The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-03-30
and tell OF myself aE1 the woman. and,
II hint of the "

and tell or myself ard the woman and,
, after that, of the MN"
He OF the Otter Skins drew over to
! the stove as do mcnSyho have been de-
privcd of fire and ART afraid the Prone
/ thcan gift may vani.th at any moment
Malcmute Kid prick ed up the slush-
lamp and placed II 81 It might fall upon
the face Of the narrator. Prince slid his
0 joined them.
Il am Mass chi.f. and the son OF
chief. born between : sunset and Il ris-
o GSa nix All All Of Of n nIht the men toiled
at the paddles. and tie women cast out
the waves which thr,.w in upon us. and
we fought with the storm. The salt
spray froze upon ny mothers breast
till her breath passeI with the passing
of the tide. But IL raised my voice
! with the wind and Il c storm, and lived
We dwclt In AkaLtan"-
"where?" asked ANlemute Kid.
! "Akatan which * in the Aieutians:
lax. beyond unImak-. AS I say. we dwelt
! in Akatan. which lies in the midst OF the
sea on the edge Of tn; world. We farm
/ ed the salt seas for the fish. the seal.
! and the after: and or homes shoulder
, ed ahou; one another-ton the rocky strip
! between the rim of she forest and the
! yellow beach where DIR kayaks lay. We
! were not many, and the world was very
d
enst.-islands like Akatan; so we
thought all the work. was Islands, and
did not mind.
II was different from my people. In
the sands OF the bcac< were the crooked
timberS and wave-wSrped planks OF L
! boat such as my pcoIxre never built; and
IL remember on the, E2int OF the island
which overlooked the ocean three ways
. grew there. smooth 5and straight and
: tall II is said the Two men came TO
! that spot, turn about, through many
days. and watched with the passing or
! out Of the sea in the boat which lay in
pieces on the beach. And they were
white men like you, and weak rs the
little children when tie seal have gone
away and the hunters Isome home empty.
! ] know of these thi;iGs from the old
men and the old won;tn. who got them
: from their fathers ahd mothers before
them, These strange syhite men did not
they grew strong. Whit Of the fish and
the oil, and fierce. AID they built them
each his own house, lrd took the PICK
OF our women. and IN time children
came Thus he was porn who was TO
| become the father Of riy fathers father.
| AS | said, | was different from my
; people, for I carried tie strong, strange
. blood OF the white IN who came out
; Of the sea. II is said 40 had other laws
in the days before tn, Sc men; but they
were fierce and quarrEisome. and Tough
with our. men till thSre were no more
! left who dared to eight. Then they
made themselves ChieSS, and took away
! our old laws and gave Ss new ones. inso-
, much that the man Was the son or hia
father. and not his n1ther as our way
had been. They also iAled that the son.
, fIrstburn. should have all things which
were his fathers beftr him. and that
| the brothers and sistels should shift for
themselves And thfE gave US other
laws They showed VI new ways IN the }
which were thick in III. woods and they
taught us to lay by digger stores tor
. the time of famine! And these things
were good
and there were no more men 10 lace
! their anger. they fought, these strange
white men. each WITH the other. Ana
! the one whose blood : carry drove his
seal spear the length ~ an arm through
the others body, Their children took took
UP the fight. and thor childrcns chill
drcn: and there waSHgreat hatred pc
+ tween them. and blacf doings. even 10
my time. so that in each fanny pus
one lived to pass Down the blood k,"d, OF
was alone: of the othHE mans there vas
but a girl. Unga. wig lived win G 1e,
| mother. Her father afd my Iainer uau
night; but afterward they washed up
to the beach on the t9g tides. and they
! held very closely 70 "tGh other.
hatred between the htuses, and the old
men. shook their hogts and said the
fight would go on wien children were
horn to her and childlen TO me. They
Iinve and 20 look upQSl Cnga al foe.
, who was to be the nH'ther Of children
which we're to figh:. with mine.
thought OF these thnsl day by day. and
ask why this should pc 80. And they
answered. we do not Know. but that in
such way your fath;.rs did And
rnarveled that those w3Ich were to como
should fight ti>S battles of those that
we're zone, and In it'I could see no
right. But the pcoplt, said 1t must be.
and was only a stri.,Iing.
CONTINUED Gjondny.)
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