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to eat, so that he became very much emaciated. Somewhere north 

 of this Navaho camp there was a high bluff on which a large Hawk 

 lived. This Hawk was often flying around and frequently saw this 

 little boy and pitied him. One time the Navaho had a great gath- 

 ering at one place not far from this camp where the little boy was, 

 leaving the little orphan behind. When the Hawk found this out he 

 flew to the camp, flying around above the little boy. The latter was 

 afraid and begged the Hawk not to hurt him. The Hawk at once 

 sat down beside the boy and said to him : " I am not going to hurt 

 you, but I pity you and we shall go to my house. You come and sit 

 on my back and I shall carry you there. " The child at once mounted 

 on the back of the Hawk, holding himself to the wings, and the Hawk 

 then flew away with him. 



When passing the place where the Navaho were gathered, the 

 latter noticed that the Hawk was carrying away the boy and were 

 very much astonished at it. They had never thought of such a thing. 

 After the Hawk had deposited the little son on the bluff he said to him, 

 "I am going to borrow some clothes for you. You are naked, and 

 you want to be clothed." Immediately he swooped down upon the 

 Navaho camp, singled out a little son of a wealthy Navaho, grabbed 

 him and flew back to the bluff. While he was flying he tore off 

 all the clothes from the child and then dropped the body to the 

 earth. The assembled Navaho were very much frightened and 

 screamed. 



At that time the Navaho still wore long buckskin leggings with 

 yellow buttons on the sides, also buckskin shirts, and such a costume 

 the Hawk brought to the little boy. The Hawk soon after flew down 

 again, grabbed another little Navaho boy and carried him upward, 

 the head of the child hanging down, pulled off his moccasins, dropped 

 the body, and brought the moccasins to the little child. The Navaho 

 were very much frightened and dispersed in all directions. This con- 

 fusion the Hawk made use of and came down several times, taking 

 away from several of the Navaho articles of clothing and ornaments, 

 bringing them back to the little child. The Hawk then said to 

 the little boy : ' ' But you are not used to this raw food that I am 

 eating." "No," the little boy said, "I never ate that before." So 

 the Hawk got him some firewood and even fire, and some rabbit 

 meat, and the boy roasted some meat and ate it. He stayed 

 there four days in the house of the Hawk. At the end of the four 

 days the Hawk said to him: "In the morning I am going to take 

 you to your home in Oraibi. " So the boy mounted his back again 

 and the Hawk flew first down to the Navaho camp where he circled 



