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it came on, the people all danced to dance the moon out and held out 

 their propert}' to it so that it would not feel poor. 



Meanwhile the other shaman brought an enormous salmon into 

 Alsek river, and his spirits were so powerful that a small boy suf- 

 ficed to kill it. There is a hole in the neighborhood of that place out 

 of which quantities of rocks used to come when there was to be a 

 great run of eulachon or other fish. A glacier crosses Alsek in one 

 place, and he who speaks while passing under it is overwhelmed. 

 When it was asked for food, it would rush into the water and raise a 

 wave, carrying numbers of salmon ashore. An Athapascan shaman 

 living far up the river was visited by several canoe loads of people 

 from below and prophesied that one canoe load would be lost under 

 the glacier. The down-river shaman then fought with the Atha- 

 pascan by means of his spirits and killed him. There is a rock just 

 south of Alsek river inhabited by the spirits of a certain shaman, and 

 it is used as a crest by the TlA'qldentfm. 



The Alsek River people once killed a rich man belonging to some 

 people who lived on a stream farther north. The next time they 

 went up there the enemy forced them to enter their fort through a 

 narrow passage and killed a large number. On their third expedi- 

 tion, however, they destro3^ed the fort and all within it. Another 

 time some Alsek people visited at a place beyond, where they were 

 invited to take sweat baths, and were killed. Then the Alsek people 

 made their shaman fight the shaman of the northern people, under- 

 took another raid, and killed a number equal to those that had been 

 lost. 



28. The Youthful Warrior 



A man wearing a bear skin climbed a tree, and was accidentally 

 killed by his brothers-in-law. Some time later his .young nephew 

 heard of it and })athed for strength. Four men went out to carve 

 things for a shaman, and the young man was deceived into thinking 

 that they had been killed by the same persons who had shot his uncle, 

 so he started out to war. After he had killed a great man}^ people he 

 was induced to give up fighting by some words uttered by his father's 

 ■ sister. After a time he killed one of his own clan from another town 

 and lost some of his immediate friends in return, so he decided to go 

 to war, but he was captured and many of his people were killed. 

 Then he promised not to fight again, so they let him take the l)odies 

 of his people home. Some time afterward a man from Prince of 

 Wales island, on the wslj to Chilkat, visited him to inquire about that 

 place. Then his visitor continued up to Chilkat and brought home 

 great quantities of presents in payment for dancing. 



A rich man started from Chilkat for KAqlAnuwu' to obtain property 

 for a dead friend. He was so high that no one dared speak to him 



