LA FLBSCHE] 



RTTE OF VIGII 



-FREE TRANSLATION. 



287 



In the second song the people are represented as speaking. They 

 exclaim joyfully at the response of the buffalo to their call; to the 

 coming of the female and the male upon whom depend the increase of 

 their kind; to the coming of the little one who stands as a representa- 

 tive of the reproduction; to the coming of the aged one who is made 

 to prefigure the existence of his kind through the future ages. 



These two buffalo songs are expressions of the abiding faith of the 

 people in the benevolence of the tlivine power to whom they cry 

 continually for aid in their struggles for existence. 



A free translation of two lines from each of the four stanzas will 

 suffice to give the meaning. 



SoNo 2. 



(psago version, p. 490; literal translation, p. 61:!.) 

 MM J - 88 frjuiBcribed by Alice C. Fletcher 



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FREE TRANSLATION. 

 1. 



The female is coming to us, 

 Lo, the female is coming to us. 



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The male is coming to us, 

 Lo, the male is coming to us. 



The Kttle one is coming to us, 

 Lo, the little one is coming to us. 



