They removed then from the fort to Chicken-hawk town.[7] But there they built houses. After this a long time elapsed before there was another fight. South-east was dead, and Ginᴀ′skilas[8] was also dead, and Qā′-idjît[9] succeeded to his place. Then they cleared the town of Sea-grass.[10] He built Cave-house[11] there.
And while Qā′-idjît was sitting idle in front of his house with a Pebble-town woman,[12] whom he had married, Those-born-at-Skedans[13] came from Skedans[14] to fight with him. They shot at him, and his wife fell dead without uttering a word. But he got in safe. Then he kept sending food through the fire to his wife.[15] That made him soon forget about his wife.
And when summer came he married a woman of Those-born-at-Qꜝā′dᴀsg̣o.[16] The brother of the one that was killed also stayed there. His name was Lū′g̣ot.[17]
One day Qā′-idjît painted himself and tied weasel skins in his hair, in order to set out to eat berries. He started off. Lū′g̣ot had made a canoe and was smoothing it there. When his brother-in-law was on the point of starting off he ran down toward his brother-in-law. And he threw sand into Qā′-idjît’s face.[18]
And he asked for two guns which were in the bow. They were afraid to hand them to him then. By and by they handed him one, and he shot his brother-in-law. He shot true and killed him.
Those-born-at-Qꜝā′dᴀsg̣o bestirred themselves at once and fired at him. They shot him in the elbow. Then he lay there. That day three were killed. Qā′-idjît was made to sit on the sand. But still Qā′-idjît escaped into the house. And he lay in the back part of Cave-house. He had two large blankets over him. Over these he also had a cotton canoe sail.
Now those who had done that to him went to a lonely camping place. And afterward they were afraid he was alive. They came to kill him. It was moonlight. A boy who was sleeping with him woke him. He then pulled himself out from under the blankets. And, while he moved back from the fire, one was moving a pistol[19] about in the smoke hole. He tried to shoot him. Twice his pistol failed to go off. Then two guns were pointed through the smoke hole. When they went off there were large holes in the blankets.
One day, some time afterward, he went out in front of the house and sat idle. After he had sat there for a while they stepped toward him. He heard the sound of running feet. And, after he had aimed his gun in that direction for some time, Naskiä′ł[20] stuck out his head, and he shot at his face. He fell there on his face. [[427]]
Of those who came to attack him from the camp Naskiä′ł was killed. And the one who was with him went away. And another family looked after the body. Afterward Qā′-idjît went to Gᴀ′nx̣oat, who was living in Big-house.[21] There he died. And his grandfather put him into a big box.
Then the people who had shot him and were holding a fort in Lake inlet[22] brought over a peace offering.[23] They brought over one slave. And the next year they also held a fort up the inlet from Sea-grass town. Thither Two-in-one came from Daog̣ā′iłgᴀłgîñ, which lies seaward from Skedans, and got him. They came and got Naskiä′ł[24] to go to war with the Gîtā′mat.[25] He went at once.