[4] First the western entrance of Skidegate channel (G̣a′oia) is referred to, then the channel proper which was called Kꜝē′djîs, a word applied to the stomach and intestines of an animal or man. ↑ [a] [b]
[6] These are two rocks near the steamer entrance to Skidegate inlet. [↑]
[7] The word used here, I′ʟꜝxagidas, is applied to a house chief and is almost synonymous with “rich man,” there being no caste limitations to prevent one from becoming a house chief. [↑]
Stories of the Pitch-people
[Told by Walter McGregor, of the Sealion-town people]
Some persons went out hunting from Songs-of-victory town.[1] And one of them put on the skin of a hair seal and lay on a reef. Then some went hunting from Food-steamer’s[2] town. One of them speared the hair seal lying on the reef with his bone spear. But a human being screamed.
They used to put on the skin of a hair seal, lie on a reef and make the cry of a hair seal, and, when a hair seal came up, one sitting behind him speared it. They speared him (the man) while he was doing that way. Then they went off in terror.
And then they began fighting with one another. The Songs-of-victory people went out first, and they killed Food-steamer’s wife with arrows. Then they fought continually with one another. At that time they killed each other off.