448 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull.29 



■''The TsiniHliiaii wcinl for Eaglt*, Laxski^yi'k, i.s here employed. 



"This was a striking violation of the war taboos. 



' This sentence is a little ob.scnre. 



8 See "A raid on the Tlingit," note 8. 



"The one whose deeds are narrated in a previous story. 



'"The people did not know what he meant by this. 



" See "The story of him through whom L.v^gua spoke." 



'■-'The woman who also appears in the previous story. 



'•'See "A raid on the Tlingit," note 11. 



"This appears to mean that the other attacking party joined that to which my 

 informant belonged. 



'^She being acquainted with their language. 



^^ See the preceding story. 



" Perhaps the father of the Skidegate chief of this name. 



'^ The descent was so arduous. 



'®The Kloo chief's canoe. 



'■'"The one who related to me "Story of Those-born-at-Skedans " and the six great 

 Skedans stories from " Raven traveling " to He-who-was-born-from-his-mother's-side 

 inclusive. Owing to his conduct at this time he claimed to be numbered among 

 the "brave men." I esteem it fortunate that this old man's life was preserved. 



^' Chief of Kloo. 



^'■'See the story of "Canoe people who wear headdresses," notes. 



^^ See "Fights between the Tsimshian and Haida and among the northern Haida," 

 note 25. 



'^*The word sta is used, he being of the opposite clan. 



^•^ Said by a man of one clan to a man of another and equivalent to "Let me have 

 a part of it." 



