RADiN] HISTORY 61 



The Foxes in their village said, "Say, I believe the chiefs have 

 been killed. This is a time of war. Tcap'o'sgaga has been angered. 

 When Tcap'o'sgaf/a gets very angry he generally does what he 

 threatens. " Then the bad Foxes said, "Perhaps they are eating the 

 objects we donated ".■" 



"The Foxes wiU not be coming back for some time" (the Winne- 

 bago said). (The Foxes) at the same time had gathered together 

 and discussed the fate of the chiefs who had gone to give themselves 

 up (to the Winnebago) and had never returned. "Very likely they 

 are not alive any more, " they said. 



Tcap'o'sgaga returned to the Winnebago village after he killed 

 (the chiefs) and then started for the smaller of the two villages in 

 which the Foxes lived. It was at the smaller village that the lake 

 was narrowest. Toward this one he was going, he said. 



He had again planned a war-party. All those within the vOlage 

 who were likely to show any skill in killing men prepared themselves 

 for (attacking) the smaller village. They started at dawn, and they 

 reached the smaller village at night and ferried themselves across. 

 By dawn all had crossed and the village was surroimded. As soon 

 as it was broad dayhght they gave the war-whoop in four different 

 places. Then they rushed on to the small village and destroyed it 

 completely. Then they burned up the houses and went home. 



When they got home everyone was happy. They danced the 

 victory dance and at night they had the Hok'ixe're dance. So 

 happy were the Winnebago. 



-Uthough they thought they had killed all in the smaller village, 

 one young girl who was lying on top of a small cliff, near where they 

 crossed, fasting, had not been killed. Now the Foxes were hving 

 also in a large village right across the lake from the Winnebago. To 

 this place the young woman who had not been killed went, and when 

 she got to the big Fox village she told them the news, namely, "The 

 Winnebago have completely destroyed us, I believe. Some of them 

 (the enemy) I partially recognized. Go and see, however, whether 

 they were Winnebago, for (if it was they) the lodges will be found 

 burned to the ground, that being their custom when they go on a 

 war-path. " 



Then the older Foxes went and when they returned, spies an- 

 noimced, "Yes, they were Winnebago, for the lodges have been 

 burned down. It is true that the chiefs who had gone to make 

 peace have been killed. " Then the Foxes went into mourning for 

 them. "There are many of the Winnebago and we will not be able 

 to fight them," said the Foxes. Indeed the Foxes were afraid. 

 Although a Fox disliked a Winnebago not one could he kill. 



*• I. e., the chiefs who went to make peace. 



