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enslaved all wiio were .sittino- in the houses. They took nil sorts of 

 things. 



Presently some one shouted: "I'ldjiwas's fiither'' fell." They 

 immediately "went to the canoes. When J passed betw(>en the houses 

 I came upon a dead body lyiii»>- there. And one who came after me 

 cut off the head. I then mo\ed down the face of a steep placi> toward 

 the sea in a sittiuj^- posture. A part of the people were off on the 

 water in their canoes. I was g-lad when I got into |a canoe]. ^''* 



Gia'gudjafi captured a box. After he brought it out and while he 

 was sitting near it he was shot. He was wounded. They got him in. 

 Half of them they could not get away from the fort. By and by three 

 stood in Reef-canoe.''' One began to load their guns. Presentl}' they 

 started toward it. Sky'° steered for them. As they went [toward 

 the fort] he shot toward the place from which they had been firing. 



By and by they reached the fort. After they had gone up into it 

 the}' started back. At once they shot at them from the place out of 

 which they had shot before. After a while they got out safely. 

 When they got away the [(xiti'sda] people came out to the fort. 

 They (the Haida) took away a small part of the property. The body 

 of the Kloo man was left there. 



Now they started away. The two canoes of Gitku'n"' and his sons 

 went empty. The other people sang songs of victory. Then a mat 

 sail came along toward them. And one was in the canoe. Gitku'n 

 enslaved him. 



This person said that some people lived farther down on the inlet. 

 He (Gitku'n) could not persuade them to go after them. 



They got ashore then and sent tobacco to the Kloo man through the 

 tire.^"' At that time Gitku'n said to the Sqoa'ladas '•' man who had the 

 severed head: "Say, brother-in-law," let me have his head instead of 

 you." He threw it over to him at once. This is how the saying 

 "Somebody's head cut ofl'"~^ started. 



When they afterward came out into open water they came out 

 directly opposite a big canoe that was going along the open coast. 

 They then pursued it. and it distanced the Kloo people. Afterward 

 they came to Kloo. 



The Giti'sda, or Kittizoo, constituted the southernmost division of the Tsimshian, 

 being situated on Seaforth channel, an extension of Milbank sound. Unhke most 

 war stories, this does not begin by describing some previous injur)' inflicted by the 

 people attacked. The breakdown of old customs was evidently beginning at this 

 time, and it is said tliat no expeditions of importance have occurred since this one. 

 As is seen, my informant accompanied the expedition. 



'See notes to "Story of Those-born-at-Skedans." 

 ^See notes to the stoj-y of Cloud-watcher. 

 •''See "Story of Those-born-at-Skedans," note 19. 

 * Perhaps Aristazable island. 



