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One morning- they came to gamble. As soon as they landed they 

 spread out th(>ir gambling mats. They formed a line on the side 

 toward the sea. The Middle-town people told the Inlet people not to 

 1)6 afraid. At once they began to gamble. And after the town ])eo- 

 pie had put on their weapons they stood behind them. They held 

 their spears, and they held their knives. 



After they had talked for a while over the betting and had begun 

 to gamble they stood with their spear points upward. Then they 

 turned around at once and speared all. They killed all. The others 

 did not scratch a skin in return. All their wives and their children 

 who were in the houses they enslaved. Not one escaped. 



Then the news that they had destroyed them went over this island 

 and the news also reached the Inlet.* 



After that one for whom they were going to get a grave post slept 

 alone. His mother-in-law, who was a widow, stayed with him. When 

 winter came he told them to make a pole in the shape of a killer whale's 

 dorsal tin, the lower part with the carving of a grizzly bear upon it. 

 He belonged to the Slaves.'^ 



At once they went out to get it. They came to tell him. They 

 pulled it ashore, and, after they had carved it for a while, it was fi-n- 

 ished. And the day before the one on which the}^ were to raise the 

 grave post he pounded up tobacco and gave it to a shaman there. 



Then his supernatural power entered him. They sang for him. 

 Very soon he got through. Then he said: "There are many eyes of 

 strangers upon me. Over there, too, lies my trunk."" 



Now it was night. In the night the Inlet people came to the town 

 and killed all the people. They enslaved all the women and the chil- 

 dren. All the time that he who got the grave post was supposed to 

 be sleeping alone he was in love with his mother-in-law. His name 

 was ""'Sealion's-neck." 



LA^gua was a Tlingit spirit, and there were several stories told about him. The 

 following was taken down by me in English: , 



LA'gua once " came through " a Tlingit. He was a poor man, but his Power told 

 him that some day he would be rich. By and by enemies came and carried him off 

 as a slave. While he was still a slave, his Power came to him again, arid told him 

 that he would be a chief. He said: "No, how can I be a chief, when I am a slave 

 sitting near the door? You better stop talking to me." " No, by and by you sliall 

 be a chief." He was a slave for five or six years, and during all of that time his 

 Power kept promising him that he should be a chief. One night, when he was acting 

 as a shaman, his Power threw something called Lfi^nas ya'niAg.a, which makes j^eople 

 love each other, on the whole village, and everyone fell into a deep sleep. Then he 

 and some of his fellow slaves filled two canoes with children whom they were going 

 to enslave, and the canoes went off without a paddle being used. Long after day 

 came the parents awoke and pursued, but, when the pursuers came near them, the 

 slaves' canoes became islands covered with trees, and they were passed by. When 

 the pursuers passed on their way back, the same thing happened again. Finally he 

 reached his own town and, from the sale of the children he had taken off and from 



