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Ueber den Ursprung der Öfos, Ayowäs und Missouris, eine Sage, welche ein alter Chef jener 
Nation dem Indian Agent Major Bean mlttbeilte. — 
„Some time on fhe year (es war vor der Ankunft der Weissen in America) 
a large band of Indians, we call themselves Fisheaters QHoton-ga) who inhahit 
the lakes, heing äiscontended and concladed that ihey would migrate to the South- 
West in pursuite of the Buff'aloe, and accordingly did so. At lake Puant they divi- 
ded and that pari which remained, still continued their original name in indian, 
hut from some cause or other the whites called them Winnehagos. The rest, 
more enterprizing , still continued on the journey untill they reached the Missisippi 
and the mouth of the J oway- River , where they encamped on the sandbeach and 
again divided, one band concluding not to go further, and those who still wished 
to go on called this band, which still remained encamped on the sandbeach „Pa-ho- 
dje," or dust noses; but the whites, who first discovered them on the Joway-River 
called them Joways QAyowäs}, The rest of them continued on their direction, 
and Struck the Missouri at the mouth of Grand-River. Having only two principal 
Chiefs left, they here gave themselves the name of Neu-ta-che (richtig ausgespro- 
chen Ni-iu-ta-dje (j franz.)) which means „those that arrive at the mouth*'' — but 
were called by the whites the Missouries. One of their chiefs had an only son, 
the other chief had a beautiful daughter , and having both a jentle, blood, thought 
no harm to absent themselves for a night or two together, which raised the anger 
of the unfortunate girts father to such a pitch, tJiathe tnartialed his band and pre- 
pared for battle. They however settled it so far as not to come to blows, but the 
father of the unfortunate son separated from the others , and continued still further 
up the Missouri y where upon they called themselves Wagh-toch-tat-ta (Wach- 
