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women into the fire along with tlie bodies. Then the man gave up 

 all idea of fighting. He was the last one left in that clan. 



After they had made peace on both sides, a man named Qoxti'tc 

 came there from Prince of Wales island on the way to Chilkat. He 

 went to the man who used to fight so much and said, "How is Chil- 

 kat? Is it a town?" He answered, "It is a notable town. A man 

 has to be careful what he does there or he will sutler a great shame." 

 Then he started for Klukwan, which he wanted to see very much. 

 He came in sight of the first village, Yende'staq!e, with many people 

 going around in it, and said to his wife, "Put on your earring [of 

 abalone shell]." The earring was called Earring-that-can-be-seen- 

 clear-across-the-Nass (Na'skAUAx-duti'n). Then the man also put on 

 his leggings and dressed up finely, for if one were not dressed up just 

 right he would suffer a great shame. Afterward he began dancing in 

 his canoe. When he came away from Chilkat he left his dancing 

 clothes with the people l)ut brought back a great quantity of presents 

 received for dancing. 



A very rich man once started from Chilkat to IvAqlAnuwu' on a 

 visit with his wife and all of his property." When they approached 

 the town the people heard his wife singing. She had a verv' ])(^werfid 

 voice. Then they were frightened and wondered what man was 

 smart enough to reply to this wealthy visitor. There was a certain 

 poor man who always sat with his head down, and they kept taunting 

 liim, saying, "Will you speak to that rich man?" 



When the visitor came in front of the houses he did not speak to 

 the men who lived in them but to the dead chiefs who had formerly 

 owned them. No one replied, for they did not know what to say. 

 After a while, however, the p(^or man seized a spear and rushed down 

 to the rich man's canoe. Then the people shouted, "There goes 

 SAqaye'. He is going to kill this rich man. Stop him." When he 

 got right in front of the canoe they caught him, but he said, "I did 

 not want to kill this rich man, but I heard people talking so much 

 about him that I pretended to." His action had a sarcastic import, 

 because others were so much afraid of the visitor. 



The rich man talked from the canoe for such a long time that they 

 made a long noise instead of speaking to him, to let him know that he 

 had talked too long about things that were past. Then they said to 

 him, "Jump into the water." This was formerly said to a visitor 

 when blankets were about to be given awa}^ for some dead person, 

 though they always stood ready to catch him. Afterward they took 

 the man up into a house, placed a Chilkat blanket under him, and gave 

 him five slaves and a canoe load of property for his dead friend. 

 ¥7hen he went home they returned his visit. 



a There seems to be no connection between this part of the story and that which goes before except 

 that both happened at KAq!Anuwii'. 



