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The one who htul escaped from anions- the Kloo people tirst captured 

 )\v the BelhiboUa then threw a spear at him out of another canoe, and 

 he raised his pahn toward it, so that the spear ran into liis pahn. On 

 that account he also struck Ya'koeLas in the face with a paddle. He 

 [Ya'koeLas] did not turn away. He held up his head as before. 



After he had been shaking [with fear] for a while Waters put on 

 him a cedar-bark rino- that they had taken. Then, knowing- that the 

 cedar-bark ring- protected him from insult, he found that his life was 

 safe. 



When it was broad daylight the Bellabella said that some people 

 lived below on the inlet. Two canoes of Those-born-at-Q!a'dAsg.o^^ 

 started oti'. These were not anxious for their lives, because they had 

 taken nothing. 



And after they had gone in that direction for a while they saw 

 smoke. Then Tcisgoa'n led, and two others went witii him. A child 

 was playing at the time at the side of the house farthest from that to 

 which he came. He then ran toward him. And he chased him to the 

 house. Unal)le to catch him, he chased him into the house. When 

 he took hold of his mother he took him and his mother both. Those 

 in the house were frightened. He-who-was-going-to-be-Gia'gudjafi 

 came in after him. 



One person went behind the house. Five persons went out, and he 

 seized one. He was an old man. And, when he laid hold of the other 

 four, a terrible fellow (a Bellabella) got hold of him. That (i. e., the 

 Haida) was OilAsta'gu. He let these four go. Then the Bellabella 

 began to stal> him. After he had struck him four times his younger 

 brother came to him. And he also turned quickly upon him. And 

 another one who came up with a pistol he slapped on his nose. He 

 knocked him down. Then he (the Haida) shot him. He shot true, 

 but he did not feel it. He then struck him with his own knife. After 

 he had done this several times he fell, and he cut oti' his head. They 

 say that the trunk afterward got up. 



The}^ then went to look for those who had gone into the woods. 

 They shouted out near by: "Ho ho ho'ho ho', 1 am LtA'nqawons." 

 There they got six persons. They also killed one. 



When they went away and passed out of the inlet they saw a canoe 

 in the distance. The}' then remained behind a point. They talked 

 jealously as to which canoe should take it. There were four. Three 

 were women. They then began to shoot at them. 



Then they upset it, and Gi'tgoa swam over to one whom they had 

 wounded. The man ran then into the woods, and they pursued him 

 and struck him in the back of the head with a stone. And they also 

 broke his legs. They cut oti' his head. But they took the women. 

 Making an end of this, they went away. Afterward they went home. 



After they came to Kloo all the chiefs talked over where they would 



