1372 ETHNOLOGY OF THE KWAKIUTL I icrii. ann. 35 



93 of the crew | who were running down to the beach. As soon as they 

 came to the place where the | two war canoes were floating, and 



95 where || their husbands were sitting aboard, then the husbands of 

 these women | took off the breath-containing kelp neck rings and 

 threw them over the necks of | their wives. As soon as all the women 

 had the breath-containing | kelp neck rings round their necks, they 

 came running up | the beach and went into their houses and hung up 

 200 the II neck rings at the head ends of their beds. Then the mer 

 started awaj" | to make war. | 



They did not ask other tribes to join in the war, as thej' were goin; 

 south, I for Yag'is made war upon the people to the south | from 

 5 Comox down to the Indians of Victoria. II None of them was to live, 

 if the warriors who paddled should happen to see them. | 



Four days after they had left Fort Rupert, thej' arrived | at the 

 coast of the Sanetch. Now, the warriors felt badh*, | for they had 

 not seen any canoe paddling about. Late at | night, the warriors 



10 crossed the mouth of a bay, and they saw || a fire on the beach at the 

 head of the bay, and | the warriors saw them walking about outside 

 from the fire. Then, | when thej- were talking to one another, the 

 warriors recognized that they belonged to the southern people, i 

 The warriors went back to the other side of the | point. They 



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