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woods. In the morning they descended to fight, and the women 

 and children began crying. They captured alL Meanwhile the tidal 

 rapids began to roar as the tide fell. 



One woman among the captives was very old. They asked her 

 what time of tide to run the rapids, and she said to herself, "It is 

 of no use for me to live, for all of my friends and brothers are gone. 

 It is just as well to tlie as to be enslaved." So she said to them, 

 "At half tide." 



Then two canoes started do\m ahead in order to reach some 

 forts said to lie in another direction. They rushed straight under 

 and were seen no more. The old woman was drowned with them. 

 So they made a mark with their l)lood at the place where these two 

 canoe loads had been drowned' to tell what had happened. It may 

 be seen to-day and looks like yellowish paint. 



Next day the remaining canoes started out when the tide was high 

 and came to another fort next morning. While they were around 

 behind this a woman came out. Tlien they seized her and ran a 

 spear up into her body fi"om beneath many times until she dropped 

 dead without speaking. So this fort came to be called, Fort-where- 

 they-stabbed-up-into-a-woman's-privates (KAk!-kagiis-wudu'watA'qi- 

 nti). Then the people fought with clubs and bows and arrows until 

 all in the fort were destroyed, and started on to another. When they 

 made an attack in those days, they never approached in the day- 

 time but toward morning when everybody was sleeping soundly. 

 Both sides used wooden helmets and spears. 



At this fort the women were always digging a big variety of clam 

 (called gaLl), storing these clams in the fort for food. The fort was 

 filled with them. So, when the assailants started up the cliff, one 

 of the men inside struck him with a clam shell just under the war 

 hat so that he bled profusely. He could not see on account of the 

 blood. Then the man in the fort took an Indian ax and beat out 

 his brains. Afterward all in the fort seized clam shells and struck 

 their foes in the face with them so that they could not come up. 

 They threw so fast that the canoes were all kept away; so that 

 place is now called Wliere-clams-kept-out-the-foes (Xa'osLxani-gaL!). 

 For the same reason this was the only fort where any people were 

 saved, and on the other hand many of the enemy were destroyed by 

 the fort people. 



Now they left this fort and came to another, landing on a beach 

 near by, and between them and the fort was what they supposed to 

 be a fresh water pond. Then one of them called Little-bear-man, 

 because he had on a bear-skin coat, began to shoot at the fort with 

 arrows. But the people in the fort shouted to him, "Do not be in 

 such great haste. The tide runs out from the place where you are." 

 Then the bear man said, "The j^eople here say that the tide runs out 



