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At that tinio tho (Jiti'iis*" also j>ave property to thohi. It reached 

 beyond their expectations. After they liad daneed for four nig-hts 

 thv Cod-jieoph' eanie and «>'ot them. Tliey also oave them six slaves 

 as hlood money. And they washed theii' faces and he^'an to dance. 

 'I'hen the SUite-.a'ixiao." Middle-jt>itT'ns, and CJod-people o-ave them 

 more pioperty. They gave them seven hundred blankets. 



Then Tcla'nut married his uncle's wife, and they made him take his 

 uncle's place. And. when hi' ke})t staying away from his wife, the 

 Middle-gi'ti'ns talked roughly to him. After th(\v had spokoi to him 

 foi' a while they told him to leave the house. 



l)ut on the next day his wife had him call in his friends. He called 

 in all of th(> Eagles. After he had given them all kinds of food, and 

 evening' was come, they left him. On the next day he called in the 

 Ravens. After he had fed them for a while it was evening, and they 

 went home. On the day after that he again called in the Eagles. 

 After those had gone home he again called in the Ravens. When 

 eighty boxes of grease and berries had been used up he invited the 

 Eagles to ten more, and they assigned while in the house the work on 

 his uncle's grave post.*"^ 



The}^ went to get it. After they had ))een four days away they 

 came home. My father carved the grave post at once. It was fin- 

 ished. He then raised it, and the potlatch w^as over. He gave away 

 four hundred Ijlankets, and slaves with them. They gave my father 

 slaves and twenty i)lankets for carving the grave post. 



After that Tcla'nut ipiarreled with his younger brother. He asked 

 him then why he had not evened accounts at the time when they killed 

 his uncle. And his younger brother made him ashamed. On that 

 night he shot one of the Cod-people through the smoke hole. Ag'ain 

 the}' shot each other. After two days had passed they stopped light- 

 ing'. And they gave a lot of property for [the one killed]. They 

 made them feel good then. 



' The word used here, Laqlala^m, is properly applied to the tongue .of land run- 

 ning out to the modern Indian town. 



^ Meaning the people of all the families of Tc!;Val. 



•'See "Story of the Food-giving-town people," note 27. 



^ The Buffel duck (Charitonetta albeola, .Linn;i'U.s). 



^ The head chief at Tort Simpson. 



"The Hudscm I'ay Company's stockaded inclosure. 



^ Those who had come to procure blood compensation for Lgiiix's nephew. 



•^ The last camping place before heading for the Queen Charlotte islands. 



"See ''Story of the House-point families," notes. 



'" This was one of the names of the chief of the Seaward-sqoa'tadas. 



"Given by Professor Boas, from Tsimshian sources, as Gyina angyi^ek, "people 

 of the mosquito place." 



'^ See "Story of the Food-giving-town people," note j^. 



" One of the subdivisions of the Giti^ns of Skidegate. So called from a house that 

 they once owned which the chief did not have property enough to replace until it 

 rotted very badly. There were several of these people at Masset. 



