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the <;r()uii(l from the tobacco tluit they sold 1 put up into a sack. 

 WluMi niv father came from ^Nlasset 1 gave it to him. And NAfi-out- 

 tci'iig.a gave him man}' bhmkets from the trading house. My father 

 gave him a canoe. In it the}' went to the head of Nass inlet with 

 property to trade. At the end of ten nights the 10-fathom canoe was 

 full of furs. 



At that time NAfi-gut-tci'ng.a threw chips into the water and shot 

 at them. One Aouth then wanted the gun very much. And he asked 

 how Muu'h it cost. The}' told him then that they would let him have 

 it if he piled up furs to the muzzle as it stood on end. The}' then 

 stood the gun on end, and they piled up ))eaver skins alongside it. And, 

 when they reached the muzzle of the gun, they pressed them down. 

 And when [the pile] got lower they piled on more. By and by, when it 

 got even with the end, they stopped. And he also bought a longer 

 one. And he gave six land-otter skins for the ammunition. He also 

 gave six land-otter skins for a bag of bullets. 



They then went away. After five nights were passed they returned. 

 After they had lived there three years it was found to be too cold, 

 and they removed to Port Simp.^on. There also 1 lived with them 

 seven years. NAii-gut-tci'ng.a lived at the house of the Iron people. 

 After that he lived there all the time. 



Here is all of this. 



This story gives us an idea of what intestine conflicts were like among people on 

 this i)art of the Northwest coast. Strife having arisen between the Tcla^at-Iu'nas and 

 Ya'ku-qe^ig.awa-i, or Ya'ku-gitina'-i, to which latter family my informant himself 

 belonged. The Raven families among the Kaigani joined the weaker, and apparently 

 the aggrieved, party. The fend was not ended, however, until the chief of the Ya'ku- 

 qe^ig.awa-i went away to live with the white people. 



^This must have been a camping place, as I have never heai'd of a regular town 

 that was so called. 



'^ A prominent Eagle family among the Kaigani. They were named from their old 

 town of Tcla'al on North island. After the emigration to Alaska they owned the 

 town of Howkan. 



•'In Ilaida spoken of as rum ("lam"). 



*His full name was NAfi-gut-sa^nL.ans tci'ng.a, "One-upon-whom-there-is-day- 

 light," but it is usually given in a shortened form as T^AU-gut-tci'ng.a, and, since 

 this is much less awkward, 1 have retained it throughout the story. 



^See the story of " Wars between the Stikine and Sitka Tlingit," note 5. 



*^ A chief, and probably head chief, of the Town-of-Tc!iVat people. 



" To put his rival, who had not so many, to shame. 



* See story of the Food-giving-town people, note 3. 



® See the above story, note 8. 



'"The four subdivisions of the Middle-town people. 



" Evidently, the respective chiefs. At any rate, QoJgi^t was chief of the Earth- 

 eaters. His name was also supposed to be that of a shaman among the Land-otter 

 people. Far-away (Ldjni) is the same name as that which is applied to the Kwakiutl 

 and their neighbors. 



'^Tallow or grease was put on before the face paintings were applied. 



''So I understand this sentence. It is so abbreviated as to be obscure. 



