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the country and went farther north in search of food. See PI. XII. 

 At evening, when it was nearly dark, they made their camp by a 

 beautiful stream. The several leaders of the tribe went to the side 

 of the line and sat down in a semi-circle to watch the tribe as it marched 

 on towards the stream. As they sat watching the old men, the women, 

 the children, and the dog teams go by, one of the chiefs ordered the 

 men to go in pairs to certain women whom they admired, and to beg 

 food of them. As the men formed in pairs the chiefs called out to 

 the women to pay attention to the men who were approaching 

 them. One of the men who begged to be fed was a young med- 

 icine-man. When his turn came to beg for something to eat 

 he went alone to a beautiful woman whom he admired, and had 

 selected. See PL XIII. She was the wife of the chief of the tribe. 

 The woman was pleased with him, and she gave him something to 

 eat. While she stood waiting for him to finish eating the medicine- 

 man told the woman to make ready in haste, for he had chosen her 

 for a special purpose, and wanted her to go with him to the far north. 

 He told her to take her dogs and camp outfit, for they would be gone 

 about forty days. The woman consented, and they slipped away 

 without any one seeing them go. 



A day and a night and a day the medicine-man traveled with the 

 woman, whose five dogs carried the tipi poles and the camping para- 

 phernalia. The second night they rested. The medicine-man directed 

 the woman to erect the tipi so that it would face the east, and to make 

 two sage brush beds. Then he told her that he had received a message 

 from the Great Medicine of the Above that he should go and bring to 

 his people the great Medicine-Lodge, the Great Medicine's symbol of 

 the ancient world, with the promise that, if the people would receive 

 the ceremony, buffalo and all other animals would make their ap- 

 pearance, all vegetation would be renewed, and there would be 

 an end to famine. The next morning they continued their journey, 

 and in the evening they pitched their tipi. Thus they journeyed 

 for several days. One day the woman said to the medicine-man, 

 "Why have you eloped with me? I have yet to receive your atten- 

 tion." The medicine-man replied, "The medicine-spirits require 

 your presence with me in order that I may fulfil one of the require- 

 ments of the great Medicine-Dance of the ancients, that is, to per- 

 petuate the race through woman. You must be patient until our 

 return, when I will bestow my affection upon you; but this must not 

 happen before we enter the mountain to which we are going." Again 

 they journeyed for several days, until they saw before them a forest, 

 from whose midst there arose a mountain to the sky; beyond they 



