When the Sqoā′ładas on the west coast heard that they had killed Gîtkū′[30] they also went to war. They killed many of the Cod-people. They also enslaved one of them.
After that one of the Sg̣adjī′gua-ał-lā′nas[31] in Masset, named Kiłtcꜝāñ, invited the people. And he had a dance. He pulled out ten slaves that he owned in a string [holding each other’s hands]. After [[388]]they had taken home food one of the Middle-gîtî′ns[32] named Łnē′kꜝî, shot one of the Cod-people in the arm from between the houses. Upon this his two younger brothers acted as if they were drunk. They killed there a chief, Gā′la. He belonged to the Ya′gun-gîtîna′-i.[33] He did not die at once. He died afterward. His entire family shot at once at the house of the Cod-people. They killed two persons.
For ten days and nights they fought in the town. No one had a fire. No one had water. When the chiefs’ wives, thinking that they would not touch them, went for water the Ya′gun-gîtîna′-i smashed their buckets with stones, and they returned. At the end of ten days the Ya′gun-gîtîna′-i suggested making peace. They then stopped shooting at the house.
By and by an old man, their uncle, came behind the town singing catastrophe songs. He belonged to the Cod-people. After he had sung for a while he made a good speech: “Chiefs, my brothers-in-law, the war trail and the feather trail came out together at Na-i î′ndjawa in the middle of the town. I went up by the war trail. I came out upon the feather trail. ‘What town is this? What town is this?’ ‘Chief, my son, this is the town of Gā′la, your father. You started up on the war trail which comes out in the middle of your father’s town. Your fathers were troubled[34] about you. You came out upon the feather trail.’” He also spake so: “Is it my father’s town? Is it indeed my father’s town? [I thought it was] some other.”[35]
They then started to dance. After they had been for two days in the woods, they were called toward the house. They came then and stood in a line in front of the house. They had their guns ready. Presently the Ya′gun-gîtîna′-i stood in lines opposite. They struck each other with their guns. They struck each other with their knives.
By and by the Cod-people picked up two chiefs [of the Ya′gun-gîtîna′-i].[36] There was a great crowd of people. They picked them up and laid them upon a bed of feathers in the rear part of the house. Then two slaves were tendered as blood money to Those-born-at-Ya′gun.[37] And they refused them. They afterward tendered them two more. Those they refused also.
Then Tcꜝā′nut said: “Do I ask four slaves of you? My uncle is worth ten slaves and four hundred blankets. I will not dance.” There were many in the house. They did not pay any attention to the bad words that he gave them.[38]
By and by the Middle-gîtî′ns began rapping on the front of the house. They presently went in and got the dancers. They took them up. They then brought them into the house of the Middle-gîtî′ns because they had started the trouble.[39] They brought these in [to give to them property]. They (the Middle-gîtî′ns) gave them the four slaves. They also gave them a great quantity of property. They (the Ya′gun-gîtîna′-i) began to dance in the house at once. [[389]]
At that time the Gîtî′ns[40] also gave property to them. It reached beyond their expectations. After they had danced for four nights the Cod-people came and got them. They also gave them six slaves as blood money. And they washed their faces and began to dance. Then the Skîtg̣a′oqao,[41] Middle-gîtî′ns, and Cod-people gave them more property. They gave them seven hundred blankets.
Then Tcꜝā′nut married his uncle’s wife, and they made him take his uncle’s place. And, when he kept staying away from his wife, the Middle-gîtî′ns talked roughly to him. After they had spoken to him for a while they told him to leave the house.