OMAHA AND PONKA LETTERS. 43 
NAXZANDAJI TO JAMES O’KANE. 
Ca” wabagteze ie djiba widaxu cii¢ea¢ée. Wabag¢eze 
And letter word ‘afew I write to I send to Letter 
you you 
cu¢éwi¢e améde qa¢a wiréctéwa" tia’ ¢aki¢aji. Ca"’-na™ 
it is said that I sent it to back even one you have not sent And only 
you (but 1 do not know again hither (to me), 
it: sie) but 
a’ patha yaqtiha edabe i"¢écka"na ‘i¢agé ¢acti, ca” a™ba 
elk hides deer hides also you desired for you formerly, yet day 
me promised 
omer. w fi / / ; 5 Twigs ene 
i¢dug¢e asi¢é-na"-ma™. Ca™ a™patha méha da cté wi'a” wa 
throughout I think of it from And elk hides winter or which ones 
time to time. hides 
e *H/ g Pas. . pA , ~~, , e x v/s Ve 
tia" gti ni” wi" ka"b¢éga". Ca” méha gé ataqti ka™b¢a. 
are very you buy I hope. And winter thepl.  exceed- I wish. 
plentiful hides in. ob. ingly 
/ ii) gee? , , : *n/ b , 
... Ca” ugq¢é’qtci, éskana, qa¢a i*wi’¢ana ka*b¢éga". 
And very soon, oh that, back you tell me I hope. 
again 
NOTES. 
43, 1. “ Wabag¢eze cu¢ewi¢e amede” would imply that the sender was 
drunk or otherwise, and ignorant of what he had sent in the letter (G.). 
Read, “Wabag¢eze cu¢éwiki¢é-na"-ma” édega", qa¢a wi'éctéwa" 
Letter I sent to you often by but (past), — back even one 
special messenger again 
tia’ ¢aki¢aji ha” (G.). This sbould be either, Wabag¢eze cu¢éaté 
you have not : Letter T sent to 
sent tome you 
éde qga¢a witéctéwa™ tia’ ¢aki¢aji ha, or, Wabag¢eze cu¢e¢e amede 
but back even ore you have not : Letter it is said that they 
again sent it to me sent to you, but 
qa¢a witéctéwa" ti¢aki¢aji ha (W.). 
back even one you have not 
agai sent it hither 
43, 6. ‘The parenthetical sentence of the translation was not recorded 
in the original. 
TRANSLATION. 
I write you a few words. I have written to you, but you have not 
sent even one reply. As you promised to be on the lookout for elk 
and deer hides for me, I have been thinking of it regularly every day. 
I hope that you may buy elk hides or winter (buffalo) hides, which- 
ever kind you find plentiful. I desire winter hides above everything. 
(Wherever you hear about them, whether in Kansas or somewhere else, 
I hope that you may buy them.) I hope that you will reply very soon. 
