"Come down to us, my child," they cried; "do not destroy your life; you will kill us, we have no child but you." Having finished her song, the maiden answered her parents.

"You have forced me to leave you.

I was always a good daughter, and never disobeyed you; and could I have married the man I love, I should have been happy, and would never have left you.

But you have been cruel to me; you have turned my beloved from the wigwam; you would have forced me to marry a man I hated; I go to the house of spirits." By this time the hunters had nearly reached her.

She turned towards them for a moment with a smile of scorn, as if to intimate to them that their efforts were in vain.