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Song 4. 

 (Osago version, p. 458; literal translation, p. 586.) 



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FKEE TKANSLATION. 

 1. 



BelioUl, I go fortli witli bounding leaps. 



2. 

 Behold, I go forth, turning from siiio to side. 



3. 

 Boliold, I ru.sU forth in a straight line. 



Songs of the Fight for the Charcoal. 



The group following the Buffalo Bull Songs is called NC-xthe' 

 I-ki"-dse Wa-tho", freely translated, Songs of the Fighfc for tiie Char- 

 coal. A wi'-gi-e precedes the song. Wa-xtlii'-zlii gave only one 

 song to this group, while Wa-tse'-mo"-!", in a list of the songs belong- 

 ing to tlijs ritual, made some time before this work was begun, men- 

 tioned seven songs as belonging to tliis ceremony. The two gcntes to 

 which these men belong, the I°-gtho"'-ga and tlie Wa-fa'-be, are 

 related and said to use the same rituals in common. No explanation 

 was offered by Wa-xthi'-zhi as to why he gave but one song to this 

 ceremony, although he was aware that Wa-tse'-mC-i" had given 

 seven in his list. Both of these men, as well as Ts(*-zhi"'-ga-wa-da- 

 i"-ga and Pe'-<ise-mo''-i", stated that the l"-gtho"'-ga is subordinate 

 to the Wa-ca'-be gens and it may be that the I''-gtho"'-ga gens is not 

 privileged to u.se all of the songs. 



'llie wi'-gi-e and song here given by Wa-xtlii'-zhi are used by his 

 gens at the ceremonial fight by the warriors for brands of the sacred 

 fires kindled at one of the ceremonies of the Wa-sha'-be A-thi", a rite 



