Gatschet.] 



"White Pueblo." Near it he found another village, the "Yellow 

 Pueblo," inhabited by people skilled in witchcraft. Then the Yellow 

 Pueblo of wizards challenged the people of the White Pueblo to have a 

 race with them. They prepared themselves during four days, when they 

 gathered to proceed to the Yellow Pueblo. And the White Pueblo peo- 

 ple and the Yellow Pueblo people deposited their garments on the ground 

 and made bets. The Yellow Pueblo people expected victory with 

 certainty, and put their lives at stake, proclaiming that the party 

 conquered would be burnt, together with their village and all their 

 property. Four days after the racers were to start. The people all 

 assembled and the racers of both parties made themselves ready. The 

 next day the crowds of people ascended a hill, whereas the racers alone 

 went onward from there. 



When on their race they descended from another hill and were lost 

 sight of, the racer of the Yellow Pueblo transformed himself into a hawk. 

 When they had gone quite a distance east, he overtook Antelope, the 

 champion racer of the White Pueblo, and said to him : "Hahaha ! goocl- 

 by, Antelope ! Perhaps you will be alive still when you reach the east 

 point." Having attained that goal they turned from east to north ; Hawk 

 flew ahead of Antelope, and when they had gone halfway an old woman 

 from the White Pueblo stopped Antelope and spoke to him. She gave him 

 four ceremonial reed-pipes, and told him to light one of them when half- 

 way from east to north, another when halfway from the north, another 

 when halfway from the west, and the last one when halfway between 

 south and east, the starting place. 



Starting again, Antelope ran towards the east for some distance and 

 lighted one of the pipes while on the run. When he had finished smoking 

 it clouds arose which moved ofcward and enveloped both racers, so that it 

 became dark. A while after rain began to fall in heavy drops. Antelope 

 shook his body and wiped off the moisture. When on the point of reach- 

 ing the goal at the north, he fell in with Hawk, who was dripping wet 

 and sat on a cottonwood tree screaming. Passing by, Antelope said to 

 Hawk: "Halloo! good-by ! this is the way men treat each other, and 

 perhaps you may reateh the west point." Antelope started again, veered 

 around towards the west and was overtaken by Hawk, who shouted to 

 him: "Antelope, now good-by! in this manner men act towards each 

 other ; may be you will arrive south sometime ! " Hawk passed by and 

 Antelope arose from the ground, lit another reed-pipe, which brought on 

 cloudiness and darkness again. Antelope, after rolling on the ground, 

 started on his run again, and when he had arrived nearly at the south he 

 overtook Hawk, wet all over from the torrential rain, screaming and 

 wiping the water off while sitting on a cottonwood tree, and said to him: 

 " Try it once more ! In this manner people act towards each other ; now 

 good-by, perhaps you will get to the south point." 



Again Antelope rolled on the ground and started out, and when on the 

 point of reaching the south he was overtaken by Hawk. Hawk passed 



