Note 11 — STORIES ACCOMPANIED BY TEXTS (continued 2)
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Then they shot him from in front. And then he exclaimed: “What people have done this to me? Save me.”11 Then he (the assailant) shot him again with a pistol. A male slave, however, escaped into the woods. And when they ran down to his canoe there were cuts of whale in it. By that time they were speaking Kaigani12 together. I then said to them: “Why did you, who are Haida, talk Tlingit? We would not have touched you.” Then she (his wife) said: “We did not think anything like this would happen.”