MICHELSON. ] THE LITTLE SPOTTED BUFFALO. 527 
That is what they do when they have perhaps ceased dancing for 
the first time. At the time when all have eaten, they are told, 
““Come, sit down carefully where you have been seated.’ Then they 
sit down. Only then the smokers stop to smoke vigorously. And 
likewise later on they stop to sing again. After eating they again 
sing: 
The one who always opens his mouth; 
The one who always opens his mouth; some; begin; I.16 
And the other half is begun. The other half (is): 
(Mere syllables with fragments of words.) 
Then again another (song) begins, and the other is: 
I go about talking, I go about talking, I go about talking, I go about 
talking; 
On the surface of the earth I; 
I go about talking, I go about talking, I go about talking. 
That is as far as one half goes, and the other half is: 
I talk through, I talk through, I talk through, I talk through; 
On the surface of the earth I; 
I talk through. « 
And that is as far as the second half really goes. And another 
song is: 
I -(?) talk, I -(?) talk, I -(?) talk, I -(?) talk; 
Across -(?) I; 
I -(?) talk. 
Then the other half begins; I shall write it on the next page: 
I -(?) talk, I -(?) talk, I -(?) talk; 
Across the great sea; 
I -(?) talk. 
And that is as far as that song goes. And another one comes in 
here. Gracious, I shall stop to tell the sense of the little song. 
Symbolically this is what it is: when it (the song) first runs, “I go 
about talking,” (the meaning is) these buffaloes are accustomed to 
walk along in an extended line any place; so even when it begins to 
be stormy weather, they also would be able to go along in an extended 
line. And when the other half starts in, the meaning symbolically 
really perhaps is, ‘‘We might be yonder in the great sea, but I should 
16 There are many mere syllables; hence a connected translation is impossible. The ‘‘second half’ 
plainly partially resembles the ‘‘first half.” 
