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they nuide land very early in the morning, they ,savv it (land) all at 

 once. They then pulled up their canoe on Gwa'-idjats.^^ 



Just at daybreak the sound of the l)ad secret societ}' came to their ears. 

 When day broke they discovered that the}' were coming out to them 

 in a canoe. In the bow of the canoe persons were acting under the 

 influence of the spirits of the bad'*'' secret society. They made noises, 

 and they said to each other that they smelt them. Thev fled then. 

 They forgot the board which holds the foot of the mast. Then some 

 who had gone after sea eggs shouted as th(\v came back [at seeing] their 

 white sail pass out to sea from 8kedans. Tlien they split in two some 

 boxes of grease that they had and made a hole in the bottom with an 

 adze. Then one of them, hnng on his back, held it there with his feet. 

 When they were some distance away they passed round in a crooked 

 course. Then they made" a board to hold the foot of the mast at Skide- 

 gate creek. After this time the people of the two islands had the board 

 to hold the foot of the mast nailed down inside the bow. 



The next fine day after this they went home. Thev found their 

 minds were difl^^erent, and they found their own country. 



And, when the secret society was all over, they (the people) returned 

 to Kloo. When the middle of the following summer arrived they 

 came to get something for having had their sister enslaved. They 

 were allowed to land Avithout disturbance. Before any food was given 

 to them they started to dance. ^* 



"Ho+ ho+ hi ho+ hl+ I16+ hi+ ho+ hl+ h5+ hi ho+ hoga 

 haaa hoga hog.a ha ha gudixe'" [they sang]. 



The}" put a dance hat on NistAda'. They also struck Nisiilna'tc with 

 a copper plate (that is, they gave it to him). And he danced, holding it 

 by means of his neck [and chin]. Hu hu hu hu, it was a great dance. 

 The town people also struck him with some property. 



This is the end. They" had peace with each other. 



^See "Wars between the Peoples of Skidegate and Kloo," note 26. 



- A place where the Kloo people were in the habit of camping before starting on a 

 war expedition. 



^ See preceding story, note 25. 



*See the story of "Sacred-one-standing-and-moving, Stone-ribs, and Upward," 

 note 35. 



^Port Simpson; see "A raid on the Tlingit," note 13. 



" Given in the story of "Fights between the Tsimshian and Haida and among North- 

 ern Haida." 



' See notes to the story of Cloud- watcher. 



*The word used here, TcimAski^n, is less common than Ki^lgat. 



*See notes to "Story of the Food-giving- town people." 



^"See notes to " Fight at the town of Da'x.ua." 



'^ See "The one abandoned for eating the flip]>er of a hair seal," note 1. 



^^ One of the great Tsimshian chiefs. 



^^See " Story of the House- point families" and note 15 under it. 



'■'Cape Ball. High-point town stood just north of Cape Ball. 



