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awhile, and I took Sinde-xa"xa" to make a final inspection. They were in a canvas 
tent, and just at one side of it we heard them snoring. As we stood at the rear of 
the next tent we heard its occupants snore. I called to Sinde-xa™xa?. “One of those 
snores. You will kill him by holding your gun close to the place where he lies,” said 
I. “Let us go back to the servants to tell them,” said I. And we went back. At 
length, after some of them came towards us, we all reached the servants. “O war- 
chiefs, how is it?” said they. ‘They are sound asleep,” said I. So we went thither. 
We reached the rear of the lodges. We surrounded them and shot at them. As the 
lodges were attacked and shot into, their occupants were all shot down; we killed 
seven. We contended with them when just half of the night had gone, even at mid- 
night. When we finished killing them, we were coming this way. “Ho! warriors, let 
us cease. Come, it is enough,” said I. 
So we were coming back. We walked all night, and just at day we reached the 
Missouri. We crossed the river before sunrise. We walked all day; and at noon we 
killed two deer, as we were hungry. We sat eating them. Then we continued our 
homeward march till we stopped for the night. The next day we walked throughout 
the day, and at night we killed a deer. The next day we walked till night, and so at 
night till about eight o’clock. Then we reached the house of a white man. Said I, 
“The white man will fear us, thinking that we are Dakotas. So let us ask him for food. 
I will open the door. Do you rush in after me.” When I peeped in at the window, 
the white man was standing without any clothing at all. (He asked us if we were 
Dakotas, and was glad to find that we were Omahas.) ‘The white man made us thank- 
ful, saving our lives, as it were, by giving us food at night. At night, when it was 
not day, that is, before the san rose, we reached our village. Then all the people were 
stirring. “The men who killed the Dakotas have come home,” said they. As we said 
that we had killed seven, all the people were delighted. 
BATTLE BETWEEN. THE OMAHAS AND DAKOTAS IN 1855. 
RELATED BY A”’PA®-[AN’GA. 
Gaq¢a™ anigd¢ai pahan’gadi. Ki Wajé ké angthai. Wada™be wa¢adai 
Onthe hunt we went at the first. And Elkhorn the we followed it. Scouts they who are 
River called 
yf waqube na™ba te ‘di g¢éba-¢ab¢i?-qti-éga". Anga¢ai yi, huhu tea” wa*¢at 
tent sacred two t the about thirty. Wer went when, fish we killed them 
dtiba, Anaqti-éga". pangd ¢ank&é wandce (amé) yig¢izai éga", uha"i. Ga™ 
some, about how many. Large the ones policeman (the pl. took forthem- Ss, they So 
that sub.) selves cooked taeet 
¢asni™i té, angdd¢ai. Ha™ a™¢a™ma¢i”i. Waticka cuga wi™ angttha a"ma” - 
they swel- wher, we went. Night we walked during. Creek thick one we followed we 
lowed 
ene ara Ni Xo . s2 ; . . 1 G 
(ii. Waticka ké a®ja™-baji; gacibaya a®ja”i, sna"sna”aja. A™ba ké uga™ba 
valked. Creek the we slept not; out from it  weslept, on the level ground. Day the light 
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