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stalas. ] As soon as it was learned that they quarreled, all the 26 

 Kwakiutl went to look at thena, I and when the deceased Chief Nolis 

 saw the many | men who came to see them, he stopped quarreling 

 with his wife, and then | Nolis spoke and said, " Thank you, Kwakiutl, 

 that you have come || to see how we are quarreling. Now take away I 30 

 everything in this house and all the roof boards of my house." | 

 Thus he said, and immediately all the men took everything | inside 

 the house and the roof boards, and boxes, the bedding ] and piUows 

 and bed covers, and Nolis and his wife || had only the blankets on 35 

 their bodies. They went to live in | another house. Therefore a man 

 and his wife among the Indians are afraid to quarrel. | I have seen 

 that what I am talking about. | That is the end. | 



Blood Revenge (to p. 787) 



Now I wiU answer what has been asked by you, when you wrote 1 

 to me I on the 2.5th of December. It is difficult what you refer to 

 that I I am to answer, for, indeed, the new Kwakiutl speaking peo- 

 ple I have changed the ways in which they are doing things from the 

 ways of the early Indians. || 



For the early Indians had no courthouse, | they had no judges 5 

 and they had no witnesses. | If one who belongs to another numaym 



Wa, g'll^mese q!ak"as6xs eEnae lae ^wPleda Kwaki1g"ule ho^maq. 26 

 Wa, g'il^mese g"igamayole, ylx Nolisole dox^waLElaxa qlenEme be- 

 bEgwanEm la ho^m&q lae gwal eEna LE^wis gEnEme. Wa, la yaqlE- 

 g'a^le Nolisole, wa, la ^nek'a: "Gelak"as4a Kwakug'ul g'axaaqos 

 homa g"axEnu^xwaxg"anu^x" eEnek". Weg"a, ^wl^la &x^edxwa ^na- 30 

 xwax g"ix"g"ael laxwa g'okwex l6^ ^wl^oxda salaxsEn g'okwex," 

 ^nek'e. Wa, hex'^ida^mesa ^naxwa bebEgwanEm la Sx^edxa ^naxwa 

 g'ix'g'ael laxa g-ox'^de LE^wis salax'de LE^wa g'ilg'Ildase lo^ ts!ag'ilas 

 LE^wa qeqenole lo^ memamas. Wa, a^mise la hel^Enale Nolisolaxes 

 ^nEx^una^ye LE^wis gEnsme. Wa, a^mise lax'da^x" kwakflls laxa 35 

 ogu^la g"okwa. Wa, he^mis lag'ilasa bak'.ume k'ilEla eEna bEgwa- 

 mEm LE^wis gEnEme. Wa, laEmxaEn doqfllaxgin gwagwex's^ala- 

 sEk". Wa, laEm laba. 



Blood Eevenge 



La^mEn et'.edEl na^naxmexes wtiLasE^wosaxs laexkMatled g'axEn- 1 

 Laxa sEk" !axsag&la ^nalasa qIaxEla, yixs laxwalaes gWE^yos qEn 

 na^naxmesE^wa qaxs ala^mek" la ogwax"^idg'ada alEk" Kwakwak'E- 

 wak" gwayi^lalas lax gwayi^lasasa gilx'de bak !uma. 



Wa, he^maeda g'ale bak'.uma ylxs kMeasae dadElet'.atsIa. Wa, 5 

 laxae k'!e&,s dadElet!aenoxwa. Wa, laxae kMeas q!eq!alak"!ala. 

 Wa, g'il^maeda g'ayole laxa ogQ^la ^nE^memot k* !elax*i^dxa wax"'Em 



