A little higher up is the river Chabadeda, above which the Meschacebe makes a fine lake twenty miles long and eight or ten broad. Nine or ten miles above that lake, on the east side, is a large fair river, called the river of Tortoises, after you have entered a little way, which leads far into the country to the northeast, and is navigable by the greatest boats forty miles. About the same distance farther up, the Meschacebe is precipitated from the rocks about fifty feet, but is so far navigable by considerable ships, as also beyond, excepting another fall, eighty or ninety miles higher, by large vessels, unto its sources, which are in the country of the Sieux, not at a very great distance from Hudson’s bay. There are many other smaller rivers which fall into the Meschacebe, on both sides of it, but being of little note, and the description of them of small consequence, I have passed over them in silence. (Coxe, Carolana, 1741, in French’s Hist. Coll. of La., part 2, 233, 1850.)
4. Nä′see′nehe′ ehe′yowo′mi
Nä′see′nehe′ ehe′yowo′mi,
Nä′see′nehe′ ehe′yowo′mi,
E′nää′ne mä′noyo′h ehe′yowo′mi,
E′nää′ne mä′noyo′h ehe′yowo′mi.
Translation
I waded into the yellow river,
I waded into the yellow river,
This was the Turtle river into which I waded,