When Hwipajusi rose up in the morning, he went outside and saw two heads lying near the sweat-house.
“Wake up, jump up, my sons,” cried he, calling to the people; “enemies were here last night.”
All hurried out and saw two bodies and two heads. One asked, “Who is this lying dead?” A second asked, “Who is the other man?”
“I know them both,” said Hwipajusi. “One is Bohkwi, the other Simu Nupchowa, two great men in Haka Kaina’s forces.”
The two lay there behind the sweat-house all the day. That evening Hwipajusi summoned in his people, and talked to them. “Fix your arrows well, look at your bows, and have all your arms ready. Haka Kaina will send men here against us; he wants to steal my daughters again, or take them away in spite of me.”
They waited at Wahkalu for Bohkwi and Simu Nupchowa. When the two men did not come, old Haka Kaina said, “I think those two men are dead.”
He called all his people together and said: “We must go down and make war on Hwipajusi; there is no other way. He stole those three girls from me. Those three girls are mine. I must have them back again.”
All dressed next morning, put on their feathers, blackened their faces.
“Now, my men,” said Haka Kaina; “arm, stand out on a broad place, let me see you, then stand in a circle round the sweat-house. I want to see how you look when all together.”
They went out and stood together on a broad place. Haka Kaina was a long time going among them. After that all came back and stood in a circle around the whole sweat-house. All shouted and sprang about a good while; then they went back, took off their big elkskin armor.