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were unable to move on. Then they became sicker. The others 
were moving right along toward them. Those who were not sick 
grew less in number. Then it is said they were ordered by their chief. 
“This is what you must tell him: ‘It is said your medicine is desired 
of you,’ you are to tell the one who used to make us dance. He will 
be the chief,” so said the chief. 
Then, it is said, those who were employed ran back. They slept at 
half way there. The next day they met those who were moving. 
They went straight to him. ‘Now, your medicine is being thought 
of. Those people all are sick. That is why our chief has sent us 
hither. ‘You shall tell him that,’ he told us. ‘Verily we shall have 
him for our chief,’ he truly said of you,” they told him. 
Then he whose father (the chief) was, came. ‘‘What have they 
said?’ he said. Then he was told. ‘“‘O, yes. Now, do not think of 
saving my father, for he does not know a single thing. For if you say, 
‘All right’ to him, even if you make him well, of course for a short 
time you might please him; then he would no longer think about it, 
even when you have pleased him several times. It cannot be helped; 
he just goes ahead and leaves you; that is what he does,” he said 
to him. 
Then, it is said, he told the people, “‘ Now, we shall not be affected 
in any way by disease. We shall not catch it from those who have 
the disease, but we must settle the matter right here. Some one is to 
give a feast. All of us indeed are to eat together,” he said to those 
by whom he was accompanied. 
“O, I (will do it),” said one. He prepared a feast in haste. Then, 
it is said, all of them feasted. Those who had been sent also ate with 
(the rest). Then after they ate, ““You must tell my father this: 
‘Your own son has forbidden you alone to be doctored; it is your own 
son, no other person. No other person,’ you are to tell my father, for 
IT am unwilling that my father should be doctored. That is why you 
should name me,” he told them. 
Then it is said they started out. They entered where (the chief) 
was sitting. 
“Well!” he said. 
“This is what your son says: your own son has forbidden that you 
be made well, that is, you yourself alone, not others. You must have 
made him angry. ‘This is what your own son said, you tell him,’ 
he said, ‘So he would not have anything against this person,’ he said. 
‘He may hate me,’ he said.” 
“Oh, that is it!” 
“However, they wili come, but ‘we shall not get sick,’ said that 
friend of ours.” 
