They brought it to him. But [it was] still as before; he threw it out again in a rage. It was no sooner out than it sounded [as] well as before. It was brought in again, but as before, again. Then he threw it out for good, vexed and disappointed to the utmost degree. But his friends were not pleased. They considered this a portentious omen and his behavior foolish, and 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 and we _shall_ subdue them." The next day they all pitched off. Nayhanimis came first to a beaver lodge and marked it. [He] came [to] another and marked that one also. But making a circuit, in which he hung up his bow [and] quiver in a tree at his own height, came round to the same lodges and found that the Hairy Breasts had put marks of their own and thrown his one away. Exasperated he threw theirs away and replaced his. And [he] made another circuit, when he found the Hairy Breasts had replaced their own again. He also remarked that the Hairy Breasts had hung up their bows _in the tops of very high trees_, trusting to their numbers. At last they met, greeted each other at first, then sneers, quarrels, a challenge and then the battle. They were to fight _man to man_. Nayhanimis killed nineteen right out, but the twentieth 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 all, [he] said: Such of ye _Indian_ women as have been taken from your homes [and] had your husbands killed, such of ye Indian women as are willing to return to your nation, take all axes and others arms out of the hands of these Hairy Breast women. Seperate yourselves from them; attack {39} and destroy them _all_. Leave not one alive to carry the news to the others. They seperated accordingly and killed every soul. Then he took them to his tent and [found] by their answers to his queries that there [was] still another band, not far off, consisting of forty young and two old men of the Hairy Breasts. He ordered a quantity of poles or pickets to be cut very long, and made a kind of fort of them round his own tent. And [he] gave orders to them to gather a vast quantity of snow round all the sides of it to come over the points, so that neither the pickets nor tent might be seen, and that this rising might have the appearance of a natural hill-- something in short in the form of a pit. He immediately made a number of lances, and spears and walked off in quest of his enemies.