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652 THE (EGIHA LANGUAGE—MYTHS, STORIES, AND LETTERS. 
will hear that. 
Ponkas. 
And my wife is sick. 
I hope that you may not go. 
I am apprehensive about your going to the 
By Sunday the threshers will have returned 
to this place. Your elder brother made twenty wagon-loads of hay, which he has in 
his barn. He has done very well with the barn. 
send you, and look at it, 
I wish to hear it. 
give me one in return. 
When you receive the letter which I 
Tell me how you are getting along. 
MA‘TCU-NA*BA TO PAWNEE JOE. 
Yon 
Ca 
Now formerly “at various 
times 
Nikaci’ga maja” ¢aa™na nat té 
Indian land youaban- you the 
doned weut 
Uma™ha*-jin’ea 
young Omaha 
paper 
TI see 
Are 
Wahl 
you keep 
them 
ka™ b¢a. 
I wish. 
na™ ba 
two 
wiwija 
my 
Uda" qti awagind‘a® 
Very good I hear of them, 
my own 
ka"b¢éga". 
T hope. 
ya” be yi, i” ¢a-mAji-na"-ma™ 
when, 
mani” - 
1878. 
" waqi™ ha pahan’¢ gadf cté cu¢éwiki¢é-na"-ma™ tia” ‘¢aki¢aji ca™ cat. 
LT used to send to you by some 
you have not sent 
hither to me 
. Nikaci”ga 
People 
always 
one 
Tam sad from time to time. 
éska® 
oh that 
bada® 
and (pl.) 
gatéwagage 
you have pity on 
them 
A¢abahu, 
Arapaho, 
you walk 
an “ / 
Ki ukit‘e ya™ha ca" 
And foreigner border _ for ex- 
ample. 
Pan‘ka, 
Ponka, 
ya” ze, Wajaje, Ugagqpa, 
Kansas, Osage, Quapaw, 
gana 
that 
number 
Maqpiyaju, Padanka, Cahic¢a, 
Arapaho, Comanche, Cheyenue, 
rh Ki wi, 
And I, 
Ada® 
there- 
fore 
waja” be hi. 
I have seen 
them 
ama, ta” wa'g¢a" Aé¢a"ba, waja™be ha. 
the (pl. nation (or gens) seven, Ihave seen 
sub.), them 
Hau. Waya"be nikaci”ga wiwia can’ge g¢éba- dé¢ab¢i 
7 IT saw them Indian (or enna) my own Koes: eighty 
dé¢a"ba watii Caa™ ama. Wi tyu minké Sindé-g¢ecka cangag¢i" 
seven gaveto Dakota the (pl. I prin- I who Spotted Tail riding a horse 
us sub.). cipal 
mani 
you walk 
Wisi¢é-na"-ma™ 
I remember you fiom 
time to time 
amgasigaji. 
me you forget. 
wacta”be yi, wda™ 
you see them ify good 
Wiceti, ukit‘’é 
I too, foreigner 
Sindd-g¢ecka ta” warg¢a™ ed 
Spotted Tail nation his 
1’ tea™ 
now 
dtiba 
some 
ki 
and 
edi 
on it 
, 
pl 
I 
reached 
there 
éde_ ci 
but again 
wi" wuda?-qti wi™ pf 
one very good one I 
reached 
there 
agudi wagazu ag¢i yi, 
Shwe aN I sit when, 
wai 
robe 
¢inké 
the one 
who 
Mikéoji nikagahi tyu 
Minnecon- chief prin- 
jou cipal 
(a4 
al. 
I gave 
to him. 
ace he 
I gave 
~o him 
av¢agicta”be te ha, 
you may see me, your own 
Maja” 
Dada" wi'éeté ingixa-baji pi. 
Laud 
What even one “ike did not do I was 
for me there. 
ha, Sinddé-g¢ecka i"¢in’gai. 
Spotted Tail said the fore- 
going to me. 
gé’ cti, ca" hibé gé’ cti, awa ‘i. 
the too, even mocea- the too, I gave to 
pl. ob sin pl. ob. them. 
Wa¢aha, 
Clothing, 
undji® 
shirt 
at 
said 
he 
Ab¢aha gé, zani’qti awA‘i. 
I wore the pl. everyone I gave to 
in ob, them. 
af / 
Uta? 
Leg- 
gins 
Bega 
The whole 
awl hit 
awa l Na, 
I gave to 
them 
