654 THE (EGIHA LANGUAGE—MYTHS, STORIES, AND LETTERS. 
wi’. Te ahigi gian‘ki¢é-gi. Cub¢é ka™b¢a ctéwa™  b¢i‘a-na®-ma™. 
one. Word many cause to be return- I go to you I wish even though T have failed from time 
ing hither. to time. 
Ivteqi ha Ca" maja” dakihide, dda" cub¢é ka™b¢a b¢i‘a-na"-ma™. Ki 
Hard for F Well, lind I attend to it, there- I goto I wish T have failed from And 
me fore you time to time. 
WY bakdé Abe Muoacibe az’) ka"l ‘de bét: j and‘a® taté 
a™ba¢e ma¢e u¢ugacibe wija" be ka"b¢ ede b¢ita yi, ef gana‘e ate, 
to-day winter throughout T see you I wished but Ifail when again youbearit — shall, 
f ha = of n/ n fh 4 f n/ k Las f aoa fs u 
cub¢a-maji yi Uma’ ha"-ma  ¢édamda a™ba¢é = wakéga héga-baji, ada 
I do not go to you if. The Omahas these to-day sick not a little, there- 
fore 
nikaci” ga wahchaji na™ba tai ha. Cin’gajin’ga wa‘t edabe t’af ha. Ada® 
Indian stout-hearted two died. Child woman also died : There- 
fore 
wakéga ¢and‘a" te waqi”ha cu¢éa¢é. Céna fe cu¢éwiki¢é. A™ba 
sick youhearit may paper I send to you. Enough word I send to you by Day 
(some one). 
wéduba_ té’di Wacitce t’é. (Ma"tetti-na"ba) isan’ga juigig¢e  baxti, 
the fourth on the Wacuce dead. Two Grizzly bears his younger he with his writes, 
brother own 
Mitcaqpe-jin’ga ijdje adi”. 
Little Star his name_ he has. 
NOTES. 
652, 4. A¢abahu, evidently Ma™tcu-na*ba’s notation Of Arapaho, the real name 
of the latter being Maqpiyato, given in the textas Maqpiyajyu. This last is the Omaha 
and Ponka notation of the tribal name. 
652, 8. ta"watg¢a" de¢a"ba, the seven villages or peoples of the Teton Dakota 
may be intended, rather than the Otceti cakowi" or Seven Council-fires, i. e., the whole 
Dakota nation. Mikooji, the Omaha notation of Mikooju or Minneconjou, is one of 
the seven Teton divisions. 
652, 9. For “ Waja*be” read ‘“* Wayjatbe tédi,” when I saw them. 
654, 7. The name Ma*tcu-na®ba is supplied by the author in order to complete 
the sense. It was understood by the senders of the letter. 
TRANSLATION. 
Though I sent you letters at various times, you haye never sent me any. Iam 
sad when I behold the Indian land which you abandoned when you went away. I 
hope that you have pitied my two Omaha young men whom you have kept. I wish to 
hear a very good account of them. You are on good terms with the neighboring 
tribes, the Arapahos, Comanches, Cheyennes, Kansas, Osages, Quapaws, and Pon- 
kas; therefore you forget me. And I, for my part, am thinking about you very often. 
I, too, have just seen some nations. I have seen the tribe of Spotted Tail, the Seven 
Nations. 
When I saw them the Dakotas gave to my Indians eighty-seven horses. I, the 
principal one, for my part, gave to Spotted Tail the horse on which I had ridden to 
him. I gave to the principal Minneconjou chief a very good robe which I took there. 
I was there without their doing anything at all for me in return. Spotted Tail said 
to me, ‘“‘ Wheu the question of my land is fully settled you may see me.” I gave to 
them all the clothing, the shirts which I wore, I gave them the leggins and mocc¢a- 
sins too, I gave them everything. 
