[1] A stream, still so named in the charts, which flows into the upper expansion of Masset inlet from the west. [↑]
[2] The companion of the man who had been shot, or possibly the man himself had merely been injured. [↑]
[3] Descent being counted through the mother, sons were bound to their mothers by closer social ties than were husbands to wives. [↑]
[4] Wives being of the opposite clan, other families would have been dragged into the struggle had any of the women been struck. To avoid this their canoes followed at some distance. [↑]
[5] The native name for most of what now constitutes the town of Masset. [↑]
[6] This was on the opposite side of Masset inlet, farther down. Many of the house frames are still standing. [↑]
[7] He is said, however, although covered with wounds, to have been preserved from death by a medicine which he had gone on purpose to test. [↑]