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Note 24 — War between the people of Kloo and the people of Ninstints

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On that day they had given to Kiä′nskina-i24 the white part of a halibut. That was why he was out fishing. They at once went out from Kꜝîl25 toward them, and they destroyed the people. Among others they killed the chief. They then seized Hemlock-bark-scraping-knife on the water. “Hemlock-bark-scraping-knife, when the chief was chased, did you not stop them?” “No,” he said. And they struck him on the lips with the short sinker strings that they held. They killed him with them.

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