378 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 39 



yu'qla qowustryiye yesAgu'wu he Ate qlwAn tcAclfi'qo yuqlatA'nksa 



' if we luivu sail! anything to displease you this (imii.) jilease overlonk 



age'di wutl'yi tcAade' yi'ndi ye'na-isA'ni nl (^Iwa'ii.") 



for the sake of the chief.") (imp-) 



Then he says to the sing-ers: 



""Take lip your poles. Start a song." 



('• Ylwutsla'gayi yldji'k ke At gAx yici'.'') 



(■' i'our poles ' you take up thing will you sing.") 



After this the second division of dancers goes out, dresses uj), and 

 enters dancing. When tlie dance is over, the first chief of that 

 division — of which there are three cliiefs, although it contains only two 

 families — i. e., the chief of the Kasqiague'di, begins to talk to the 

 chief of the feast. He says: 



''Now wrap your father's brothers up in good words. Yes, yes, 

 hear my words just as they come to you." 



(''■Duda't cAqaye'q (jIwAn isA'ni-liAs. A-a' he'tcA ctiix xAt 



(■■About hiui wrap good words (imp.) your father's Yes, yes, uow into theni- tome 



hrothers. selves 



5 qlAkige'Liguts qlwA'n.") 



words come let.") 



Then he calls out th(> name of the chief giving the feast, that of the 

 chief next under him, and the names of some high-caste women. As 

 their names are called they answer, "He" (''Present"). Then he 

 perhaps proceeds as follows: 



"People killed one another at Gitli'kc. And the people of Gitli'kc 

 were being destroyed. Then oidy one chief was stived along with his 

 sister and niece. Now the chief l)egan thinking, 'I wonder what 

 chief would know certain things that he could tell me.' He asked one 

 old man if he could tell him. Not l)eing suited, he sent for several, 

 who did not suit him cither. By and by he thought of Old-man-who- 

 knows-all-troubles. He .sent for him to have him tell the thing, and 

 he suited him completely. He stayed with him. At this time he 

 (the old man) mad'> him a helmet and an arrow, an arrow which could 

 talk. Then the old man was going to show him what to do. He 

 instructed him: ' ^ly friends always lie way out there in their 

 canoes. Never let it go at them.' 



"Then he let the arrow go toward his enemies. It struck the chief's 

 heart. It killed him. The people did not see where the arrow came 

 from. Then Old-man-who knows-all-troubles was sent for. He was 

 examining it, and it tlew out from him. As the arrow flew away it 

 said, 'NAxguyu'uu.' So they discovered the chief who owned this 

 arrow. They set out to war against him. Then he put on his war 

 hat, and his sister went before him. He went out of doors in a cloud 

 of ashes. He killed all in four of the enemies' canoes. Then they 

 went toward him to war again, but he forgot what the old man had 



