had drowned, including a prominent chief. And not long before that disaster a flotilla of seven trading canoes paddling south from the land of the Aglegmute and Chugatsch Eskimos, west of Yakutat, had been swamped, again with a terrible loss of life. With so many recently severed souls to mourn and the increased threat of kushtaka lurking in the area, it did not take long for alarm to spread when the young men ran toward their uncle’s hut shouting, “Come quick! There is something on the horizon we have never seen before!”