344 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 29 



town with smoke coming out of all the houses. Let us go over and 

 look at it." Then one went over and looked at it. In truth, people 

 were living there. 



After they had lived on either side for a while, one went over to 

 gamble. All that time they were whittling. The j^oungest was left- 

 handed. His grandfather had given him a small wedge. He took good 

 care of it. He also had a knife. And to his sister her grandfather 

 had given medicine. When her brothers were killed, he had told her 

 to spit medicine upon them. 



His elder brothers gambled, but he whittled near the lire. They 

 kept asking him to gamble. All that time he said: "1 have nothing 

 to stake." "Stake against me the stone wedge you own," they said to 

 him, and the}^ laughed at him. 



By and by he started gambling. At once his sister put on her belt. 

 For she knew he would fight. He was the one who always started the 

 fights when the}^ lived with their grandfather. After he had gaml)led 

 for a while, lo! he began to fight with the one he was gambling against. 

 He had staked his stone wedge. Then he killed the one he fought 

 with. 



At once they ran apart. Those on the other side came to fight in a 

 great crowd. After they had fought with them for a while and were 

 tired out, they went to get the box and pulled ofi' the cover. Then 

 the town on the other side burned. The}^ also destroyed the people. 

 They burned their town completely. When they killed her brothers 

 she spit medicine upon them, and the^^ got up. She always had medi- 

 cine in her mouth. 



When the fight was over they at once started down the valley of 

 Nass river. After they had traveled for a while, the}^ came to a town 

 at the mouth of the river. After they had been there for a while, 

 they began to make war toward the Tlingit country. They destroyed 

 some people, and they returned. That was the beginning of their 

 wars. 



By and by they went to war regularly. Ever}' time people pursued 

 them they pulled the box cover off, a strong wind arose, and the 

 water burned. This was how they destroyed people. 



After they had done this for a while, they went to the Stikine to 

 make war. When they pursued them that time, and a crowd of 

 canoes was very near them, they pulled off the box cover, but nothing- 

 happened. When they had started out to war. they took a box like 

 the right one. They left the one b}' means of which they destroved 

 people. 



Then all were destroyed there. Their bodies were thrown into the 

 sea. The youngest, who used to make people grieve b}' his deeds, 

 the}^ took to the shore, pushed a stick through his anus, and stuck him 

 up at the end of the town upon a point. In the evening his voice 



