The people of the fort then all went out for whale. And they encamped at G̣ᴀ′ldjida for the whale. There they cut it up.
Î′ldjiwas then had his canoe in the woods at Chicken-hawk town.[26] They observed the Town-of-Djī′gua people cut up the whale. By and by Two-voices went to Chicken-hawk town to cut łg̣ēt[27] with two young men. After they had gone there they heard the sound of guns. They shot Two-voices only. His companions they spared.
Shortly after the guns sounded he (Î′ldjiwas) sailed by in front of the camping place. He went too fast for them to even think of going out to him.
And after they had waited a while for a good day they loaded the whale and went off with it. And, although they wanted to go to Qꜝo′nakoa fort, the canoes were so heavy that they went ashore at Dog-fish fort.[28] This fort was the best of all. And they cleared away the bushes and started to live there. Ginᴀ′skilas owned blankets ornamented with duck bills (lit., “duck teeth”). He hung them all around upon the stockade on account of a canoe that had come [with visitors]. And, when these were not quite enough, he bought ten with a slave that a woman owned. They used to get twenty slaves for a sea otter.
In the following year all who were in Dog-fish fort went to Skidegate to war. And, after they had pulled up their canoes into the [[423]]woods in the inlet above Skidegate, they were discovered. All of the Skidegate people followed them at once. They shot at them. They shot one then in the canoes of the Kloo people. They got off on the inner side of Ku′nga-i.[29]
At that time the Town-of-Djī′gua people took to the woods. When they fled the one who had been wounded sat in the canoe. Just before Tā′-iłgwai got off he called to him: “Skî′lg̣atgwᴀns,” he said to him, “try to get off. Sit at the foot of a tree in the woods. When I get to Cumshewa[30] I will borrow a canoe and get you as soon as I can.” Then he consented. He said: “All right.”
The Skidegate people then pulled off their canoes. Not long after that the one they had wounded made a fire for his head. They then went over from Skidegate and cut off his head.
And the Town-of-Djī′gua people went around by the point, camping here and there. They had nothing to eat. And when they camped they were cold. By and by they found a sea otter floated ashore. They made a fire for it and steamed it in the ground. When it was cooked they set some in front of Ginᴀ′skilas. But he said: “You put this in front of me to eat, but I will not eat it. The gravel might see me.”[31]
They then started off and came to Cumshewa. And they attacked Tā′-iłgwai, because he did not do as he had promised [to the wounded man]. They then borrowed a canoe at Cumshewa and went to Skedans.[32] They (the Skedans people) took them over to the fort.
And, after they had remained there for a while and it was again fall, they again went to Tꜝā′łdi. And, after they were through with gathering food, they again settled at Dog-fish fort.