When they got far out at sea they returned. They enslaved very many of the Skidegate people.
Then they (the Skidegate people) landed at ʟꜝg̣a′odana-i.[8] At that time a heavy rain set in. They called it “The-rain-upon-the-skins-of-dead-bodies.” And, when daylight came, I built a big fire. Then the wounded sat around the fire. On the following day, when we started off, a man of Those-born-at-House-point[9] was angry, because, he said, we went off first. Then he and I were going to shoot each other. They held us apart. And they went away.
And on the next day they stood crying in front of ʟꜝg̣a′odana-i. The Pebble-town people did not cry, however, because all of them escaped. Fifty canoe loads were destroyed. The weather was bad. And, while they lay there, the one who had quarreled with me came to me and pulled up his canoe alongside of ours. He then made peace with me. He gave me whisky. And, after we had sent food through the fire to those who had been unable to escape, we spent the night in our canoes. We remained awake. We were afraid. We thought that they might pursue us again.
And when day broke we went away. About noon they sailed over to Skidegate. They laid the blame on Bufflehead, who had escaped. They then asked her for property. Her husband was named Lū′g̣ot.[10] Then they began to give away property. He was about to make a potlatch. His house pole lay there for good. He gave the town all of his property. [[386]]
Some time afterward Gudiqā′yiñao’s father came back. They had been unable to get away from Port Simpson house, whence they came. Before he could ask for blood money the Gîtî′ns’-servants came there, with paddles on their shoulders. They said that they had come to go to war for him.
Some time afterward a great many Masset people went to trade. They came to the Gyînxᴀngī′g[11] family. They say that there were sixty canoes. After they had been there for a while they started off. And, after they had traded, a Tsimshian shot at the canoes. The bullet then struck the canoe of a man of the Point-town family[12] named X̣ᴀ′na.
His son then seized a gun and shot into a crowd standing on shore. And he shot one down. They at once shot after them. They immediately started off. The Tsimshian chased them. They made them upset by shooting. They also destroyed them. They took them also for slaves. They also enslaved many of the Rotten-house people.[13]
At that time they destroyed a canoe at Laxanē′st[14] out of which two men and a woman escaped. Many nights afterward, when some persons came there for wood, they got away in their canoes. And in them they came across. They were saved.
Those in Port Simpson house who could not escape were afterward presented with a canoe by the Iron people,[15] who let them escape. Those also got home. Then, too, it was not a good time.
Gîtqōna′-i’s father went to Masset, and five families[16] banded together and began to drink sea water. During the whole time they practiced how they would fight. A cartridge box then caught fire, and a man was burned.