[37] A synonym for Ya′gun-gîtᴀna′-i. [↑]
[38] The bargaining is broken off at this point by the coming of the Middle-gîtî′ns, and is resumed later when the Cod-people gave six slaves. [↑]
[39] It will be remembered that the trouble was started by a man of the Middle-gîtî′ns shooting one of the Cod-people in the arm. [↑]
[40] The Gîtî′ns of Masset, as the name might imply, seems to have been the largest Eagle family. There were two principal divisions of this—the Mamᴀn-river-gîtî′ns and the River-Sqadjî′ns-gîtî′ns, named from streams flowing into the head of Masset inlet, on which they camped. [↑]
[41] Or Eggs-of-Skî′tg̣ao. This was the leading Raven family in Masset, and formerly they owned that town. [↑]
[42] He and his friends, the Eagles, assigned work to the opposite clan, the Ravens. A man’s opposites always took care of his funeral. [↑]
War between the Eggs-of-Skî′tg̣ao and the Inlet-rear-town people
[Told by Richard of the Middle-gîtî′ns]
They lived together in the town of Masset. In the fall they went up the inlet to dry salmon. They camped then on both sides of A′-în.[1] After they had dried salmon for a while some of the Eggs-of-Skî′tg̣ao went off in the night to hunt hair seal.