434 THE (EGIHA LANGUAGE—MYTHS, STORIES, AND LETTERS. 
TRANSLATION. 
When Mandan went on the war-path, he went by himself. When he arrived at 
the village of the enemy, he went among the lodges, and pulled open a stable. But a 
woman came out of a lodge, and saw him. Speaking many words, she went back to 
her lodge. And when Mandan was fleeing homeward, after having failed to capture 
the horses, a great many young men pursued him. He managed to get away without 
being overtaken. When it was day he slept, when he came again to a remote place. 
When it was night, he went thither again. And he continued going around the village, 
as he waited for the people to go to sleep. When all the others slept, two young men 
who did not sleep continued rambling around and singing. When it approached mid- 
night, the two young men went homeward to sleep. They lay together upon the cov- 
ered way which was over the door of an earth-lodge. And Mandan desired to kill 
one of them when both were sound asleep. He went thither very carefully. When 
he reached there, the young man whom he did not intend to kill raised his head, and 
Mandan hit him very suddenly on the head with a hatchet. The other one started up 
and chased him. Mandan fled. When the young Pawnee continued chasing him, he 
was hallooing. All the villagers chased him, even the women and dogs. And he failed 
again in his attempt to steal a horse. And when it was day he slept within a thicket. 
And at night he went thither. When day was very near at hand, he pulled open a 
stable. He put a lariat on a horse. Having gone out, he had just come out in sight 
when he met a Pawnee, close to the door. And the Pawnee was afraid at the sight of 
Mandan. And Mandan did not let the horse go; he ran homeward, pulling the horse 
along. And just then the Pawnee hallooed, and made a great noise by calling. And 
when Mandan sat all at once on the horse, the latter bucked repeatedly as he carried 
him, and finally threw him off. When he had been thrown off three times, the Pawnees 
made an uproar; they almost overtook him. The dogs, the women, and the men, all 
pursued him. Still sitting on the horse, Mandan had come and gone. 
GAGP-NA*PAJTS WAR PARTY IN 1853. 
RELATED BY HIMSELF. 
T‘an’gaq¢a™ yAqti a™¢an’kide gaq¢a” angd¢ai. Ca™ eddda™ waa”si- 
Fall hunt deer we shot at onthe hunt we went. In fact what leaping animal 
/ sons: / : . , 
jin ga bgligagti an’gunai A-fji ai’, Wjawaqtia™i. Ca™ qaqti, miya, quga, 
we hunted Approach- we were, in excellent spirits. Infact deer, raccoon, badger, 
them. ing and 
pitching tents 
3 man’ ‘ora, zizika, ca™ | Die a” ba gé wat” ag¢i-hna’. i g¢éba ar¢i”. 
mean turkey, in fact day Fhe carrying they came back Tent — ten we were, 
(pl.) them regularly. 
