THE CHIBF’S SON, THE SNAKE-WOMAN, AND THUNDERS. 201 
NOTES. 
189, 5-6. cange aka na™qa ing¢an-gi. Sanssouci reads, cange aka na™qahi cana- 
kag¢e ing¢a*i-gi, place ye for me the saddle on the horse’s backbone. 
189, 11. weahide, pronounced we+ahide. 
189, 13. wakandi¢éqtia”-biama, pronounced waka"+di¢éqtia"-biama. 
189, 15. tateska"b¢ega", in full, tate eska™ eb¢ega”. 
190, 5. uda™qti akama, pronounced u+da"qti akama. 
190, 10-12. The Snake-woman told him that she would leave him if he ever 
courted another woman. 
190, 16. The young man had a lodge for himself, apart from that occupied by his 
father and the rest of the family. 
193, 2; 193, 5; 193, 17. uda™qti, pronounced u+daqti. 
194, 2. imc‘ageqtci akama, pronounced i*c‘a+geqtci akama. 
195, 11. hau-ha+! This is retained in the text, as it was given by Cange-ski; but 
Frank La Fléche says that it is obsolete, huhu+! having taken its place. 
197, 18; 198, 3. hegabaji, pronounced he+gabaji. 
198, 14. hegactéwa*ji, pronounced he+gactéwaji. 
198, 16. wa¢aha uda™qti, pronounced wa¢aha u+da"<qti, showing emphasis as well 
as prolongation. 
198, 17. sabéqti, pronounced sa<béqti. 
199, 4. b¢ugaqti, pronounced b¢u+gaqti. 
199, 19. Sanssouci gave as the old man’s reply, 4, ca" hd. Gaqta™ pé&/ji-ona™i ha 
wa‘t-ma. Ucka" ega™ ckaxe te wika"b¢a ga" wi‘i. Gaqta® péji-ona"i hi wa‘t-ma (said 
in condemnation), “The women are always doing just that way”. 
200, 5. F. La Fléche agreed with the collector in doubting the correctness of “g¢i 
ti.” He inserted “wi",” one, between niaci"ga and waqpani, omilting “g¢i,” and also 
“6di”, in line 6, the latter word being superfluous. 
TRANSLATION. 
The father was a chief. He said as follows: “My child, travel. Hither hunt or 
‘work. Lama chief. When I sat doing nothing I was not a chief. I worked; I did 
my best in walking, sol hunted. I am not a great man without cause. So I desire 
for you. If you do so, you are a great man. If you sit doing nothing, you will not be 
~ a chief.” The boy said, ‘‘Come, father, I will go hunting. Saddle the horse for me.” 
And he went hunting. At length he found some elk. He stationed the horse with 
his feet tied, and he went thither on foot. He went creeping up on the elk, crawling 
on his hands and knees. He reached them. When very near he shot at them. And 
he wounded one slightly. He chased it. As it went along with him after it, it took 
him a great distance; and the horse, too, stood far off. And having been taken to a 
very great distance, he was impatient from thirst, and was coming back running to 
his horse. Thought he, “If I do not drink water, I shall surely die.” When he was 
very impatient from thirst, behold, a spring was there. And he prayed to the Deity. 
“Ho! Wakanda, it will do; I live. Wakanda, I thought heretofore that I would die. 
You being the cause, you have made life for me; so I will live, Wakanda.” Well, 
