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306 THE ESKIMO ABOUT BERING STRAIT (ETH. ANN. 18 
wished to go to St Michael in his umiak during the summer, and being 
short of an oarsman he seized a woman living in Unalaklit and thrust 
her aboard the boat. The woman’s husband was crippled so that he 
needed her services, and to prevent his wife from going he hurried 
down to the shore and tried to detain her. This enraged the headman, 
who drew his knife and killed the husband on the spot, and, leaving 
him where he lay, pushed off and made the trip, the wife serving at the 
oar during the entire time. The following winter this man became 
extremely overbearing and very free with his threats toward various 
people, and at last threatened the life of his brother-in-law for having 
refused to join in the murder of some people in order to get their furs. 
The brother-in-law received information of this, and entering the man’s 
house one night while he was sleeping, struck him on the head with an 
ax, killing him instantly. The man’s son, a grown youth, was sleeping 
in the room and sprang up at the sound of the blow and was struck 
down by his uncle, who had just slain the father. After this oecur- 
rence the people of the surrounding villages felt greatly relieved. Yet, 
from that time forth, the man who had done the killing was constantly 
under the influence of fear from the expectation that blood revenge 
might be taken by relatives of the dead man. 
The nephew of this man killed a fur trader on Kuskokwim river 
in_a very brutal manner and was arrested by the fur traders at St 
Michael in the spring of 1877. His younger brother had been impli- 
cated in the murder, and as soon as Kun’-i-giin was arrested be turned 
to the men who took him, saying, “ Kill me, but do not hurt my brother.” 
He kept repeating this, evidently thinking that the men would execute 
vengeance on him at once. He was placed on board a vessel and sent 
to San Francisco, where he was condemned to five years’ imprison- 
ment. There he was reported to have become an industrious workman 
and a favorite with the prison officials. 
The men who aspire to be leaders make it a special point to put 
themselves as nearly as possible on an equal footing with white men, 
and become very sullen and angry if they are uot treated with greater 
consideration than their fellows. 
From Bering strait northward the rich man becomes known as 
u'-mi-a'-lik, or the umiak owner. During the time that war was car- 
ried on between the tribes the best warrior planned the attack, and 
was known among the Unalit as mu-gokh'-ch-tad. He, however, had no 
fixed authority, as each one fought independently of the others, but all 
combined in the general onslaught. An enemy was termed wm'-i-kis’- 
zZu-ga, or “one who is angry with me.” 
One born in another village is termed a-wm'-ta. A stranger is twn- 
in'-t-hakh’, ov ‘seen the first time.” This term is also applied to strange 
objects of any kind. A person belonging to the same clan is recog- 
nized as a relative, w-jo/-huk’. 
The Eskimo of Norton sound speak of themselves as Yu/-pik, meaning 
