[26] A man of Those-born-at-Skedans. The chief of Ninstints was also so called; in fact, that is the meaning of the word Ninstints. [↑]
[28] This was near Hot Spring island. [↑]
[29] The placing of chiefs at potlatches and feasts was regulated in accordance with their wealth, the richer sitting nearer the inside house pole, in the back part of the house. [↑]
War between the people of Kloo and the Tsimshian
[Told by Abraham of Those-born-at-Qꜝā′dᴀsg̣o]
The people at Chicken-hawk[1] town were at Wā′nats[2] prepared for war and had done raising their canoes. They were going to Kitamat.[3] And because the tides began to run too high for them to make the start from Chicken-hawk town, they prepared at ʟłasū′g̣a-i. When the tide was high they started off.
Then some Skedans[4] people met them. And they gave them the following news. Bufflehead had thrown a dry halibut at Î′ngîlîn,[5] on account of which there was a fight.[6] They heard that a woman of the Town-of-Djī′gua people[7] had been killed. Then, instead [of keeping on], they went toward the Tsimshian.[8]
They went on and took all the dry salmon a slave was getting in Skidegate creek[9] away from him. They took a large number of bundles of salmon out of the canoe of one who was coming back from war. After they had left that place they took away all the property of some people who were living at Da′x̣ua.[10]