THE WARRIORS WHO WERE CHANGED TO SNAKES. 321 
bgtiga wéka™-biama. Ga” u¢tigacibai té niaci"ga wdhai té fb¢a™qtia™- 
condoled with them, And they went when oh they passed as were fully satis- 
they say. throughout over them fied 
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biama Wé6's‘& ama. Ga” ma"can'de té’ya égazéze Akig¢i"”-biamd Wé's‘t ama. 
they say Snake the And holesinthe atthe inarow sat with one another, Snake the 
(sub.). ground they say (sub.). 
é niaci"ga aki‘e amaéja wada™be ja™-biamd. Can’ge-ma 6’di ka"ta™ 
This people standing atthem looking at they lay, they say. The horses there tied 
thick them 
itéweki¢a-biamé. Wait” gé, canakag¢e aH wégasApi a man‘de, uta™ 
they placed _ they say. Packs the, saddle whip bow, leggings 
theirs for them 
a”¢a a-fi gé, hitbé a™¢a a-fi gé edadbe, bgtiga & di ité¢a-biama. Ga™ ci 
left were the, moccasins left were the also, there they put them, And again 
coming coming they say. 
ma¢e Aji ama. Ci 6'di gaq¢a™ ati-biamé. Ki &’di wa¢fona-baji-biamé. 
winter ‘ it theysay. Again there migrating they came, they And there not visible, they say. 
‘eren say. 
Can’ge waa”¢a am4 itea*qtci jéi gé ¢ingé-hna™-biamd. Ada® ma*can‘de 
Horse they left them the just now dunged the there was none, they say. There- _ holes in the 
(pl.) fore ground 
ma"taja wag¢a¢i" Akidg¢a-biamdé, é u¢d-hna*-biama. 
inside having them they gone back, that they tell Fase they 
ey say, y: 
NOTES. 
317, 6-7. Ahau! a-biama nuda"hafga. Insert “ak4” before the period. 
317, 7. a®niy etai, in full a™niga etai. 
317, 9. nudathaiiga’ i¢apa-ga. The scouts had gone out of sight of the war-chief; 
so they spoke to the one running, telling him not to proceed so rapidly, but to wait till 
the leader came in sight. 
318, 3-4. ahi-bi yi, when the animal reached the man. 
318, 8. ¢ip’ande, etc. Whenever the Snake lifted his tail, it rattled. 
318, 14. ci" pronounced ci"+ by Nuda®-axa. 
319, 13-14. egi¢e atan-keda®, etc. Nuda®-axa said that this referred to the war- 
chief who was the last one to eat part of the Snake. Half of his body, that is, all on 
one side, had been changed. On one side he was a snake; on the other, a man, the 
whole length of his body, as he lay extended on the ground. 
320, 2-3. Maja" uda® gédi, etc. I agree with Frank La Fléche in substituting for 
this, Maja ida*, dahé taiga gé/di wi” i¢a™awa¢a¢é tai: Land, good, hill, big, on the, 
one, you will place us. 
320, 6. dahe bazu cehi¢e ega, etc. This shows that the narrator was referring to 
a bluff in sight of the place where he was telling the myth. 
320, 7. Next to the trees was grass, and below the grass, on the sides of the hill, 
was only the soil. 
321, 1. Whenever any Snake recognized relations, horses, etc., he crawled over 
them. 
321, 2. akig¢i", equivalent to jug¢e g¢i". 
321, 7. When the tribe left the Snakes, they fastened the horses to posts driven 
into the ground. On their return they found fresh manure dropped here and there in 
a line with the posts; but neither horses nor footprints could be seen. 
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