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He thoii threw the broken pieces of tlie })ows and the two arrow 

 boxes into the .sea. He did not scratch anyone's si<in. They were 

 afraid of him. When he threw his arrows away they went to him. 

 And they killed the three who were fishing with him, but him they 

 captured. 



He then got into So-.agA'iio's canoe. The}^ felt too glad to know 

 that the}' had taken him. Their minds were ver}' good on account of 

 him. After they had gone along with him for a while the}' encamped 

 at a long sandy beach which is called G.a'hl.!.''' They there set him 

 ashore. They sat around him on the beach. They had heard that he 

 was brave, so they wanted to see him. 



And, after the}' had looked at him for a while, they wanted to see 

 how well he could shoot. They then stood up a stick on the beach, 

 and Sg.agA'iio had something white hung upon it. They then gave 

 him a bow and arrows. He did not like the arrows. They handed 

 him then one with an iron point. And, when he had set the arrow on 

 the bow, he turned around quickly to where Sg.agA'no's nephew sat 

 behind him and shot him. He fell backward from the box on which 

 was sitting. 



They bound him then and brought wood. And they built a large 

 tire upon the beach for him. They then laid him down with his back 

 to the tire. And, while the skin of his back was blistering from the 

 heat of the tire, they picked up live coals and rubbed them upon his 

 back. They asked him: '''Always-ready, does it hurt you?" And he 

 answered: "Ha-i, no. The one whom 1 killed just now hurts you. 

 He went up before me. 1 shall go up after him." 



He was then burned to death, and they looked at his entrails. One 

 lobe of his liver (?) was short. That was why he was brave. They 

 laid him then just back of the place where they were, at the edge of 

 the grass. ''^ 



He was gone from among the families. The trouble then stopped. 

 And they also put the chief's son mto a box and started sorrowfully 

 away. 



When he (Sg.agA'no) ran into the woods at Songs-of-victory town, 

 and after he reached Tcla'al, a woman of the family composed a crying- 

 song for him: 



'■'Grandfather (i. e.. Raven) shook the supernatural beings when he 

 moved grandly."^" 



The first of these families was the noted Raven fainil\' that owned Tc!a''at, on the 

 west coast of Moresby island; the latter, one of the most noted Raven families among 

 the people in the Ninstints territory. 



^ Chief of the Pebble-town people. 



^ Chief of the Slaves. 



•^The name of the common type of Haida canoe used in old times. 



*This stood on Moresby island opposite Hot .Spring island. 



