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Note 15 — War between the people of Kloo and the Bellabella

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That winter news came to the Bellabella through a canoe from the Kitkatla people that when summer came Gîtku′n was going to sweep out the inlet from its head like a contagion. Then the Bellabella people said: “When Gîldā′-ił15 can never be entered how are you going to sweep it out from the head?” When that news came through Kitkatla,16 the Town-of-Djī′gua people said they would destroy everything before them as when one spits out something.

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