LETTERS DICTATED BY OMAHAS AND PONKAS. 509 
Ca” yf-uji wiwija té twakega ¢ingé. Ca” eddda™ maja” ¢é¢uddi witAqtci 
And household myown the sickness has none. And what land in this only one 
wéteqi éga" uwib¢ai-hna"-ma”. Hiyanga-ma téqi ha. Ca™ wabag¢eze 
hard for “om I have told you (pl.) re aes The Winnebagos hard 5 Now letter 
us 
uq¢ée’qtei ¢é, wabaxu ¢é¢u ¢inké, éskana ¢ai g¢idage ka"b¢éga®. 
very soon goes, here hewho, oh that you you send hope. 
give him back 
NOTES. 
508, 1. niaci"ga im¢adai ¢eaka, another way of expressing, “Niaci"ga ¢éaka 
i¢adai ha.” 
508, 6. Ca® maja" ké ca™ ¢e cti ega®. Duba-ma¢i" gave “¢é¢u eti, here too,” as 
equivalent to “¢e cti.”. Frank La Fléche reads: Maja” ¢6 cti éga", omitting «Can? 
and “ké ca®.” 
508, 8. nikacvi"ga ama, edada® ibaha® ama, i. e., the white people. 
508, 9-10. wa¢iwagazu té ama té&. Frank La Fléche and Duba-man¢i" say, “w¢i- 
wagazu,” while Sanssouci says, ‘“wa¢iwagazu.” Sanssouci renders “ta ama té” by 
“they will doubtless,” distinguishing it from ‘“‘taite, they shall.” Frank La Fléche 
says that “wa¢iwagazu taité” is seldom used. 
509, 3. wabaxu ¢e¢u ¢inke, the one who sits here writing. 
TRANSLATION. 
To-day I saw the letter that you sent. This man read it to me. Iam glad to hear 
that your household is in good health. I hope that Wakanda may help you. I heard 
that Big Elk and five chiefs had died. And as so many of you have died, it is griev- 
ous, O ye people. We, too, are sick to-day. Five very excellent men have died, and 
now there are those who are very apt to die. The women, too, are dying. As this 
land, too, as well as yours, is full of death, we have been dying. We are very much 
afraid of arriving yonder at a land in your neighborhood. Though the people who 
know something have been talking about us and to us, we have been making great 
efforts on our own account. They wish to settle our business in a satisfactory manner. 
They will doubtless make a satisfactory settlement of our business in this place. 
Therefore we do not wish to reach the land near you, if we can avoid it. Whatever 
they decide upon for us we shall abide by, yet we hope that we shall not depart from 
this place. They are not sick in the agent’s country (i. e., Indiana) as far south as his 
city (7. e., Richmond). As I remember you to-day, I send you a letter. My household 
is without sickness. I have told you again and again of one thing in this land which 
is somewhat hard for us. The Winnebagos are hard for us to bear. I hope that, as 
this letter goes very soon, you will give one and send it to the writer who is here. 
