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fire. Wliile putting it into the fire, say this: ^Grandfather, our 

 enemies are beating us? '" Then they were all placed, together with 

 their house and its contents, in the spherical cloud and set down 

 on the site of Git'.i'kc. As soon as it landed, the little house grew to 

 be a big house with painted front, and the boxes of berries, salmon, 

 and other jirovisions were all big painted boxes. Everything had 

 been made small so as to come down without being seen. 



Then the children of the sun were all very happy, and made so 

 much noise tliat their enemies, who were out on the river fishing for 

 eulachon, heard them and said, "Those are the bones of the Git'.i'kc 

 people that are making so much racket." As soon, however, as they 

 found that their enemies' village was repeopled they started oft' in 

 their canoes to make war upon them. They were so numerous that 

 the children of the sun found they were going to be ])eaten and put 

 their wedge into the fu'e. Then the sun came out fiercely, and many 

 of the enemy became so hot that they jumped into the ocean. The 

 ocean was so hot that they died there, while those upon land, l)ecom- 

 ing too blinded to fight, were also killed." 



Therefore nowadays people do the same thing. When they fight 

 and a good man of high caste is killed, his friends do not come to their 

 opponents as though they were angry. They use good words to them, 

 and thereby induce a man of equally high rank on the other side to 

 come out and l)e killed l)y them. If they went there talking meanly 

 they would not get him to come out. The woman who was saved 

 remembered how her brother and all of her relations had been killed. 

 Therefore she took good care in selecting a husljand for her daugliter, 

 because she felt if she did so she would get all of her relatives back. 

 That is why the Indians of good family took such good care of a 

 daughter in old times. They knew that if she married well she 

 would be a help to the family. 



When the iiihahitants of that town became very numerous the 

 daughter of the chief there used to go out berrying. One day, while 

 she was out after l)erries, she stepped into the manure of a grizzly 

 bear and said, "That nasty thing is right in the way." Tlien the 

 grizzly bear came to her in the form of a fine-looking man, and she 

 went oft' with him but they thought that a grizzly bear had killed 

 her. Now the grizzly-bear people watched her very closely, and, 

 whenever she went out of the den, they covered up her tracks. This 

 girl had dentalium shells around her neck, and the bears were very 

 much surprised to find one of these lying in her tracks every time 

 they covered them over. Early in the morning the male bears went 

 oTit after salmon, while their wives gathered firewood. They always 



a Cf. Story 96. 



