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Haida heads stuck on poles in the canoes.

This was approved conduct. How- ever, he also killed fellow tribsmen on the most trivial provocation, im- pelled by the burning hate which seemed to be devouring him. So troublesome did he become that the tribe made him an outcast, and he fled to a cave in the mountain overlooking Cowichan Bay, which now bears his name.

Kidnapped and Tortured Wives

Tzouhalem was an Indian Blue- beard who kidnapped wives and tor- tured them if they did not obey him. According to one account, his first and only real “love” was for a girl of the tribe who also pined for him. The girl’s father, in league with a Shaman or medicine man who dis- liked Tzouhalem, were said to have “framed” him for the murder of the girl’s brother, who was actually killed by a Haida. This led to his exile, the story says, and the girl died of grief.

Savage and unscrupulous though he was, Tzouhalem possessed courage, brains, enterprise and a real gift of leadership. Men followed him to the death.

He was joined in exile by a number of desperate spirits—chiefly young men. The band became the scourge of Indians all over the Pacific Northwest, terrorizing tribes from Seymour Nar- rows to the southern tip of Puget Sound, and from the West Coast to Vancouver Island to a point 100 miles up the Fraser.

On a rock at Green Point, at the entrance to Cowichan Bay, he built a stockaded lodge in imitation of the Hudson’s Bay Company fort at Vic- toria—scene of his only real defeat when Roderick Finlayson’s guns put the Indians to flight. (Tzouhalem had slaughtered and eaten some of the Victoria settlers’ cattle.)

40 Wives

Within the walls of his stockaded fort he kept a harem which, according to some accounts, reached the number of 40 wives. When he coveted a woman he took her after slaughtering husband, father, or anyone else who stood in the way. Even those who thought they were his friends were not safe.

To one Tse-multh, who knew him well, he boasted that he meant to come in three days and seize his wife. Tse-multh kept a constant vigil, but

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Tzouhalem, crawling on all fours among the village dogs, stalked Tse. multh, shot him with a musket and dragged the wife away.

He took a sardonic delight in set. ting villages on fire. A sub-chief who had been burned out offered his daughter in marriage to anyone who could burn down Tzouhalem’s lodge. One Mainland brave managed to penetrate the stockade and set the women’s quarters on fire, but one of Tzouhalem’s watchmen shot him dead by the light of the flames.

Tzouhalem treated his wives mod- erately well if they behaved, but was merciless if they offended even slight- ly. One wife tried to escape back to her Nanaimo family, and was recap- tured, half-dead after great hardships. Tzouhalem treated her with unusual kindness, making other wives wait on her and nurse her back to health.

Then he had her carried to a fire, and placed her feet in the flames. She was burned so severely that she was near death for days and lame for life. He had carried out his promise to make it impossible for her to run away again.

Quinosia, a Quamichan girl who was the most beautiful of his wives, was said to have a young totem- carver for a lover. Tzouhalem had a grim, sadistic sense of humor. He said that as she admired carvers, he would

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