great chief's house, so that the two great 

 canoes broke to pieces. The Haida were afraid, and all went in. 

 They were placed on one side of the great fire, and their whole cargo 

 was broken up according to the commands of the great chief. When 

 everything had been brought in, the great chief wore his dancing- 

 blanket and his headdress and a rattle, and he danced the welcome 

 dance for his relatives who had brought back his nephew from cap- 

 tivity. After they had danced, they lifted one copper, ten boxes of 

 grease, and two large Bellabella canoes, and two bundles of carved 

 paddles, and other expensive things. They served food; and after the 

 meal) Sdl'lda also danced. 



After he had danced, one of the Haida lifted two large coppers 

 and ten slaves, and put them down before LEg - e'°x's seat; and Chief 

 Sdl'lda said, "You shall have one of my names, Sanaxat." 



On the following day Sdl'lda was ready to go home; and Chief 

 LEg"e'°x said to his tribe, "Let each man'give one box of grease to 

 my brother chief !" So all of LEg"e'°x's men gave one box of grease to 

 Sdl'lda, and they loaded two large canoes with grease. The number of 

 boxes given to Sdi'lda by the G"i-spa-x-la°ts tribe were seven score and 

 ten. There were only five Haida men in each large canoe. Wi-n!e'°x 

 sent down five of her own slaves, and five more slaves were given to 

 Sdl'lda by one of LEg-e'°x's nephews, five by LEg-e'°x's mother, 

 Gan-dE-ma'xl, a high chief tainess, the wife of old Dzeba'sa. Ten more 

 slaves were given by Chief Gul-qa'q of the G'itlanda', and ten more 

 were given by the new Dzeba'sa, the father of Hats teks-n !e'°x, who 

 had married Wi-n!e'°x. There were in all thirty-five slaves; and 

 many elk skins and valuable robes, dried berries, and soapberries were 

 given to them; and they went down from Nass River, and two canoes 

 followed them to protect them against danger. 



They went across the Haida Sea; and when they saw the point of 

 Sandbar, LEg - e'°x's two canoes returned to Nass River. 



Many times the Haida of Masset tried to make war against the 

 Tsimshian, but they failed for many years. 



The last time 1 of all was when the Hudson Bay Company put up a 

 post at Rose Island (Lax-lgu-gala'ms). When they had finished the 

 fort and they had made a garden around it, a white man named 



i See a Haida version of the following in S wanton, Haida Texts and Myths, p. 384. 



