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One who was out of his senses said: " Why do you let him sit there? 

 Even for the blood that is riinnini>- down his fjioe you will be in a 

 predicament. "" "* He then shot him. The name of him who shot him 

 was SkA'ndal. And they did not kill those who \vei(> with him. 

 Those they let go. 



Half of the Town-of-Djrgua people were at Lta'na. The news had 

 not yet reached them. And there there lived a man of Those-born- 

 in-the-Ninstints-fountry " who was unmarried, lie had just won in 

 gambling- three sea-otter skins owned by a man of the Town-of-Dji'gua 

 people. His (the hitter's) name was Alder. 



Then he (Alder) went out on Sg.aalu'tlx.As and ate nu^dicine. There 

 he spent the night with the medicine on his stomach. He came home 

 the next day, and the day after that he began eating and drinking. 

 His sister. West-coast-clouds, gave him birds' eggs to eat. 



He had just picked up one and was shelling it when some one came 

 crying from a ])oint at the end of the town. He then laid the egg 

 down directly and stopped all of them, for they had started the cry. 



Then Alder, with his younger brother, went out to a ship [to which 

 the Ninstints man had gone].^'^ And he said to his younger brother: 

 '"I will kill him even if he has gone up on deck." He was still on the 

 water below, and he held his canoe against it on the starboard side. 



They then went thither. They looked at him (Alder) while he was 

 still far away, and they asked them: "' Why are they weeping on 

 shore r' Then he replied: *'! do not know. After we got away from 

 land, they wailed behind us. They mentioned something about a 

 child falling into the water." He deceived him in that way. And 

 the Ninstints man was yet below them on the water, and he put the 

 canoe alongside of his. His sea otters lay behind where he was sitting. 



After he had remained beside him for a while he stabbed him. And 

 he said: "The chief has been killed. They are bringing home his 

 body." He then took back his four sea-otter skins. 



And, as .soon as he had killed the Ninstints man, he went at once to 

 Strait-where-no- waves-come-ashore. ^^ He went for gunpowder and 

 bullets, which South-east had stored behind it. He also brought the 

 news to Strait- where-no- waves-come-ashore. 



Then GinA'skilas " set a Sand-town woman outside to kill her. And 

 Alder stopped hnn. •' Do not do that, chief, my nephew. You are of 

 the same skin dirt." ^'' And he let her in. 



He then went over to the storehouse, crossing to it on a trail. 

 When he came out there Ninstints people were going away. And, 

 when he came down on the shore and stood opposite them, they said to 

 him: "Alder, do you not see that your leg has been cut oH ^ '" 1 

 wonder what 3'ou are going to use as weapons." And he replied: 

 '•Yes, you have cut oil mv leg. 1 shall not have a single thing as a 



