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And while I was striking one after another some one shouted to me 

 from the stern. A Tlinj>-it was 13'in^ upon one of onr yonny men. 

 And, pushino- awa>' his knife, I cut off his head. After that 1 saw 

 some one who got in out of our canoe and a Tlingit strike each other 

 at the same time. The Tlingit fell upon his breast. Some time after 

 that he (the Haida) called to me: " So-and-so's grandfather, they have 

 bi-oken ni}' arm." I looked at him. There was a wound in his right 

 arm. They shot him from beneath hides lying near. I did not hear 

 the sound of the gun. Neither did he hear it. Those who were with 

 us instead [of helping us] stood near looking on. The}' were afraid. 



After we had fought for a while, and had killed nearly all, I ran to 

 the bow. The many women, who sat in two places, 1 pushed apart. 

 I passed between them to the bow. Then the one who had concealed 

 himself in the bow rose. When he was about to strike me, I struck 

 him in the side. He at once tried to close with me. 1 kept striking 

 him. B}' and by he died. 



And in the stern out of Gana'-i\s canoe they struck a certain one. 

 He jumped then into the water and struck the edges of the canoe with 

 his knife. The}'- jumped upon the Tlingit and stabbed him. 



And after I had gone about in the bow for a while 1 looked toward 

 the stern. They were already pulling in slaves. And when I went 

 thither 1 saw a woman left. She had been shot in one leg. And I 

 did not take her. One that I had struck acted as if he Avere crazy. 

 Then 1 jumped into [our canoe], and, when I was about to stab him, 

 he held up his hands to me. I then tied his legs together with a rope, 

 and I tied his hands behind his back. 



The property was captured at once. Into Gana'-i\s canoe the}^ took 

 ten severed heads. There were only nine slaves. And after SkA'ng- 

 wai's father had brought five heads into ours they found fault. He 

 stopped then. And they took all the property. 



In front of the place whence we had been wrangling a whale swam 

 about with its young one. And we shot at the .young one. We 

 killed the j^oung one. We took its oil to Port Simpson'* to trade. 

 There we bought all kinds of stuff. We carried the things away. 

 And, when the canoes were filled with property, some was left behind. 



The warriors now got in. And, as they went along, they began to 

 sing war songs. It was hard for me. Two of mv younger brothers 

 were killed, and I sang differently from them. 



When they were almost out of the inlet some one shouted "Ix.ia'+i, 

 the}' are pursuing us." Full canoes were behind us. The canoes 

 were close together. They were brave in Sg.a'gia's canoe (the nar- 

 rator's). And the people in Gana'-i's canoe began to paddle away 

 from us. 1 then stood up and I said: "Chiefs whom I have for 

 fathers-in-law and my sons-in-law's nephews, do not tell a bad story 



