PREFACE. XXAI 
brother into the air he came down a very handsome warrior. The girl then 
asked her brother to toss her up, and when he had done this, she came 
down a very beautiful woman, the fame of her loveliness soon spreading 
throughout the country. The dog and such clothing as the sister and 
brother possessed were tossed up in succession, each act producing a 
change for the better. 
On p. 85, from line 33 to p. &6, line 5, there is an account of the 
deliverance of the imprisoned people by the Star-bornu when he cut off the 
heart of the monster that had devoured them. In like manner the Rabbit 
delivered the people from the Devouring Mountain, as related in the (legiha 
myths, ‘“‘ How the Rabbit went to the Sun,” and “How the Rabbit killed 
the Devouring Hill,” in “Contributions to North American Ethnology,” 
Vol. v1, pp. 31, 34. 
Note 2, p. 89. Eya after a proper name should be rendered by the 
initial and final quotation marks in the proper places, when ediya follows, 
thus: Mato eya e¢iyapi, They called him, “ Grizzly bear.” 
When heya precedes and eya follows a phrase or sentence the former 
may be rendered, he said as follows, and the latter, he said what precedes. 
Heya answers to ge, gai or ga-biama of the (legiha, and eya. to e, ai or 
a-biama. In like manner the Dakota verbs of thinking may be rendered 
as follows: heéiy (which precedes, answering to ge¢ega" of the Qegiha), 
by he thought as follows, and eéiy (which follows, answering to e¢ega™ in 
(legiha), by he thought what precedes. 
The myth of the Younger Brother (p. 139-143) contains several 
incidents which find their counterparts in the Biloxi myth of the Thunder- 
being. In the Dakota myth the wife of the elder brother plots against the 
younger brother; she scratches her thighs with the claws of the prairie 
chicken which the brother-in-law had shot at her request, and tells her 
husband on his return that his brother had assaulted her. In the Biloxi 
myth it is the aunt, the wife of the Thunder-being’s mother’s brother, who 
scratched herself in many places. In the Dakota myth the Two Women 
are bad at first, while the mother was good. But in the Biloxi myth the 
Old Woman was always bad, while her two daughters, who became 
the wives of the Thunder-being, were ever beneficient. In the Dakota 
myth the old woman called her husband the Uykteli to her assistance, 
prevailing on him to transport her household, including the Younger 
Brother, across the stream. In the Biloxi myth the two wives of the 
Thunder-being, after the death of their mother, call to a huge alligator, of 
the ‘‘salt water species called box alligator” by the Biloxi, and he comes 
