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them. The party that had gone to Wdlpi direct had in the meanwhile 

 arrived there and found the Wdlpi willing to join them. The two 

 parties then met towards evening, south of Hulc^twi, where they con- 

 versed together about the matter until the sun went down. They 

 then moved towards Aoatovi where they arrived at the foot of the 

 mesa when it had become quite dark. Here they again rested. 



While they were smoking here, the chief of Aoatovi and his wife 

 came down to them, each one carrying a large bundle of pfki, which 

 they gave to the people, and which the latter ate. After they had 

 eaten, the Aoatovi chief said to them: "Thank you that so many of 

 you have come. Thank you that you have done as I want it, and 

 have come to destroy us here. You stay here during the night, and 

 then when it begins to dawn you go up and hide under a bluff," 

 which he pointed out to them, "and when the sun rises my son will 

 sit on top of my house and then you must watch him. When he 

 rises and goes down from my house the men will all have gone into 

 their kivas and then you must rush upon the mesa and separate at 

 the different kivas and kill the men there. The Oraibi chief shall 

 then select those women and maidens that he wants to take along, 

 and then the rest of the villages shall take those that they want." 

 Hereupon the chief and his wife left and returned to the village. 



The raiders did as they had been told do to. The village chief, 

 who was a powaka, had bewitched his son and probably others, so 

 that while they knew about the plan of the chief they were in harmony 

 with it and willing that the chief's wish should be carried out. For 

 that reason also, almost all the men assembled in the kivas. Those 

 who suspected something were so much under the wicked influence 

 and charm of the chief that they were drawn into the impending 

 danger. When the chief's son had given the raiders the signal agreed 

 upon, the latter rushed into the village, surrounded the kivas, pulled 

 up the ladders, and threw the many bundles of fire-wood that were 

 lying at the different kivas, into the kivas. When the men in the 

 kivas looked up they saw arrows pointed and shot at them, but as 

 they had no weapons with them they were helpless. Some of the 

 men rushed into the houses where they found much Spanish pepper, 

 of which the Aoatovi people, who had plenty of water, raised a great 

 deal. The men then threw firebrands into the kivas, and when the 

 wood and the roofs of the kivas were set on fire they threw the pepper 

 into the fire, the smoke of which caused the men to cough vehe- 

 mently and many of them smothered to death. 



While this was going on the people of Mishongnovi and W^lpi 

 rushed into the houses and took all the younger women and maidens, 



