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Oraibi youth, and the Oraibi had won from them all the presents. 

 The Katcinas were very tired. The man who had received them on 

 the plaza gave them at least some prayer-meal, whereupon they 

 returned to the Katcina house south of the village, where they laid 

 off their costumes. They then again met the Oraibi men to race 

 with them west of the village. "You have beaten us, " they said to 

 the Oraibi, "if we do not win in this race then we shall indeed be 

 very mucb dejected. " They then descended from the village on the 

 west side, ran towards Mum6shvavi, from there south-westward, then 

 south around the mesa point, and ascended the mesa from the east 

 side, thus describing a very large circle. 



The Wdlpi again could not overtake the Oraibi and when they 

 got to Keq6chmovi, the Walpi were very tired and gave up the race. 

 The two Koyemsis who were a little older than the others and were 

 not quite so tired went up to the Katcina house and got the costumes 

 of the Walpi, whereupon the Walpi all returned, very much in des- 

 pair. They went very slowly and were very quiet. "The Oraibi," 

 they said among themselves, "are very strong." It was early in 

 the morning when one after the other arrived at Walpi, some of them 

 being so tired that they had fallen far behind. They agreed that 

 they should not go and race with the Orafbi again. 



107. THE LAST FIGHT WITH THE NAVAHO.' 



The Navaho had repeatedly raided the other villages, though the 

 Oraibi had never had a real encounter with that warlike tribe, by 

 which they were surrounded, but they did not allow themselves to be 

 lulled into a false safety. They kept their bows in order, their 

 quivers full of arrows, and did not forget to constantly practice 

 shooting. One day while a number of the men had been practicing 

 with their bows and arrows on the west side of the village, at the foot 

 of the mesa, where they had filled several sand piles with arrows, the 

 news was called down to them from the edge of the mesa that a large 

 cloud of dust was seen in one of the wooded canyons towards the 

 north-east, and that it looked as if a great many people were approach- 

 ing the village. It was towards evening. The men gathered up their 

 bows and arrows and hastened to the village. Here the roofs were 

 covered with expectant people, whose faces were turned towards the 

 approaching dust cloud about six miles towards the north-east. It 

 soon became clear to all that an expedition was undertaken against 

 the village of Oraibi on the part of the Navaho. Suddenly the Hopi 



1 Told by Qoydwaima (Oraibi). 



