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then waved .soiiiethiiig white that he could see. He knew by that that 

 not one of us had been killed. 



After we had foug-ht for a while, and when the sun was almost set, 

 the Middle-town people and the Earth-eaters came to fight. They 

 broke through the many Town-of-Tc!a'al people who were around 

 us. They told us then to go home, and we went home. But they 

 fought in our places. 



When 1 came in they said that my breeches were bloody. 1 then 

 felt there. The back part of my thigh was torn. I at once became faint. 



Early in the next day they shot at u.s again. And, after they had 

 shot at us for five nights, NAii-gut-tci'ng.a told us to begin fighting 

 again. When we first fought many of the Town-of-TcIa'al people 

 were killed. There were also many wounded. And, after we had 

 fought for a while, and evening was come, the Middle-town people 

 and the Earth-eaters came and helped us. They let us go home. But 

 they had a pitched battle in our places. Some time after dark they 

 stopped shooting. 



They shot intermittently at our house for more than a month after- 

 ward. They began shooting at our house just before daylight. One 

 da}^ we did not hear a gun go ofi^. Then someone knocked at the door. 

 "Open the door for me." That was Djig.e'g.as. "The Town-of- 

 TcIa'aJ people are ^one." They went away very early. 



On the day following NAii-gut-tci'ng.a gave property to the Earth- 

 eaters. He gave them eight slaves, as blood payment for the four 

 persons that had been killed, and three hundred and twenty blankets. 

 Because QoJgi't was very sorry on account of his canoe he gave him 

 a yovmg slave. He was very glad to have him. And he also had his 

 canoe repaired. The day after he called them [to a feast]. 



After that they again came to fight with us. Then the Town-of- 

 Tcla'al people shot at us for two nights. After they had acted toward 

 us in this way for three months a ship of the Iron people came. NAii- 

 gut-tci'ng.a then told the Iron people about himself. Then they left 

 us all kinds of ammunition. 



After fifteen nights were passed they came after NAii-gut-tci'ng.a. 

 And then, too, the Town-of-Tc!a'al people came to fight with us. 

 After they had shot at us for two nights they went away again. The}' 

 (the Iron people) then took NAii-gut-tci'ng.a with them. His heart 

 was not strong enough to go without me. So they took me as well. 



We then started ofi". Some time afterward we came to Nass inlet. 

 Two vessels lay there. Then they started to settle there. They put 

 a stockade around the house, and the Nass people brought in cedar 

 bark. The}- paid a blanket for the bark of two cedars to be used as 

 roofing.'^ When the house was completed they finished the warehouse. 



They began at once to bu}" furs. All sorts of people brought furs 

 there to sell to them. During the whole time what was dropped upon 



