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that of the keen scenter was White-Dog: and that of the tree con- 

 verser was Buffalo. 



Shortly after this battle a band of visitors from another tribe came 

 over to Long- Wing's lodge, which had been pointed out to them as 

 the lodge of the chief. The visitors entered it. In the meantime 

 the Winnebago held a hurried council and decided to kill these 

 visitors to avenge the death of their three warriore, whose loss they 

 were still lamenting. It was decided to scald the visitors to death 

 with hot water. The roofs of the lodges, which were gable-lodges, 

 could easily be opened. 



When everything was in readiness they called their chief out and 

 closed the entrances firmly. The chief, however, begged them not 

 to kill the visitors in his lodge (for it was holy). The Winnebago, 

 however, paid no attention to him, and as they had already taken 

 the weapons from the strangers, they poured hot water through the 

 roof upon their heads. They killed all except two, who succeeded 

 in making their escape through the roof. One of these changed him- 

 self into a turkey and flew away and the other got to the roof and 

 kept jumping from one roof to the other until he came to the end of 

 the village, where he succeeded in making his escape. However, the 

 Winnebago noticed his shell neck ornament which had twisted 

 around to the back of his neck and one of them threw a stone hammer 

 at him and killed him. In reality, therefore, only one man escaped. 



After the}' had brought the last body back to the village the chief 

 told them that they had not acted rightly, for they had killed people 

 in his (the chief's) lodge, and that from then on the lodge was to 

 remain as a warrior's lodge. 



That same night an owl came to the top of the lodge and hooted, 

 saying, "The Winnebago will have bad luck." Then the Winne- 

 bago asked, ''What can be the matter with us?" The chief inter- 

 preted the owl's meaning and told them that it meant that from 

 that time on the Winnebago would lose their power. 



Shortly after all these things happened the Winnebago were 

 attacked by a disease that turned their bodies yellow and many died 

 of this sickness. 



h. Wlien the Winnebago were in trouble because all the other 

 tribes had leagued against them, they were living at a place near 

 Eed Banks. The enemy had shut off all the water and the only 

 way they could get any was to tie their pack straps to their pails 

 and let down these pails in a deep canj'on. However, this was also 

 discovered after a while and the enemy cut the pack straps. 



So terrible were their straits that they finally spread their blankets 

 on the grounil and offered tobacco to their medicine men and asked 

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