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422 THE (EGIHA LANGUAGE—MYTHS, STORIES, AND LETTERS. 
i . =f, . ne ce £ a . , 
ana” cta™i, a"wan’gabdg¢ai. Ci ga™teé jin’ga xi, Ickaddbi aka gaf: Ca™ 
we stopped going, we drew back from them. Again a little while when, Ickadabi the saidas Atany 
(sub.) follows: rate 
ua™sii-ea. Wacpag¢at yi, dgi¢e té¢i¢é-hna™i te, ai. Nab é¢a"™be a®wan’- 
leap in. You draw back if, beware they kill regularly lest, he Two coming out we had 
you said. of it 
: = a *n/ Tagine Pap. I *n/ 1 frat ~ 
ga¢i® angahii, akiwa ni”ya a"wa™¢izai. Uma™ha™-ma wi” Caa™ t’é¢ai_ ké 
them we arrived, both alive we took them. The Omahas one Dakotas they killed the 
him (ob.) 
a*¢an’ gidaha®-baji angidadai. Ci Wad¢utada t’é ké eddbe angidadai. Caa” 
we knew not ours we cut up ours. Again Oto who fos! also we cut up durs. Dakota 
dea 
wi™ i¢dnaxib¢a yi, nfahi¢é. Wahiitar¢i ké g¢fona® ga” ni ké égihi¢é. ~ Ni 
one Tattacked him when, he fell into un the heletdrop as water the it fellright Water 
the water. (ob.) (ob.) into. 7 
ké uda®si ga” é¢a*be e¢i yi, A té aki¢a ub¢a™. Naji”’aki¢éga® Uma™ha™-ma. 
the LTleaped as he came again when,arm the both T held. As I made him stand the Omahas 
(ob.) into up 
dideawaiki¢é. Caa™ ucté-ma watcicka ké Aki¢fye a” he-ma Uma™ha™ ama 
I made them cut Dakotas the rest creek the crossing those who fled Omahas the 
him up. (ob.) together (sub.) 
. ‘@ ; P Sy : ee an fehl, 
wakipaf ha. (@é Caa” amd wahiita™¢i™ g% ujf ¢ingé adi™i éga™ Péwagal. 
met them ; This Dakotas the fun the filled without they as they were 
(sub.) (pl. ob.) had killed. 
° . . mse ° . Ss / 
Ca’ qti ga” mttkiha”i. Mi” i¢éqtia”i yi, cénawa¢ai Caa”-ma. 
They shot at one another even till Sun ithad fully when, they destroyed the Dakotas. 
night. set a 
NOTES. 
418, 1. Me yi, 7. e., in the spring after La Fléche lost his goods, as told in the pre- 
ceding paper. 
419, 214-20, 1. Gat akiha®™ b¢ugaqti, ete. The Omahas divided into two parties, 
and went all around the creek till they came together again. Then they went beyond 
for a short distance, but as the trail was lost they returned to the stream. 
420, 4. a™naji® edita™ use a¢i" ag¢ai. The Omahas set fire to the grass on both 
sides of the stream. 
420, 6. nahega-baji, pronounced nat+hega-baji by the narrator. 
420, 12. Anb i¢aug¢e akiki¢ai. Two Crows was mounted, and his horse was nearly 
killed by a bullet. 
422, 3-4. Umatha®-ma wi” - - - angidadai. His name was yawaha. 
422, 7. dadeawaki¢é. Frank La Fléche said that “dade” is often used in the 
sense of ‘“‘scalping;” though instead of it, the narrator might have employed the 
phrase “najiha hébe ¢izéawaki¢é (hair, part, I caused them to take it), I made them 
sealp him.” 
TRANSLATION. 
When the vegetation came up in the spring, the Dakotas came on the war-path 
to attack us again. The women went to empty the caches and the Dakotas arrived 
there. They attacked the women. Maxewa¢é, who was very small, joined the three 
women who were the eldest, when the Dakotas killed his mother. And it was said 
that the women who emptied the caches had been destroyed when far away from the — 
village. One woman who had come home alive told that. Then the young men put 
