When they reached the falls, the women got ready to carry their canoes and baggage round.
"But Wenona was going on a longer journey.

She would not live when her husband loved her no more, and, putting her son in her canoe, she soon reached the island that divides the falls.
"Then she put on all her ornaments, as if she were a bride; she dressed her boy too, as a Dahcotah warrior; she turned to look once more at her husband, who was helping his second wife to put the things she was to carry, on her back.
"Soon her husband called to her; she did not answer him, but placed her child high up in the canoe, so that his father could see him, and getting in herself she paddled towards the rapids.
"Her husband saw that Unk-tahe would destroy her, and he called to her to come ashore.

But he might have called to the roaring waters as well, and they would have heeded him as soon as she.
"Still he ran along the shore with his arms uplifted, entreating her to come ashore.
"Wenona continued her course towards the rapids--her voice was heard above the waters as she sang her death song.

Soon the mother and child were seen no more--the waters covered them.
"But her spirit wanders near this place.

An elk and fawn are often seen, and we know they are Wenona and her child." "Do you love me as Wenona loved ?" continued the Sioux, as he met the looks of the young girl bent upon him.
"I will not live when I see you no more," she replied.