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Of those who came to attack yiiin from the camp Naskiii'i was killed. 

 And the one who was with him went away. And another family 

 looked after the body. Afterward Qa'-idjit went to (xA'nx.oat, who 

 was livino- in Big-house. '' There he died. And his o-randfather put 

 him into a big box. 



Then the people who had shot him and were holding a fort in Lake 

 iidef-' l)rought over a peace offering.-^ The\' brought over one slave. 

 And the next year they also hekl a fort up the inlet from Sea-grass 

 town. Thither Two-in-one came from Daog.a'ilgA%in, which lies 

 seaward from Skedans, and got him. Thev came and got Naskia'P* 

 to go to war with the Gitfi'mat.'"' He went at once. 



They then set out. There, at Gita'mat, the}^ took many slaves for 

 him. Two-in-one,*^* however, had three. And, when they returned, 

 they built two large houses at Ata'na.'' Presently they came to him 

 to ask for blood money. They gave then five slaves. Arid Those- 

 born-at-Skedans named their island ''Sunny-fort.'"'^'' By selling the 

 slaves that remained Xaskia'l built a house. There they say he began 

 to potlatch. Now they went from Sea-grass town to get his house 

 timbers. And they built his house at Sea-grass town. This is how 

 they got back to Sea-grass toW' n. 



After that time they procured more expensive seats [at the feasts 

 and potlatches]."" They now ceased to have trouble at Sea-grass town. 



Here this ends. 



Kitkatla waj^ an iiiijiortant town ami tribe belonging to the Tsiinshian stock. The 

 town was on Dolphin island. 



' Chief of Sea-grass town. The whites' name for this place, Kloo, is a corruption 

 of his own name, Xeu. 



-' A fort of the Kitkatla people. 



•'The one who appears in "War between the people of Kloo and the people of 

 Nin.stints." 



■* Situate at the northeast angle of Lyell island. 



'' Chief of Kitkatla. 



^Referring to his storehouses; see "Wars with the Niska and Tsinishian and con- 

 flicts between Haida families," note (5. 



" See the preceding story, note 26. The liouse that South-east built at that time 

 was so large that he named each half of it sei)arately. The house })ole was covered 

 with abalone shells. 



'*See "War between the people of Kloo and the people of Ninstints," note 14. 



^See the preceding story. 



'" See note I and the preceding story, note 'So. 



" A house was sometimes so named because it had a very deep house hole, mak- 

 ing it dark inside. 



'■•'See "Fight at the town of Da'x.ua," note 2. 



'■'It is curious that this was the very family to which the town chief of Kloo him- 

 self belonged. The section living at Skedans comes to make war upon the chief of 

 the one living at Kloo. 



'^See the story of "Sacred-one-staiiding-and-moving, Stone-ribs, and Tpward," 

 note 8o. 



