At that time they went up into the inlet. They spent many days in it. And when they smelt smoke some went out to scout. They then saw the house, and before daybreak they set out for the house in a line.
When they got near a white man’s dog barked at them. At that time A′nkustᴀ[19] performed as shaman. He then made a threatening motion toward the dog. It stopped barking. And it came among them and licked them.
When they got near they shot at them. Hu hu hu hu hu, they finished shooting and ran in. Some went through the doorway and some went in through the sides of the house. They dropped in quickly in any way. They seized at once upon those inside.
By and by one of them seized Ya′koeʟas. He threw him from him, and he almost fell on his hands near by. But he did not loosen his hands. Those in the house did not know, on account of the confusion, what they were doing. One lay upon some one and called for his family. Others pulled away his arms.[20]
They now got all into their hands. At that time they lay upon some slaves owned by Ya′koeʟas who had married each other. The woman then said to her husband: “Cut him up among them.” And her husband said to her: “Any place where water is drunk is all right.” Their minds were not disturbed, because they were slaves already.
Then the chief, Ya′koeʟas, refused to leave the place. The Kloo people then seized him, and he threw them off with a jerk. He then moved himself little by little in the place where he had lain. He moved toward an ax that was there.
After they had struggled with him for a while one of them found a big coil of rope near the door. They tied him then. And they carried him to the canoe. At that time he was put into Waters’s canoe. The canoe then moved as if some one shook it. It shook because he was afraid, and they were afraid of him. [[438]]
The one who had escaped from among the Kloo people first captured by the Bellabella then threw a spear at him out of another canoe, and he raised his palm toward it, so that the spear ran into his palm. On that account he also struck Ya′koeʟas in the face with a paddle. He [Ya′koeʟas] did not turn away. He held up his head as before.
After he had been shaking [with fear] for a while Waters put on him a cedar-bark ring that they had taken. Then, knowing that the cedar-bark ring protected him from insult, he found that his life was safe.
When it was broad daylight the Bellabella said that some people lived below on the inlet. Two canoes of Those-born-at-Qꜝā′dᴀsg̣o[21] started off. These were not anxious for their lives, because they had taken nothing.