Then he threw it out for good, vexed & disappointed to the utmost degree. But his freinds were not pleased; they considered this a portentious omen & his behavior foolish; & by no means calculated to reconcile their _Deities_ to them. He comforted them by telling them the numbers of "the adverse party must be few, "otherwise we had surely been able to _eat_ the whole of this feast: they are few & we _shall_ sub- "due them." The next day they all pitched off. Nayhanimis came first to a Beaver lodge & marked it--came another & marked that one also. But making a circuit, in which he hung up his Bow, quiver &c. &c. in a tree, at his own height, came round to the same lodges & found that the Hairy-B had put marks of their own & thrown his one away:--exasperated he threw theirs away & replaced his, & made another circuit, when he found the H.B. had replaced their own again: He also remarked that the HB. had hung up their Bows &c. &c. _in the tops of very hi trees_, trusting to their numbers. At last they met--greeted each other at first, then sneers, quarrels, a challenge & then the battle: they were to fight _man to man_--Nayhanimis killed 19 right out, but the 20th had near killed him: however this was but an accident usual in battles--he soon killed him also. The women were coming up when raising his voice to a pitch to be distinctly heard by heard by all said "Such of ye _indian_ "women as have been taken from your homes, had your husbands killed &c. such "of ye indian women as are willing to return to your nation, take all axes & others "arms out of the hands of these H. B. women,--seperate yourselves from them; attack