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had emerged from the ground. The rumbling of the falling houses 

 could still be heard. When the two were dressed, the young man 

 took some bahos in his left hand, the mana took the tray containing 

 the two balls and the rest of the bahos, and thus they began to wade 

 into the waters. They made straight for the large Balolookong, 

 which was considered the chief of the water serpents. Arriving at 

 the place where he stood, the young man grasped and encircled the 

 serpent with both arms and pressed him down into the water, where- 

 upon the serpents as well as the young man and his sister disappeared 

 under the water and never returned. 



Immediately the water began to fall and disappear in a compara- 

 tively short time, the powder of the beads and of the turquoise, which 

 the mana had brought to the water serpent as an offering, causing 

 the ground to dry and to become hard quickly because the powder 

 was made of very hard substances. The water-serpents had all dis- 

 appeared, but so had the young man and his sister. The place 

 where the village had stood was full of mud and the people could not 

 get there for some time yet. Everything was destroyed there. Only 

 the old men who had been turned into turkeys survived. They had 

 been very old and bald-headed, which is the reason that the turkeys 

 to-day have no hair or feathers on their head. In one house, how- 

 ever, which stood somewhat high, two children, two little brothers, 

 had been sleeping during the flood and had not been drowned, but 

 they had very little to eat now. The younger one had found a little 

 piki in a tray, which they ate. 



The people in the eastern part of the village soon set to work to 

 prepare to emigrate. They baked piki and made other food of the 

 provisions that they still had left. Early in the morning the day 

 after the water serpents had disappeared they took some of the food 

 which they had prepared, and made a food altar (ton6sh-pongya) , east- 

 ward from the village. Packing up the things, and especially the 

 food which they had prepared, they all passed by this food altar, the 

 village chief at the head of the line. Each one took a little quantity 

 of each kind of food that they had placed there and ate it. They then 

 passed on. The ground was still soft and muddy from the flood. 

 The two children that had survived in the village had not been found 

 and were left. They soon became hungry and hiinted something to 

 eat. Occasionally they would find a little corn hanging on some of 

 the walls that were still standing, or some other food The older 

 brother would carry his little brother on his back. In the evening 

 they would cry because they were lonely. The turkeys that had 

 been Hopi saw the children and pitied them, but, although they cried 



