From that time on the name of E-k[=u]s'-kini was often heard as that of onedoing some great deed.

II

E-k[=u]s'-kini started on his last war trail from the Black-foot crossing_(Su-yoh-pah'-wah-ku)_. He led a party of six Sarcees. He was the seventhman.

0n the second day out, they came to the Red Deer's River. When they reachedthis river, they found it very high, so they built a raft to cross on. Theycamped on the other side. In crossing, most of their powder got wet. Thenext morning, when they awoke, E-k[=u]s'-kini exclaimed: "Well, trouble iscoming for us. We had much better go back from here. We started on a wrongday. I saw in my sleep our bodies lying on the prairie, dead." Some of theyoung men exclaimed: "0h well, we have started, we had much better go on. Perhaps itis only a mistake. Let us go on and try to take some horses anyhow."E-k[=u]s'-kini exclaimed: "Yes, that is very truthful. To go home is allfoolishness; but remember that it is by your wish that we are going on."He wanted to go back, not on his own account, but for the sake of his youngmen--to save his followers.

From there they went on and made another camp, and the next morning he saidto his young men: "Now I am sure. I always have seen it for certain. Trouble isbefore us." They camped two nights at this place and dried some of theirpowder, but most of it was caked and spoilt. He said to his young men:"Here, let us use some sense about this. We have no ammunition. We cannotdefend ourselves. Let us turn back from here." So they started across thecountry for their camp.