120 THE MENOMINI INDIANS [eth.akn.14 



"TLen, when all had received a response to their wishes, they made 

 preparations to depart, but Ma'nabusli said. 'My uncles, you have come 

 a long journey to see me, but it will not be so far for you to return to 

 your village.' Then, taking a piece of buckskin, Ma'nabusli held it up 

 so that all could see it. It was half an arm's length in size each way. 

 and Ma'nabusli said, 'This represents the journey you have made;' 

 then putting the buckskin against the lire it shrunk into a much smaller 

 piece, when Ma'nabush again took it up ami said. 'My uncles, this 

 piece of buckskin now represents the journey you have before you ; you 

 see it is not so long.' 



''The warriors were much pleased with this, and took their departure. 

 They traveled all day, but before going into camp tin- hunter had sup- 

 plied tin 1 party with plenty of venison for supper. When they en- 

 camped, they soon made themselves comfortable, and while sitting in 

 a. circle smoking they saw two strange men approach, when one of 

 the warriors grasped his warclub and attacked them, striking one of 

 them a terrific blow on the side of the head. The club rebounded, it 

 having caused the man's head only to sway a little; the warrior struck 

 him a second time, with a similar result, when the man began to laugh, 

 saying, • What are you doing .' you cannot hurt me.* The friends of 

 the warrior at once perceived that the two strangers were ana'maqkl'u 

 (underground ma'nidos), and that he could not injure them, so they 

 called out, 'Let them alone, you can not hurt either of them, for they 

 are ma'nidos.' The warrior then desisted from his attack on the stran- 

 gers and returned to the camp, whereupon the ma'nidos vanished. 



"On the following morning the warriors continued their journey 

 toward home, where they arrived on the fourth day after leaviug the 

 wigwam of Ma'nabush. 



"The people of the village were glad to see the return of the party 

 and to learn of their success in rinding Ma'nabush, and the girls at 

 once began to follow the warrior who had obtained the love medicine, 

 even his own sister wishing to marry him. 



"One night, four days after returning from his visit to Ma'nabush, the, 

 warrior who had received the pe'qtshiku'na, dreamed that a war party 

 of strange Indians was to pass at a certain point. In his dream he saw, 

 at a distance of four days' journey, a hill beyond which was a stream 

 of water, and again beyond which was another piece of rising ground, 

 just over the crest of which he saw the trail where the war party 

 was to appear. On awakening next morning, the warrior went out 

 among his friends, and soon had a party of fifty men collected to join 

 him. They then started in the direction shown to the warrior in his 

 dream, and before the fourth day was spent they had crossed the first 

 ridge and had reached the stream. 



"Then the leader of the party halted and told his companions, ■ My 

 friends, we have arrived at the place where we must halt and prepare 

 ourselves for battle, because just beyond the crest of that ridge ahead 

 of us is the trail by which the war party will pass.' Then taking out 



