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beneath this one. For a long time they lived there. Finally one 

 day a man saw a hole which led up through the roof to this world. 

 He crawled up through it and all the people followed him. The 

 mouth of the hole being in the far, far north, a council was called. 

 At this meeting the 'principals' decided to move toward the noon- 

 day sun. Said they: 'The sun warmed the place from which we 

 came; therefore, by moving towards it this earth must become 

 warmer.' So they began their march over mountains of ice and 

 snow toward the boiling ocean. For a long, long time they jour- 

 neyed; but the land of sunshine was not yet reached. On, on they 

 marched till their food supply became scanty and their blankets 

 became worn out. Then one by one they died of cold and hunger. 

 For a while those who survived kept up courage even under the ad- 

 verse conditions, and continued their onward march. At last, how- 

 ever, their numbers being so depleted, they became despondent 

 and wished all to die. At this juncture the mother god, the moon, 

 prayed to her husband, the sun, to save the remnant of men, their 

 children. So the sun took one of the survivors of our people, 

 painted his body in transverse black and white bands, decorated his 

 head with corn husks, and suspended an eagle feather behind each 

 ear. As soon as thus painted and decorated this man became a 

 ' funny man,' and began to dance, cut capers, and make grimaces. 

 So interested did the people become in his performing that they 

 forgot their sorrows and became glad. They then resumed their 

 jouroey, which they continued till they reached the confluences of 

 the Rio Grande. 



"Here in this valley they ceased their wandering and took up 

 places of abode. Being few in numbers and not being trained in 

 the arts of war and defense, they were afraid of the savage tribes, 

 the Comanches, Apaches, and Navajos, that dwelt in the region. 

 So they established their places of habitation in narrow canyons, 

 along cliffs, and in caves. In these they lived a great, great while, 

 subsisting on the grain they raised in their fields and on the game 

 so plentiful in the country at that time. Then the savage hordes 

 began to make inroads into the territory. They killed all the 

 game, or, by their presence, it was made unsafe to hunt. They 

 took the fields one by one. They drove the people to the cliffs and 

 caves; and then either captured these strongholds by storm or 

 starved the people until they came out of their own accord and 

 gave themselves over to be slaughtered or to be enslaved. Only a 

 few places still held out, and these were reduced to such straits 



