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After .some time hud passed, the}^ had .snares set for eagles. And 

 they sat in holes under these. When an}^ were caught in them the}' 

 ])roi<e their wings, and at evening they took as many as they knew 

 were theirs. 



One day a man caught one with slender claws. And, when he went 

 for all at evening, one of his eagles was lost. The Tsimshian 

 l)ought the feathers. That was why the}^ gathered them. Then the}' 

 reported to one another that one had a hawk." And he who missed one 

 of his own heard it was his and went to ask for it. Then they would 

 not give it to him, and .some quarrels took place. 



Then they put on their weapons. They put on ta'oga-i,^ gorgets, 

 helmets, war coats, and two thick hides, one over another. [They 

 had] war spears. The young men had bows. And they came together. 

 After they had fought there with each other for a while, they stopped 

 and moved apart.** 



After a long, quiet interval, a person went to Peoples' town^ to 

 gamble and [saw] another come out from Peoples' town wearing mar- 

 ten-skin blankets with the fur turned out. His gambling-stick bag 

 hung from a wooden float. He reported it to them, and they ran 

 thither. Then he kept crying: "G.Anguda'ii. My seed. My seed. "^" 



From the town one went to sell a copper worth ten slaves called 

 '•Upsetter-of-the-town." And, when they were on their way back, 

 there was a great smoke at the town, and they ventured guesses about 

 it. One said that the town was being burned. Another said that 

 some kind of clam was being put into the tire. 



When they got close in front of the town of Lglla-a'la,^^ they were 

 pushing one [prisoner] down to the beach. His name was Letting-go- 

 of-each-other. The Inlet people'^ had burned the town. The war 

 chief was called Burnt-forest.^^ 



And, when they saw them coming, they chased them seaward. And 

 they paddled toward Cape Ball to escape. Then they got near it and 

 fastened the copper to the paddle. And, when they held it up high, 

 they tried to catch them all the harder. Then they upset themselves 

 and swam downward. Chief Points-meeting-in-the-water and chief 

 Going -after -property were drowned at the bottom. Afterward 

 Burnt-forest dove after the copper and recovered it neatly. 



Then they (the people who were drowned) went and sat in front of 

 Chief's '* house. They begged him for a flood. He asked them to come 

 in. They refused. The warriors started home and camped beyond 

 lia\en creek. *^' The weather was calm. Toward evening two tidal 

 waves rolled in out of the ocean. The first one came in and broke. 

 The canoes with their skids even drifted away. The last one even 

 washed away the trees by their roots. Half of the warriors were 

 lost. And he (Burnt-forest) escaped along with his copper into the 

 woods and carried it ofl' on his back. 



