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mesa. Of the various missiles that were fired at him, none proved 

 to be fatal. The Navaho followed him to the edge of the mesa, but 

 had not the courage to jump after him. He hid away under a pro^ 

 jecting rock where he stayed all day. 



While this happened, one of the Hopi warriors, who had proven him- 

 self especially brave, had rounded the point of this mesa and was mak- 

 ing his way towards the village of Oraibi. He was followed by several 

 Navaho who hit him several times, but owing to the fact that he was 

 well wrapped with good buckskins, none of the shots took fatal 

 effect. These Navaho, as the Hopi believe, became somewhat super- 

 stitious about this man. The latter claim that the pursuing party 

 abandoned pursuit of this one warrior, saying to one another: "Do 

 not follow that man. He is very brave and will surely kill you." 

 Some of the Hopi by this time discovered that among the Navaho 

 warriors there were some Hopi from the village of W^lpi. These Walpi 

 had so thoroughly disguised themselves with paint and by combing 

 their hair in the same manner as the Navaho that they had not been 

 recognized before. One of the first to recognize them was the man 

 lying under the rock, who noticed that the short front hair of one of 

 the Walpi dropped from behind his ear. Soon the brave warrior 

 just mentioned also recognized the Walpi, and at once addressed 

 them, saying: "So, you are with them too, we thought there were 

 only Navaho. " "Oh!" the Walpi said, "we are being recognized 

 now. Let us kill him. If we do not kill him he will certainly tell on 

 us in Oraibi. But how shall we kill him, shall we attack him and shoot 

 him?" "No," some one said, "let us go and capture him." Here- 

 upon some of them dismounted and they as well as some on horse- 

 back formed a ring around the man and then closed in on him. He 

 broke the skull of one of them with his tomahawk, whereupon he was 

 immediately overpowered and thrown upon the ground. One of the 

 Walpi by the name of Shiita knelt on his breast and forced a lance 

 into his throat, killing him. They took all his clothes and buckskins, 

 cut open his breast, tore out his heart, which they took with them. 

 All this was observed and later on reported by the man hidden under 

 the rock not far away. The Walpi then took their victim on a horse 

 and took him with them to Walpi, where they placed hinj in a small 

 hut or inclosure which a herder had built for a temporary shelter, 

 throwing stones upon him. 



In the meanwhile troops of Navaho, among whom were many 

 women, had reached the village where the Hopi who had remained 

 behind had assembled their flocks of sheep on the plaza, which the 



