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people'' who had gone out from the town after something saw unob- 

 served that enemies were in a certain place. And, after he had watched 

 them for a while, he shot one. No one was about. 



lie then cut off his head. With that ho brought the news to the 

 fort. His name was Great-drum. Then the Ninstints people launched 

 a laroe canoe. They did not know that the Skidegate people were 

 lying in wait for them on the shore near the fort. After the}' had 

 gone along for a while they shot at them. They upset the canoe. 



Then Tasgie'n and Gfi'da-kuJa'ns got ashore with ammunition. Both 

 l)clong(Hl to the Sand-town people. They shot at the Skidegate peo- 

 ple from behind rocks which leaned toward the sea along the edges of 

 the water. As soon as it was seen from the fort that they had been 

 upset they went to help them. Those were the Ninstints-giti'ns and 

 the Sa'ki-qe'ig.awa-i.** 



Then they landed. And they came behind the Skidegate people. 

 At that time Yu'wa-i came to GA'nx.oat, who was taking a bath in the 

 woods. He feared then to shoot him, he was such a great chief. Then 

 he finished " night-picks-up-the-village" (his daily fast).^ 



LaginA'ndigudan also tried to help his sons by shooting. Then 

 Yu'wa-i came behind the Skidegate people and shot one. He (the man 

 shot) was all alone. He then cut off his head and put a string on it, 

 and he came out with it at the end of the lines of Skidegate people. 

 "Ho ho ho, ho ho ho, ho ho ho, Skidegate people, I am Yu'wa-i. 1 

 am eating you up from behind." And, when the Skidegate people saw 

 the head that he had on his back, even their sinews gave out [they were 

 so discouragedj.** 



The Sand-town people lost an advantage by their foolishness. Their 

 new muskets and annnunition were sunk. Not long before a trading 

 vessel had come there. 



And before this, after things had been going on quietl}' at the 

 [NinstintsJ fort, Blown-awa}^ went out from the fort to fish. When 

 he came back from tishing his gambling sticks were gone from the 

 house. He then went to where they were gambling. He came to 

 where his nephew was using the gambling sticks. 



Then he scolded his nephew on account of them. And he (his 

 nephew) threw the gambling sticks over a cliff. He then pulled his 

 nephew down on one side and stabbed hun repeatedly. And he ran 

 toward the house. Then his (the murdered man's) 3^ounger brother 

 ran after him. When he had almost got in his younger brother also 

 stabbed him twice in the abdomen. He, too, soon after was lying on 

 the ground. A woman was also killed the same da3\ 



Here is the end of the story about this. 



* The word means a piece of fish not kept for drying. 



^ Another name for Those-born-at-Qa^gials, the great Raven family of Skedans. 



