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White Man, the Paiute, the Pueblo; in fact, all the different kinds of 

 people except the Zuni and the K6honino, who have come from 

 another place. Of all these people some whose hearts were not very 

 bad had heard about this, and they had now assembled with the 

 chiefs, but the greater part of the people, those whose hearts were 

 very bad, were not present. They now decided that they would 

 leave. The chief told them that in four days they were to be ready 

 to leave. So during the four days those who knew about it secretly 

 told some of their friends whose hearts also were at least not very bad, 

 that after four days they were going to leave. So the different chiefs 

 from the different kinds of people assembled with small parties on the 

 morning of the fourth day, after they had had their morning meal. 

 They met at the place where they were appointed to meet, and there 

 were a good many. "We are a great many," the chief said, "may be 

 there will be some here among them whose heart is not single. Now, 

 no more must come, this is enough." So they commenced to climb 

 up the reed, first the different chiefs, the Village chief (Kik-mongwi), 

 who was also at the same time the Soy^l-mongwi, the Flute chief 

 (LSn-mongwi), Horn chief (Al-mongwi), Agave chief (Kwdn-mongwi), 

 Singer chief (Tao-mongwi), Wdwuchim chief (Kel-mongwi) , Rattle- 

 snake chief (Tcti-mongwi) , Antelope chief (Tc6b-mongwi) , Marau 

 chief (Marau-mongwi), Lagon chief (Lagon-mongwi), and the Warrior 

 chief (Kalehtak-mongwi or P6okong). And then the people followed 

 and a great many went out. By this time the people in the lower 

 world had heard about this, and they now came crowding from all 

 sides towards the trees. When the Kik-mongwi above there saw that 

 so many were coming he called down to stop. "Some of those Pop- 

 waktu," he said, "are going to come up too, I think, so that is enough, 

 stop now!" He then commenced to pull up the reed so that a great 

 many people that were still on it dropped back. 



So they now moved on a little bit to the rim or edge of the opening, 

 and there they gathered, and there were a great many of them. 

 The Kik-mongwi now addressed them and said: "Now this many we 

 have come out, now we shall go there, but we want to live with a 

 single heart. Thus long we have lived with bad hearts. We want 

 to stop that. Whatever that one there (referring to the Mdtsni) tells 

 us, we want to listen to, and the way he says we shall live. Thus he 

 instructed them. 



In a little while the child of the chief, a small boy, became sick 

 and died. 'Ishohi!" the chief said, "A Pow^ka has come out with 

 us," and they were thinking about it. Then he made a ball of fine meal 

 and threw it upward, and it alighted on the head of a maiden. So 



