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Haida have been killed. She wants to stop your people and not to 

 shoot any more; and Mr. Kennedy wants to bury them before they 

 decay." 



Then the great chief said to the young man, "Go out and tell all the 

 Tsimshian tribes to stop shooting!" So the young man ran out and 

 said, "O people of all the Tsimshian tribes, stop shooting! This is 

 what the great chief LEg - e'°x has said." 



So all the Tsimshian stopped shooting; and the people from the 

 fort came out, and first dug out a ditch inside the potato fence to 

 serve as a graveyard; and after they had finished digging two long 

 ditches, they carried the bodies of the Haida and buried them, and 

 they kept the Haida from further harm. They worked one-half of the 

 whole summer day just throwing them into the ditch. They filled 

 both ditches with the bodies of men, women, and children, and they 

 covered them over. Only a few of the Haida remained. 



Therefore some of the Haida chiefs sent word to LEg^e'ox, the 

 great chief, that they wanted to make peace; and the chief asked all 

 the Tsimshian tribes, and the people consented to make peace with 

 the Haida. Then the chiefs also agreed to make peace, and LEg'e'°x 

 sent word to the Haida chiefs, and told them that all the Tsimshian 

 chiefs had agreed to make peace between the Tsimshian and Haida. 

 The Haida went down, they took bird's down and blew it up toward 

 Chief LEg - e'°x's village as a sign of peace; and the people in LEg - e'°x's 

 house were shouting, and went out. They took one of K!una's 

 nephews and carried him on an elk skin into the chief's house. Then 

 the. Haida shouted and entered LEg - e'°x's house. They took up one 

 of LEg"e'°x's nephews and took him to their own camp; and one of 

 the Tsimshian chiefs, Saxsa'°xt, invited the Haida to his house, 

 because he was very friendly to them. On the following morning a 

 few of the Haida took down their canoes to go to Saxsa'°xt's house 

 for a peace dance. The great chief K !una took down his large canoe, 

 and they shouted as they lifted LEg - e'°x's nephew on an elk skin. 

 They took him down to their canoe, as the old peace customs required. 

 Two other men went with LEg"e'°x's nephew in the Haida canoe. 



Then the Haida became suspicious and talked among themselves. 

 First one canoe went away, then another one, and still another one, 

 and they went out toward the sea. Then some one began to shoot 

 again at one point, and another one began, and all the Tsimshian 

 were shooting at the men in those canoes. 



A large canoe, in which LEg - e'°x's nephew was, went out toward a 

 rock just out of the village. They shouted and lifted the elk skin on 

 which the prince was sitting and put him on that rock, and his two 

 friends jumped into the water and swam ashore. So the Tsimshian 

 took their canoes and pursued them. All of the people in one of the 

 large canoes were slain; and they pursued them to Dundas Island; 



