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and what was born from her had strength. This strength w^as 

 what brought them up. During that journey the shaman never ate. 



When they came to the beach his friends did not know at first 

 who he was, but his mother rehited all that had happened. Then 

 his friends came in and began to help him show his spirits. He was 

 getting other spirits from the country of the people he was going 

 to war against. From his wrist up to his elbow he made as many 

 black spots as there were towns he intended to conciuer, and, while 

 all were helping him with his spirits, the spots one after another 

 began to smoke. His father told him to remember the place where 

 he had stayed and not destroy it. So, when the s])ots burned, the 

 burning stopped at the one at his elbow which he simply cleaned 

 away with his hand. This meant that he would extinguish the fire 

 at that point and not fight there. 



Then all of his friends prepared themselves and set out to war. 

 They came straight up to a certain fort without attempting to hide, 

 and the fort people shouted, "Come on, you Chilkat people." They 

 had no iron in those days, but were armed with mussel-shell knives 

 and spears, and wore round wooden fighting hats. They destroyed 

 all the men at this fort and enslaved the women and children. After- 

 ward they stood opposite the fort, took off their war hats and began 

 to scalp all they had killed. When they got off they put the scalps 

 on sticks and tied them all aroimd the canoe. They called this, "Shout- 

 ing out for the scalped heads " (KecayAt-dus-hu'ktc). They felt very 

 happy over the number of people they had killed and over the num- 

 ber of slaves they had captured. There were no white people here 

 then, not even Russians. It was very close to the time when Raven 

 made us. The people who were doing these things were Ka'gwAntan. 

 They had started to war from Luca'cak!i-an and KAqlAuuwu'. 



After that all the southern people started north to make war, 

 coming by the outside passage. The first place they reached while 

 rounding this island was Murrelet-point fort (Aoli-tc !l'ti nu) . One canoe 

 started off to spy upon them and was chased ashore but was carried 

 across a narrow strip of land and so got back. Therefore this place 

 is called Things-taken-over (A'nAxgAhia'). Then they came right 

 up to the fort, destroyed it, and captured the women. There must 

 have been a hundred canoes coming to war. In those days they 

 always used bows and arrows. 



A certain woman captured here said, "There is another town up 

 the inlet from us." So they started up about evening and, when 

 the tide was pretty well up, passed through a place where there is 

 a small tide rip. They caught sight of the town far back inside of 

 this and exclaimed, "There's the town." Then they landed just 

 ])e]ow it and started up into the forest in order to surround it. When 

 it became very dark they began to make noises like birds up in the 



