NELSON] MIGRATION LEGEND 517 
Finally the villagers quarreled, formed two parties, and made war 
against each other. The inhabitants of the surrounding villages had 
hated these people for a long time on account of their overbearing 
manner, and when they began to quarrel among themselves the out- 
side people united to make war upon them. These enemies were so 
powerful that they were able to defeat the divided forces of the villagers 
in a battle, and those who survived became separated into three parties 
and dispersed. , 
One party stopped at the village of Kushunuk, near Cape Van- 
couver; another party went to Nunivak island, and another traveled 
on until it reached Bristol bay, and settled near where Nushagak now 
stands. The people on the great island of Kodiak, having heard of 
the strangers near Nushagak, sent a war party across from the island 
to attack them, but the newcomers on Bristol bay succeeded in almost 
exterminating them. After this the Aleut, on the island of Uminak, 
heard of the strangers, and of their having defeated the Kodiak men, 
so they sent out a war party against these people. This time the Yukon 
men were defeated and lost half their number. Those who were left 
then joined with some of their friends from Nunivak island and attacked 
the people living at Goodnews bay, below the mouth of Kuskokwim 
river, killing them and burning their village. 
The victors then built themselves a village in the same locality, 
where they were living at the time the Russians came to the country. 
When the Russians came the people on Goodnews bay resisted them for 
some time, but finally they scattered, some going back to Bristol bay 
and others settling with their people on Nunivak island. Since then 
the descendants of these people have gradually returned to Goodnews 
bay, where they are now living. During the last few years the people 
on Bristol bay have been gradually working along the coast toward 
the mouth of the Kuskokwim. 
During the time of the migration from the Yukon all of these people 
spoke one tongue, but having settled at three widely separated places, 
their languages gradually became different, the people living at Bristol 
bay and on Nunivak island being nearest alike in speech. 
ORIGIN OF THE PEOPLE OF DIOMEDE ISLANDS, AND AT EAST CAPE, 
SIBERIA 
An old man from the Diomede islands told me that it was believed 
among his people that the first haman beings who came to Big Diomede 
island were a man and a woman who came down from the sky and 
lived on the island a long time, but had no children, At last the man 
took some walrus ivory and carved five images of people. Then he 
took some wood and made five more images from it and put all of them 
to one side. The next morning the ten dolls had become transformed 
into ten people. Those coming from the ivory dolls were men, being 
hardy and brave, and those from the wood were women and were soft 
and timid. From these ten people came the inhabitants of the islands. 
