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And she went along before the tiohters shouting. From the place 

 where GinA'.skihis had gone to make an examination some came along. 

 And she shouted: '"Ix.ia'+I Alder and Grandson found the town of 

 Skidegate empty. Their canoes are full." She went toward a large 

 canoe coming toward her, telling the news. When she came near she 

 recognized GA'nx.oat's'* canoe, named Sea-gull canoe.'* She at once 

 paddled the canoe around, and thej' escaped to land. Alder and Grand- 

 son also landed there. 



And Grandson's canoe was carried away by the wind. But before 

 the Skidegate people arrived Kl'dja-i^' swam over to the canoe which 

 was drifting away. And he did not care for the canoe, but he took 

 the two scalps and swam ashore with them. He moved backward, sit- 

 ting down with the two scalps in his mouth. "Now, Giti'ns,''' I am 

 glad to meet 3'ou." 



And the Skidegate people got off to fight there. The Kloo people 

 also came near from Sqe'lugits. They came together at once among 

 the woods. Hu hu hu hu, there was a great sound of guns there. 

 A man of the Skidegate-town people^' and one of Those-born-at- 

 Qlfi'dAsg.o'^ used to be good friends, and the Skidegate-town man 

 shouted to him: " Property-always-ruiming-about, are you among 

 themT' "Yes.'' "Go home. When the Giti'ns become angr}^ not 

 even the grizzly bear can stand against them." "Indeed, I will go 

 home. I was born a grizzly bear from my parents, who are grizzly 

 bears. They had me at the front [in war]." 



After the}' had fought there for a while Amasa'n and a Skidegate 

 man shot at each other over a thin rock at the edge of the woods, and 

 they kept it up. Behind Amasa'n were two persons, one of whom 

 held a spear. He asked for it. They refused to give it to him. He 

 said that he would run over to the Skidegate man soon after he had 

 shot him." They did not give him the war spear. 



Then they fought there. After they had fought there for a while, 

 and evening was coming on, Ta'-ilgwai fell. He was wounded. On 

 the other side Gidaga'ngu also fell. They then called out to each side 

 to stop.^" The\' then ceased shooting at each other, and the Skidegate 

 people got into their canoes. And the Town-of-Dji'gua people also 

 got into their canoes when it was very dark. 



When they (the women) escaped to land in fright Flood-tide-woman 

 went up among the mountains. When it became dark she went down 

 cautiously toward the place where they had camped. She was within 

 a month of giving birth to a child. 



When she came near she heard some people laughing. And she (a 

 woman among them) recognized the voice of Gwai'is. "Uncle 

 Gwai'is" [she saidj. And he answered: "A'waiya, [1 thought] they had 

 taken you." She (Flood-tide- woman) had come to the one with whom 

 he had been in love.'' 



