swANTON] HAIDA TEXTS AND MYTHS 899 



Whoii wc campod for the iiioht |\ve heaixl] a 'rsinishiaii named Xajjfu'n 

 of the Git^^wi'lt^iaodii,'"' who had cnshived some Pebble-people, sin^ 

 songs of victory in front of us. 



Some who were returning- home fi'om Skidegate were enslaved b}^ 

 the Tsimshian. We then carried the news to Skidegate. At that time 

 we started to live at Xa'na."^" They then asked propert}' of us on 

 account of what we had done to the Tsimshian.-' After that, when we 

 were living at Kaisun, more news came. They said that some canoes 

 had been destroyed in Skidegate passage. Part of the people were 

 enslaved also. It happened to three families. They did it to the Git- 

 i'ns"-servants.'~" Those-born-at-Stasa'os,'~^ and Those-born-at-Pebble- 

 town.^" The Tlingit were the ones who did it. When we came to 

 Xa'na Those-born-at-House-point ^' asked property of us for some 

 who had been captured. Then they first gave us property. After 

 that we also gave them property. When we came to Tcla'ai Those- 

 liorn-at-Stasa'os also asked blood money of us. We also gave to them 

 blood money. 



After that the Ninstints people invited the people of Kaisun. The 

 Kaisun people went thither at once. And, after they had been there 

 for a while, the}' went after house planks. The Ninstints people 

 went out also to tish near Iw. Some time afterward they discovered 

 enemies. The Hellabella''' dc^sti'oved or enslaved those who were out 

 fishing. At that time the Bellabella killed many of the Ninstints peo- 

 ple. They also enslaved many of the Sand-town people ^^ of high 

 rank. Then they at once stopped getting the parts of the house. 

 Things went badh\ We went awa}' immediately. 



' See "Story of the Food-giving-town people," note 5. 



"^ Means something Hke "seeing property." 



' Rone spit. 



■"See the story of (ninanasi'nigit, note 5. 



* At the mouth of Li'elAfi river, the Hi-ellen of the charts, and close to Tow hill. 



* Many of the chiefs had houses, concealed in the woods in various places, in which 

 to cache their valuables. 



"Or Lak-ungida ( Dorsey In American Antiquarian, volume 19, 1897, page 279). 

 According to the same authority this was once a large town, but the population is 

 now not over 50. 



*They were so called from their situation in iNIasset inlet with relation to most of 

 the other families. Tradition says that they formerly constituted one family with 

 the Seaward-git i'ns ot Skidegate when the two were on the east coast of Graham 

 island. In couiparatively modern times they settled in and owned the town of 

 Qlayf/ii, just above Masset. See also the story of "Fights betw^een the Tsimshian 

 and Maida aiui among the northern Haida," note 33. 



" Lying just above Masset on the same side of the inlet. The Up-inlet-giti'ns set- 

 tled this town first, but afterward the Point-town people joined them and occupied 

 half of it. 



'"Tlie coast referred to is that between Masset inlet and Virago sound. The 

 Rocky-coast-giti'ns nnist be the four related families called WiMja gitina^-i, Tcets 

 gitina^-i, T!6'ik!a gitina'-i and Djus xade'. 



