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chief was chasod, did you not stop thorn ?"" ''No,'' he said. And 

 they struck him on the lips with the siiort sinker string^s that they 

 held. They killed him with them. 



They then skinncHJ Kia'nskina-i's head, and were happy to have it,'*''' 

 and they returned honje with it. They ceased to think al)out South- 

 east. They stopped warring. 



' Situate on an islet off the north shore of Tan-oo island, about midway between 

 its east and west ends. 



^ Chief of K^loo; see "Fight between Those-l)orn-at-<.i;Vgials and Those-born-at- 

 Skedans," note 5. 



^A Ninstints family; see "Story of the Food-giving-town people," note 4. 



■'See "Figlit at tlie Town of Da'x.ua," note 2. 



^See the story of Cloud- watcher, notes. 



"One of the most prominent women among Those-born-at-Skedans; see "Figlit 

 between Those-born-at-Qa^gials and Those-born-at-Skedans," note 11. 



'See "Sacred-one-standing-and-moving, Stone-ribs, and Upward," note 31. 



** Intimating that she was too great for anything to have happened to her witiiont 

 something l^eing heard about it. 



''Taunting him with having suffered his sister to be whipped unavenged. 



^" Blood having been drawn from the chief, they would suffer for it in any case. 



"Or the G.A^nxet-gitina'-i, a prominent Eagle family among the Ninstints people. 



'■''He was about to trade the skins he had just won for European commodities. 



'^In earlier times this was the site of a town belonging to the Xa'gi-hVnas. 



"At Masset the following explanation of this name was given: A man desiring to 

 become wealthy once ate a common plant called xat-gi^na (i. e., "common xat") 

 mistaking it for the true xat, which is supposed to be a powerful property medicine. 

 Nevertheless he became wealthy and assumed the name GinA^skilas, a contraction 

 of Xat-giuA'skilas (" Wealthy-by-means-of-common-xat"), in commemoration of 

 the fact. This (iiuA^skilas succeeded South-east as town chief of Kloo. 



'■''They now live in the same town and form parts of the same household. 



'^That is, his means of carrying on war had been destroyed. 



I'The hides of some mainland animals. 



^^A song supposed to prevent pursuers from overtaking one. 



'^The worst insult that could be offered. 



^"Haida, (^lo'na; see "Sacred-one-standing-and-moving, Stone-ribs, and Upward," 

 note 35. 



■^' A Tlingit name, like many of the names used by Haida shamans. 



'^^This one was erected at Skedans, where a part of Those-born-at-Skedans always 

 lived. 



■■'^Commonly called Ninstints from the name of its chief. 



'^* Chief of the Sand-town people of Ninstints. 



^5 This is the name of a reef opposite Ninstints which is supposed to have been the 

 very first land to appear above the primeval waters. 



■■^''Because he was a family chief, and his death paid for that of their own family 

 chief. 



