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side^'^ of it. So then, thou who standest on the east side of it, must be 

 the first to speak and thou shalt say, 'Beliold this now, we two have 

 arrived here. They who have sent us are severally your children. So, 

 then, we have come to invite you to our home. So, then, now, you 

 shall go to that place where dwell your children. Such is that which 

 De'hae°'hiyawa"kho'" has ordained.' When thou endest thy speak- 

 ing, then, at that time, she must pluck up that which is called Corn 

 and next that which is called Bean. At that time, then, thou, next in 

 order, must pluck up that which is called Native Squash; at that 

 time, then, you two must consider well the characteristic situation of 

 the place whence you two shall take them. At that time, then, you 

 two shall turn back again and start thence for home. So then, we 

 shall be expecting you, all, the entire body of the people, will be 

 assembled, they, the Elder Ones, also the children; so then, all will 

 see them when you two shall bring them back here." At that time, 

 then, the two young persons departed. Now, they two saw quite 

 plainly His tracks along as He went westward. So then, at that time, 

 they two followed His tracks. On His tracks thither they two went. 

 Not far away, there, His tracks, indeed, ended, and there, indeed, 

 grew three kinds of things, which they two had never seen anywhere, 

 thus to be as were these which they two saw. At that time, then, 

 the male human being addressed the female human being, saying, 

 "Now, verily, we two have arrived at the place which was indicated 

 to us by those who have sent us, and now, also, we two see the new 

 things; we have never seen other things thus to be; so then, verily, 

 presumably, these things growmg here are the things we seek. Now, 

 then, thou must stand on the western side of it." At that time, now, 

 she started and there on the west side of the place where they were 

 growing the maiden took her stand. At that time, now, the youth 

 said, "Now, we two have arrived. Behold, we two have been sent 

 here by your several children, and behold, we two have come for you. 

 And now, then, we shall return home together, and now, then, you 

 shall go there to the place where dwell your children." At that time, 

 then, he spoke again and said, "Now, do thou take up them; thou, 

 verily, shalt be the first to do it." Now, at that time, she took up the 

 Corn plant and also the Bean plant, and, at that time, then he him- 

 self, verily, next in order, took up the Native Squash, and now he 

 said, "Now, verily, the matter is accomplished — we have taken them 

 up. Now, then, do thou look at the place, as it is, where they all 

 grew." At that time, then, they both looked and they saw that it 

 was just such a place as that wherein it would seem, a human being, 

 presumably, lies; just as tall as he is, so long it is, and it projected 

 upward; it would seem to be a heap of earth. It is plain that it 

 extended toward the west and toward the east; and thus it is, that 



See note on p. 611. 



