34 [HE ¢EGIHA LANGUAGE—MYTHS, STORIES, AND LETTERS. 
NOTES. 
See the preceding myth: How the Rabbit went to the Sun; also, J. La Fléche’s 
Oto version of this myth, to appear hereafter in “The goiwere Language, Part 1? 
$2, 2. kéde, contraction from ké, éde. 
32, 9. hegactewarji, pronounced he+gactewa"jl. 
33, 2. qitq contraction from qi"qé, dried flesh or meat next the bone. (For the 
speech of the men and the Rabbit’s reply, see the Oto version.) 
33, 11. mactcifige - - - Abi 4¢a, the words of the crier going through the camp, 
quoted by the Rabbit. ka™b¢a A¢imhéite (#. ¢., ka"b¢a a¢im@he eimte) is not in the 
form of a question, though it implies one, according to Sanssouci. 
33, 12. maing¢i” i-gi, begone ye! “Go to your respective homes,” is meant, but it is 
not expressed. 
33, 12. Aag¢é ati, I have come for my own property. The Rabbit talks as if he 
had a prior claim to the hill’s heart, ete. 
33, 14. The words of the old woman are not to be taken literally. She was proud 
of what the Rabbit had done, and was praising him. Even if he was deformed, he 
had done what should have been done long age by others. 
33, 17. winke tedé, feminine of wii’/ke téde, contraction from win’ke té, éde, he did 
tell the truth but,” an elliptical expression, which would be in full, win‘ke té édehna® 
ewéja ¢a"cti, he told the truth, but I did nothing but doubt him at the first. 
TRANSLATION. 
There was a Hill that drew (people) into its mouth. And the Rabbit was with his 
grandmother. ‘“A Hillis there, but it is bad. Beware lest you go thither. Go not 
thither,” said she. And he said, “Grandmother, wherefore?” She said, “ Whenever 
people go thither, it draws them into its mouth.” And the Rabbit thought, “‘Let me 
gee! Why is this? I will go thither.” And he went thither. When the Rabbit 
arrived there, the Hill knew him. As he knew him when he arrived there, the Rabbit 
said, ‘‘ gahe-wa¢ahuni, draw me into your mouth. gahe-wa¢ahuni, you who, as they 
say, are used to devouring, devour me.” And gahe-wa¢ahuni knew the Rabbit, so he 
did not devour him. And it came to pass that a great many people belonging to a 
hunting party were coming to that place. And they arrived there. And gahe-wa¢a- 
huni opened his mouth, and the people entered the mouth of the Hill. And the Rabbit 
entered too. The Rabbit pressed onward. And when he reached the stomach of the 
Hill within, gahe wa¢ahuni was not pleased by it. And gahe-wa¢ahuni vomited up 
the Rabbit. Again some members of a hunting-party were approaching. When the 
party reached there, gahe-wa¢ahuni opened his mouth again, and the people entered 
the mouth. And the Rabbit entered again (as a man, this time). And then gahe- 
wa¢ahuni did not vomit him up. And there were lying in the distance the whitened 
bones of the people who had entered first and had died, the dried flesh next to the 
bones adhering to them; also those who had been dead but a little while, with the 
flesh (on the bones); and those, too, who had just died, and the living ones too. 
And the Rabbit said as follows: “Why do yon not eat? You should have eaten that 
very fat heart. Were I (in your place), I would eat it,” he said. And the Rabbit 
seized his knife. When he seized his knife, he cut the heart. And gahe-wa¢ahuni 
