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itup. After tying it up, it looked just as it was when I saw it yonder 
in the manitou land. 
“Then I thought seriously when I was sitting down all the time, 
and it was still, wind was not blowing from any direction, not even 
a little breeze. Pretty soon a gust of wind came. Then I heard 
singers. Just as we have sung the songs one after the other was the 
way I heard them (sing). The first one we used was the first one I 
heard. And the order we used was the same. The number of our 
songs was as many times as a gust of wind came. Only because the 
songs came to me, was the reason why I did this; was the reason 
why I heard them myself alone. It was not that some one was 
singing, but it just came that way. After they were all gone then 
I remembered. ‘Well! that is why this has happened to me,’ that 
was what I thought. ThenI remembered. It was just as if they came 
up from the water, so I thought of them. I imagined I was in the 
manitou-land. Then after I waited and knew that I would not 
forget them, then I placed our sacred pack on my back and started 
here carrying it along. 
“Then after the darkness came upon me, exactly as I was con- 
tinuing to go, there was a light. I surely had to go there. I could 
not but continue to go there. It was without doubt the only way 
I could go. 
“When I came close, I thought ‘something will surely happen to 
me.’ Then I depended entirely upon this, because it was as if I 
were carrying manitou-arrows, I thought. At the time when I 
came, then to my amazement I saw these gourds. Four were tied 
together. Just as I picked them up they made noises. I liked to 
hear them. Exactly as the ones which were used they looked to 
me, just so did these gourds look to me. Just as I took them dark- 
ness suddenly appeared. Then I started toward this wickiup here, 
bringing them along. Then just as I arrived here by the doorway, | 
I stumbled, while I was coming stealthily on a walk. The gourds 
had already made a great racket. I was coming along very slowly 
with them so that they would not rattle.” Then, “‘ Now I shall stop 
for a while, you may go and cook,” he told them. 
For the first time they knew it was morning. It is a fact, it is said, 
he had been instructing them all night long. Then they went to their 
respective homes. 
Then it is said it began to rain. It kept on raining for four months 
and there was an inundation. They then fled. Then after some time 
they remembered him, for they were seeking for a place where it did 
not rai. But it is said the only way they could go was by going on 
top of the hills. The water had already come up half way (up the 
