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rounded the point in their three canoes, he pushed out from under the bank
and fled down stream, shouting to each hunter as he passed, “The Crees
are coming. Follow quickly to protect our families.” One after another
the hunters shot out from.the bank and followed him to the camp. The
Cree approached, shouting “Friends, friends,” and, meeting with no
hostility, stopped close to the camp, dragged their spruce-bark canoes on
to the bank for sleeping-shelters and prepared to dry their meat. The
Sekani recognized some of their kinsmen’s possessions in the hands of the
Cree, and an old woman named Kloazi, Mouse, brandishing a spear, urged
her people to take vengeance; but they were afraid of a battle, because
the two parties were almost equal in numbers. So the Cree and Sekani
remained side by side for two days, neither party daring to attack the
other, and neither willing to leave first lest it should be trapped on the
march. So they sat in their camps and feasted, the Sekani supplying most
of the meat. On the second day the Cree had an argument among them-
selves, and one man said “I am going to embark. Who will come with
me?” Three men paddled away down the river. The other Cree then
said to the Sekani, ‘‘ Tomorrow we are going to hunt elk. Let some of
your warriors accompany us.” The Sekani selected four young men, whom
they warned to keep watch and to sleep at a distance from their com-
panions. The Cree and the four Sekani travelled fast all day without
halting; when night came they built their fires some distance apart and
kept watch, both sides fearing an attack. The Sekani said to each other
in the morning “ Let us pretend to hunt squirrels, and when the Cree go
on ahead we will run away.” Soon they came to a grove of jackpine
where a squirrel was racing among the branches. The Sekani chased it,
laughing, and when the Cree called to them they answered “Go ahead.
We will overtake you presently.” But as soon as the Cree were out of
sight the Sekani fled over a low hill. The Cree fired a few shots at them
without result, then, fearful of returning to their canoes, continued down
the river on foot to their own country.

On another occasion a party of Cree armed with guns ascended Finlay
river and pursued two Sekani men of the Sasuchan band into a mountain
a little north of Fort Grahame. One of the Sekani hurled down a large
rock. which struck a Cree on the forehead and killed him. Hence the
mountain is now named “ Man struck by a rock.”

Two families of the Sasuchan band who were descending Finlay river
to the Forks to hunt moose were massacred by some Nadowa Cree who
wore their hair short, whereas the other Cree who were raiding the Sekani
at this time wore tneir hair long. The Beaver of Hudson Hope now apply
the name Nadowa to the Cree of Moberly lake, a few miles to the south.

To the T’lotona band of Sekani, as to the Tahltan and Gitksan, the
Cree, Dishinmi, have become a semi-mythical people. They are always
dressed in buckskin adorned with beads, and travel four or six in a band,
without women. If observed they disappear, changing into burned trees
or vanishing into thin air without leaving a trace. Sometimes they stand