And they gave us other laws. They showed us new ways
in the catching of fish and the killing of bear which were thick
in the woods; and they taught us to lay by bigger stores for the
time of famine. And these things were good.
'But when they had become chiefs, and there were no more men to
face their anger, they fought, these strange white men, each with
the other. And the one whose blood I carry drove his seal spear
the length of an arm through the other's body. Their children
took up the fight, and their children's children; and there was
great hatred between them, and black doings, even to my time, so
that in each family but one lived to pass down the blood of them
that went before. Of my blood I was alone; of the other man's
there was but a girl. Unga, who lived with her mother. Her father
and my father did not come back from the fishing one night; but
afterward they washed up to the beach on the big tides, and they
held very close to each other.
'The people wondered, because of the hatred between the houses,
and the old men shook their heads and said the fight would go on
when children were born to her and children to me. They told me
this as a boy, till I came to believe, and to look upon Unga as a
foe, who was to be the mother of children which were to fight
with mine.
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