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And after they had camped there for a while one day, when the 

 sea was smooth, the}?^ went away. They looked at an island which lay 

 seaward from them. Half of thom refused to use it. The rest 

 wished to use it. The place was g-ood foi" houses, but there was no 

 water. They remained there all the day. 



And they went away from it to Q!o'nakoa fort^^ and landed there. 

 All said it was good. It was a good place to keep canoes. Then they 

 built little houses at the fort. When they were tinished they began 

 living in them. 



Before the stockade and houses were completed one of the Penin- 

 sula people "^ who had married a woman of the Common-food-steamers 

 brought ov^er news to his brother-in-law. He brought the news that 

 ridjiwas ^* had his canoe dug out in the rough. He had done that in 

 order to go to war. 



Before he brought the news three persons in a canoe were fishing 

 with floats. It was raining in the inlet where they were. And, while 

 they had the canoe turned bottom up over them, the Skidegate people 

 quickly turned over the canoe and killed them. 



He (the Peninsula man) stayed all night at Qlo'nakoa fort and went 

 off the next day. When evening came his smoke [was seen] rising 

 from an island lying seaward. ^^ Then the strongest men went out 

 from the fort to see him. Where he was floating, at Land-point, a big 

 whale was drifting. He raised a smoke for his brothers-in-law on 

 account of that. 



The people of the fort then all went out for whale. And they 

 encamped at G.A'ldjida for the whale. There they cut it up. 



I'ldjiwas then had his canoe in the woods at Chicken-hawk town.^" 

 They observed the Town-of-Dji'gua people cut up the whale. B}^ and 

 by Two-voices went to Chicken-hawk town to cut Ig.et^' with two 

 young men. After they had gone there they heard the sound of guns. 

 They shot Two-voices only. His companions they spared. 



Shortly after the guns sounded he (I'ldjiwas) sailed by in front of 

 the camping place. He went too fast for them to even think of going- 

 out to him. 



And after they had waited a while for a good day they loaded the 

 whale and went oflt with it. And, although they wanted to go to 

 Qlo'nakoa fort, the canoes were so heavy that the}^ went ashore at 

 Dog-fish fort.'** This fort was the best of all. And they cleared away 

 the bushes and started to live there. GinA'skilas owned blankets orna- 

 mented with duck bills (lit., '' duck teeth "). He hung them all around 

 upon the stockade on account of a canoe that had come [with visitors]. 

 And, when thes(> were not quite enough, he bought ten with a slave 

 that a woman owned. They used to get twenty slaves for a sea otter. 



In the following \"ear all who were in Dog-fish fort went to Skide- 

 gate to war. And, after they had jxdlcd up their canoes into the 



