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Note 1 — How the Seaward-sqoā′ładas obtained the names of their gambling sticks

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His father was a chief in Sealion-town.1 His name was Poor-chief’s-son.2 One time his father was going to have a potlatch. Then his father went to invite the Tsimshian. While he was gone, Gasî′na-ᴀ′ndju3 began to gamble. After he had gambled for some time, he lost all of his father’s property. Then he put a bladder full of grease into his gambling-stick bag. And he put it on his back and went away.

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