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The fish had not been able to reach the lake above, and they had waited too long after the flood-season to descend into the deeper waters of the Babine and the Skeena. They had taken refuge in this pool, which was now about to become a death-trap. At one end the water was two feet deep; at the other end only a few inches.
The Tsimsheans, a third family, cluster round Fort Simpson, and occupy a line of coast extending from the Skeena river to the borders of Alaska. On his arrival at Fort Simpson, on the 1st of October, 1857, Mr. These proved to be just one-third of the tribes speaking the Tsimshean language.
We've made a fair stake, anyway, if we don't wash an ounce of gold." Hazel let her gaze wander over the pelts hanging thick from ridge log and wall. Bill had fared well at his trapping. Over two thousand dollars he estimated the value of his catch. "How are we going to get it all out?" She voiced a troublesome thought. "Shoulder pack to the Skeena," he answered laconically.
So they came at last to the Skeena, and Hazel's heart misgave her when she took note of its swirling reaches, the sinuous eddies a deep, swift, treacherous stream. But Bill rested overnight, and in the morning sought and felled a sizable cedar, and began to hew. Slowly the thick trunk shaped itself to the form of a boat under the steady swing of his ax.
He well knew that I had never heard of Yaada, so why not begin without preliminary to tell me of her? so "Yaada was the loveliest daughter of the Haida tribe. Young braves from all the islands, from the mainland, from the upper Skeena country, came, hoping to carry her to their far-off lodges, but they always returned alone.
"Aliquor" was Indian, "Waugee" was white man, "Chick" was the general word for money. "Hutla" is night, "Wha" is the sun; "Hutla-wha" is the moon the night-sun. If an Indian wishes to ask where you are going, he will say, "Ta hunt tow ingya?" "Teena scoia" is very good. "Skeena" is too small. "Semastolon" is a young woman; if she is considered beautiful, "Clane nuquum" describes her.
They would conquer with equal facility whatever barriers they found between them and fortune. The sweep of Spring's progress across the land found them west of the Coast Range by May, in a wild and forbidding region where three major streams the Skeena, the Stikine, and the Naas take their rise.
They were now six or eight miles north of the timber in which the hunters had made their permanent camp, and headed for the lower tributaries of the Skeena. Another hour of travel, and the bare shale and gray crags were above them again, and they were on the green slopes.
Of the other eighteen tribes, five were scattered over 100 miles of the coast south of Fort Simpson, other five occupied the Naas river, and the remaining eight tribes lived on the Skeena river the whole of the twenty-seven tribes numbering then not over 8,000 souls, though I at first set them down at 10,000.
He well knew that I had never heard of Yaada, so why not begin without preliminary to tell me of her? so "Yaada was the loveliest daughter of the Haida tribe. Young braves from all the islands, from the mainland, from the upper Skeena country came, hoping to carry her to their far-off lodges, but they always returned alone.
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