[Told by Richard of the Middle-gîtî′ns]
The Ninstints people [755] came to Kaisun in four canoes to ask us
[756] to go to war in their company. We then went along in four canoes.
And, after we had gone across, we entered Lᴀlgī′mi. [757] During the
night we went in opposite to a fort. Some people were then camping in
the inlet. We began to shoot at them. There Amai′kuns was killed.
Gayî′ns [758] was wounded. Qoyā′ [759] was also wounded. He was one of
the brave men among us. There we took two slaves.
We went out from there. And those who went in advance came upon some
who were sailing along. The sound of two guns was heard. Afterward an
empty canoe drifted away. They enslaved two women. And we went thither.
And, while we were close to land, rejoicing over the slaves, some
persons came sailing round a point near us, and, when they saw us, they
jumped off. Then some landed behind them.
I then prepared myself and got off. And I pursued one who was running
along near the sea. After I had chased him about for a while in the
woods he jumped into the ocean. I took from him his yellow cedar
blanket with some of his hair. And, when he emerged farther out, he
held up his hands before my face. He then swam to me. When he came near
me he dove again. And he came to the surface out at sea. I then began
to shoot at him. And he swam landward and squeezed himself tight
against the face of a cliff. After I had shot twice at him there, I
stopped. He then climbed up a tree that stood against the face of the
cliff. And, although there was some space between its top and the
cliff, he bent it over, got a hold on the face of the cliff, and went
into a hole there. He could not climb thence either down or up. We said
one to another that he would die there.
We then went away. We next made a fire and began to give each other
food. And after we left we began to fight against the fort. We could
not get away then. We could not get away. [760] But afterward they got
us back [into the canoe]. And they shot one who was crawling about on
the top of the house so that he fell down. And after they lay out to
sea for a while a man wearing a dancing skirt and cedar-bark rings
dragged down a canoe. A woman also came after him. She came to us and
talked to those who were in Ldō′gwañ’s canoe. They told her then to
come closer. And some called to them to shoot the man so that he would
fall into the water. Ldō′gwañ refused to allow it and started away from
them. They then went off in fright. We ran out of ammunition. Then we
went away.
We then started from Point-djī′dao and, after we had spent four nights
upon the open sea, we came to G̣ᴀ′ñxet-kun. [761] After traveling two
nights from there we came to Kaisun. We had really brought nothing with
us from the far country.
This is the end of the story.
My interpreter understood that the tribe attacked at this time was, as
stated above, a Tsimshian tribe, but he may have been mistaken. In that
case it must have been some tribe related to the Bellabella.