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enemy. And when he puHed towarfl himself something he had seized 

 in the air all the kelp broke. 



Then all went on. After they had g-one along for a while they 

 saw smoke. And Alder landed in front of Songs-of- victory town. 

 He went qnickly then to the other side. \Mien he had come to the 

 other side he came out l)ehind a man who was carrying along drift- 

 wood at the end of the trail. He shot him from behind. 



The Ninstints people discovered their enemies at once. Many-chiefs 

 held a new gun. Those left to care for the canoes then came round 

 the point. After they had anchored their canoes one came running 

 out from them (the Ninstints people). He had no gun. He held a 

 spear. "The Town-of-DjI'gua people are always like that (i. e., 

 cowards). Shall I stop before I get there?" 



They at once ran together, shooting. The Ninstints people were 

 driven back. The first time he tired the flintlock on Many-chiefs' gun 

 broke in two. Nothing could help him. When they went back 

 Many-chiefs was wounded. He escaped with them into the woods. 

 Ver}" many Ninstints people were killed then. Not one was killed 

 on the other side. 



After they had gone into the woods after them for a while they 

 came back. Then GinA'skilas stood in the place where they had 

 encamped near a whale. If one had two slaves, he gave him one. 

 If one had three, he gave him two. If one had one, he did not give 

 it to him. At that time he became still more of a chief. In exchange 

 for those slaves he had a house built.'' 



And, after the Ninstints people had gone along for a while in the 

 woods, they lived in the mountains. Their kettles and all of their 

 property had been captured. The}' steamed whale in things that they 

 hollowed out. 



While they lived there, before Man3'-chiefs' wound was healed, he 

 practiced how he was going fight. He opened again his unhealed 

 wound. He died there. The}" then started away and came out oppo- 

 site Red-cod island.-^ 



And those who had gone to fight went out again the next year to 

 fight on account of South-east. At that time they did not know where 

 they (the Ninstints people) lived. After they had gone along for a 

 while they came to a reef lying out from the mouth of a strait. 



There Smoke got off. When he looked seaward he dropped to the 

 ground. He did so, because he saw fishing canoes. 



On that day they had given to Kia'nskina-i'^* the white part of a 

 halibut. That was why he was out fishing. They at once went out 

 from KIil"^' toward them, and they destroyed the people. Among 

 others they killed the chief. They then seized Hemlock-bark-scrap- 

 ing-knife on the water. "Hemlock-bark-scraping-knife, when the 



