The medicine men were always at her side, but they said some evil spirit hated her, and prevented their spells from doing her good.
"When we reached the Falls, she was worse; the women left their canoes, and prepared to carry them and the rest of the baggage round the Falls.
"But what should we do with We-no-nah?
the flush of fever was on her cheek; she did not know me when I spoke to her; but she kept her eyes fixed upon her lover.
"'We will leave her in the canoe,' said her father; 'and with a line we can carry her gently over the Rapids.' I was afraid, but with her brothers holding the line she must be safe.

So I left my child in her canoe, and paddled with the others to the shore.
"As we left her, she turned her eyes towards us, as if anxious to know what we were about to do.

The men held the line steadily, and the canoe floated so gently that I began to feel less anxious--but as we approached the rapids, my heart beat quickly at the sound of the waters.
Carefully did her brothers hold the line, and I never moved my eyes from the canoe in which she lay.

Now the roaring of the waters grew louder, and as they hastened to the rocks over which they would fall they bore with them my child--I saw her raise herself in the canoe, I saw her long hair as it fell on her bosom--I saw no more! "My sons bore me in their arms to the rest of the party.

The hunters had delayed their return that they might seek for the body of my child.