392 ‘THE (EGIHA LANGUAGE—MYTHS, STORIES, AND LETTERS. 
night came, there he usually slept. And his father said as follows: “My child, when 
they marry women, they usually lie with them. Do lie with her. You do wrong.” 
And his father was saying it to him incessantly. At length Icibaji got out of patience 
with the old man. And when it was night, he lay with the woman. When it was 
day still he did not rise; he continued to lie with the woman without intermission. 
And though the woman wished to rise, Icibajf was unwilling. And notwithstanding 
their lodges removed and departed, he did not rise. When it was very late in the 
evening he usually reached them. Again when it was night, so he lay. Behold, very 
early in the morning, some men belonging to different hostile tribes attacked them. 
His father said: “Do arise. We are attacked.” Yet Icibaji lay without speaking. 
At length when they had come very near, behold, a woman said, ‘Oh! Icibaji, in what 
place can you be? I have a very bad captor. Beware lest he see my parts which 
should not be seen!” When he heard her voice, he arose and took his club. And he 
went thither. When he joined the foe, Icibaji was killing them. He killed a great 
many of the enemy; in fact, all. The brave men were two. One was named Unahe, a 
member of the Hatga gens. Icibaji helped him. They were equally brave. And his 
nation loved Icibaji very dearly. 
At length, when they went again on the war-path, one very brave man went with 
him. jjexuja® was his name, and he was a member of the Kansas gens. And as they 
went, each one thought thus: ‘Which one of us has the best heart?” At length a 
very populous village was there. They arrived at it. And when they arrived there, 
they addressed the rest of the party, saying as follows: “‘ Warriors, you will go home- 
ward. Begone ye toa distance.” And the servants went homeward. And jexuja® 
and Icibaji said, ‘Let us go thither,” because they wished to know their own hearts. 
When they arrived there, it was very level around the village. When they were close 
to the village, behold, the men were playing the game banaige-kide (shooting at roll- 
ing hoops). They were standing in a great crowd. And it was just at noon. And 
pexuja® said to himself, “‘ How shall we be when we go thither?” And Icibaji said as 
follows: ‘Friend, let us put our heads in these bones,” referring to the very white 
buffalo pelvis bones that lay there. And having put them on, they went crawling. 
Yet each one thought thus: “Let me see! which one of us will fear danger when he 
sees it?” And when the men who played banaiige-kide looked at one of the bones, 
behold, the bone had become very near. And one said as follows: ‘Friend, this bone 
was ata very great distance heretofore.” And another said as follows: “ Friend, it was 
always there.” At length after a little while, behold, it had become very close. 
“Friend, you said heretofore that this bone was at a distance. It has come very close,” 
said one. And zexuja" said as follows: ‘They recognize us. They have detected us.” 
And Icibaji said as follows: “It is enough.” And when gexuja® said, “Oho!” they 
threw away the bones, and attacked those who played banange-kide. And each of them 
killed one of the players. And they went homeward. And the enemy said, “They 
are only two! Let us chase them.” They went along in pursuit of them. At length 
the two carried their pursuers to a very great distance. And the pursuers scared the 
two into a thicket. ,exuja™ and Icibaji had gone headlong into a very dense thicket. 
And the enemy failed to do anything to them. And both were so continually. 
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