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 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.
He soon reached their camp, drew near, and found that there were but two old men. All the others were out a hunting. Here he listened to their conversation and was burning with indignation at the stories these two old men told each other of the cruelties they had done to the Indians. They were chuckling at this when he sprang into the tent, took each by the head and thrust their faces [into] the fire and sprang out again to listen.
One of them, returning to his senses, for they had both fainted during the ceremony, exclaimed thus, "My old friend! What is the matter with me? I lost my senses quite suddenly and now that I am come to, I feel my face quite sore and cannot see."
"It is the same with me." replied the other one
"Then it must be some evil spirit that has pounced upon us." resumed the first.