MICHELSON.] THE SINGING AROUND RITR. 577 
them. ‘‘I also saw those (fellow-tribesmen) who are no longer with 
us.” He specified their names. ‘‘They really live there,” he said, 
“perhaps they also are getting ready to flee. Those Sioux do not 
know where you live. Suppose we move slowly to-morrow,”’ he said 
to them, ‘‘where they live,” he said. 
Then he specified exactly where they lived. Lo, how far off it was; 
so they did not believe him, for they thought they were near by. 
Then he was carefully interrogated by one old man who knew how 
(the country) looked yonder. He told how the land was. Lo, he 
told exactly how it was. And he told them where their fellow 
Indians lived. ‘‘Gee whiz! how did you manage to get there?” he 
was asked. ‘‘I ran at full speed once in a while,” he said. 
He was liked even more then. Though these others did not sleep 
well and were finished with cooking early in the morning, he loafed 
unconcernedly, and unconcernedly got a stick and bent it and sewed 
(the Sioux’s) scalp there to dry(?). “‘Hey! you are always uncon- 
cerned. Hurry! We shall move quickly,” he was told. ‘‘They do 
not know where we are,” he said. Of course there were many camp- 
ings, as it was far off. They were overpowered with fear that it 
would snow too soon so that they would be found if pursued. 
When they camped for the last time on their journey " the next 
day after daybreak, one man came and whipped him, saying, ‘‘The 
first.”” Suddenly another also came and whipped him, saying, ‘‘The 
second.” Another also whipped him, saying, ‘‘The third.” ‘‘ What, 
pray, are these men doing ?”’ he said to his parents. ‘‘ They also wish 
to become warriors. They whipped you because you are a warrior,” 
he was told. “When anyone is a warrior it is thought to be a great 
thing,’ he was told. ‘‘Why did we simply come here in our 
flight? Had we gone thither and slain those villagers we might 
have been thought great,” he said. ‘‘Now you were merely in 
misery to begin your flight here. After we had come back here then 
these (men) began whipping me,” he said to his parents. ‘‘Why, 
what is called ‘war’ is terrible. That is why it is feared,” he was told. 
‘‘Now when we come near one (man) must go and tell the news in 
advance. You must fasten an oak leaf in your hair. We shall have 
a great time dancing. And you will be a leader in the great dance. 
Now you must summon any relative who is a girl, somewhere. You 
must cut off a little stick from an oak. It must have branches (?) 
on it. It must be peeled at the end. And it must be painted red. 
Whatever girl you select will be the one to dance with it. Whoever 
does so will have a reward. In your sacred pack there is a string of 
wampum-beads to be worn across the shoulder; she must wear it 
across her shoulder; whenever they stop dancing that girl will have 
10 Such is the sense of the passage; a literal rendition is ‘‘so they would not be left if pursued.” 
11 Rendered rather freely. A close translation would cause redundant words in English 
