382 THE (EGIUA LANGUAGE—MYTHS, STORIES, AND LETTERS. 
Mazi-kide (Shot at a Cedar), and Mika-qega, rushed into the Ponka ranks. The Poukas 
questioned them as to the numbers of the Pawnees, and then sent them back, saying, 
“Phe Yanktons would like to kill you.” Returning, they told the Pawnees that the 
enemy were few. The Pawnees charged and routed the Ponkas and Yanktons, driving 
some of them into the Platte River. This was in the fall of 1855, and after Ubi-ski’s 
victory. 
TRANSLATION. 
The Pawnees warred on us incessantly. And this old man, Agaha-mna"¢i" (Ile 
walks over them), had a sister who was captured by the Pawnees. And Agaha-man¢i" 
wished to see her, and he spoke of dying. Early one morning he was missing. The 
Pawnees dwelt in a land which was in that direction. He continued passing thither- 
ward. He slept in lonesome places. At length he arrived early one morning. The 
Pawnees arrested him. ‘: What is your business?” said they. ‘I havea girlasa near 
blood-relation, but you have taken her captive. I wish you to tell me where you have 
killed her. I walk so that the dogs may eat me there,” said Agaha-ma¢i". The 
Pawnees were astonished. They pressed their hands against their mouths. “ Really! 
he does not fear death,” said they. All the Pawnees assembled, Agaha-ma"¢i® sitting 
in the center. They questioned him again, and he answered as before. Said they, 
“He told the truth.” Then addressing him, they said, ‘‘ Your sister is held by those 
who are in the village over yonder, down the stream and out of sight. We will give 
her to you. You shall go thither to-morrow.” On the morrow Agaha-man¢i" went to 
the other Pawnees, who arrested him when they found him. They carried him at 
once into a lodge, and then they assembled. They spoke of killmg him. The Pawnees 
whom he met at the first were late in arriving, so he came very near being put to 
death. There was a contest, as each one wished to be the first to wound him. Just 
so they were keeping him. And Amaha-u¢ici sat as if unconcerned, with his robe 
wrapped around him, the ends held by his hands, and with his arms crossed on his 
breast. One came from the other Pawnees. ‘Ho! cease that. He has already taken 
food and drink, and has smoked,” said he. They promised to restore his sister to him. 
“You shall take your sister home,” said they. And on the fourth day which they 
mentioned to him he and his sister were to go home. And when the full time had 
come, they went home, two Pawnees also going with them. And they passed the 
other Pawnee camp on their homeward way. In about thirty days they reached 
home. And when they reached home with the Pawnees, they gave the latter equal 
numbers of moccasins, leggings, robes, and horses, and sent them home. And from 
that time the Ponkas and Pawnees hated one another. This was when Agaha-ma»¢i® 
was a young man. It was when they finished pulling off the ears of corn. When 
they finished burying them in caches, they departed on the hunt. And they sur- 
rounded the buffaloes at the Niobrara. At length, late in the evening, a great many 
persons left a trail in a longline. Then we placed the tents of the two parties of Ponkas 
side by side. Macteifge (the Rabbit) detected the Pawnees. When the sun was at the 
very bottom of the sky, behold, they said: “It is said that Mactcinge went to the 
tents as a visitor, but he is coming back.” “With! with!” said Mactcinge. As the 
people made an uproar the horses fled. The Ponkas went to chase the foe. Mactcinge 
took part in it. They reached the place where the Pawnees dwelt. And when they 
surrounded them and had arrived just there, behold, the Pawnees were missing. 
