368 THE (EGIHA LANGUAGE—MYTHS, STORIES, AND LETTERS. 
TRANSLATION. 
Some Dakotas had camped. At length the chief’s son had wandered off to hunt. 
Behold, when it was night, a man came back to tell the news. Calling the chief by 
name, he said, “In that land they have killed your son.” And the chief, having gone 
out of doors, sent a crier at once, saying as follows: “Ye young Dakotas who have 
always desired to be stout-hearted, I desire to see my son this very night. Go after him 
forme. If you bring him back, I will give you a very swift horse, also a mule.” All 
the Dakotas hesitated, because they feared to see the corpse. And one Dakota, who, 
perhaps, was stout-hearted, thought, ‘‘Let me see! I will go after it.” And he went 
after it. Yet he did not think, “‘When I arrive there I shall fear to see him!” At 
length, when he arrived there, he was very much afraid. And still he touched it. At 
length, when he was carrying it back, the body was constantly falling off the horse 
which he made carry it. He was erying all the while, as he feared to carry it to the 
tents. When it fell again and again, he thought, “If I go back without it, I am afraid 
that they would laugh at me,” so he wished to take it back. Notwithstanding it fell, 
he took it up and made the horse carry it. And when he reached the tents with it, the 
chief gave him the horse and mule. Referring to his having brought the corpse back, 
he said, ‘Though the deeds of others have been difficult to perform, I have done a deed 
which was exceedingly difficult.” 
PONKA HISTORICAL TEXTS. 
THE WAR PARTY OF NUDA*-AXA’S FATHER. 
ToLp BY NuUDA2-AXA. 
Indadi aka nuda™ a¢af t&. Ga wa‘a”-hna™ ca™ca". Ma¢i’ ma™¢i™ 
My father the to war went. And he sang Goset always. Walking he walked 
té wa‘a™-hna™ ca™ca"; ha” ja” gé ga” wa‘a™-hna™i cénujin’gai t8’di. 
when hesang regularly always; night helay the 80 hesang regularly he waa.e/yonug when. 
down (pl.) 
Egi¢e wada™be ahf-biama. Nikaci® ga sig¢e wé¢a-biama wada™be ag¢at 
At length to see they arrived, they trail they found them, to see they went 
say. they say bac 
té. Nudahanga, égite, niaci” ga d‘iba ag¢ai ke ha’, 4-biamé. Ahat! 
when. O war- Bice behol some have gonehome-_ . said they, they Oho! 
ward in along line say. 
4-biama. Wacka™egan-gi. Qubéyi¢d-bi ¢i"hé, 4-biama. Egi¢e Os aga 
said he, they Do persevere. To re one: sself besure, said he, they At length 
say. sacre say. 
¢ab¢i" wéna‘iqtci fhe amama. Ké, niida™hangd, ¢éama a*wan’gaq¢i taf, 
three very eles beside were passing, they Come, O war-chief, these let us kill them, 
em say. 
4-biamd. Ede nuda™hanga aké u¢i‘agai té. Egi¢e ha” ama, ugdhanadaze 
said they, they But war-chief the was SSiise At length night they 
gay. (sub.) say, 
