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started,"* Look at yourself." "Well, noble woman, it is not so ))ad 

 as if I sat below by the creek/' ^ 



Yu'lAn could then do nothing. And his friends G.a'nqlatxa and 

 Sa'diya passed. They alone foug'ht. But still the Sea ward -sqoa'ladas 

 won the day.' 



Then Sg.agA'iio and his family fled to the woods. They were not 

 then called Pebble-town people. Sg.agA'no's family came to Pebble- 

 town and bought it. And the Sea-otter people** sold the town. Then 

 they had a town there. 



The interest of this story lies in the fact that it tells of the first civil disturbance 

 among the people of Skidegate inlet, which ultimately led a part of them to move to 

 the west coast. This version was obtained from the last survivor of the Seaward- 

 Sqoa^tadas. Another, differing in some particulars, was obtained in English from 

 Wi''nats, chief of the Seaward Gitins, also an inlet family, and may be found in 

 Publications of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition, volume v, part i, ])age 80. The 

 town of Da^x.ua stood just north of Lawn hill, at the entrance of Skidegate inlet. 



^ One of the leading Raven families of Skidegate inlet. See notes to the story of the 

 House-point families. 



^ Chief of the family afterward known as Pebble-town people (see below). They 

 were originally part of the Middle-town people. 



'Even in Haida the construction of this sentence is awkward, and translation 

 makes it worse. 



