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The Masset peoplo were tlien hai)py. Thcv wont oH' singing- songs 

 of victorv. And they came to Masset singing songs of victory, for 

 they had made accounts even. But the Slvidegate peoph' did not come 

 out even. 



But Gf'tg.ax.T'Iifia's canoe was untinished. When he had finished 

 it he l)rought over to his hrothers-in-law at (xAsa'n'*' the news that 

 their sister had been killed. His brothers-in-law belonged to the 

 Sand- town people."" When he came they, too, raised their canoes. 

 He also w ent with them. The Sand-town people went in four canoes. 



They then began to watch Tc!idAlq!eda'-i.^^ After they had watched 

 for a while four Tsimshian canoes came there. They then shot at 

 them. Thev made them upset, and they enslaved six women. They 

 killed many men. There Gi'tg.ax.I'lina got some slaves. He gave 

 them to his brothers-in-law. Afterward they went home happy. 

 They sang songs of victory as the}" came to GAsa'n. 



Three days later news came to GAsa'n that one of the Ya'dAS"' had 

 been killed at Howkan.**^ The Ya'dAS then w^ent to Howkan to tight, 

 and killed six people there. And afterward the Town-of-TcIri'aJ people 

 also went to tight at GAsa'n. There they also killed many of the 

 Yii'dAs. They then began to war upon each other. In all that time 

 many were killed on both sides. 



Some time afterward some of the Town-of-TcIa'aP* people went to 

 visit one of their friends wdio had married in Masset. After they 

 had stayed there for a while and were on the way home many of them 

 uj)set. A chief named Voice-at-evening was drowned. In the winter 

 his nephews went for his grave post. When it was almost finished 

 the Ya'dAS came there to tight and killed five of the Towm-of -Tc Ifi'al 

 people. The grave post lay there for good. 



They at once began lighting again. Wherever the}" met they killed 

 one another. They killed each other during many 3'ears. They did 

 not make peace with one another. Some are still bad to one another. 



Some time afterward news came that one of the Sqoa'ladas ^'^ had 

 killed one of the Cod-people^'' at Kliu'stA.'' He was a great chief. 

 He had a house hole at TII'g.An." His nephews then killed a shaman, 

 Tcla'iult. belonging to the Sa'gua-lfi'nas.'^'' They shot ten bullets into 

 him. He was town chief. He owned the town of Qau. After they 

 had shot him and had walked around him for a while one of his bunches 

 of matted hair, which was lying on the ground, rose up and lay over 

 his head. It went on in that way until all came to lie over his head. 



When the Sqoa'Iadas on the west coast heard that they had killed 

 Gitku'^" they also went to wai'. They killed many of the Cod-people. 

 They also enslaved one of them. 



After that one of the Sg.adjrgua-Jil-hx'nas''' in Masset, named 

 Kiltclafi. invited the people. And he had a dance. He pulled out ten 

 slaves that he owned in a string [holding each other's hands]. After 



