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Mr. Kennedy or Dr. Kennedy, an officer of the Hudson Bay Company, 

 was married to Chief LEg'e'°x's eldest daughter, named Su-da'°l. Not 

 many Tsimshian made their home in Port Simpson. They were still 

 living in the old town Metlakahtla. Only the great chief L.Eg - e'°x 

 himself was camping at the fort with all his people. They used to 

 camp there on their way from Nass to Skeena River and from Metla- 

 kahtla to Nass River. In olden times the people cleared their land 

 with stone axes. 



When the Hudson Bay Company first came, they built the fort at 

 White Point (Ma/ksgum ts'.uwa'nql) on Nass River, the point that we 

 call Crabapple-Tree Point (K-lgu-sgan-ma'lks). In the same year 

 when the fort was finished on Nass River, Mr. Kennedy was married 

 to Chief L.Eg - e'°x's eldest daughter. They lived there nearly two 

 years. It is very cold on that point in winter. Sometimes they 

 lacked fresh water, and some of their workmen froze to death : there- 

 fore Mr. Kennedy asked his wife to speak to her father. When thp 

 season of olachen fishing came, and all the people had come up from 

 Metlakahtla to Nass River, Mrs. Kennedy invited her father into the 

 fort, and said to him, "Father, give a small piece of land to Mr. Ken- 

 nedy, for I almost freeze to death here. Some men were frozen to 

 death last winter." Then the great chief was speechless. He said, 

 ''I am afraid lest my child be frozen here next winter." 



Then Chk'f LEge'°x said, "My dear child, I have no land. This 

 land belongs to all the tribes of the Tsimshian. Only my camping- 

 place on Rose Island, where there are a few houses besides my own 

 large house — I can lend this to your husband for some time." 



So she told her husband what her father had said; and the white 

 man said, "Yes ; I do not want to take land, but we will trade on it for 

 a short time." Thus spoke Mr. Kennedy. 



They moved down the same summer, and in the fall of the year 

 they moved all their property down. A year after they had finished 

 the fort and the fences for the garden, they brought down the body 

 of Simpson, who had died at Crabapple-Tree Point. This was in the 

 spring or summer. 



When all the Tsimshian moved down from Nass River for olachen 

 fishing, they assembled at Rose Island Camp. 



Now we will return to our enemies, the Haida. One day early in 

 the summer the Haida came over to trade with the Tsimshian and 

 with the Hudson Bay Company. Many hundreds of canoes came, and 

 they camped in front of the Hudson Bay Company's potato fence on 

 the seashore. The Haida built their little huts on the sand on the 

 shore; and the Tsimshian were encamped on the other side, west- 

 ward, and all around Rose Island. A Haida woman was trading 

 with a Tsimshian woman, exchanging olachen oil for dried halibut. 

 She was to give five pieces of dried halibut for one measure of oil. 



