[16] A Tsimshian town, also the Tsimshian part of the population of Porcher and the neighboring islands. They lived always on terms of friendship with the Raven people of Skedans. [↑]
[17] While the men were at war their wives observed certain regulations of a symbolic nature, supposed to assist the warriors. Many slept in one house, with their [[443]]heads lying in the direction that the warriors had taken, and, when the war party was supposed to have started back, they all slept with their heads turned in the opposite direction. [↑]
[18] Referred to in the [preceding story], note [18]. [↑]
[19] See the story of [Cloud-watcher]. [↑]
[20] After the contest was over the various families struggled to see who should carry away the most slaves. [↑]
[21] See “[Story of Those-born-at-Skedans],” note [19]. [↑]
[22] On an islet off the north shore of Tan-oo island. This was the second time it was occupied. The first time was when South-east was chief. On this occasion it was renamed Laiʟaikꜝia′-i, after the Bellabella fort. [↑]
[23] See “[Wars between the peoples of Skidegate and Kloo],” note [5]. [↑]
[24] Name of a chief of the Point-town people. The escape of these slaves prevented the Kloo people from recovering some of their own friends who had been taken to Masset, whereupon they became angry and took away two slaves from this chief. [↑]
[25] Daughter of one of the Kloo chiefs, captured in the previous Bellabella raid. [↑]