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along at the same time." Then [one canoej had gone after some who 

 went to pick berries, and all went after it. 



They followed them then for a while. The}- w<mt to the place 

 where the canoe was to get the mats that were thei'c. And they 

 jumped off and vied one with another in getting the mats. A cer- 

 tain one got off last. While they were standing about in the place 

 where the mats had lain [he saw] a new mat, and he was glad to 

 have discovered it and went thither. There two women were lying. 

 He then seized them. He raised his voice and called his name. 

 When the}' came there and reached the two women they were sound 

 asleep on the top of the rock where they were sitting. 



When they took them into the canoes one of , them talked with 

 Lda'ogwan.^' She afterward said to the warriors that they might 

 take the fort. "There are no guns there," she said. They then 

 placed themselves behind a long, narrow point on the inlet above the 

 fort. From there they looked at the fort. 



After the}'' had been there some time Skitg.ade's'" stood up and said 

 that he would go there. He summoned the brave men out of all the 

 canoes to go with him. They went then wath him, the brave ones. 

 And they gave out the following plan: "We are going toward the 

 place where they alwa3"s steam hemlock bark." And they told the 

 rest to follow them. 



Coming along as if they were visitors, they moved their paddles 

 slowly. The people of the fort gambk^d in lines without paving an}^ 

 attention to them. When they came near land the remainder also 

 came on. But the}^ still did not concern themselves about them. 



When thev got near those who were in advance discharged their 

 guns. And the remainder also landed there. Hu hu hu hu, they 

 shot into them. Some had fled from the fort. They all landed in 

 fright on the shore opposite the back of the fort. 



A man of the Giti'sda people then did the fighting. He ran about 

 on the top of the fort. Presently he shot a Kloo man dead. And, as 

 he ran about on the tops of the houses, they shot him, so that he fell 

 down between them. Two boys were with him. They went back a 

 shoi't distance from the fort and 'began to shoot down upon them (the 

 Haida) from al)ove. 



Now they (the Kloo people) fled. Seven canoes went out to sea at 

 once. We placed ourselves in hiding close by. By and by some one 

 shouted from ont at sea: "They are running down to the fort." 

 These were three Kloo men who had hidden themselves there. At 

 that time they enslaved two children. 



We went thither. Those that were out at sea also came in. They 

 started at once to seize the fort. Hu hu hu hu hu, they went into the 

 houses in a crowd. At that time I went for tobacco only. They 



