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At the time they sang- the}' made ii forward motion, and when they 

 moved nmch the platform fell. No one was injured. Then one of 

 them asked his child: "Hi'ndjii, is your brother there T' They then 

 sang another song: "Hi'ndju, is your })rother there f' 



They removed then from the fort to Chicken-hawk town.' But 

 there they built houses. After this a long time elapsed before there 

 was another tight. South-east was dead, and GinA'skilas" was also 

 dead, and Qa'-idjit'' succeeded to his place. Then they cleared the 

 town of Sea-grass.'" He built Cave-house '^ there. 



And while Qa'-idjit was sitting idle in front of his house with a 

 Pebble-town woman,'' whom he had married, Those-born-at-Skedans '^ 

 came from Skedans'* to fight with him. They shot at him, and his 

 wife fell dead without uttering a word. But he got in safe. Then 

 he kept sending food through the fire to his wife.''^ That made him 

 soon forget about his wife. 



And when summer came he married a woman of Those-born-at- 

 Qla'dAsg.o."' The brother of the one that was killed also stayed there. 

 His name was Lu'g.ot.'^ 



One day Qil'-idjit painted himself and tied weasel skins in his hair, 

 in order to set out to eat berries. He started oft'. Lu'g.ot had made 

 a canoe and was smoothing it there. When his brother-in-law was 

 on the point of starting off' he ran down toward his brother-in-law. 

 And he threw sand into Qa'-idjit's face.''* 



And he asked for two guns which were in the bow. They were 

 afraid to hand them to him then. By and by they handed him one, 

 and he shot his brother-in-law. He shot true and killed him. 



Those-born-at-Q!a'dAsg.o bestirred themselves at once and fired at 

 him. They shot him in the elbow. Then he lay there. That day 

 three were killed. Qa'-idjit w^as made to sit on the sand. But still 

 Qa'-idjit escaped into the house. And he la}^ in the back part of Cave- 

 house. He had two large blankets over him. Over these he also had 

 a cotton canoe sail. 



Now those who had done that to him went to a lonely camping- 

 place. And afterward they were afraid he was alive. They came to 

 kill him. It was moonlight. A boy who was sleeping with him woke 

 him. He then pulled himself out from under the blankets. And, 

 while he moved back from the fire, one was moving a pistol '■' about in 

 the smoke hole. He tried to shoot him. Twice his pistol failed to 

 go off. Then two guns were pointed through the smoke hole. When 

 they went off theie were large holes in the blankets. 



One day, some time afterward, he went out in front of the house 

 and sat idle. After he had sat there for a while they stepped toward 

 him. He heard the sound of running feet. And, after he had aimed 

 his gun in that direction for some time, NaskiiiT'" stuck out his head, 

 and he shot at his face. He fell tliere on his face. 



