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cum anus fabas quae mesquite vocantur colligeret, puella illius absentia fructa 

 senem rursus visit. Ego et senis filius e ludo domum ibamus constitueramusque 

 melopepones in eorum domo obtinere. Cum ad domum veuerimus, mirum quiddam 

 conspeximus: seuex puellam consederat ad perticam quae est in media domo, 

 cruribus dispessis, tunica sublevata ; ipse sedebat ad pedes eius, digitos volvae 

 inserere conans. Quod cum vidissem, dixi ad sodalem: "i^cce pater tuus ad 

 solitos reversus est dolos ! Appropinquemus clam et capiamus eos!" Cum as- 

 sentisset, procubuimus in ripa fluminis quae XX fere passus a domo aberat 

 Post aggeris molem abditi pronique iacentes super ripam oculos coniciebamus. 

 Senex digitum pedetemptim immittere conabatur, sed quandocumque altius 

 impelleret, puella spasmo convulsa digitum retrahi cogebat. Saepe conatus 

 quattuor denique digitos vaginae immisit, dum puella podicem versabat ut 

 ilium se defricare adiuvaret.'^ Subito lympham aliquam de senis cubito stillan- 

 tem vidimus ; primus vidi ipse, et, "En," inquam, "stillat !" Puella adeo excitata 

 visa est ut in manum senis mingeret.^* Lympham istam liquorem qui dicitur 

 Bartholinus f uisse Hivsu : Tupo :ma negavit ; lotum f uisse asseruit, quia puella 

 'tam plena erat diaboli.' Denique, cum iam ad ludum decurrere decreverimus, 

 quia tintinuabulum souaturum erat, vidimus puellam mamun capiti senis im- 

 ponentem, ut volvae caput appropinquaret lotoque suo umectaret.°° 



At that point we decided to make our presence known, and cleared our throats 

 noisily. At the first sound we made, the girl raced out of the house and ran away. 

 Then we walked up to the house, and the old man asked us what we wanted. 

 When we said: "We want melons," he said: "Co and pick some in the field!" 

 So we went out again and picked some melons and returned to school where we 

 discussed what we had seen in every detail, and with a great deal of disgust. 

 This happened about 50 years ago (probably not later than 1882). 



For 2 years I continued to keep an eye on the old man's doings. I kept this 

 up until I went off to Needles, wishing to escape the woman I told you about 

 some time ago (Devereux, 1950 a). When, 6 years later, I returned to Parker, 

 this young girl had grown up into a handsome married woman, but was already 

 then generally known as Nyoltc Hukthar (Crazy Nyoltc). 



As for the son of that old man, he got a steady job at the Agency as an inter- 

 preter, with a salary of $10.00 a month, and married Nyoltc Hukthar's older 

 sister. Thus, there lived in the same house, the old man, his son, his daughter- 

 in-law, and Nyoltc Hukthar with her husband. The old fellow knew that I 

 knew all about his scandalous behavior, and seemed rather pleased about it. 

 He would say to me : "Don't you ever mention it aloud ! I get my meals here, 

 and if they found out about it, they might throw me out." 



I don't know whether the old man and Nyoltc Hukthar ever had any further 

 sexual relations, but I do not think they did. Ego tamen senem appellabam 

 "Siup pip siup," id quod est sonus exsilientis loti. Not only wasn't he ashamed 

 of this name, but he even laughed at it and seemed to be pleased with it." 

 No one else ever called him by that name. 



As for Nyoltc Hukthar, she turned out to be a great eye-doctor, later on, (For 

 further data about this woman, and about her death, see Case 13, pt. 2, pp. 77-81.) 



»8 Mohavll mullerem In coitu podicem versare rem nimls salacem ac turpissimam esse 

 existimant (Devereux, 1050a). 



" In compluribua Microneslae partlbus virl mulleres usque ad mlngendum excitant ; 

 mlctus quoque post-orglasticus ex ilia reglone nuntiatus est (Gladwin and Sarason, 1953; 

 Devereux, 1958 a). 



S5 Omnes Mohavll cunnllingum fieri negant et fades vlrum volvam humidam tangentem 

 caecum fore asseverant (Devereux, 1948 f, 1950 a). 



38 The Mohave deliberately select grotesque names even for themselves. 



