MASTOU-NA*BA TO WIYAKOP. 701 
NOTES. 
Lenuga-waji"—see 651. 
700, 5. ihu¢ajiqti ¢ati yi ituda”-qti-ma™ te, explained thus by L.: I would have 
been very glad if you had come without consulting (or heeding) Saucy Chief at all. 
700, 7 and 8. i¢acpag¢a ciaji te, parenthetical and explanatory: we can read either 
*edada™ will té i¢acpag¢a ciiiji t im¢a-maji teabe,” or “edada® witi té ¢atiiiji té im¢a- 
majt teabe.” The former can be rendered thus: I am much displeased because you 
hesitated about coming on account of (your having given me nothing in advance of) 
what I gave you. (See line 9.) The latter is plain: I am much displeased because you 
did not come when I gave you something. 
TRANSLATION, 
I send you a letter of a very few words. I wish to hear from you how matters 
are. J, for my part, am doing very well in this place. I thought that when | went to 
see you last summer I went to give you one piece of advice. Why have you not come? 
When Saucy Chief returned from his visit to yon he brought me one word (from you”). 
I invited you to come as I had something, and so I watched the days very closely, 
expecting vour arrival. And Saucy Chief brought back one word: I would have been 
very glad if you had come without consulting him at all! And when the time had 
gone beyond the day which I mentioned to you you had not come. IT remember your 
father and mother from time to time with pleasure. But lam much displeased because 
you did not come when I offered to give you something. It was as if you despised 
my possessions (which I intended giving you after your arrival). You did not come 
because you held back on account of your having given me nothing (when I was there). 
And when I reached yonder where you are IT had made nothing at all for myself, I had 
done no work. But since my return home I have been working very hard. We have 
planted corn and potatoes, and have sowed wheat, and I hope that you may do like- 
wise. It is very good to work for one’s self in the land. Come to some decision with 
regard to the land. When you see a man working for himself think, “1 will do thus.” 
I think that it is good for one to work the land for himself. [I have told-you enough. 
I send you a letter because you begged one of me. If you think thus (7. é., wish to do 
as I have advised), I would like to hear from you any good words whatever. When 
I was with you last summer I[ returned here in four days. 
MANTCU-NA*BA TO WIYAKOL. 
La’ckaha, fe ¢ija té ana‘a™ ha. A*wa ¢akié ti¢age té i” ¢éqti-ma™ 
Sister's son, word your the Ihave . You speak tome | youhave the Tam very glad 
heard it sent hither : 
5 . yo. , v4 v L 
ha. “Negiha, winégi méga",” ecé té a™¢dag¢aha™ gti ha, éde nikaci” ga-ma 
Mother's my moth- likewise, vou the you prayed to me most - but the pec He 
brother, er’s brother said that earnestly 
¢i‘ide héga- baji é a, ie‘age- na” uctai. Ki Pan‘kagé cti did¢ai ha, di¢iraya 
have aban- ae old a an only they re- And tothe Ponkas too theyhave . tothe Pawnees 
doned the main. gone 
place 
eti Ala¢ai ha, Waftiitadaya ecti aid¢ai ha, méha cti gai agai. Ada® 
too they have to the Otos too they have . spring too to they There- 
gone gone hides scrape went. fore 
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