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until a poor man rushed down with a war spear as if he were going 

 to kill him. This was to shame them for their delay, and they imme- 

 diately brought the visitor ashore and paid him for his dead friend. 



2!). The First War in the World 



A man named Xaku'tc! killed a large devilfish with his spear, but 

 perished in doing so. Afterward his spirit came to a man of his clan 

 who was very powerful. Having tested his spirits, the people started 

 to war. Just before they reached the fort a brave man there was 

 killed l)y a little boy held captive among them. Then they came upon 

 the fort and destroyed it. Now the southern people started north. 

 On the way they came to a great climber whom they tried to test by 

 seeing if he could climb a ver}^ steep cliff near Huna. He went up and 

 got aw^ay. Afterward he came down to the place where they were 

 camping and li])erated his steersman to whom they had tied their 

 canoes. The enemy then attacked a fort and killed all of the people 

 except one woman who was pregnant. Her they carried south, and 

 she gave birth to a l)oy, who Ix^came a wealthy shaman, purchased his 

 mother's freedom, and went north with her. Then he performed for 

 his own people, and they set out to war and destroyed many towns, but 

 spared that in which he had formerly lived. Now the soutiiern people 

 made a great raid, capturing fort after fort. At the second fort two 

 canoes attempted to pass down through a tideway at half tide and were 

 destroyed. From another they were driven off' by means of clam 

 shells. In one fort a man was living alone because he was very jealous 

 of his wife, and Avhile the warriors were talking to him one of their 

 canoes ran against a rock and split in two, so they left him. When 

 the}' had no more space for slaves, the southern people destroyed the 

 canoes at every fort so that the northern people could not retaliate. 

 The bulk of the northern people, however, had been encamped along 

 the coast to the westward. When they heard what had happened they 

 cut down an enormous spruce, hollowed it out, and started to war the 

 following spring. The southern people thought that the northern 

 people could not do anything to them. They were scattered about in 

 various camps and fell an easy prey to their enemies. 



80. How Protestant Christianity was First Heard or at Sitka 



A man returning to Sitka from the south told his people that Deki'- 

 ancju'wo (God) had come down from Heaven to help them, and the 

 women dressed up and began dancing. Tlie}^ danced an entire year. 



