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ashamed. Then it was reported that a woman .said of us: '' What open 

 phic-e do they Ivcep going out for, I wonderi! *" ' We innnediately pre- 

 pared for war. 



The people went then to the camps from Gil'dAl. And after they 

 had tished for some time the tish were dried. Then we went to war 

 in four canoes. We started across from North island.** We went 

 against the Klawak^ people. 



We pulled up our canoes at the mouth of the inlet. The next day 

 we again went up the inlet. We went, went, went for a while and 

 landed where there was a strong tidal current. In one [stream] there 

 were plenty of dog salmon. After we had been there a while [we saw] 

 some broad sails coming from above. And it (the canoe) landcnl below 

 the place where we had pulled up our canoes. 



He (the owner) had his wife and two slaves. Then he got oU' and put 

 on his cartridge box. And he passed up near the place where we were 

 watching. After he had gone a slave killed dog salmon in the creek 

 with stones. During all that time they talked Tlingit to one another. 

 And they started a fire at the foot of a tree which stood near them. 



By and by, when evening came, he came down. From afar he spoke 

 Tlingit to them. Three persons presently came along behind him. 

 When two reports were heard the people ran down. The slaves 

 already had their hands in it (the canoe). The gun box was untouched. 

 There were five [guns] in it. Since he had come there he had lain 

 down on his back and spoken in the Tlingit language. The roasted 

 salmon was still stuck in the ground.'" 



Then they shot him from in front. And then he exclaimed: *"' What 

 people have done this tome? Save me."" Then he (the assailant) 

 shot him again with a pistol. A male slave, however, escaped into 

 the woods. And when they ran down to his canoe there were cuts 

 of whale in it. By that time they were speaking Kaigani '" together. 

 I then said to them: "Why did you, who are Haida, talk Tlingit? 

 We would not have touched you." Then she (his wife) said: "We 

 did not think anything like this would happen." 



And when the}^ got ready to start she said: "Those who came with 

 us have a fire on the other side. They are Klawak people." In the 

 night we went over to them. And we landed near. We ran toward 

 them. The fire there was large. And after we had gone toward it 

 for a while we peeped over a log. They lay asleep around the fire. 



Just before daybreak we ran upon them. Then we seized a man to 

 enslave him. He resisted more fiercely than was expected. Then I 

 shot him. He fell. Afterward he rose. When he ran they shot 

 him again. After that he ran into the woods. We took all the prop- 

 erty of the men. We took six slaves. Many, too, we killed. 



Then we got into our canoes. We prepared to go. And we arrived 

 over against GAsq".^'* In the night a south wind came suddenly upon 



