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And, wlieii evening- came, they wanted to .see which side was the 

 best one on which to get off. And the}- went around it while the 

 Bella))elhi slept. Many log houses were on the lower part of the 

 point of the island. They saw it, and they went away. They then 

 talked it o\er, hu hu hu hu liu.''^ On the day after the next they went 

 toward it just before daylight. 



And, after they had gone along for a while, when the bows wert; 

 coming in in front of the log houses the bundles of masts in the bows 

 pusjied back the canoes. 



The fort people had sung all night for Wawayie'la, who was acting 

 in the secret society, and slept for weariness from using their voices. 

 AVhen they were asleep they (the Haida) came in front of them. 



After some of them had got near some one came out to urinate 

 and discovered them. The Bellabella then began to shoot at them. 

 And when daylight came the Town-of-Dji'gua people '* went ashore by 

 a reef h'ing off the point of the island. They then shot on their side. 

 Hu hu hu hu hu, there was a great noise of guns. 



By and by they mentioned to Gunana'otx.a'* that they might make 

 peace, but, when the Kloo people came out on the reef, they began to 

 shoot at them again. At that time they'killed a chief of the Town-of- 

 Djrgua people. They tried then to get his body, which was high up on 

 a rock, from behind. And some one thought of a hook he had in one 

 of his boxes. They then fastened this to the end of a pole, pulled it 

 through the skin, and l)y pulling a little at a time they got it in. 



They shot at each other all day. By and by the}' got into their 

 canoes and started away. The}^ shot at them from the fort. They 

 also shot into some who were ashore. When all got away they pur- 

 sued them from the fort. They were so strong that they escaped at 

 that time by canoe. 



They came back then empty-handed. And they (the people at 

 home) felt good, because while the warriors were gone a man and his 

 wife had escaped and had returned. But, when they brought back 

 the dead bod}^, they felt still more sorrowful than before. They 

 could do nothing. 



That winter news came to the Bellabella through a canoe from the 

 Kitkatla people that when summer came Gitku'n was going to sweep 

 out the inlet from its head like a contagion. Then the Bellabella 

 people said: ''When Gilda'-il'^ can never be entered how are j^ou 

 going to sweep it out from the head?" When that news came 

 through Kitkatla,'^ the Town-of-Dji'gua people said they would 

 destroy everything before them as when one spits out something. 



At that time Ya'koei.as was showing how he would act when they 

 got hold of him. Ten Bellabella young men seized him, and he threw 

 them about. He said that he would do that to the Kloo people. And 

 in the very middle of summer they went southward fishing. They 



